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…
In January 2019, Stafford based charity Make Some Noise (MSN) began a project with Burton Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) to bring music making, singing and the spoken word to pupils in extremely challenging circumstances. The Acting Head of the Unit, Mr Mark Bocker, contacted the charity to see if there were innovative, engaging ways of…
In 2019 Arts Connect supported Encore Enterprises CIC: Herefordshire Music Service to embed Arts Award accreditation within their after school music programmes working with children from four Herefordshire primary schools. Encore CIC highlighted the barriers facing children and young people living in Herefordshire’s rural communities, experiencing socio-economic deprivation, where participating in music and the arts…
Sandwell Youth offending Service’s (YOS) Artsmark Journey started in 2017/18 following a piece of consultation work that explored the issues around dis-proportionality and engagement challenges of the service with young people who are involved in the Criminal Justice System. There were some tough messages for the service arising from the consultation work which included that…
Social enterprise Gro-Organic CIC delivered a Summer Arts College programme in 2018 funded by Unitas. The Summer Arts College provided a three-week programme during the summer holidays for young people, aged between 14 and 19, who are deemed at high risk of reoffending. Six Young people enrolled on and completed the Summer Arts College programme.…
This art project was delivered to Year 3 pupils at Mordiford Primary School, Herefordshire by creative practitioner and teacher Fliss O’Neill over a total of four days spread across the month of October 2018. The aims were to explore Mythology; with a dragon myth linked to the village of Mordiford and to explore and represent…
After several years of hard work and growth, I completed my Gold Arts Award with a pass in November 2018. I was so overjoyed, not only had I completed an incredible experience working with the staff and young people at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, but I had grown into a confident person with leadership skills and…
We are a PRU based in Tamworth and Arts Connect funded a fantastic project last year for our learners which made an enormous difference to engagement, qualification outcomes and student smiles! We were able to buy in 2 street artists from Nottingham (Kid30 from Smallkid Design) to showcase their work, teach new skills and support…
