Learning Needs & Assessment Procedures
Individual Learning Needs
Learners are requested to identify any individual learning needs, medical conditions and/or injuries that may affect learning or the assessment process on the application form or directly to the tutor.
Your tutor and assessor will be able to advise you on the specific requirements of the course and related assessment. In some instances, it may be possible to apply a ‘Reasonable Assessment Adjustment’ to take into account a specific learning need. Please discuss this with your course tutor during course registration to ensure you are fully supported during the course and assessment. The course timetable will also clearly identify learner guidance and support time when your tutor will be available to answer specific queries or clarify areas that are unclear.
It is important that learners are aware that the course will involve a small amount of homework at the end of each day. This may involve some written work or practice of practical teaching skills and exercise technique.
Assessment Methods
The methods of assessment you will encounter are:
- Formative Assessment: Ongoing throughout the course in order to provide feedback on what you have learnt and what you need to improve on.
- Continuous Assessment: Ongoing throughout the course to obtain a result which will count towards your overall assessment result.
- Summative Assessment: Final assessment in order to obtain a result which will count towards your overall assessment result.
You will need to complete the following assessments for successful completion of the L3 Pilates Practitioner course:
Theory Assessments
1 x 30-minute multiple-choice paper covering ‘Applied Anatomy and Physiology’. You will have a 20-question paper and need to get 14 correct in order to pass (70%). Refer to your course outline for the assessment date, usually the Saturday morning of the second weekend.
Online Worksheets
Three worksheets will be completed online and marked via a portal called ‘Y Mark’. We recommend you complete these before the face-to-face training begins, where time allows, to help spread your workload. You need to get 100% to pass, and you can go back and re-answer any you didn’t get correct the first time before submitting your final answers.
The three online worksheets are:
- Providing a positive customer experience in the exercise environment
- Lifestyle management and health awareness
- Applied anatomy and physiology
LAR Worksheets
Two worksheets will be completed in your Learner Assessment Record (LAR):
- Principles of planning and delivering group exercise knowledge questions
- The original exercises, adaptations and modifications
These worksheets will be completed throughout the course and marked by your tutor.
Pilates Practical Assessment
- Learners are required to produce a client profile and session overview for a progressive course of safe and effective Pilates lessons (60 minutes duration) appropriate for an apparently healthy participant (aged 18 or over). Full details of the required content will be discussed during the course.
- For the summative practical assessment, the learner is required to teach parts of the planned session to an apparently healthy participant (aged 18 or over). This should last approximately 30 to 40 minutes. The learner will be moved on at certain points within the session. Assessment criteria will be clearly introduced during the course.
- The learner must produce a written self-evaluation and action plan that accurately reflects the session taught and considers verbal feedback received from the participant. A minimum of 15 minutes is allowed for this.
Should you be unsuccessful, you will have the opportunity to retake any part of the above assessments. Please note there will be an additional fee of £50 for re-sitting a multiple-choice paper and £150 for re-sitting a practical assessment unless it can be arranged on the same day as another practical assessment, in which case a fee of £75 will be incurred.
In addition, throughout the duration of the course, we strongly recommend all learners:
- Attend a minimum of 20 Pilates classes
- Observe a minimum of 15 Pilates classes (taking notes; this can be done via online classes from the Harmonise studio)
- Complete a minimum of 20 practical practice lessons (with friends, family, or other course learners)
This will be part of your homework. It will complement the practical elements covered during the course and increase your confidence and teaching skills as you prepare for success in your assessments and in the industry.
Reviewed: April 2025
