by Fay Stephenson | Sep 13, 2019 | Sustainability, News & Events, STEM
Climate CatastropheOn Tuesday Extinction Rebellion (XR) activist and self-proclaimed lover of nature and the planet, Tom Deacon, presented to our morning meeting and later gave a talk to College 1 in Specials.Tom spoke to us powerfully of the true likely scale of the...
by Fay Stephenson | Sep 12, 2019 | News & Events, STEM
Real or Fake Challenge Can you tell the difference? Students at Bootham were challenged with creating real or fake psychology studies. In the era of ‘fake news’ we would like to conduct our own research into whether people can tell the difference. Vote...
by Fay Stephenson | Sep 6, 2019 | News & Events
Social Action updateOver the summer we were delighted to receive a letter from York Central MP, Rachael Maskell, in response to the letters our students had written her last term about both the Send My Friend to school Campaign and the war in Yemen. It was...
by Fay Stephenson | Aug 22, 2019 | Arts, News & Events, STEM
Students at Bootham School were celebrating improved GCSE results today, with grades up from last year on all usual measures.Over 50% of passes earned a grade 9-7 (the equivalent of the old A*/A grades), with over half of Biology, English Literature, History, Latin,...
by Fay Stephenson | Aug 16, 2019 | Arts, Boarding, News & Events, STEM
There was a strong international flavour to A Level celebrations at Bootham this year. More than a quarter of the year group gained at least 3 A grades in their exams and amongst them was a very cosmopolitan collection of students, representing not just the United...
by Fay Stephenson | Jul 8, 2019 | News & Events
Many thanks to everyone who supported this year’s Oxfam Pop-up Shop on Parents’ Day, we raised £470 on the day and the unsold donations were taken to the Oxfam shop on Goodramgate where they will continue to make money throughout the year. Particular thanks to Liz...
