Do the children and young people you work with take part in Lewisham Live? If so, this help sheet on how each young person can use their participation in Lewisham Live to achieve Arts Award Discover should be useful.
Posted: 08/03/2022
Category: Arts Award and ArtsMark
How to use your childrens Lewisham
Live experience as part of Arts Award Discover
What is Arts Award?
Four qualifications and an introductory award for ages 5 –
25 years. Arts Award can be delivered in schools, cultural organisations, youth
clubs, libraries etc. Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association
with Arts Council England
working with 10 regional bridge organisations.
The Arts Award
qualifications are designed to inspire learners up to the age of 25 to grow their arts and leadership talents. Most of all, they aim to support and encourage learners of all levels and abilities and from all backgrounds and cultures to engage and participate in the arts. From the initial
Arts Award Discover level, all the way through to Gold Arts Award, these qualifications offer a variety of ways to approach creative and wider skills development that can be tailored to the centre, adviser and learners.
Through Arts Award, learners will achieve a national
qualification that will build confidence through nurturing their individual interests, while also equipping
them with life skills that will support their education and future employment. Find out more about Arts Award
here.
About Arts Award Discover
Arts
Award Discover is an introductory award open to children and young
people aged up to 25.
Aims of the qualification
Arts Award Discover aims to encourage learners to develop a basic understanding of a range of art forms, to commit to taking part in arts activities, and to develop a basic understanding of communication. Learners do this through identifying that a range of art forms make up the arts, taking part in different arts activities, finding out about artists and their work and sharing their arts discoveries with others. They create a personal arts log (portfolio) to record their experiences in a format of their choice. Arts Award Discover provides a foundation to enable learners to be
introduced to the arts and is a springboard to other levels of Arts Award.
Achieving Arts Award Discover
To achieve an Arts Award
Discover, children and young people collect evidence in an individual arts log
of their experiences of:
- participating in arts activities
- researching artists and their work
- sharing their arts discoveries
There are 3 parts to the
Award:
Part A: discover
- understanding of how the arts encompasses
a range of art
forms from the familiar to the unfamiliar- participation in a range of arts activities
- understanding of how art forms connect to their own lives
Part B:
find out
- knowledge of at least one artist and their
work
Part C: share
- what they enjoyed and learnt through the award
- how they shared their experience with others
See the downloadable help sheet below for case studies from two Lewisham Primary Schools on what they did to use their Lewisham Live performances as part of Arts Award.
