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

• Competition 11: Carolingian minuscule (PDF)
• Competition 12: Leisure and technological change (PDF)

Class 7: Adaptation and the Human Mind (PDF)

Release date: 3 February 2021
Competition deadline: 24 February 2021

• Competition 13: Evolution of flight (PDF)
• Competition 14: Is a robot a person? (PDF)

Autumn Term 2020

Class 1: Volcanoes in the Sciences (PDF)

Release date: 30 September 2020
Competition deadline: 14 October 2020

• Competition 1: Primary succession (PDF)
• Competition 2: Living with a volcano (PDF)

Class 2: Volcanic Documents and Depictions (PDF)

Release date: 14 October 2020
Competition deadline: 4 November 2020

• Competition 3: Volcanoes in art (PDF)
• Competition 4: Trade in Rome (PDF)

Class 3: Evolution in science and technology (PDF)

Release date: 4 November 2020
Competition deadline: 18 November 2020

• Competition 5: The fossil record (PDF)
• Competition 6: Artificial intelligence (PDF)

Class 4: Evolution in culture (PDF)

Release date: 18 November 2020
Competition deadline: 2 December 2020

• Competition 7: Language evolution (PDF)
• Competition 8: What even are words anymore? (PDF)

Class 5: Evolution and volcanoes in review (PDF)

Release date: 2 December 2020
Competition deadline: 13 January 2021

• Competition 9: Make your own volcano (PDF)
• Competition 10: Create your own organism (PDF)

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 5: Maths (PDF)

Class 6: Economics & Law (PDF)

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