Upgraded Scheme of Work · Autumn 1 (8 weeks) · Trinity Arts Award Silver (Unit 1 + Unit 2) · AQA UAS 'Creating artwork'
How can a young artist in Teesside turn a local challenge into an independent, critically-evidenced arts practice — and then lead a real arts project that changes something for other people?
This is the first suite to span both Silver units in one term: Unit 1 (arts practice, arts experience and career pathways) across Weeks 1–4, and Unit 2 (the arts leadership project — design, pilot, deliver, review) across Weeks 5–8. It is pitched at genuine Silver demand — coherence, qualification of claims, and independent transfer — while staying entirely SEMH-safe.
Unit 1: FRAME the challenge → research PRACTICE, CAREERS & PATHWAYS → IMPLEMENT & critically develop → attend, analyse & SHARE an arts experience
Unit 2: DESIGN the leadership project → PILOT, lead & adapt → DELIVER & curate → REVIEW, INFLUENCE & audit the portfolio
Each week retrieves a decision from the last and hands a specific decision forward. Week 8 turns the learner's review into a real recommendation a named adult acts on and reports back — the loop is paid, and the Silver portfolio is audited across both units.
Matt hand-built these as a complete, place-rooted 12-section Silver suite with a deep-Teesside palette (steel-teal, copper, gold, teal, violet) and a tier-appropriate, focused engine. This upgrade layers the house system on top without altering a line of his authored content:
Left deliberately untouched: his engine, his per-week visual explainers, his Calm Mode, his deep-Teesside palette. No extra hero graphics were added — his title and visual explainers already carry the visual load.
Progression is coherence, qualification, leadership and independent transfer — not volume of writing. Learners weigh evidence and counter-evidence, qualify claims with limitations, research real career pathways, plan for risk and access, lead and adapt a project with others, and reach a critically-evidenced review. Adult support, collaboration and learner authorship are recorded separately.
Personal disclosure is optional; place knowledge is optional; independent artistic and leadership decisions are the task. Every slide names access routes — annotate, point, sequence cards, private note, recorded response, adult relay, assistive technology, planned break, alternative audience. The Lundy loop closes with a report-back contract a named adult must honour.
The four zone positions are mapped onto Matt's deep-Teesside palette: SPACE steel-teal · VOICE violet · AUDIENCE copper · INFLUENCE teal. Positions are identical to every pathway (Space → Voice → Audience → Influence); the deep-Teesside register marks this as the top tier while keeping the suite unmistakably of its place.
LAUNCH entry = the routine with support; LAUNCH secure = a qualified claim with a limitation and a comparison; GOLD reach = qualify, adapt for an audience, lead others, and transfer the routine to an unfamiliar brief, participant group, venue or project issue.
Week 1: Frame the Local Challenge (Unit 1A)
Enquiry: How can a Teesside enquiry become a demanding, achievable and personally meaningful arts challenge?
Retrieves: unit start. Feeds: your challenge choices set the media, references, equipment and modelling supplied in Week 2.
Week 2: Practice, Careers and Pathways (Unit 1D)
Enquiry: How do artists and organisations build sustainable creative careers — and where do I connect?
Retrieves: Week 1's framed challenge. Feeds: your research shapes Week 3 demonstrations and identifies potential cultural partners or professionals.
Week 3: Implement and Critically Develop (Unit 1B)
Enquiry: What is working, what is the weak link, and what does the evidence justify changing?
Retrieves: Week 2's researched pathways. Feeds: your unresolved questions set the focus of the Week 4 arts experience.
Week 4: Arts Experience — Attend, Analyse and Share (Unit 1C)
Enquiry: What did I actually notice at this arts experience, and how does it change my practice?
Retrieves: Week 3's unresolved questions. Feeds: your reviews change future cultural opportunities, access formats and the leadership project's audience design.
Week 5: Design the Leadership Project (Unit 2A–B)
Enquiry: Who is this project for, what is the aim, and how will I plan for risk and access?
Retrieves: Week 4's reviews (Unit 1 → Unit 2 handover). Feeds: your participant consultation changes the Week 6 pilot, resources, timings and communication route.
Week 6: Pilot, Lead and Adapt (Unit 2C–D)
Enquiry: What does the pilot reveal, and how do I lead others and adapt before delivery?
Retrieves: Week 5's design and consultation. Feeds: your pilot evidence sets the final delivery format, support roles, resources and access conditions in Week 7.
Week 7: Deliver and Curate the Arts Project (Unit 2C–D)
Enquiry: What did participants and audience genuinely receive, and how does curation shape that?
Retrieves: Week 6's piloted plan. Feeds: your participant and audience feedback set Week 8 evaluation and one real future provision or partnership.
Week 8: Review, Influence and Portfolio Audit (Unit 2E + Unit 1 review)
Enquiry: What does the evidence justify, what should change next, and is the portfolio complete across both units?
Retrieves: Week 7's delivered project. Feeds (closes): a named adult responds to your recommendation with a decision, action, responsibility and deadline — and the Silver portfolio is audited across both units.
Silver completion requires all tasks across Unit 1 and Unit 2, normally around 95 total qualification hours, confirmed by a trained Arts Award adviser after an individual portfolio audit of learner attribution. Artsmark is whole-setting development, not an individual pupil award. Add locally approved, credited Teesside references, verified current arts experiences and practitioner/career sources before teaching. This module can contribute Silver evidence; it does not by itself guarantee completion.
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