Performing Arts
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The Tech Award gives learners the opportunity to develop sector-specific applied knowledge and skills through realistic vocational contexts. It embeds learning through application and is designed to help learners:
- Explore what it’s like to work in the sector and gain the underpinning knowledge and skills required to work in it.
- Develop key knowledge, skills and behaviours, and learn about essential tools, techniques, and equipment.
- Apply their learning to real-life contexts and vocational scenarios in both learning and assessment
Component One: Exploring the Performing Arts 30%
Learners will develop their understanding of the performing arts by examining the work of performing arts professionals and the processes used to create performance.
Internal assessment with two tasks. Externally moderated 12 hours of supervised sessions.
Component Two: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts 30%
Learners will develop their performing arts skills and techniques through the reproduction of acting, and/or musical theatre repertoire as performers or designers.
Internal assessment with 3 tasks. Externally moderated 15 hours of supervised sessions.
Component Three: Responding to a Brief 40%
Learners will be given the opportunity to work as part of a group to contribute to a workshop performance as either a performer or a designer in response to a brief and stimulus.
Externally marked eight hours of for development of work and 3 hours supervised assessment.
As a creative subject with a focus on application, there is no written exam.
All components, including the externally assessed synoptic component, are assessed through engaging, open, and flexible set tasks, designed to give learners as much freedom as possible in how they respond, allowing them to work to their own strengths and interests, and to focus on the area of the performing arts sector that most excites and appeals to them.
The exam board has set windows for the assessment of each component, and these will take place across Year 10 and 11.
