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Arts Award

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Arts Award motivates and celebrates young people’s artistic achievements.

Open to anyone up to the age of 25, Arts Award embraces all interests and backgrounds. Young people can achieve an award through any arts, media or cultural activity, developing knowledge and understanding of their chosen art forms. Arts Award’s unique qualifications support young people to develop as artists and develop their creativity, leadership and communication skills.

We run a varied programme of events for children and young people in music and visual arts, working with them in schools, the community and through our in-house groups.

Contact us

For more information or to speak to a member of the team, please email schools@theglasshouseicm.org

Arts Awards Levels

We offer all young people the opportunity to complete an Arts Award across Discover & Explore through our online resource.

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Arts Award: Explore Folk

Learn all about the world of folk through music, song and dance as you work towards your Explore Arts Award certificate through our fantastic resource.

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Discover Arts Award

20 guided learning hours (recommended)

Arts Award Discover is an introductory award, designed for ages 5 and above, but is open to children and young people aged up to 25.

To achieve an Arts Award Discover, children and young people collect evidence in an individual arts log of their experiences of:

  • taking part in arts activities
  • researching artists or craftspeople and their work
  • sharing their arts discoveries

Explore Arts Award

Entry Level Award in the Arts (Entry 3) – Qualification number: 600/3894/9

25 guided learning hours + 10 independent learning hours = 35 hours total qualification time (TQT)

Arts Award Explore is an Entry Level (Entry 3) qualification on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) and is designed for ages 7 and above, but is open to children and young people aged up to 25.

To achieve an Arts Award Explore, children and young people collect evidence in an individual arts log of their experiences of:
  • taking part in a range of arts activities, including a personal response about what has inspired them about taking part
  • the work of artists or craftspeople and arts organisations
  • creating a piece of art work
  • sharing with others what they have enjoyed and/or achieved through completing their Arts Award
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