NCFE · RQF Level 1
NCFE Level 1 Certificate in Performance Skills using Music
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits15
- Guided learning62 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by NCFE · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NCFE 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.
Develop performance skillsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of practice in developing performance skills
- Develop performance skills
Exploring Design Skills for the Performing ArtsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know the purpose of design in performing arts production
- Use design skills for a performing arts production
- Demonstrate employability skills through participation in practical activities
- Evaluate the success of the design for the performing arts production
Exploring Music Performance SkillsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Take part in practical music making activities
- Prepare for a solo or group music performance
- Use music skills in performance
- Demonstrate employability skills through participation in practical activities
Exploring Technical Support for Stage PerformanceReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know the roles and responsibilities of technical support in the performance arts
- Set up equipment safely
- Use technical skills for a production or event
- Demonstrate employability skills through participation in practical activities
Introduction to the Performing ArtsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know about performance venues
- Know about performance roles in performance venues
- Know about non performance roles in performance venues
- Report on a performance
Preparing Performing Arts WorkReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know the stages involved in the preparation of performing arts work
- Explore ideas for performing arts work
- Carry out a role in the preparation of performing arts work
- Demonstrate employability skills when preparing performing arts work
Professional Development in the Performing Arts IndustryReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know career and progression opportunities within the performing arts industry
- Design and monitor a professional development plan
Promoting a Performing Arts EventReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why a performing arts event needs promotion
- Plan the promotion of a specific performance or event
- Contribute to the promotion of a specific performance or event
- Assess success of the promotion of a specific performance or event
Starting to Develop Performance SkillsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know performance skills
- Demonstrate preparatory skills in group activities
- Demonstrate performance skills
Taking Part in a PerformanceReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Take a positive role in preparing for a performance
- Undertake a role in a performance for an audience
Working in the Performing ArtsReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know what skills and training are required for jobs in performing arts
- Know what opportunities there are for progression in performing arts
- Know own skills and qualities relevant to performing arts
Working in the Performing Arts IndustryReal unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Know different types of organisations in the performing arts industry
- Know job roles in the performing arts industry
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 1 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
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
Where this can lead
Production Assistant / AV Technician
Your journey starts here, learning the foundations. The events industry is a vibrant, challenging, and incredibly rewarding place to build a career. If you're willing to put in the hard work, stay curious, and embrace the chaos, there's a huge world of opportunity waiting for you.
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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 NCFE Level 1 Certificate in Performance Skills using Music
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Develop performance skills
- Exploring Design Skills for the Performing Arts
- Exploring Music Performance Skills
- Exploring Technical Support for Stage Performance
- Introduction to the Performing Arts
- Preparing Performing Arts Work
and 6 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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.