Expressive Arts Award

The ASDAN Expressive Arts Award accredits up to 60 hours of expressive and creative arts activities, including music, theatre, circus skills, writing, DJ-ing, dance, photography, art, advertising and puppeteering.

The Award offers a flexible, multi-level programme aimed primarily at 13-19 year olds. It provides a standalone certificate of achievement, as well as progression into nationally recognised awards and qualifications.

The Expressive Arts Award comprises five Modules:

• Explore
• Create, perform, present
• Arts in action
• Working in the Arts
• Appreciate, applaud, review

How to achieve the Award

Students present a portfolio of evidence of their activities. This portfolio will contain:

• evidence of 'challenges' completed
• planning and reviewing documents
• completed record of progress
• summary of achievement identifying skills development

Certification

After successful moderation, centres submit a list of candidates' names via the secure area of the website and certificates are issued by ASDAN.

How does the short course fit into the UK Qualifications framework?

Credits from the programme can count as up to half of the curriculum requirements of the ASDAN Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE), which has GCSE equivalence at Levels 1 and 2, and is worth an AS Level at Level 3.

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