Level 3 BTEC Foundation Diploma Performing Arts

The course is co-taught with The Kings Theatre and is a unique opportunity to develop your skills in an exceptional vocational setting. You will study performing arts through the musical theatre disciplines of singing, dance and acting. The focus is on developing your performance skills through a range of performance projects that will challenge you to work collaboratively and develop your confidence as a performer in a range of settings.

Over the two-year course, you will gain a Foundation Diploma which is the equivalent to one and a half A Levels. Your lessons will take place over one day, beginning with singing and acting workshops on the Kings Theatre stage followed by a dance class in the studio theatre at the Sixth Form campus in the afternoon. You will study performing arts alongside two other courses, which can be BTEC courses and/or A Levels. This will allow you to progress to HE, studying performance at drama school or university in the future.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? 

The course is made up of four units. After a term of developing your skills as singers, dancers and actors through a range of mini projects, you will do your first assessments 

Unit A1: Skills development- you will focus on one musical theatre and one dance style and develop your understanding of each via a series of practical workshops exploring professional repertoire. 

Unit A2: Creating performance material - this is a devising unit where you will create a piece of children’s theatre, on the subject of healthy eating, which you will then tour to local primary schools as a piece of theatre-in-education. This doubles as a work experience module, as you experience what it is like to be a touring theatre company.

Unit A3: Performing for an audience - this is your main performance project, where you audition for roles and perform a jukebox musical to an audience.

Unit F16: Planning a career in the Industry - In this unit, you will develop your knowledge and understanding of the opportunities available to you in the performing arts industry. You will look at the history of performance from the late 1800s, looking at how it has developed into the vibrant business it now is. You will explore routes into a career in the industry and prepare audition material that enables you to access HE courses and, potentially, industry auditions. You will have the opportunity to meet industry professionals at The Kings Theatre who will give you important insights into how the world of performance works.