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Teaching

The Senior Physics Challenge is an initiative to develop skills and interest in school students in the great intellectual challenges that higher Physics presents when investigating the natural world. A summer school brings together in Cambridge the most able 64 students in the UK at the end of their AS (penultimate) school year. See the SPC web site . The directors of the SPC are now Drs Anson Cheung and Lisa Jardine-Wright. The summer school is very difficult for pupils of this age - Feynman problems in mechanics, first year university special relativity, lab classes and estimation classes are pursued during long days. Other fun activities (e.g. punting) also figure. Mathematical and experimental skills are developed. Most students are very happy to be so seriously extended.
The Ogden Trust and the participating Cambridge Colleges are major supporters of the SPC, as is St Paul's School that donates the services of an outstanding teacher.

My Corpus website has more teaching information.