Arts Award Advisor - Discover and Explore level

If your school or community group are hoping

to acheive Arts Mark then it is advisable to be
running Arts Award.

I am a trained Arts Award advisor at
Discover (5 - 25 yrs) and Explore (7 - 25yrs)
level.

Todate my first Arts Award course has been run
at Explore level in an afterschool club
environment. This was run at and supported by
Wheelock Primary School and was paid for by
the parents. The club comprised 11 children
aged between eight and 11. Each of the four
sections was completed over a five week period
and incorporated INSPIRE, EXPLORE, CREATE
AND PRESENT.

During Inspire we looked at seven different
styles of art and created our own pieces of
work in these styles. Throughout Explore we
welcomed a number of artists who came in to
school to share with us their passion for their
art or hobby and we also visited galleries,
museums and discovered new favourite artists through books and the internet.

During the Create section the children designed, organised and produced their own wonderful pieces of art. We had a great range of work including a wire and clay sculpture; a cake decorated with sugar craft; a Bauhaus inspired collage; a lego movie; a replica miniature bedroom; a driftwood and beach comber sculpture; a paper mache planet; a calligraphy inspired sketch of a hedgehog; a collage of a dress incorporating decoupage and calligraphy and a plaster of paris hand decorated with handmade jewellery.

For the Present section we held an exhibtion at Sandbach library which the children organised, promoted and hosted.

This model for delivering Arts Award is just one way in which way Arts Award can be delivered. For example I am currently running an Arts Award programme that has been funded by the LEA and is run within school time for a group 11 of children. The joy of being a trained advisor is that I can devise courses as I see fit, tweeking them to suit the needs of individual groups, available budget and setting. So if you are interested get in touch to see if we can devise a programme tailored to your specific needs.