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 gate
18rungs still ahead

Admissions gate · Reasoning & writing

Test of Academic Reasoning for Admissions

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. Test of Academic Reasoning for Admissions asks for 24 rungs between Year 7 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
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ESU Schools' Mace

Y7–8 · Argument as a habit

reg 9 Jun – 16 Sep 2026 · R1 Nov 2026

What it asks forIdentifies the claim, the reason and the assumption in somebody else's argument, out loud, without notes.
PreparationNot yet offered
Interchange · this rung also serves 1 destination