Enter CIC and Private Exams North East’s
Arts Award
ACADEMIC YEAR
Year Starts: September 2024
Year Ends: July 2025
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Awards we deliver
Discover
Explore
Bronze
Silver
Gold
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The Arts Award is perfect for home educated and private students, as well as those who are looking for an extra creative qualification.
It is also a perfect route into the performing arts industries due to its gentle introduction to the wide range of connected influences making the UK creative industries one of the most respected in the world.
Opportunities
We cover a wide range of opportunities and our programmes cover all the required criteria for the delivery and assessment of Arts Award.
Take a look at the information on this page and see if the Arts Award route is the right one for you.
There are five different routes, so one of them will be perfect for you.
Exclusive
We have partnership arrangements with many of the cultural venues across the UK.
This means we have arrangements in place to give our students exclusive access to areas, knowledge, tools and information not usually available to the general public.
Arts Award
DISCOVER
Arts Award Discover is the start of the Arts Award adventure. It takes children and young people on an artistic journey as they discover and enjoy the arts all around them, investigate different art forms, research an artist, and then share their discoveries with others.Â
Discover projects have included:
Music, art, drama, dance, performing, theatre, museums, history, creativity, costumes, musical instruments, stage properties and more…
This award can be taken by anyone, but it is suitable for young people aged 5 to 25.
Enquire today about the wide range of opportunities for gaining a Discover Arts Award with Enter CIC / Private Exams North East.
Arts Award
EXPLORE
Arts Award Explore encourages children and young people to experience different art forms and artists, and develop their own creativity. Along the way they record what they’ve achieved and enjoyed and share it with others.
Explore projects have included:
Music, art, drama, dance, performing and performers, theatre venues, museums, history, creativity, cultural diversity, costumes, world theatre and more…
This award can be taken by anyone, but it is suitable for young people aged 7 to 25.
Enquire today about the wide range of opportunities for gaining an Explore Arts Award with Enter CIC / Private Exams North East.
Arts Award
BRONZE
Bronze Arts Award develops young people’s artistic abilities alongside their research and communication skills. This level involves them in the arts as creators and audience members, and encourages them to take their first steps towards leadership by sharing their learning with others.
Bronze projects have included:
Single or multidisciplinary working, including taking part in indoor and outdoor performances, archive research, local heroes, diversity and technical and backstage working and more…
This award can be taken by anyone, but it is suitable for young people aged 11 to 25.
Enquire today about the wide range of opportunities for gaining a Bronze Arts Award with Enter CIC / Private Exams North East.
Arts Award
SILVER
Silver Arts Award gives young people the chance to take on an artistic challenge and a leadership role too. As well as being about creativity, it’s about becoming a reviewer, researcher and project manager. Participants build a broad range of transferable skills as they complete their portfolio and gain a Level 2 qualification.
Silver projects have included:
Single or multidisciplinary working independently and in teams, including indoor and outdoor performances, research, working with external organisations, technical theatre and more…
This award can be taken by anyone aged 11 – 25, but it is suitable for young people aged 14 – 16.
Enquire today about the wide range of opportunities for gaining a Silver Arts Award with Enter CIC / Private Exams North East.
Arts Award
GOLD
Gold is the highest level of Arts Award, giving young people insight into life as an arts professional. They’ll hone their existing artistic skills, acquire new ones, gain practical experience of different roles in the arts world and develop leadership expertise. Worth 16 UCAS points, it’s also a great boost to university and job applications.
Gold projects have included:
Directing and taking part in performances, creating new works with groups, multidisciplinary working, in-depth research and development. Managing projects, ideas and people, and more…
This award can be taken by anyone aged 11 – 25, but it is designed for young people aged 16+.
Enquire today about the wide range of opportunities for gaining a Gold Arts Award with Enter CIC / Private Exams North East.
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The Enter Centre and Staff
The Enter Centre isn’t just and exam space, it’s multifaceted space and rooms are far more versatile. It is a workshop space, a working theatre, a set construction and store, a podcasting studio, a music recording studio, a concert hall, a media and film studio, a costume and properties workshop and store, and so much more.
We own The Enter Centre, so it’s always available to our students.
Our professional staff are trained / qualified /experienced teachers, lecturers, builders, chefs, artists, musicians, composers, technicians, photographers, filmmakers and video editors, dancers, actors, theatre directors and bring with them years of industry experience working both nationally and internationally for themselves and some of the biggest organisations in the industry.
Digital delivery is also available to students as we have our own online education portal for delivering Arts Award and a range of other subjects.Â
Take a look at a few more images taken from across our Arts Award, Performing Arts and Community programmes.
