How our Ski Passport works

At New Generation Ski and Snowboard School, we take pride in ensuring our children’s programme is more inclusive than any other ski school. To make that possible, we have a unique ski passport that allows kids to continue their learning seamlessly, regardless of which resort they visit next. Here is how it works:

These are our Ski Passport Levels

Penguin – Whippersnappers

To achieve the Penguin award, kids need to be able to:

✅ Move around on their skis on flat terrain with help

✅ Use a magic carpet or beginner lift with help

✅ Listen to and follow their instructor and their instructions

✅ Slide in a straight line with their skis parallel with help

✅ Start to snowplough with help

Polar Bear – Whippersnappers and Wallabies

To achieve their Polar Bear award, they need to be able to:

✅ Move around independently on their skis

✅ Touch their toes and head while sliding

✅ Slide in a straight line with their skis parallel

✅ Ski in a straight line, making a snowplough by themselves

✅ Do snowplough wiggles

✅ Touch their toes and head while sliding

✅ Hop or jump on skis while sliding forward

✅ Listen to and follow their instructor and their instructions

✅ Use a magic carpet or beginner lift by themselves

1 Star – Wallabies

To achieve their 1 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski in a straight line with their skis parallel and stop using a snowplough

✅ Control their speed when following their instructor on a beginner run

✅ Make snowplough turns around a series of cones

✅ Stop safely in a group

✅ Put their skis on and take them off by themselves

✅ Carry their own skis

✅ Get up on their own after a small fall

✅ Sidestep up a hill

✅ Use a drag lift and or a chair lift

2 Star – Arrows

To achieve their 2 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Make snowplough turns, of a variety of sizes, in control, on a green run

✅ Make their skis parallel at the end of the turn on a beginner/easy run

✅ Link six snowplough turns in control on their own on a green run

✅ Explain how to stop and start safely on the mountain

✅ Traverse across the slope with their skis parallel

✅ Lift their uphill ski while traversing across the slope on an easy run

✅ Ski over rollers or small bumps

✅ Land a small jump

3 Star – Arrows

To achieve their 3 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski confidently on blue runs, linking turns and following their instructor

✅ Make their skis parallel at the end of the turn on a blue run

✅ Lift their uphill ski for three seconds while traversing across the slope on a blue run

✅ Use poles: Ski with them and be able to carry them with their skis

✅ Box slide (ski straight across a box with skis parallel to the box)

✅ Ski backwards in a snowplough

✅ Link bunny hops when traversing

✅ Confidently land two or three small jumps in a row

4 Star – Bombers

To achieve their 4 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski and stop safely on their own, showing awareness of other skiers and obstacles around they on a blue

✅ Make plough parallel turns, matching their skis in the fall line or earlier on a blue run

✅ Perform J turns (Ski straight down the fall line and turn up the hill) with their skis parallel the whole time

✅ Skate on skis

✅ Ski on one ski while traversing a blue run for 5 seconds or longer

✅ Ski backwards, making snowplough turns

✅ Ski the rollers, small bumps or skier cross in a snowpark, safely

✅ Explain the difference between the piste markers and how they can help they navigate around the mountain

✅ Explain the rules of a snowpark

5 Star – Bombers

To achieve their 5 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Make linked, controlled parallel turns following their instructor on a blue

✅ Ski six linked parallel turns in control on their own, on a blue

✅ Ski red runs confidently and in control, linking turns and following their instructor

✅ Traverse across small bumps or moguls, absorbing the impacts (maintaining ski snow contact)

✅ Sideslip vertically or diagonally down the hill

✅ Do a hockey stop

✅ Ski a 180 flat spin on a green run

✅ Explain how to overtake other skiers safely and know who has the right of way

6 Star – Rockets

To achieve their 6 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Make rounded rhythmical long parallel turns on a red run

✅ Start to make linked (skiddy) short radius turns on a blue run

✅ Traverse across big bumps or moguls, absorbing the bumps (maintaining ski snow contact)

✅ Use a pole plant

✅ Roll from one edge to another on a path or cat track (Simple carve)

✅ Get air on bigger jumps, landing safely and well-balanced

✅ Safely lead the group down the mountain, deciding where to start and stop, with awareness of other skiers and obstacles around they and the group

✅ Ski 360 Flat spins on a green run

✅ Ollie (pop) on their skis

7 Star – Rockets

To achieve their 7 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski black runs confidently and in control, following their instructor

✅ Ski short radius (skiddy) turns on a red run

✅ Show the use of a pole plant at all times

✅ Sideslip to edge check on steep terrain like hard reds or blacks

✅ Make linked carved turns on a green run

✅ Start to explore different types of snow (pisted, bumpy, powder, crud)

✅ Box slide with a jump on to and off the box (skis parallel to the box)

✅ Understand and explain the Accident Procedure and how to get help

8 Star – Freeride

To achieve their 8 Star award, they need to be able to:

✅ Make short radius (skiddy) turns, controlling speed with a pole plant on a red

✅ Confidently ski black runs in control, making decisions on when and where to start and stop in safety

✅ Make carved turns on a blue run

✅ Start to gain grip in the turn (edge control) to skid less and less, and have more precision in their turns

✅ Make turns in choppy, bumpy and sometimes deep snow

✅ Clear the flats and land in the landing zone of the small kickers in a snow park

✅ Navigate their way around the resort with a piste map and the piste signs

✅ Explain how to judge and know which drops, jumps, and lines are safe in the mountain environment

Bronze Star – Freeride

To achieve their Bronze Star, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski Funnel activities:
Ski varying radii of turn shape, controlling speed on blues and reds

✅ Lead the group on reds, making decisions on speed, turn type and safety

✅ Link a series of short turn,s getting grip from the fall line

✅ Ski rounded linked carved turns on a blue run while controlling their speed

✅ Ski skidded, linked medium radius turns through a mogul field

✅ Link turns in choppy, bumpy and sometimes deep snow

✅ Make linked backward (fakie) parallel turns

✅ Hit a small natural drop, spotting the landing and skiing out

Silver Star – Proride

To achieve their Silver Star, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski black runs with a range of different turn shapes while controlling their speed (pisted and unpisted)

✅ Lead the group on a black run, making decisions on speed, turn type and safety

✅ Ski rhythmical turns in fresh or choppy snow off the edges of the piste on their own

✅ Link short turns in a mogul field whilst staying in the fall line

✅ Perform braquage on a black run (linked skidded hockey stops in a narrow corridor with the torso pointing down the hill)

✅ Demonstrate how to use a transceiver, shovel and probe

✅ Do a grab on a jump

✅ Do a 180 on a jump

Gold Star – Proride

To achieve their Gold Star, they need to be able to:

✅ Ski a fall line descent of a mogul field, making linked turns with a pole plant while controlling their speed

✅ Lead the group in bumpy, choppy, variable snow safely

✅ Ski a couloir, chute or a steep un-pisted descent

✅ Do a grab on the medium jumps in the park

✅ Do a box-slide to fakie

✅ Land larger natural drops

✅ In a simulation, rescue one avalanche victim in six minutes

✅ Explain the dangers and safe ways to ski off-piste, including how to read the terrain, weather and snow conditions