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Courses of Study
Our aim is to provide a challenging, rewarding and useful course which will prepare our pupils for A and AS-levels and Higher Education, for vocational and other courses and for the demands of the working world in the twenty-first century. Our underlying principle is that a Bootham pupil at the age of sixteen should be confidently literate and numerate, should have a knowledge of the principles of scientific and humanitarian studies and of at least one modern foreign language, and should be aware of his or her skills in the creative disciplines. We feel that the Bootham curriculum in Lower and Upper Senior (Years 10 and 11) will provide that broad programme of study which gives a pupil both understanding and flexibility of mind - qualities which will be in increasing demand in the years ahead and which provide the soundest basis for a full and stimulating education.

We place a great emphasis on meeting the needs of the individual.  To help in this we intend that pupils shall have the freest possible choice of options, so that their academic programme can be closely tailored to their needs, interests and abilities.  However, we must recognise that it may be impossible to achieve the programme that everyone would ideally like.  We ask you to make your choices freely but also to accept that we may have to recommend an alteration in some programmes when the choices and their implications for the balance of the timetable are computed.

Click here for full information about the GCSE curriculum (for September 2010)