Primary Schools

The principle of using examples to learn abstract concepts is most obvious in children's early years as they encounter the world afresh. Truck, not truck, truck, not truck, truuuuuck!... nnnot truck might be a typical example of a child's journey towards building their knowledge of types of vehicles on the road. It is highly unlikely that this would work through a verbal definition of the precise difference between a truck, a car, a bus, a coach or a van.

At primary school, pupils build their aural understanding of musical elements and Elemental's examples can be threaded through the school curriculum so that, when learning about a trumpet, pupils can hear many examples of a trumpet and then test themselves: trumpet, not trumpet, trumpet, not trumpet... trumpet!