Arts Award Discover

Arts & Culture Pack

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ContentsHow to deliver Arts Award Discover in a Cultural Organisation ...................................................3

How does Arts Award Discover work? ..................................3

What do children need to do? .................................................4

Arts Award Discover Information for Parents and Carers ........................................................5

What is Arts Award? .................................................................5

What are `the arts’? .................................................................5

Want to know more about Arts Award? ...............................5

Ideas for Discover in arts and cultural organisations ..................................................6

Planning Template for Discover .........................................7

Arts award discover (Activity sheet) ............................... 8

Discovering the world of the arts (Activity Sheet) .........9

Arts Award Discover activity planning ..................................17

Planning an approach to Arts Award Discover in your setting ..........................................................17

Planning Template for Discover ....................................... 18

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How to deliver Arts Award Discover in a Cultural OrganisationDiscover is the introductory level of Arts Award, a unique set of awards that support children and young people aged 26 and under to enjoy the arts and culture and develop as artists and arts leaders.

Arts Award Discover encourages children to

�� develop a basic understanding of a range of art forms

�� take part in arts activities

�� develop a basic understanding of communication.

Children do this by

�� discovering a range of art forms

�� taking part in arts activities

�� finding out about artists and their work

�� sharing their arts discoveries with others.

Children create a personal `arts log’ to record their experiences.

Arts Award Discover is a foundation to introduce children to the worlds of arts and culture and a springboard to other

levels of Arts Award, which are qualifications.

How does Arts Award

Discover work?

Discover is a flexible framework that allows you to decide how you want to use it: children can be supported through each part or it can be self-led, or a mix of the two. Discover can be completed in a single visit or extended over a longer period for more depth.

To offer Discover someone from your organisation needs to plan the delivery approach, identify or provide arts activities and decide how evidence will be collected. This person is referred to as `the facilitator’ in these guidelines. This support pack contains ideas for each part of Discover that can be adapted to suit the children you want to work with, and further support is available from Trinity College London.

Arts logs are used to collect evidence that children have completed each part of Discover and can include a range of different types of evidence: photographs, drawings, audio or video clips, writing, poems, songs. There are downloadable templates in this pack, children can make scrapbooks, or organisations can create an arts log that reflects their art form, collection or theme.

Although the facilitator will plan the approach they do not have to take sole responsibility for Discover: others (e.g. Front of House staff, volunteers) can signpost art forms and where to find out about artists, run activities and check that log books have been completed.

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To offer Discover the facilitator needs to answer the following questions:

�� What will participants do for each part of Discover?

�� How will the evidence be collected?

�� How will we check that everything has been completed and who will do this?

Discover process for arts and cultural organisations

What do children need to do?

Discover has three parts that children must complete:

Part A: take part in arts activities

Part B: find out about at least one artist or craftsperson and their work

Part C: share with others what they enjoyed and learned through doing Discover

Part APart A starts with discovering that art is all around us by finding different art forms. Arts organisations, museums and historic houses are ideal places to find arts forms from the obvious like painting and drawing to architecture, exhibition design/curation, acting, music, set and costume design, embroidery or stone carving.

It continues with taking part in at least one arts activity. This can be an organised workshop or event or suggested by the arts log – see the `Discover Ideas’ resource in this pack.

Part A is about widening experience and understanding of the arts.

To complete Discover Part A:

�� Children find/identify as many different types of art and culture at your venue as they can and record what they find/identify

�� Children take part in at least one arts activity – but can do more than one if they want

�� Children write, draw, include photographs and/or audio/video of them taking part in their arts activity in their arts log

Part BPart B is finding out about the people who make or create art and culture. They could be artists (dancers, actors, painters, musicians etc), or the vast range of other creative roles, like designers, crafters, carvers, producers or curators.

This research helps develop a basic understanding of the professional world of the arts and culture.

To complete Discover Part B:

1. Children are supported to find out about an artist, craftsperson or creator. This could be someone linked to your organisation, or a specific exhibition or event. They can also find out about the skills and work of ‘unnamed artists’ and traditional craftspeople if this is appropriate for your venue

2. Children record what they found out in any format (for example writing, annotated photos, a collage, a poster etc) and record this in their arts log

Part CChildren share what they have discovered and found out through their Discover engagement. This can be done in a group, one to one, with family or friends or with people from the organisation (a useful way to gather feedback!)

Part C is about reflecting on and communicating what has been done.

To complete Discover Part C:

3. Children identify what they learnt through their Discover activities

4. Children record what they learnt in their arts log

5. Children chare their arts log with others – this could be via a poster, sharing with venue staff, volunteers or parents/carers

Help and advice is available from caroline.bray@trinitycollege.co.uk

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Arts Award Discover Information for Parents and Carers

What is Arts Award?

Arts Award Discover is an introduction to Arts Award, a set of awards for children and young people that gets them involved in and excited about the arts and culture and celebrates their artistic achievements. Arts Award aims to improve confidence and communication skills, as well as developing arts skills and knowledge. To complete Discover children:

�� look for examples of the arts and how they are part of everyday life

�� take part in arts activities

�� find out about people who make art and the art works they’ve made

�� share what they discovered with other people

As they work towards Arts Award, young people create an arts log by collecting evidence of what they have done and reflecting on their experiences.

When they have finished Arts Award Discover children get a certificate from the international awarding organisation Trinity College London. In England, Arts Award is managed by Trinity College London in association with Arts Council England working with 10 regional Bridge organisations.

What are `the arts’?

For Arts Award `the arts’ covers anything creative and cultural, including: reading, making up poems and stories, dancing, drama, music, films, photography, sewing, crafts, circus, architecture, design, collage and model making and much more

Want to know more

about Arts Award?

There are four more levels to complete in Arts Award, with the highest level carrying UCAS points aiding with entry to employment and university. All levels are available for anyone aged 26 and under. You can find out more at artsaward.org.uk

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Ideas for Discover in arts and cultural organisations

Part of DiscoverEvidence needed in arts log What children could do

Part A: take part in arts activities

Art forms found

Participation in one or more arts activities

�� Use their arts logs to find as many art forms as they can based on some examples you provide

�� Think about what art forms they encounter in everyday life: music, photographs, films, architecture, fashion. Encourage them to find others at your venue

�� Take part in organised activities e.g. family arts or crafts sessions

�� Take part in arts workshops for Discover based on themes you want to highlight

�� Do activities suggested in your arts log: draw their favourite object, write a poem, story or song, make up a dance, pose like a painting or sculpture and take a photo

�� Record a guided tour or soundscape of your venue, site or gardens

�� Take photographs from unusual angles or use digital tools to edit photographs

�� Use digital drawing tools to respond to what they see or do

Part B: find out about at least one artist or craftsperson and their work

What they found out about the artist / craftsperson and their work

�� Take part in a Q&A with an artist or someone with a creative role in your organisation

�� Use interpretation or information about artists available at your venue, site or website

�� Choose from a list of the less obvious creative jobs in your organisation: lighting designer, costume maker, conservator, graphic designer, marketing, set or exhibition builder, sound technician, photographer...and find out what these jobs involve

�� Research their favourite writer, musician, or actor

Part C: share with others what they enjoyed and learned through doing Discover

What they shared and who with

�� Share arts log with their family, learning team or FOH staff

�� Write an email or postcard to a friend about what they’ve done

�� Share their response on a notice board at your venue

�� Record their thoughts and post them on your social media channels

�� Make an exhibition of their arts logs including their reflections on their experience

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Discovering the world of the arts (Activity Sheet)

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DiscoverYour mission: Identify art forms and take part in at least one arts activity.

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the room you are in today. How many art forms can you find?

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Which arts activities are you going to take part in?

Record your arts activities here

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Tip: You can record activities using photographs, drawings, notes or digitally

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Which artist(s) are you going to find out about?

How are you going to find out about them?

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Tip: this could be through workshops, interviews, online interaction, visits or attending events

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Find OutYour mission: Find out about artist(s) and their work and keep a record of what you discover.

Record what you found out about the artist(s) here

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Who are you going to share your Arts Award Discover experiences with?

What did you enjoy and learn through the award?

Tip: sharing with others can be a one-to-one or group activity

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Record what you shared here

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Arts Award Discover activity planning

Planning an approach to Arts Award Discover in your setting

Arts Award Discover is designed for ages 5-9 t’s likely that some of the existing arts provision in your organisation can be adapted to fit within the Arts Award framework.

Before planning your delivery approach, it’s useful to identify what arts activities are already on offer in your organisation and incorporate them into your plan for delivering Arts Award. Consider Arts Award’s fit with workshops, one-off projects, youth/school councils, partnerships, after-school clubs, school productions, curriculum work, work experience and volunteer work.

At Discover level, children and young people take part in different arts activities, find out about artists and their work, and share their learning with others. They create individual arts logs in the format of their choice to record theirdiscovery.

Here are some examples of how different organisations

have delivered Arts Award Discover:

Saturday drop-in clubHolburne Museum, Bath delivered Arts Award Discover as part of a Saturday drop-in art club. The children made artworks inspired by what they had seen and sketched in the gallery. They used different art techniques and materials to respond to the art works - from mod roc puppet heads, inspired by Peter Blake’s collection of Punch and Judy puppets, to exploring quality of line and scale in charcoal and ink after looking at Gainsborough’s landscape drawing. They put together a show of the work they had produced presenting it to their parents and carers at the museum, explaining how they had made it and what they thought of it.

Linking with arts weekChildren at Fulbridge Primary School made their own ‘day in the life of the arts’ poems and stories before taking part in a range of creative workshops, as part of the school’s arts week. They designed t-shirts, bags and bookmarks as well as doing dance and movement sessions. Effective planning and communication between staff were key to success.

For more Discover case studies and examples, visit artsaward.org.uk/casestudies

More ideas and information�� a number of national organisations link Arts Award Discover with their programmes. These include Into Film, Shakespeare Schools Festival, BBC Ten Pieces and Family Arts Festival: artsaward.org.uk/partnerships

�� Discover log books that support young people to capture evidence of their Arts Award Discover are available to buy from artsaward.org.uk/shop

Arts Award Discover artsaward.org.uk/discover

An introductory award that we recommend takes around 20 hours to complete.

This mapping template can help you plot your centre’s existing arts activity against the Arts Award Discover framework.

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 artsaward.org.uk/training

Planning Template for Discover

For more information or support please contact Caroline.Bray@trinitycollege.co.uk

Part C: share

which parts of their enjoyment and learning were shared and who they were shared with

Part B: find out

a record of what they found out about artists and their work

Part A: discover

a number of art forms identified

participation in at least one arts activity

Evidence required

Existing/ planned arts activities

Adaptations needed

Delivery timescale (eg one lesson)

Staffing/resources/ space/funding

Action