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30% scholarships available, based on the assessment test.\n £112 per month after scholarship.
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Scheduled GL English and Verbal Reasoning topics.
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Check your child's progress in the portal and guide them to the next level.
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Sixteen sets, ten minutes a day, tracked so you can see the streak without asking.
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Olympiad problems are not bigger sums. They are puzzles that cannot be solved by recognising a method, which is exactly why they build the reasoning that the 11 Plus, and everything after it, actually tests.
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Maths Olympiad Workshops
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Ninety minutes a week, running all year.
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Years 4 to 6, 7 to 9 & GCSE .
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Online, or in person at Reading.
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Olympiad questions are not harder sums. They are questions where the method is\n the answer.
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This is the sort of problem your child will meet in week one. Have a go — the answer matters less than the trick.
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What we actually teach
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Six ways in to a problem you cannot do
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Olympiad questions are not harder sums. They are questions where the method is the\n answer — so these are the methods, taught one at a time and then used until they are automatic.
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Not a five-week course. It runs through the\n year, one strategy at a time, revisited on harder problems each term.
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The papers this is actually for
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Every strategy we teach is one the real papers reward. This is the ladder your child\n is climbing, and where it goes next.
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Primary Maths Challenge
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Sat in school in Years 5 and 6. Short, non-routine problems — the first time most children meet\n a question their textbook has not prepared them for.
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Junior Mathematical Challenge
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The UKMT paper sat by around a quarter of a million children in Years 7 and 8, with Gold, Silver\n and Bronze awarded by national percentile.
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A point worth knowing: the Kangaroo is not a stepping stone to the Olympiad.\n Children are invited to one or the other depending on how they score, and both are entered through the\n school — never by a parent directly.
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What they walk out with
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Pitched at the Primary Maths Challenge and the UKMT Junior Challenge — the papers school enters them for.
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The strategies Olympiad students actually use, so an unfamiliar question stops being a dead end.
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Timed challenges every week, so the clock stops being the thing that beats them.
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Recognition for finishing, not for winning. Everybody leaves with something.
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One monthly subscription covers every Maths Olympiad course — the panel beside this page has\n the price and everything it opens. Join in any term; the strategies do not run in a fixed order.
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Most of the work is thinking. The speaking comes after the child knows what\n they actually want to say.
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Every child has one idea worth sharing. The sessions are about finding it\n and making it clear.
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Timed run-throughs, honest feedback, and the nerves worked on properly — until ten minutes on stage feels ordinary.
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✓Again before anything is publishedFilming a talk is not permission to put it online. That is a separate yes, for that one talk.
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