More than a hundred students at a High Wycombe school were awarded at a national physics challenge.

A total of 172 pupils of Wycombe High School won awards at the national Junior Physics Challenge, organised by the British Physics Olympiad.

Out of all the wins, a record 26 pupils bagged a gold award.

This is what some of the top gold winners had to say.

Emily commented: “Physics is my favourite subject so I’m really hoping to take it further. Everyone in our year getting an award is just amazingly impressive and amazing that we, as students, can achieve so much, at where we are now”.

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Zoe, another gold winner, said: “I’m really happy because it was something I’d never done before and there were loads of interesting questions and to do well is really good – for everyone”.  

The winners were surprised by the school’s headteacher Sharon Cromie, who went along to the school’s Lab D room to share the good news with the Year 10 winners.

She said: “I am extraordinarily proud and delighted to see that the uptake of Physics at Wycombe High School is very strong. I know that these young people have worked very, very hard and these gold awards are richly deserved”.

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The physics challenge tests young scientists’ knowledge through two 25-minute online tests focusing on Dynamics, Electricity, Optics, Heat, Units, small amounts of Astronomy, Waves and more.

A selected number of students could win a place on a one-day workshop in the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics.