BTEC Performing Arts

OVERVIEW OF COURSE

The BTEC Tech Award in Performing Arts gives learners the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge and skills in a practical learning environment. The main focus is on four areas of equal importance, which cover the:

• development of key skills that prove your aptitude in Performing Arts such as reproducing repertoire or responding to stimuli

• process that underpins effective ways of working in the Performing Arts, such as development of ideas, rehearsal and performance

• attitudes that are considered most important in the Performing Arts, including personal management and communication

• knowledge that underpins effective use of skills, process and attitudes in the sector such as roles, responsibilities, performance disciplines and styles.

ASSESSMENT

Components 1 and 2 - Internal Assessment.

Internal assessment for these components has been designed to relate to achievement of application of the conceptual underpinning for the sector through realistic tasks and activities. This style of assessment promotes deep learning through ensuring the connection between knowledge and practice. The components focus on:

• the development of core knowledge and understanding of a range of performance styles and disciplines, and the key features that contribute to these such as practitioners’ roles, responsibilities, skills and techniques

• the development and application of skills such as: practical and interpretative, rehearsal and performance. in acting, dance and/or musical theatre, through workshops and classes

• reflective practice through the development of skills and techniques that allow learners to respond to feedback and identify areas for improvement using relevant presentation techniques, for example a logbook.

Component 3 - External Assessment

Component 3 builds directly on Components 1 and 2 and enables learning to be brought together and related to a real-life situation.

The pupils are required to apply performances skills and techniques in response to a brief and stimulus, developing a group performance workshop for a selected audience. The design of this external assessment ensures that there is sufficient stretch and challenge, enabling the assessment of knowledge and understanding at the end of the learning period.

The external assessment is based on a key task that requires learners to demonstrate that they can identify and use effectively an appropriate selection of skills, techniques, concepts, theories and knowledge from across the whole qualification in an integrated way.

The external assessment takes the form of a set task/external assessment taken under supervised conditions, which is then marked and a grade awarded by Pearson.

The external assessment comprises 40 per cent of the total guided learning hours of the qualification and is weighted accordingly in the calculation of the overall qualification grade.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

Extra rehearsals and workshops

Trips

Visits to performances (Musical Theatre/Theatre performance)

Performance Opportunities

Summer Showcase – July

School Production

KS4 Showcases