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Browse and search for resources that will support you to deliver Arts Award.

 

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Click Browse by Category to browse through Arts Award resources by categories including planning your Arts Award delivery and evidencing Arts Award.


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Please note: these resources are not a substitute for the adviser toolkit and do not contain all the information needed to successfully deliver Arts Award. In order to deliver the awards, you must have completed adviser training. 



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ADVOCACY

Arts Award a cherddorion ifanc Arts Award and young musicians

Mae'r adnodd hwn yn egluro sut y gellir defnyddio Arts Award gyda gweithgareddau cerdd a sut mae'n cymharu ag arholiadau cerdd â gradd. 


Gallwch ei lawrlwytho yn Gymraeg, yn ddwyieithog neu'n Saesneg yn unig.


This resource explains how Arts Award can be used with music activities and how it compares to music grade exams. 

You can download this in English, English and Welsh dual language or Welsh language only.

Arts Award and career education

A detailed look at how the delivery of Arts Award in education settings supports career education at all levels.  Mapping Arts Award to the Gatsby Benchmarks and also the Skills Builder essential skills.

Arts Award and Employability

How progressing onto Silver and Gold levels helps develop skills for education, work and life

This resource is designed to support Arts Award advisers who are looking to make links between our qualifications and the development of employability skills among young people. Whilst these skills can be linked to all levels of Arts Award, this resource looks in particular at Silver and Gold awards and is designed to be used alongside the employability mapping tool.

Arts Award and Takeover Day

How can Takeover Day activities be used for Arts Award?

Arts Award and the Ofsted framework for schools

This resource shows how Arts Award can support schools in their Ofsted inspection.

It shows links to the four main areas of the inspection framework as well as the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of students.

Arts Award information presentation


This PowerPoint presentation is designed to introduce Arts Award to senior leaders, colleagues, parents or young people. Feel free to adapt it to tailor it to your centre’s approach and priorities.

 

You can adapt and use the presentation to introduce Arts Award to other staff members. It’s designed to be used in any organisation or setting, but provides introductions which are specific to each sector. All slides can be edited before use, meaning that you can add any other details relevant to your work or take out slides that aren’t relevant to your setting.

 

With a focus on explaining why Arts Award is worth delivering in your organisation, the presentation includes:


What Arts Award is and what is required from young people

The impact and benefits of Arts Award

Information about getting started and some of our key partners


Arts Award journey posters

These colourful illustrated posters have been designed for display in Arts Award centres to help visually explain the journey for each Arts Award level.  They should be used alongside the adviser toolkit.  We hope they will provide a useful visual aid to centres and young people during their Arts Award projects.

Arts Award centres can request multiple copies here. These downloadable PDFs are best printed at A3.

Five reasons why your museums should do Arts Award

This leaflet produced in partnership with Kids in Museums outline five key reason why museums should get involved with Arts Award.


Pum rheswm pam ddylai eich amgueddfeydd wneud Arts Award

Pum rheswm dros wneud Arts Award yn eich amgueddfa

Five reasons to do Arts Award in your museum (Welsh language)


ASSESSMENT & MODERATION

Assessment Criteria Support Resource

Use this resource to help you apply Arts Award assessment criteria to the portfolios or log books you are assessing as an adviser.

Evidence checklists

These checklists allow you to check that all evidence needed for Explore, Bronze and Silver Arts award has been collated by young people. You can use this resource with the young person as part of your delivery process or as a useful checklist when assessing portfolios.

Evidence Locator Forms

Download the evidence locator forms, to be used with your portfolio submission for moderation. These forms are available for the  Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels. An evidence locator form must be completed for each young person's arts log or portfolio selected in the moderation sample. 

Evidence Locator Forms - completed examples

These resources provide completed examples of the evidence locator forms at Explore, Bronze, Silver, Gold levels. They demonstrate the amount of information we require to understand how the advisers made their assessment decisions.



Making an assessment

This resource gives a step-by-step guide to assessing Arts Award portfolios/logs at all of the five levels and completing the evidence locator form ready for moderation

Preparing for moderation

This resource gives a step-by-step guide to preparing Arts Award portfolios/logs for moderation via our online moderation platform Submittable - there is a specific resource for each level of Arts Award

DELIVERY & EVIDENCE

A guide to creating bespoke Arts Award Discover logs

Tameside Cultural Services, Good Practice Centre 2014/15, have a great deal of experience of building partnerships with schools, community and arts organisations to deliver Arts Award.  Key to their successful model is the production of bespoke logs for participants to use to gather their Arts Award evidence.  The logs are tailored to each individual theme and the needs of the group.  This resource provides guidance to those wishing to create their own Discover logs.


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