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 · admissions test
12rungs still ahead

Admissions test · Law

National Admissions Test for Law

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. National Admissions Test for Law asks for 13 rungs between Year 8 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
BEFORE THE ROUTE BEGINSY812ESU Schools' Macereg 9 Jun – 16 Sep 2026 ·2Y913Magistrates' CourtMock Trialregional heats spring 2027ESU Public SpeakingCompetitionreg 16 Sep 2026 · heats3Y1014InternationalCompetition forYoung Debatersregionals spring · Finals4Orwell Youth Prize —Juniordeadline ~Apr 20274Y1115The Argument YearOne academic year · from6Bar Mock TrialCompetitionreg closes 9 Sep 2026 ·Oxford and CambridgeSchools' Debatingregionals Jan–Feb · FinalsY1216Year 12 lawfoundationthe whole year · no courseRobert Walker Prizefor Lawdeadline 31 Jul 2027John Locke GlobalEssay Prizedeadline 31 May 2027 ·4Y1317LNAT — Oxbridgeroutebook by 15 Sep 2026 · sitLNAT — January route31 Dec 2026 · 13 Jan 2027

ESU Schools' Mace

Y8 · Argument out loud

reg 9 Jun – 16 Sep 2026 · R1 Nov 2026

What it asks forStates somebody else's argument accurately before attacking it, and can tell a claim apart from the evidence offered for it.
PreparationNot yet offered
Interchange · this rung also serves 1 destination