As you are well aware we have faced unprecedented challenges this year and at the heart of all of this there has obviously been a concern for everyone but more so the children who have lived through these unique times, missing out on valuable education and the interaction with fellow pupils and friends. Teachers have…
We take a look back at how the JQTH project, along with three local artists and makers, engaged with 100 local students during lockdown, and what we learnt in the process. ‘Spotlight on a Street’ is a bi-annual week-long celebration of the heritage of a chosen street within the JQTH area. For the May 2020…
Discover has been a great way to engage young people over lockdown. The first thing it gets young people to do is identify art forms around them. Initially the young people I worked with online found this difficult – “I’m stuck in my house – where can I find art, apart from a couple of…
As a childminder I always use creativity to help the children that I work with to learn, grow and have fun. I found out about Arts Award Discover at Home through Twinkl and Children’s Art Week and thought it was a great idea. The Discover at Home programme appealed to me as it was online…
Urban Heard: Youth Engagement Specialist CIC is an organisation that specialises in using peer-led communication for behaviour change, as well as using the arts to support young people to deal with their emotions and feelings. Although the West Midlands based organisation is 7 years old it is a relatively new Art Awards provider. After a…
Billesley Primary School were awarded Platinum in September 2019. Throughout their journey Billesley worked with a number of partners to create a varied programme of artistic experiences for their school community. They started working with Stan’s Cafe in September 2012, with a group of artists from a variety of disciplines, though primarily theatre practitioners, working…
Sandwell Youth Offending Service’s Artsmark journey began in late 2017, with just an idea that we would like to do something different. That different was to use creative arts as a method to engage young people during their time in the service. We wanted to use methods that offered young people the opportunity to express…
At the start of lockdown, it felt like all the fun stuff stopped. We couldn’t see friends, family or do any of the other activities we were used to. I missed this. I missed the friends I used to see, the family meet ups we used to have and the days where we went to…
The New Vic Theatre is delighted to offer the Arts Award to young people in the Staffordshire area. The theatre considers Arts Award to be an incredibly valuable qualification, allowing young people to get a wealth of experience from different theatre departments including design, prop making, sound, lighting, producing, and musical and assistant directing. In…
Arts Award is a truly golden opportunity for pupils of different ages to embrace the arts and, in my 8 years as an advisor, I have seen so many children benefit from what Arts Award has to offer. My own background is quite diverse: an architecture graduate who moved onto a Masters in media production…