Gold Arts Award
Level 3 Certificate in the Arts
Qualification number: 500/9666/7
Why Study the Arts Award?
Gold Arts Award is a Level 3 qualification on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) and is designed for ages 16 and above, but is open to young people aged 11 to 25. The award has 16 points on the UCAS tariff and is an Enrichment Option within theStretch and Challenge portfolio.
Gold Arts Award is open to anybody with a creative skill, not just those studying an Arts subject. Art formscan be as diverse as lighting, set design, marketing, architecture, creative writing or textiles.
It is an accredited opportunity to demonstrate skills in leadership and organisation, as well as gaining confidence and entrepreneurial skills. Students learn more about pathways into creative industries, but arealso able to apply creative thinking to their other subjects.
Students have access to an adviser who can help them through the Award, but the project is student-led and based on what the individual is interested in. Individual arts portfolios can be presented in a number ofways including written, in a scrapbook style or through multimedia.
Students will receive 90 guided learning hours + 60 independent learning hours = 150 hours totalqualification time (TQT).
To achieve a Gold Arts Award, young people collect evidence in an individual arts portfolio of theirexperiences of:
Personal arts development
• extending their own arts practice, experiencing another art form and creating new work
• being involved in the world of the arts through placements, volunteering, training and research
• reviewing arts events and finding out about artists or craftspeople and their career paths
• researching and making the case for an arts issue
Leadership of an arts project
• planning a project, identifying the project’s aims and outcomes
• organising the people and resources
• delivering the project and managing the effectiveness of the project
• managing a public showing of the work
• reviewing their leadership development and finding effective ways to collect and evaluate feedback from participants, audience members and other stakeholders