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
10rungs still ahead

Summit endpoint · Physics

International Physics Olympiad

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

The whole route is ahead. International Physics Olympiad asks for 11 rungs between Year 3 and Year 13, and none has passed.

Troupe teaches 5 of them today; the rest are still in build.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
THE PUPIL, NOWY37No physics rung ofany kindY48Y59Y610Y711Y812Y913The Physics YearOne academic year · from4Y1014BPhO Junior PhysicsChallengeprov. 23 Apr – 14 May 20273BPhO ExperimentalProjectsubmission ~summer ·Y1115BPhO IntermediatePhysics Challengeprov. Fri 12 Mar 20273Y1216BPhO Senior PhysicsChallengeprov. Fri 5 Mar 20274Y1317A-level PhysicsChallengeSep – Nov 20262BPhO Round 1prov. Fri 13 Nov 20262BPhO Round 2Jan 2027 · prov. Mon 1 FebBPhO Round 3 —Oxford training campEaster 2027IPhO 2027Jul 2027 · Saudi Arabia

No physics rung of any kind

Y3–Y8 · Nothing exists
What it asks forNothing is required, because nothing is offered. The only useful preparation available is the maths ladder — algebra handled fluently and a multi-step calculation held without notes.
PreparationNot yet offered