Selective programmes

Every route runs backwards from a date.

Give a child’s age and a destination. The map shows the rungs between the two — what is still ahead, what has already gone, and where the preparation exists.

This map is a suggestion, not a schedule. It shows one sensible way to build practice and proficiency toward a destination — every child prepares differently, and reaching a rung is never a guarantee of a place.

Year 7 · summit endpoint
24rungs still ahead

Summit endpoint · Mathematics

International Mathematical Olympiad

The next thing is the Proof Year. It runs for one academic year from August and prepares the transition the route ahead assumes — six of the destinations on this map begin with it.

3 of 28 rungs are already behind. Of those, 3 sat on the main line — First Mathematics Challenge · Primary Maths Challenge · Primary Kangaroo. What remains is a compressed route, and it is shown in full below.

Of the 24 rungs still ahead, Troupe prepares 12.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
THE PUPIL, NOWY37First MathematicsChallengeNovemberY48Y59Primary MathsChallenge9–20 Nov 2026Primary Kangaroo18–25 Mar 2027Y610Y711Junior MathematicalChallengeWed 5 May 20276Y812The Proof YearOne academic year · from6Junior MathematicalOlympiad (JMO)Tue 15 Jun 20275Junior KangarooTue 15 Jun 2027Team Maths ChallengeRegionals Feb–Easter ·2Y913IntermediateMathematicalChallengeWed 27 Jan 20277Cayley OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Grey KangarooThu 18 Mar 20274Y1014Hamilton OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Pink KangarooThu 18 Mar 20273Y1115Maclaurin OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Pink KangarooThu 18 Mar 20273MathematicalOlympiad for Girls(MOG)Tue 22 Sep 20263MathematicalCompetition forGirls (MCG)Tue 22 Sep 20262Y1216Senior MathematicalChallengeWed 7 Oct 20269BMO Round 1 — Year12 sittingWed 18 Nov 2026Senior Team MathsChallengeRegionals Nov 2026 · Final2Y1317BMO Round 1Wed 18 Nov 20266Senior KangarooWed 18 Nov 20262BMO Round 2Wed 20 Jan 20274Trinity CollegeCambridge trainingcampSpring 20272Romanian Master ofMathematics~Feb 2027 · Bucharest2EGMO~Apr 2027 · CroatiaBalkan MathematicalOlympiad~Apr–May 20272InternationalMathematicalOlympiad16–26 Jul 2027 · Budapest

Junior Mathematical Challenge

Y7 · Consolidation

Wed 5 May 2027

What it asks forRatio, percentage and area fluency ahead of the Year 7 curriculum; recognises that JMC questions 21–25 are a different animal from 1–15.
PreparationNot yet offered
Interchange · this rung also serves 5 destinations