The latest thoughts from the Elemental team
The third batch of music for the week comes from David Herrera-Chavez, who has just started running the music department at Phoenix Academy in west London. David brings his degree-level expertise in…
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Our second composer up in Elemental's New Content Week is Eddie Chesterman. Eddie works in the music department at Queen's College London, having…
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This week on Elemental we are releasing new content each day written by great young musicians working as teachers in UK schools. The tracks range from…
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News
Elemental has been shortlisted in two categories for the 2026 GESS Education Awards, another exciting milestone as we start the first full academic…
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A Level
A year ago, I published a blog post on Music A level grading after discovering evidence that Music A level students are absolutely knocking it out of…
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A Level
While Elemental is most widely used by schools supporting their students at KS4, it was at A level that I saw the clearest effect with my own students…
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Webinars
On May 11th we'll be running a session for Passing Notes Education on how to use the Elemental platform to support students in their revision during…
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Content
One of the most interesting aspects of building Elemental has been the decisions I've made while either writing or finding the examples. The elements…
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News
On September 25th we ran the launch event for Elemental and its sister platforms at an event kindly hosted by Westminster City School. You can read…
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GCSE
One of the reasons that Elemental has been created is because of the dominant role that 'elements' orientated listening plays at GCSE and, to a lesser…
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A Level
For some time, I have wanted to sit down in a darkened room with a load of statistics on Music at A level and the time to understand them. It is well…
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News
The Elemental platform will formally launch on September 25th following a successful trial in which nearly 70 schools used the platform, answering…
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Product
Our fourth product, Summational, will launch in late August with a preview of a Year 7 assessment. Summational will have assessments from Year 1…
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GCSE
Insights from Elemental's 2025 data for Y11 Elemental is a new music platform using examples and non-examples to improve student understanding of the…
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Product
Streamlining is one of the key drivers of everything the Elemental team is working on. As a teacher for the past 20 years, I'm intimately acquainted…
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Product
Alongside improvements in the 'elements' type listening that is central to Elemental, our students at GCSE and A-level are faced with the challenge of…
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GCSE
One of the reasons that Elemental has been created is because of the dominant role that 'elements' orientated listening plays at GCSE and, to a lesser…
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GCSE
One of the reasons that Elemental has been created is because of the dominant role that 'elements' orientated listening plays at GCSE and, to a lesser…
· 2 min read
GCSE
One of the reasons that Elemental has been created is because of the dominant role that 'elements' orientated listening plays at GCSE and, to a lesser…
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GCSE
One of the reasons that Elemental has been created is because of the dominant role that 'elements' orientated listening plays at GCSE and, to a lesser…
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Product
On my desk I have a list, a long and hopeful list, of the ways in which I would support music teaching if I were King. Highly paid directors of music…
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