Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3
Pearson BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Performing Arts (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits30
- Guided learning180 hours
- Units in this qualification27
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Applying Acting StylesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop characterisation as an actor
- Develop and rehearse material using different acting styles
- Perform as an actor using different acting styles
Applying Classical Ballet TechniqueReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Learn and interpret classical ballet choreography
- Develop and improve classical ballet technique
- Rehearse a role in a classical ballet dance
- Perform a role in a classical ballet dance.
Applying Contemporary Dance TechniqueReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the stylistic features of contemporary technique
- Apply physical and interpretative skills in contemporary styles
- Absorb and reproduce complex sequences of movement
- Develop contemporary dance technique through the rehearsal process
Applying Physical TheatreReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore text using physical theatre skills
- Use physical theatre skills to develop a role/character in rehearsal
- Perform role/character using phyical theatre skills
Approaches to Directing for TheatreReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the influence of production context in theatre
- Understand approaches to the role of theatre director
- Direct a short performance.
Arts in the CommunityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and nature of arts in the community
- Understand the skills and processes needed to run a community arts project
- Understand the roles and responsibilities within a community arts project
- Undertake roles in the setting up and running of a community arts project
Audio Performance ActingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know performance techniques used in radio drama and other audio fields
- Use vocal skills in solo audio performance
- Use vocal skills in ensemble audio performance
Choreographic PrinciplesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply compositional structures and devices in the creation of dance work
- Respond to, and work with, different stimuli
- Work effectively with dancers
- Understand the choreographic process and the performance of dance composition
Circus AcrobaticsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the physical requirements of acrobatics
- Show a range of acrobatic skills
- Explore spatial, body and orientational awareness
- Organise acrobatic skills into a performance
Circus AerialReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the physical requirements of aerial skills
- Demonstrate skills in a selection of aerial disciplines
- Explore spatial, body and orientational awareness
- Organise aerial skills into a performance
Circus EquilibristicsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate safe practice when using equilibristic equipment
- Demonstrate equilibristic skills
- Organise equilibristic skills into a performance
Circus ManipulationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Adopt a disciplined approach to learning manipulation skills
- Demonstrate manipulation skills
- Select and organise manipulation skills into a performance.
Developing Movement SkillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Execute movement actions
- Apply spatial awareness to movement work
- Apply dynamic principles to movement work
- Use relationships in movement
Developing Styles in ClowningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the history and development of clowning
- Create a clown persona
- Rehearse and develop material
- Perform to audience or present a directed clown piece
Film and TV ActingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop acting techniques for the camera
- Rehearse material for performance to camera
- Take part in a performance to camera.
Marketing for the Performing ArtsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know various marketing techniques commonly used by performing arts businesses
- Produce a comprehensive marketing strategy for a specific performing arts event
- Contribute effectively to a marketing campaign for a performing arts event
- Understand how to measure the success of a marketing campaign for a performing arts event
Movement in PerformanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Respond to different stimuli as potential performance material
- Reproduce movement phrases within a performance
- Apply movement skills in rehearsal
- Apply movement skills in performance
Performing to an AudienceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake a performance role for a live audience
- Interpret performance material for an audience
- Perform a role, communicating meaning with an audience
- Work with discipline within an ensemble
Principles of ActingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interpret and realise text
- Use acting and rehearsal techniques to develop a performance
- Perform as an actor
Singing Skills for Actors and DancersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain vocal technique
- Learn and repeat musical phrases
- Rehearse sung musical material
- Perform sung musical material using characterisation.
Singing Techniques and PerformanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how vocal exercises can contribute to the development and maintenance of vocal technique
- Follow a regular practice routine
- Realise a vocal line presented using staff notation
- Perform an individual line within an ensemble
- Design and perform a programme of songs as a soloist
Site-Specific PerformanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the nature of site-specific performance as an art form
- Know the legislative requirements related to a site-specific performance
- Research and contribute ideas in the development process of a site-specific performance
- Undertake a role in a site-specific performance
Special Subject InvestigationReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify an appropriate subject area for investigation.
- Plan a research project
- Carry out research
- Produce and present results of an investigation.
Stand-up Comic TechniqueReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key influences in stand-up and alternative comedy
- Develop stand-up comedy skills and techniques
- Select, develop and refine stand-up comedy material
- Take part in the performance of stand-up comedy.
Theatre for ChildrenReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Research, select and refine suitable material for children’s theatre
- Devise and shape material for children’s theatre
- Perform in children’s theatre.
Variety PerformanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know different types of variety performance
- Devise material suitable for a variety act.
- Rehearse material for a variety act.
- Perform a variety act or turn.
Voice and the ActorReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Devise a vocal development programme in response to own needs
- Complete a vocal development programme
- Demonstrate a command of vocal technique in response to material
- Demonstrate vocal technique in performance
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Carry out evaluation of your arts activities
- Communicate how you carry out creative and compositional skills appropriate to your target market
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience of using your art form to support participants to engage and develop in their chosen arts activity
- Design community arts projects for specific groups and individuals
- Engage Participants in Community Arts Activities
- Engage participants in arts activities
- Lead community arts activities
- Support participants to engage and develop in community arts activities
Where this can lead
VP of Performance Marketing
This role is a launchpad for the most senior leadership positions in the business world. It's about building a legacy of growth, innovation, and exceptional talent. If you're ready to define the future of performance marketing and make a profound impact on an entire enterprise, this is where you start.
See the whole journey →Showing 1 roles, drawn from 3 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Performing Arts (QCF)
27 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Applying Acting Styles
- Applying Classical Ballet Technique
- Applying Contemporary Dance Technique
- Applying Physical Theatre
- Approaches to Directing for Theatre
- Arts in the Community
and 21 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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