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Leadership: Plan, do, review

Arts Award is a great way to develop your leadership skills, looking at the planning, delivery, and then reviewing of a particular project or activity.

These are important life skills that you will use in whatever job you go into, whether in the creative sector or not, so really take the time to learn what it means to be a leader, and explore your own leadership style.  

The portfolio evidence shared on this page give you a sense of the standard and depth of information and reflections needed at each level of Arts Award and you can see how the amount of detail needed increases as you move up the levels. The evidence on this page won’t always show all the requirements listed in the toolkit for the part(s) so it’s really important you work with a trained adviser to support you to fully mee the Arts Award criteria.

BRONZE | SILVER | GOLD

BRONZE

Easels with a sunset on them.
  • Visual Arts

Arts skills share: Painting sunsets (Bronze Part D)

Read about Alex's sunset painting workshop for Bronze Arts Award at a youth offenders institute. Read how they planned the workshop, delivered it, and what they learned.

Read the reflection

SILVER

  • Dance
  • Film and Media

Leadership project do: The Encounter by Andrew W, Ludus Dance (Silver Unit 2 Part C)

This is an example of a creative output produced for a Silver leadership project. This video was put together by managing the project as required. In his portfolio Andrew has included wider evidence of how he managed the project and reflected on the skills being used.

Wearing a fascinator.
  • Visual Arts

Leadership project review: The Fascinator Workshops (Silver Unit 2 Part E)

Abdul shares a short summary of his project plan and review from a Silver leadership project covering for example:

  • Practical issues

  • Timescales

  • Promotion of the project

  • Recruitment to the project

  • Delivery of the project

  • Collecting feedback & evaluation

  • Overcoming challenges

Read the plan and review summary

GOLD

  • Music

Leadership Plan and Review: Chris' event (Gold Unit 2 Parts B and E)

Chris created a charity concert for his Unit 2 leadership project. In this video of highlights Chris shares the event itself with a little bit of behind the scenes captured.

In the PDF available to download below, you get to see a summary of the planning considerations Chris made, visualised in a spider diagram. A great way to see the range of activities that go in to organising a concert.

These are small insights in to a wider portfolio that charted his journey from idea to execution and review.

View the plan (in a PDF)
DT Club Review - Unit 2 Part E.
  • Visual Arts

Leadership Review: Jo's DT Club (Gold Unit 2 Part E)

Jo undertook to create new arts materials as part of a DT Club she set-up at school. In this PDF download you can see a key aspect of her review from the project - covering what she enjoyed, what was challenging and what she would do differently next time.

Read the review