Each Skills Grade has a set of exercises you’ll need to demonstrate before moving onto the next grade. Your learning objectives and assessment criteria will be clearly outlined for you so you always know what you’re working towards.

Our new Skate UK course has been developed with Activity Alliance insight and guidance to make it inclusive and accessible. This is part of our broader aim of making ice skating an experience as many people can share as possible. The dispensation model allows for reasonable adjustments to be made to the assessment criteria where appropriate as follows:

Dispensation A: Adapted skill of approximately 50% – the skater should attempt this unaided

Dispensation B: Full skill to be performed aided. This might be a skating aid or another person such as a coach or another skater. Dispensation C: Full flexibility to perform the adapted skill whilst aided.

What level of skating will Skate UK get me to? 

Levels 1-3 “Discovering” Skill Phase: encompasses the fundamental skating skills required to start your ice skating journey.

By the end of this phase skaters will have a clear understanding of forward & backward skating, forward & backward stopping and of edges and how to use them. 

Levels 4-6 “Developing” Skill Phase: strengthens the fundamental skating skills and builds upon them. On completion of this phase skaters will have a working knowledge of forward & backward stroking, forward & backward crossovers and transitioning from forwards to backwards and backwards to forwards Levels 7-8 “Consolidating” Skill Phase: embeds and reinforces previously taught skills and links them together to increase skating quality, confidence, and consistency. 

Once you complete Skate UK, you will have mastered the basics of skating – if you want to continue learning you can progress onto our Skate Star programmes which teach more advanced skating skills.