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 · Physics

International Young Physicists' Tournament

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 Young Physicists' Tournament asks for 10 rungs between Year 7 and Year 13, and none has passed.

Troupe teaches 3 of them today; the rest are still in build.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
THE PUPIL, NOWY711CREST Awards —Bronze, Silver, Goldrolling · 10, 30 and 70Y812Y913The Physics YearOne academic year · from4Y1014BPhO Junior PhysicsChallengeprov. 23 Apr – 14 May 20273BPhO ExperimentalProject — Year 10–11bandsubmission ~summer ·Y1115BPhO IntermediatePhysics Challengeprov. Fri 12 Mar 20273Y1216BPhO Senior PhysicsChallengeprov. Fri 5 Mar 20274BPhO ExperimentalProject — Year 12–13bandsubmission ~summer ·Big Bang Competitionentries close early Mar ·3Nuffield ResearchPlacementapply Jan – Mar ·2Y1317IYPT 2027host and dates TBC

CREST Awards — Bronze, Silver, Gold

Y7–Y9 · Habit of investigation

rolling · 10, 30 and 70 hours

What it asks forRuns a piece of work over weeks rather than lessons, keeps a record good enough for an external assessor, and finishes something nobody set a deadline for.
PreparationNot yet offered