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
11rungs still ahead

Summit endpoint · Essay prizes

John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize

The next thing is the Argument 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.

The whole route is ahead. John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize asks for 12 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, NOWY711Orwell Youth Prize —JuniorTheme announced autumn ·4Cambridge Re:think —JuniorOpens 15 Jan 2027 ·Y812Y913John Locke GlobalEssay Prize — JuniorRegistration Feb–Mar 2027Y1014John Locke GlobalEssay Prize — Junioror Senior, byDeadline 31 May 2027Minds Undergroundand ImmerseEducation essayImmerse deadline 25 OctY1115The Argument YearOne academic year · from6John Locke GlobalEssay Prize — SeniorDeadline 31 May 2027 ·Orwell Youth Prize —Junior band, finalyearDeadline approximately AprY1216John Locke GlobalEssay Prize — SeniorDeadline 31 May 2027The Oxford andCambridge collegeessay prizesFitzwilliam late Feb · StOrwell Youth Prize —SeniorDeadline approximately AprY1317John Locke GlobalEssay Prize — finaleligible yearRegistration Feb–Mar ·

Orwell Youth Prize — Junior

Y7–8 · Length discipline

Theme announced autumn · deadline approximately Apr 2027

What it asks forCuts their own draft by a third without losing the argument, and can say which sentence they cut that hurt.
PreparationNot yet offered
Interchange · this rung also serves 3 destinations