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 · offer condition
12rungs still ahead

Offer condition · Mathematics

STEP 2 and STEP 3

The next thing is the Proof 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. STEP 2 and STEP 3 asks for 13 rungs between Year 8 and Year 13, and none has passed.

Troupe teaches 6 of them today; the rest are still in build.


The line

Ahead of youPriming yearNot yet taughtAlready behindInterchangeDestination
BEFORE THE ROUTE BEGINSY812The Proof YearOne academic year · from6Junior MathematicalOlympiad (JMO)Tue 15 Jun 20275Y913IntermediateMathematicalChallengeWed 27 Jan 20277Cayley OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Grey KangarooThu 18 Mar 20274Y1014Hamilton OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Y1115Maclaurin OlympiadThu 18 Mar 20277Y1216STEP 2 build begins17 Aug 2026 → 31 May 2027Senior MathematicalChallengeWed 7 Oct 20269BMO Round 1 at Year12Wed 18 Nov 2026Y1317BMO Round 1Wed 18 Nov 20266STEP 2June 2027 · dates TBC2STEP 3June 2027 · dates TBC

The Proof Year

Y8 · Priming

One academic year · from August

What it asks forWrites a complete proof by contradiction and a complete proof by exhaustive case-check. Constructs a counterexample deliberately rather than by luck, and can say why “it works for 1, 2 and 3” is not an argument.
PreparationOpening soon
Every rung to Year 8 is answer-only. Cayley, in March of Year 9, is marked out of 10 by a person. This is the year that crosses it.
Interchange · this rung also serves 5 destinations