Arts Award

The Arts Award encourages and recognises young people’s creativity. Here at Howard Community Academy we are an Arts Award centre and we deliver Arts Award at Discover and Explore levels.

Arts Award Discover

Arts Award Discover is an introductory award, designed for ages 5 and above. To achieve an Arts Award Discover, children collect evidence in an individual arts log of their experiences of:

participating in arts activities
researching artists and their work
sharing their arts discoveries

Arts Award Explore

Arts Award Explore is an Entry Level (Entry 3) qualification on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) and is designed for ages 7 and above. To achieve an Arts Award Explore, children collect evidence in an individual arts log of their experiences of:

active participation in a range of arts activities, including a personal response about what they have learnt from taking part
experience of arts organisations, artists and their work
creating a piece of art work
identification of what they have enjoyed and/or achieved, and their communication of this to others