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
9rungs still ahead

Summit endpoint · Public speaking

ESU International Public Speaking Competition

The whole route is ahead. ESU International Public Speaking Competition asks for 9 rungs between Year 7 and Year 13, and none has passed.

Troupe teaches 0 of them today; the rest are still in build.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
THE PUPIL, NOWY711Rotary Youth Speaks— IntermediateClub and area roundsY812Y913ESU Public SpeakingCompetition — firsteligible yearRegistration 16 Sep 2026 ·Y1014ESU Public SpeakingCompetition — thefour-stage ladderHeats Nov · R2 Jan–Feb ·Rotary Youth Speaks— SeniorClub and area roundsY1115ESU Public SpeakingCompetition — lasteligible yearNational final Jun 2027HistoricalAssociation GreatDebateBranch heats Nov 2026–Jan2Y1216ESU InternationalPublic SpeakingCompetitionMay · London · dates TBCESU Schools' Maceand the unionschools competitionsMace R1 Nov · Oxford andY1317No domestic routeinto the IPSC atYear 13

Rotary Youth Speaks — Intermediate

Y7–8 · Nothing on the route

Club and area rounds autumn–spring · district finals spring

What it asks forStands, holds eye contact and speaks for a set time to strangers without a script, and does it enough times that it stops being an event.
PreparationNot yet offered