This is a teacher-nominated programme. Nominations for the academic year 2020-21 are now closed. If you wish to make a late nomination, please email events@exeterms.ac.uk
Target Audience: students from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset who stand out for their achievement in and/or enthusiasm for physics.
Format: five enrichment days led by EMS, spread throughout the year. Online teaching will be used for some if not all of the academic year 2020-21. Participants will be kept updated.
Aim: to provide students, that might otherwise be isolated, with a community of like-minded peers to explore challenging and interesting physics.
How to get involved: Teacher nominations for the 2020-21 programme are now closed. Please email events@exeterms.ac.uk if you would like to make a late nomination.
Capacity: 64 (16 per year)
The PSC is a rolling programme for students from Years 8-11. Students join us at the beginning of Year 8 and remain on the programme until Year 11.
Our aim is to bring together and inspire able physics students from across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, forming a community of learners who will work together, share ideas, attend masterclasses and receive mentoring; delivering a fascinating insight into the exciting field of physics!
Teachers frequently identify students within their settings who stand out from the crowd and who can find themselves working in isolation. Our aim is to bring these students together, to enable them to work with peers who are similarly able and motivated, to provide stimuli which will deepen and broaden their appreciation of physics and its related fields and to demonstrate how physics relates to their lives.
It is our intention to support students throughout their secondary school career, regardless of whether or not they decide to apply for a place in our sixth form.
In ‘normal’ times, students joining the PSC-SW participate in a series of enrichment days with Exeter Mathematics School. We are running this programme online only during the academic year 20-21 Please see below confirmed dates for the programme.
During the enrichment days students will take part in masterclasses and workshops. They will be introduced to Physics beyond the normal curriculum and will be encouraged to think about, debate and explore challenging concepts and ideas.
This programme is teacher nominated only; we cannot accept applications from students directly. Nominations for the 20-21 academic year are now closed. If you wish to make a late application, please email events@exeterms.ac.uk
If you are already part of the PSC, you will automatically be moved up into the next year group, year on year.
| Sat 10th October | 1000-1100 | Fermi |
| Sat 7th November | 1000-1100 | Non-Euclidian |
| Sat 5th December | 1000-1100 | Quantum Mechanics |
| Sat 30th January | 1030-1130 | Astronomy (1) |
| Sat 27th February | 1030-1130 | Astronomy (2) |
| Sat 27th March | 1030-1130 | TBC |
| Sat 30th January | 0930-1015 | Astronomy (1) |
| Sat 27th February | 0930-1015 | Astronomy (2) |
| Sat 27th March | 0930-1015 | TBC |
Students will be sent pre-session taster material before each workshop to stimulate thinking and encourage discussion on the day.
Target Audience: Year 10 and 11 students who are not yet working at the highest level (i.e. working at a 6/7, but capable of achieving an 8/9).
Format: Weekly hour-long online lessons delivered by EMS teachers after school hours. The Year 11 group begins in the autumn term with the programme concluding at February half-term. The Year 10 programme begins in the spring term.
Aim: to enable students to achieve better GCSE grades than initially predicted and to therefore have greater opportunities in Further and Higher education.
How to get involved: Nominations for the Year 10 programme are now open. This is teacher nominated programme. Teachers – please click here to make a nomination. Deadline – Friday 5th February.
Capacity: 32 (16 per year group).
During a series of workshops and group sessions, students will have the opportunity to develop a deeper and more connected understanding of GCSE content.
Supported by EMS staff, students will be provided with the stimuli to broaden their application of Physics and its related fields, whilst supporting their development; thereby encouraging them towards further study of Physics beyond GCSE.
Students will attend online sessions during the autumn and spring (Year 11 cohort) and spring-summer (Year 10 cohort) terms. Year 10 students return in the autumn term as they move into Year 11.
This programme is teacher nominated only; we cannot accept applications from students directly. Teachers are invited to nominate Year 10 students during the first half of the Spring term. Please click here to make a teacher nomination (deadline Friday 5th February 2021).
All sessions run on-line on Tuesday afternoons from 1600-1700:
Autumn Term
| 22nd September | 29th September | 6th October |
| 13th October | 20th October | 3rd November |
| 10th November | 17th November | 24th November |
| 1st December | 8th December |
Spring Term
| 12th January | 19th January | 26th January |
| 2nd February | 9th February | |
All sessions run on-line on Tuesday afternoons from 1600-1700:
| 2nd March | 9th March | 16th March |
| 23rd March | 30th March | 20th April |
| 27th April | 4th May | 11th May |
| 18th May | 25th May |
The programme will recommence in the autumn term when the students move into Year 11.
Target Audience: Year 10 and 11 students in the Exeter & East-Devon area.
When: 2020-21 date TBC. Watch this space!
Where: The Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS
Format: An afternoon with four rounds in a team-based inter-school competition.
Aim: to have fun, be challenged, enjoy Physics in a buzzy environment!
How to get involved: Physics teachers are emailed by EMS in the half term before the event takes place.
Capacity: 80 (20 teams)
Target Audience: year 12 and 13 students in the Exeter & East-Devon area.
Date: 2020-21 date TBC – watch this space!
Format: An afternoon with four rounds in a team-based inter-school competition.
Aim: to have fun, be challenged, enjoy physics in a buzzy environment!
Capacity: 60 (15 teams)
