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BUILD Art — Pass It On

Spring 1 (6 weeks) · Made by Matt · madebymatt.uk · Trinity Arts Award Bronze route (supported) · completes Part D · 2026–27

Unit enquiry

Can I teach someone else to make something — and to spot when it is going wrong?

Where this sits

Autumn 2 opened Bronze Parts A, B and C and scoped Part D. Spring 1 exists to finish Part D properly: plan, rehearse, deliver, review. Parts A to C are carried across by sheet reference and are not rebuilt.

A plan is not a teach. Part D needs a real learner and something the learner made. Pupils teach peers or TAs — one learner, one-to-one, is a real teach; Bronze asks that skills were shared with others, not that a workshop was run. Do not sign Part D off on the Week 7 plan alone.

What they teach

The diagnostic spine built through Autumn 2 is the teaching content. A pupil who can say “your edge is bleeding because the sponge is too wet — squeeze it out and dab twice” is unmistakably teaching, and no one can stage that. Teaching fault-finding beats teaching technique.

Kit: as Autumn 2, plus card for teaching aids and a camera. The Skill Deck (eight printed tiles of skills taught this year) is the recovery route for Week 1 — choosing from the deck is a real choice.

The rescue rule

Printed as a bench card in the evidence pack: show it once · hands together, once · step back a metre · count to ten before you step in · ask, do not take · rescue, do not replace. If the teacher finishes it for the learner, the proof belongs to the wrong person — and Part D needs it to be the learner’s.

Week 1: What Can I Teach? Bronze Part D

Enquiry: What do I know well enough to hand over?

Diagnostic: too big is a whole outcome; too small has nothing to photograph; right is one skill with a visible result in about ten minutes.

Week 2: Break It Into Three Steps Bronze Part D

Enquiry: Can a stranger follow my instructions without me?

Diagnostic: too vague, too many, or right — three steps a stranger could follow. Task analysis is a transferable skill well beyond art.

Week 3: Make the Teaching Aid Bronze Part D + A

Enquiry: What can I make that teaches without me talking?

The silent test: hand the aid over and say nothing. Where they stop is the step you rewrite. The aid itself is a real art deliverable and also counts as Part A participation.

Week 4: Rehearse on a Friendly Bronze Part D

Enquiry: What goes wrong when a real person tries it?

Diagnostic: you did it for them; you left them stuck; or right — hands together once, then a metre back. Rehearse on a TA if a peer feels too exposed.

Week 5: ★ Deliver the Teach Bronze Part D · ASSESSED

Enquiry: Can they make it, and is it theirs?

The learner’s finished piece and their feedback in their own words are the strongest Part D evidence in the whole award. Photograph both.

Week 6: Review, Audit and Close Bronze Bronze Part D close · all Parts

Enquiry: What changed — and where is the proof?

Whole-journey review across both terms, then the gap hunt: go Part by Part, find the thinnest, top it up this week. The Evidence Locator is completed here and handed to the adviser.

What a trained adviser still needs to provide separately

A trained Arts Award adviser must audit the complete personal arts log against the current Bronze requirements before confirming any qualification claim. There is no minimum-hours gate; attendance volume must never be used to withhold a claim.

Artsmark is whole-setting development, not an individual pupil award. Consent must be checked before any photograph of a learner leaves the room, and completed evidence sheets stay on the school network — never in a repository.