British Physics Olympiad 2022-2023

For a third consecutive year the senior school Physics department ran a series of competitions by the British Physics Olympiad to stretch and challenge our talented Physics pupils. For the first time this year, on top of the Intermediate ‘’Physics Challenge’’ for Year 11, the ‘’Senior Physics Challenge’’ for Year 12, the ‘’Physics Challenge’’ and ‘’BPhO Round 1’’ for Year 13, we also introduced the ‘’Junior Physics Challenge’’ for Year 10!

The number of pupils that participated, particularly from Year 10, was impressive showing once again that our pupils want to challenge and push themselves in Physics.

Below is a list of all the contestants and the awards they won per competition. Congratulations everyone, we are very proud of you!

Like every other year, top Physics pupils of their age from UK and international schools took part, so even what may seem to be a modest mark still includes our pupils in the very top rank of participants.

Special shout out to:

• Nassos and George for achieving a Gold award in the Junior Physics Challenge, awarded only to the top 14.7% out of roughly 12,700 contestants from 275 schools!
• Kristian and Ziqing for achieving a Gold award in the Senior Physics Challenge, awarded only to the top 8.8% out of roughly 6,000 contestants from 500 schools!
• Yuqian, our British Physics Olympiad champion, for attaining a Merit Certificate in the Physics Challenge and a Gold award in Round 1 and who is leaving our school with a grand total of six British Physics Olympiad awards!