Recently several of our Year 10 students took part in the Junior Physics Challenge receiving the Silver and Bronze awards. Well done to all the students who took part.
The Junior Physics Challenge is open to students in Year 10 or below. The competition consist of two twenty-five minute online multiple choice papers. The questions are based on an assortment from Dynamics, Electricity, Optics, Heat, Units, small amounts of Astronomy, Waves, to give the main topics. Some questions are done by a process of elimination, some are general knowledge and not classroom physics, and some from the school curriculum. It is a quiz not an exam.
The Junior Physics Challenge competition is designed to engage and challenge students of all abilities by offering them a range of problems to solve. Although most of the questions are based around the current GCSE curriculum, students will be able to gain more marks if they have a general knowledge in physics as well as taking a keen interest in practical work in lessons. The key aim is that students enjoy taking part and are encouraged to do more physics.
