With Bar Set High, Caterham Doesn’t Disappoint at British Physics Olympiad

Back in November, the annual British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) competition launched again with the initial, gruelling three-hour ‘Round One’ paper. Off the back of last year’s success with Old Cat Alex M becoming the UK’s best A-Level physicist at the International Physics Olympiad in Tokyo, we were hopeful of another excellent year – and that is exactly what our pupils delivered.

As a completely voluntary competition, Caterham is enormously proud of the 52 pupils who elected to take part, making up nearly 2% of those who entered the competition nationally! A huge congratulations to Aidan T (Lower Sixth) and Aaron Z (Upper Sixth) for achieving Gold awards, topping the thirty-two gold, silver and bronze awards achieved collectively (2 gold, 5 silver and 12 bronze I and 13 bronze II). As a competition aimed at Upper Sixth pupils, for Lower Sixth and even Fifth Year pupils to have participated, let alone achieved medaled awards is fantastic.

A special mention must go to our Fifth Year competitors who achieved awards answering beyond-A Level questions prior to even sitting their GCSEs, in particular Anastasiia M who achieved a Bronze I award. Well done everyone!