Resources
Browse and search for resources that will support you to deliver Arts Award.
Search by category
Click Browse by Category to browse through Arts Award resources by categories including planning your Arts Award delivery and evidencing Arts Award.
Search for key word tags
You can also use the search box to search for a range of tags that cover different areas such as Arts Award level and sector. A full list of tags is available here.
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.
Currently sorted By creation date ascending Sort chronologically: By last update | By creation date
Silver Arts Award activity mappingThis Silver Award mapping template can help you plot your organisation's existing arts activity against the Silver Arts Award framework. a Please note: the following mapping resource is a planning tool only and is not a substitute for the adviser toolkit as it does not contain all the | |
Discover Arts Award activity mappingThis Discover Award mapping template can help you plot your organisation’s existing arts activity against the Arts Award Discover framework. a Please note: the following mapping resource is a planning tool only and is not a substitute for the adviser toolkit as it does not contain all the information needed to successfully deliver Arts Award Discover. In order to deliver this level, you must have completed adviser training for Discover and Explore. See www.artsaward.org.uk/training. | |
Explore Arts Award activity mappingThis Explore Award mapping template can help you plot your organisation’s existing arts activity against the Arts Award Explore framework. a Please note: the following mapping resource is a planning tool only and is not a substitute for the adviser toolkit as it does not contain all the information needed to successfully deliver Arts Award Explore. In order to deliver this level, you must have completed adviser training for Discover and Explore. See www.artsaward.org.uk/training. | |
Bronze Arts Award activity mappingThis Bronze Award mapping template can help you plot your organisation’s existing arts activity against the Bronze Arts Award framework. a Please note: the following mapping resource is a planning tool only and is not a substitute for the adviser toolkit as it does not contain all the | |
Gold Arts Award activity mappingThis Gold Award mapping template can help you plot your organisation’s existing arts activity against the Gold Arts Award framework. a Please note: the following mapping resource is a planning tool only and is not a substitute for the adviser toolkit as it does not contain all the information needed to successfully deliver Gold Arts Award. In order to deliver this level, you must have completed adviser training for Gold. See www.artsaward.org.uk/training. | |
Five day bronzeThis planner supports you to run Bronze Arts Award in five days (or equivalent). This is by no means the only way to deliver this level of the award, but it offers a structure whether your programme runs over five days or five weeks!
| |
School resource packThe school resource pack is designed to support you as an Arts Award adviser. The pack includes resources to support planning for effective delivery, planning for large groups and how to integrate delivery of more than one level of Arts Award. It also provides delivery ideas, suggestions for supporting students’ progression, and guidance on moderation and assessing portfolios. | |
Arts Award Youth Theatre ResourceThis resource is a guide for how you might structure and deliver Arts Award with your youth theatre and see how the Arts Award criteria can fit around your programmes of work. We would not recommend that you exactly replicate this When making plans to take your youth theatre though Arts Award, consider the areas of your activity which would contribute towards the qualification and which areas could be adapted. | |
Arts Award and the Ofsted framework for schoolsThis 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 and HistoryArts Award can fit with arts activities you already provide, and be embedded into the curriculum. It can also provide a framework for cross-curricular programmes within the arts and across other subjects. This resource shows how Arts Award can be mapped to the History curriculum for Key Stage 1, 2 and 3. | |
Delivery development templateThis resource has been created to support advisers who want to develop their Arts Award delivery approach. You may want to embed Arts Award in your organisation, create a sustainable delivery model or encourage more staff to get involved. Or you may want to find a more efficient way of structuring evidence collection or assessing work. The resource helps you assess you current approach and gives suggestions for developing your delivery. | |
Making an assessmentThis 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 | |
Evidence Locator Forms - completed examplesThese 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. | |
Evidence checklistsThese 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. | |
Five reasons why your museums should do Arts AwardThis 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 AwardPum rheswm dros wneud Arts Award yn eich amgueddfaFive reasons to do Arts Award in your museum (Welsh language) | |