Arts Award

What is Arts Award?

a great way for young people to explore creative skills

• a nationally recognised qualification

• a framework for learning new skills and sharing them

• a link between young people and creative professionals in arts and media

• a rapidly growing award that can be achieved throughout the country  

If you are interested in running the Arts Award then please download the 2012 Arts Award Guide

For more details about the Arts Award please visit www.artsaward.org.uk

Please click here to hear what Sir Ken Robinson has to say about Arts Award

How do you run Arts Award?

To become an Arts Award adviser and support young people through the Bronze and Silver Arts Award you need to successfully complete a one-day course For more details about becoming and adviser please click here

The public training dates for 2011 in the East Midlands are as follows:

07/03/2012 - Bronze and Silver adviser training - Northamptonshire

28/03/2012 - Gold top up training - Nottingham

To book a place on one of these course, please click here

CfBT Lincolnshire School Improvement Serivce is the lead training agency for Arts Award in the East Midlands

Arts Award Discover and Explore

From April, two brand new levels of Arts Award will be available; Arts Award Discover and Arts Award Explore.  Through these new awards, anyone aged 7-25 can take part in Arts Award.  Explore is accredited at Entry Level 3 while Discover in an introductory award.  If you are interested in training to deliver the award, bookings are now open.  Visit the Arts Award website for more www.artsaward.org.uk/7plus

As a school how can I find resources to help me run Arts Award?

Please see below a list of links to the Arts Award website with resources to support schools to run Arts Award

How Arts Award can work for you - please click here

For adviser spotlights and school case studies please click here

Resources:

Arts Award Schools Leaflet

Arts Award Curriculum Mapping Resource

Arts Award can also be linked with other projects:

Shakespeare Schools Festival - Students taking part in an SSF project can also work towards Arts Award accreditation and could achieve the Shakespeare Challenge

Lights, Camera, Parliament -  Parliament's Education Service is recommending Arts Award to accredit its 'Lights, Camera, Parliament!' film-making competition for schools

Arts Award Welcome - Lincolnshire

CfBT Lincolnshire School Improvement Service Arts and Study Support Team is proud to announce that we are an Arts Award Welcome Centre.  This means that we fully support the Arts Award and will offer help and signposting to opportunities wherever possible to young people looking to achieve an Arts Award Qualification 

Bronze Award

Taking part – Part A
We organise a number of different workshops in various artforms.  Opportunities include:
· the Menu, which is a series of after school activities set up in schools with quality assured creative practitioners

Being the Audience – Part B
We organise a events during the year which celebrate the Arts.  Also advertised on our Artsduck website are a number of other events happening around the county which you may be interested in attending

Meet an arts hero or heroine – Part C
We organise a number of events during the year where this could be possible:
· A hero or heroine could be someone who you have worked alongside as part of one of our projects.  You could questions those people about their careers and include this in your Part C research
· We have an artist database which contains a large number of creative practitioner details.  You might find someone on here who you find particularly inspiring and want to find out more about

Arts Apprenticeship – Part D
As we work with a large number of creative practitioners on a range of projects, there might be opportunities to work alongside a creative practitioner and support part of their workshop

Silver Award

Unit 1 - Arts Challenge – Part A/B
Your Arts Challenge might be linked with being part of one of our programmes, for example, the Fashion Academy, JYA (Young Journalist Academy) or the Lincolnshire Dance Academy, where your challenge can be related to this work.

Unit 1 – Arts Challenge – Part D
· We have an artist database which contains a large number of creative practitioner details.  The website also contains useful information about the Arts within Lincolnshire and ways to get involved

Unit 2 – Supervised Arts Leadership – Part A, B, C, D, E
· As we work with a large number of creative practitioners on a range of projects, there might be opportunities to work alongside a creative practitioner, shadowing them and supporting part of their workshop activity

Gold Award

Unit 1 – Identify and use development opportunities and sources of information within the wider arts sector - Part B
· If you want to find out about the world of arts management, why not contact us as we might able to answer any questions that you may have.  We could suggest some opportunities for volunteering

Unit 1 – research and review the work of more advanced practitioners and explore relationship to own practice – Part C
· Our artist database contains a large number of advanced practitioners.  You could choose to contact them and find about their career paths

For further information or queries, please contact Katy Vine - Kvine@cfbt.com

Other Opportunities

An opportunity for 16-25 years with a passion is within the arts, sports or culture.  Somewhere_to can help them to find  the right space.  It might be as simple as finding a space for a one-off event for a dance group.

Please click here for additional information