East London Arts & Music A GSG School
- East London Arts & Music
45 Maltings Close
Bromley By Bow
London
E3 3TA - Head: Matt Sheldon
- T 0207 515 2159
- E info@elam.co.uk
- W www.elam.co.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 16 to 19.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Tower Hamlets
- Pupils: 306
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Trainees are worked hard from the off, and quickly come to relish the challenge of rising to professional level standards and deadlines. ‘Before I came to ELAM I knew nothing about making games,’ mused a year 12 student as he showed us an impressive virtual environment he’d created set in a submarine, ‘but it’s hands on here, you’re thrown in at the deep end, it’s about constant improvement.' Wherever we went, trainees were getting together to rehearse songs, practise riffs, do a spot of sequencing, or just strum a guitar and unwind. ‘Everyone’s basically learning from each other in this school...'
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Principal
Since 2020, Matt Sheldon. Previously at Garden International School in Malaysia for five years, where he was assistant head teacher (school culture and partnerships). Studied University of Newcastle and SOAS.
Entrance
Online application in which students’ creativity and motivation are assessed. If the school is satisfied about these, applicants are invited to an assessment day. This includes a one-to-one interview and a problem-solving group activity with people they’ve never met before – the school here is looking for ‘collaboration, integrity, communication’. Those applying to the music pathway must also do a performance. Once the day is finished, applicants are scored out of five, and only when it’s identified the high scorers does the school look at their academic record and references.
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