Exeter Maths School isn’t just for A-Level students…
It’s a key part of our mission to inspire and support primary and secondary students who love maths, physics and computing wherever you are in our region – from Poole to Penzance.
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What we offer
Across the year there are opportunities to attend enrichment days and masterclasses, share ideas and problems with other enthusiasts and work with loads of fun and challenging online resources.
We also like to get out and about, visiting schools to give careers talks or lead enrichment days. We’re open to working with anyone but prioritise visiting schools that are too far away for their students to attend our on-site activities and those that do not have easy access to alternative provision.
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How it works
Our Outreach student programmes are teacher-nominated, which means that applications need to be received from the student’s school and not from students or their families. Maths, Physics and Computer Science teachers at state schools across the South West are sent the information for each relevant course. Teachers are welcome to contact the school to check that they are on the database to receive this information. Many of our programmes run annually and, as a result, the summer term each year is a key nomination period for programmes starting in the autumn term.
Over-subscription
Sometimes we have more students signing up for events than spaces available and so we’ve created criteria to help us decide which students take part. The criteria vary by programme, depending on its objectives. Examples of the things we may consider include:
- Disadvantage – for example, we may prioritise those eligible for Pupil Premium funding and/or Free School Meals or who live in a deprived area
- Gender – we aim for balance across our programmes
- Parity between different regions of the South West of England
- Engagement with schools that have not previously nominated students for events
- Working with schools who would benefit from support to meet the needs of their students, for example, a school that is struggling to offer Lvl 2 Further Maths owing to a shortage of experienced staff
For events that are supported by other organisations, we will apply their own over-subscription criteria.