BTEC Performing Arts

Subsidiary Diploma – Equivalent to 1 A Level

Edexcel

Modern performing arts practitioners need to meet broad and varied requirements, including the ability to adapt to performance styles, production, and creation contexts, and to understand how stylistic knowledge fits into them. The Subsidiary Diploma has been designed for learners who wish to pursue a career in the Performing Arts industry via higher education, to access graduate entry employment.

What you will study over your two years in Sixth Form

Learners taking this qualification will study mandatory learning and teaching modules including:

• Skills Development

• The Global Performing Arts Industry

• Personal Performing Arts Profile

• Collaborative Performing Arts Project.

The mandatory content allows learners to concentrate on the development of their technical performance skills and creation techniques and relate them to the performing arts industry.

In Drama we use fun and creative teaching to expand our student’s knowledge of their chosen subject and build self- reliant, creative thinkers and practitioners. We explore play texts, devise, and write our own pieces of work and go and see other work taking play in the industry today.

Assessment – 100% Coursework and Practical

A1: Exploring performance styles.

1. Apply stylistic conventions to performance material in response to a brief                                               

2. Apply performance skills and techniques to performance material in response to a brief         

3. Review the stylistic conventions of performance material

A2: Creating performance material.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of performance skills and techniques when creating and developing performance material in response to a brief

2. Apply creative processes when developing performance material in response to a brief

3. Apply technical skills when creating performance material

A3: Performing for an audience.

1. Develop and realise a performance through rehearsal

2. Review creative decisions made in rehearsal

3. Apply performance skills and techniques to a performance for an audience

Links Well With: 

Btec in Performing Arts links particularly well with History, English, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and Ethics, but also complements the Sciences well and provides a creative and rigorous academic option at KS5.

Progression Routes:                        

Btec in Performing Arts gives students the ability to specialise in Drama or the Performing Arts at University or at a Drama School. The subject helps develop communication, analytical, language and interpersonal skills and as such would be of benefit in all workplaces.

Employability skills:

Cognitive and problem-solving skills: using critical thinking, approaching non-routine problems, applying expert and creative solutions, using systems and technology.

Interpersonal skills: communicating, working collaboratively, negotiating, and influencing, self-presentation, self-management, adaptability and resilience, self-monitoring, and development

Entry Requirements:  

GCSE Grade 5 Drama and Grade 5 English. If you have not taken GCSE Drama you will need to show that you have previous experience in a Drama group.