Arts Award is a highly respected and universal qualification, based on sound approaches to teaching and learning. These are unique set of qualifications awarded by Trinity College, London that supports and encourages children and young people to explore new areas of the arts. They develop young people from all backgrounds with transferable skills such as confidence, leadership and organisational skills. The flexible framework of arts award means young people can work on a wide range of arts and cultural activities and projects, including creative and technical roles.
Arts award has five levels - Discover, Explore,Bronze, Silver and Gold. The learners are awarded certificates after a successful assessment of their portfolios. They are awarded 16 UCAS points after completing the Gold level. More information can be found on Arts Award website.
As a part of our Bricks on the Wall project, we have delivered Arts Award Explore to 51 children from year one at Haimo Primary School, Eltham in May 2018. Ten children completed their Discover certification on our week long summer holiday courses.
Arts Award at Haimo Primary School
Children from Haimo Primary School participated in the community arts project "Bricks on the Wall" where 51 children from year one explored collage art form. Their project theme was multicultural bricks. They made 2D cardboard bricks inspired by the famous artist Kurt Schwitters. They successfully completed their Arts Award Explore qualification through this project.
They had an exhibition of their artwork in school and the bricks will also become a part of our Wall art installation in SE9 Container gallery in Sept 2018. The school exhibition was followed by a very successful brick making workshop for parents.
The year one class teacher said - "The children really enjoyed learning and making the collages. They looked forward to going out for their art sessions each time and were keen to talk about it in the class. There was a lot of information which was very interesting. The advisers were very well organised and easy to work with. They were lovely with the children and adopted to suit their needs. The children really tried hard to produced careful and impressive work"
