Welcome to the online home for the Pre-GCSE Inspire Programme!
Class material will be released fortnightly on Wednesdays. You will receive the classes from your Teacher Coordinator, and they will also be linked below from each release date.
Keep in mind you don’t need to read every class cover-to-cover: we’ve provided a lot of material for you to engage with, but you can choose to focus on whatever is most interesting to you, and to enter the competitions which most interest you.
Competitions
We encourage you to participate in as many competitions as you can, but they are not compulsory. To enter a competition:
- Complete your competition entry and make sure it follows the guidelines listed for that competition
- Fill out the competition cover sheet
- Email your entry and your cover sheet to us at inspire@sjc.ox.ac.uk
The top entries to each competition will receive prizes in the form of Amazon vouchers and will be featured on Inspire Digital!
Spring Term 2021
Class 6: Books, Literature and Leisure (PDF)
Release date: 20 January 2021
Competition deadline: 3 February 2021
Class 7: Adaptation and the Human Mind (PDF)
Release date: 3 February 2021
Competition deadline: 24 February 2021
Autumn Term 2020
Class 1: Volcanoes in the Sciences (PDF)
Release date: 30 September 2020
Competition deadline: 14 October 2020
Class 2: Volcanic Documents and Depictions (PDF)
Release date: 14 October 2020
Competition deadline: 4 November 2020
Class 3: Evolution in science and technology (PDF)
Release date: 4 November 2020
Competition deadline: 18 November 2020
Class 4: Evolution in culture (PDF)
Release date: 18 November 2020
Competition deadline: 2 December 2020
Class 5: Evolution and volcanoes in review (PDF)
Release date: 2 December 2020
Competition deadline: 13 January 2021
Virtual Summer School
Monday 3 August – Friday 7 August 2020
Spring – Summer Term 2020
Class 1: Computer Science (PDF)
Class 2: English & History (PDF)
Class 3: Medicine & Psychology (PDF)
Class 4: Language & Linguistics (PDF)
Class 6: Economics & Law (PDF)
Latest News
Year 10 Class 6: Competition results
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the latest set of Pre-GCSE Inspire competitions for 2021! In Class 6, Books, Literature & Leisure, we looked again at evolution through a cultural lens, exploring how books and novels have evolved through different formats, styles and practices that reflect the societies producing them. We then turned to…
Year 10 Class 5: Competition results
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the first set of Pre-GCSE Inspire competitions for 2021! Class 5, Evolution and Volcanoes in review, was a little different from previous classes: we looked back at some of the topics we’ve covered over our last two themes stretching back to the summer school – ‘What is the…
Year 10 Class 4: Competition results
We’re delighted to announce the winners of 2020’s final set of Pre-GCSE Inspire competitions! Click here to see the winning entries.