THE MAGAZINE OF BOOTHAM SCHOOL AND THE BOOTHAM OLD SCHOLARS’ ASSOCIATION

Headmaster

Deputy Headmaster

Head, Bootham Junior School

President of Bootham Old Scholars’ Association

Chris Jeffery

Martyn Beer

Helen Todd

Peter Higson

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The Headmaster

Bootham Features - A Year at Bootham: Head Reeves’ Speech 2018 - Interview with Gavin Blackstone - All our futures - QuakerUnitedNationsOffice - Boarding at Bootham - A Year at Bootham Junior School - Openshaw Travel Bursary

Ian Small, Headmaster 1988-2004

Student Work - Southall Archaeological Awards - DT work - Art - New Work

Leavers 2018 - Photograph

- College Leavers’ Results

- Leavers’ destinations

- Staff Leavers

School Record - New staff and students

- Sport

Old Scholars - Across the months - Old Scholars Poetry - Jeremy Heywood - Geoffrey Taylor - Michael Hillas - Old Scholars remembered - John Sidney Moore - Deaths since 2017 - Bootham in the 1960s - Reunions

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It’s always good to find the time to step back from the hectic business of life at Bootham to reflect on where we are, what we have achieved and what matters most about our life here. The opportunity to write the introduction to this excellent publication -for which huge thanks to Elaine Phillips in particular- always provides that.

Looking back, we have had quite a year. Most encouraging in many respects was the fact that in September 2018 the senior school welcomed the largest number of entrants for over 20 years, indicating, it could be argued, that Bootham’s reputation is growing at present. The only way that this could have happened, however, is because of the contribution of so many people, so much activity and loads of commitment to our life here, day to day and term to term; no school grows in numbers based upon ideas or ideals alone, but on thewaythoseideasaretrulyexemplifiedinthelivesofstaff,students and Old Scholars. I thought, then, that I would offer a selection from the many things that have happened here in the past year.

This is to be seen in the academic results our students achieve at GCSE and A Level. The latter, in particular, gave great cause for celebration this year with an unusually high percentage of Collegeleaverssecuringplacesontheirfirstchoicecourse,and the school proving to be among the top 6% of schools nationally for adding academic value in the Sixth Form.

It is to be seen too in the achievements of our talented studentsonthesports’field,intheconcerthall,onstage,upmountains and in many, many other ways. For example, our U13, 14 and 15 basketball teams all won local titles, our senior footballers have progressed impressively in national football competitions against much bigger schools, and various highly dedicated individuals gained national recognition for their sporting achievements, most notably Angus McMillan (Cross Country) Toby Price (Modern Pentathlon), Georgia Haynes (Fencing) and Emma Van Dam (Orienteering) Christopher Chivers, Rob Davidson, Zach Chan and Kiran Scott de Martinville have been Arkwright Engineering scholars; our senior mathematicians (Fuyi Xu chief amongst them currently despite being only in Upper Seniors) performed especially well in the UK Mathematical Olympiad for Girls; and a small group of current College 2 students (Alex Johnson, Lewis Kilbride and Rob Davidson) were presented with awards for the Best Act of Commemoration in the Country at the Tower of London for their work with others from the York Independent State Schools partnership on a truly impressive and collaborative commemoration of the Great War. There are many other achievements that could be mentioned, but I hope the above listgivesaflavour.

The work of the ISSP, which is so important to children in the city and which is held up nationally as perhaps the best example of cross-sector co-operation in the country, was recognised in the joint hosting with St Peter’s of a very successful national conference on school partnerships. Our Assistant Head James Ratcliffe deserves enormous credit for the successful running of both that event and of such a rich programme of activities within school more generally. These are aimed both at our own students and the wider community of York: visits from mental health campaigner and educator NatashaDevonandtwobeneficiariesofQuakerinvolvementin the Kinder Transport in the 1930s -Kurt Strauss and Peter Kurer- were among many well attended and thought provoking events open to those beyond our gates.

Our own innovative All our Futures Conference brought nearly 100 young people from various parts of the country together to gaze into the future with the help of some top notch speakers and draw up a manifesto for an education for the future, the results of which have been recently published, and make very challenging reading.

The year has, of course, also brought its share of sadness. In particular we have marked the very untimely passing of relatively recent Old Scholars Jason Lawn and Ellie Wike, as well as much loved staff. Geoffrey Taylor, French teacher at Bootham between 1981 and 1994 passed away in early October 2018, followed shortly afterwards by Ian Small, Headmaster from 1988-2004. Ian’s memorial meeting in the Bootham Meeting Hall on November 11th was packed with Old Scholars, former parents, his family and both current and past staff of the school (among many others) who paid very warm, deep, affectionate and, at times, hilarious tribute to a man whose mark on the school and the lives of its members has been profound, indelible and entirely for good.

In the same week we marked the passing of Jeremy Heywood, son of erstwhile Head of English, Peter, and a great servant to the nation in leading the Civil Service with distinction for many years. It was clear from the tributes paid to him nationally that the values of his Bootham education wereexemplifiedinhislifeofservice,somethingwecontinueto urge from all our young people.

In closing, it reminds us that the school we love and enjoy in the present is founded on the hard work, inspiration and deep commitment of past generations of staff and students who loved it as we do. It is up to the current generation to keep the flameburningandpassiton.Wefullyintendtodoso!

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Beth: “It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

Martyn, quoted this to us from the American Novelist, Toni Morrison,inourfirstReeves’Meetingoftheyear.Withjustdays now remaining of our Bootham journey this quote rings true more than ever. The sense of our time coming to an end here could conjure feelings of sadness or loss, however as Toni Morrison implies those feelings show how much we have enjoyed our time here. In this spirit today we will show yousomeofthehighlightsofourfinalyearhereatBootham.

Tom: Before we get into the good times we have had this year we would like to take this opportunity to remember the members of the Bootham community who have left us this year

-AfterfiveyearsofbeingdirectorofPE,AlisonMoreland,madeitoverthefinalhurdletoretirementatChristmas.Finishing on a high note with a cabaret act that few of us will ever forget. We would like to thank her for inspiring the love of PE within so many students - even if winning matches hasn’talwaysbeenourstrongpoint!

- Another respected member of staff we had to say good bye to earlier this year was our librarian Steven Oakden who arrived at Bootham, along with us seven years ago. He worked with the whole school community, from helping lower schoolrooms to understand the Dewey decimal systemtofindingbooksforcollegetwosdesperatelytryingtofinishtheirhistorycoursework.Wecansafelysayallcourseworkwascompletedtothedeadline!

Beth: We have also had some new arrivals over the course of the past year

LauraHerringournewlibrarian,hasmadeagoodfirstimpression by conquering the printer in record time and always remaining warm and smiley, even when having to tell lower schoolrooms to quieten down.

Nicki Husband has taken on the role as Junior Common Room Supervisor. She has battled with schoolrooms’ tears, breakdowns and break ups but has successfully survived her firstyeardowninthecommonroom!

Matthew Parker has joined the design technology department and made learning fun and accessible for all his students.

Carrying on the theme of new beginnings we would like to congratulate Jamie Ralph, our DT technician who got married last summer to Sonia Russell who he has known since year 8 when they met at school in Kent. We have had two new arrivals into the Bootham family this year, with a big congratulations to both Jamie Ralph and also Hannah Feehan.

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Emily Watson and Sammy Johnson selected to perform in national ensembles

Bootham Challenge 2018

Tom: Another new addition, we can’t forget is our new deputy head, Martyn Beer, who through various morning meetings has injected a new wave of Quakerism back into Bootham. Although Martyn’s youthful vigor and enthusiasmdidbackfireatthestartoftheyearwhenheconfidentlychallengedagroupofyear11sinagameofpickup basketball despite wearing his work shoes. The predictable fall happened minutes into the game and he was left battered and bruised with a black eye. In spite ofhisinjuriesMartynsoldieredonthroughhisveryfirstopen morning, which I’m sure would have left a lasting impression with prospective parents.

Back in October, Martyn joined us on the pilgrimage and couldn’t resist sharing his love for the 1652 country the entiretrip!WewouldliketotakethismomenttothankMartyn for being such a good support and helping us thoroughly enjoy our year as head reeves.

Beth: We would like to take this moment to thank our lovely deputy head reeves Hannah Long and Rolf Marr whowecouldn’thavemadeitthroughtheyearwithout!Furthermore, we would like to thank Tom Gray for being a groundbreaking clerk of council this year. Our replacements have been selected for next year with a Head Reeve team consisting of Georgia Haynes, Rob Davidson, Livy Thew and Will Stevens and Kate Hey as the new clerk of council. We wish them all the best of luck and hope that they enjoy their time in these positions as much as we did.

Tom:Withoutanyflashynewdevelopmentsorevenanynew questionable outdoor sports equipment Bootham’s appearance hasn’t changed much this year. However, we have once again been visited by the Independent Schools Inspectorate and we are pleased to say we passed with flyingcolours.

Beth:OnceagainBoothamhasflourishedinitscharitablegiving, from various dress up days, taken full advantage ofbyfivecollegetwostudentswhohavegoneaboveand beyond the call of duty, taking on many characters fromthenativitytothespicegirlstogymnasts!Everyhalf term has seen bars taken over by bake sales which have proved as popular as ever. Also a wonderful team of college two boys (including our very own head boy) cycled the coast to coast route and managed to raise a whopping£1300forDragonflySchoolsFoundationwhichwas set up by Sue Bretherton, the former head of the junior school and her husband, Ian.

Other projects Bootham have taken part in, include sending old textbooks to schools in Africa as well as several upper senior students helping make washable feminine hygiene kits for girls in developing countries with pupils from the Mount School.

Tom: In December, the charities committee set up a “reverse advent calendar” scheme where instead of receiving a gift, or chocolate, on each day of Advent, students gave donations to the local Foodbank and Refugee Action York to support those in need. Student and staff support and engagement in this project was overwhelming, with a fantastic total of almost 2000 itemscollected!

Beth: One of the most successful charitable events this year, raising money for Amnesty International, was the fabulous time travel fashion show and an auction of paintings kindly donated by Richard Barnes and Jade Blood, two members of the Bootham School Art Department. Along with a crisis lunch and several bake sales, we have managed to raise over £1500 to support Amnesty’s work

Tom: And no surprise to anyone, the music department with particular credit to the legend - Paul Feehan, has once again managed to put on two amazing concerts for everyone’s enjoyment.

There have also been some fantastic individual successes across the year groups in music. Both Emily Watson and Sammy Johnson have been selected to play in National Ensembles and Emily also won the Open Age Recital Class at the Haydn Wood Festival.

Beth: Another congratulations has to go to Weiqing Ge in Middle Schoolroom who went through a two-stage process in the East Coast Young Musician of the Year 2017 competition to win her class with her cello playing.

More schoolroom success came from the Harrogate MusicFestival,withparticularlyoutstandingfirstplacefinishesfromTommySunforpianoandYiyangXuandYilin Xu in the Chamber music class.

Bootham Features - A year at Bootham: Head Reeves Speech 2018

Iceland 2018

Kurt Strauss

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Tom: This year, the drama department put on an outstanding performance of J.M Barry’s Peter Pan, with a brilliant lead performance from college one student, Freya Collins.

As well as on stage performers, we must shine the light on those behind the scenes who make the productions possible from sound to lighting to props. We would like to give a very special thanks to James Haynes and George Johnson who are both Bootham leavers this year. They have both volunteered their free time to help with everything from school productions to morning meetings and of course the cabaret over the past seven years.

Beth: Keeping with the key mottos of Bootham, adventurous and liberating, students across ages have been able to experience a large range of amazing schools trips. Historians travelled to both Berlin and Krakow this year over Easter to learn about how elements of Nazi, Holocaust and Cold War history have shaped the cities. Liz Brown has once again given geographers the chance to travel to Iceland and experience the blue lagoon and some of the other geographical wonders that it has to offer. Of course, the language department has offered their fair share of trips from Madrid to Munich, and a trip to Paris in February - which of course the history department had tolatchonto!

Tom: Bootham students have once again shone across the board with many personal successes and achievements. Tom Gray, in college two was highly commended in the Royal Economics Society’s Young Economists of the Year essay competition with his essay entitled “Government should raise the public sciencebudget,toboostflaggingUKproductivitygrowth” - that’s quite something to put on your UCAS form!

Another fantastic achievement this year, was the victory of Dominic Bielby (College Two) and Eliot Watson (College 1) who travelled to GSAL to compete against other schools from the region in the NE MFL debating competition.

Beth: Two budding engineers in college one, Rob Davidson and Christopher Chivers have done extremely well to secure themselves Arkwright engineering scholarships. Rob and Christopher were selected through a grueling process of exams and interviews all while competing against over 1400 other applicants. Arkwright scholarships are only awarded to the most promising future leaders of the engineering industry - goodluckwiththatboys!

It’s not only college students who have excelled this year - lower down the school Harry Cooper, an upper schoolroom student, won a creative writing competition out of over 1800 entries. His mini saga “MyLifeGotTwistedUpsideDown!”hasbeenchosenfor publication in a book showcasing young adults’ work called Welcome to Wonderland - South Yorkshire Marvels. Another schoolroom success comes from Carol Chen who came third in a national poetry competition with her poem aiming to raise awareness of hunger in the UK.

Tom: A team of schoolroom students comprised of Grace Wiggers, Benji Alwis, Rohith Raman and Charlie Thornton competed in the UK mathematics trust team challenge coming a fantastic second against 22 other teams from the Yorkshire region.

Beth: Individual sporting achievements have been plentiful this year. Last Summer Middle Schoolroom student, Ellen Gordon, took part in a national diving skills competition at the London Olympic Park.

Also Upper Schoolroom student Emma Van Dam represented England in orienteering this year and Stella Cross and Angus McMillan in College 2, have both competed in the English Schools Athletics Championships in cross country running. Angus McMillan was also selected to compete at international level to represent England. Shame he doesn’t always usethesamespeedtogettolessonsontime!

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A level results 2018

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Tom: The international success does not stop there. College one student, Toby Price, competing as part of the Junior GB squad has enjoyed a successful 12 monthsinModernPentathlon(comprisingoffivediverse sports: swimming, fencing, riding, running and shooting, disappointingly not all at the same time).

Another college one student who has excelled in sports this year is Georgia Haynes who has been selected by British Fencing to be part of their Sports Excellence Programme.

Beth: As well as individual successes Bootham has also excelled in team sports over the past year. Notably, the U13, U14 and U15 teams all won District basketball titles - which Andy Bell informs us is a very impressive feat as we have not won 3 divisions in the same year for a verylongtime!Alsoourmostsuccessfulfootballteamthis year was the U16 football team who got to one semi-finalandtwoquarterfinalsofareaandnationalcompetitions. The girls’ sports teams have also had many successes over the year, with particular note to the U19 netball team who won the County event.

Tom: A key part of Bootham life, which we will miss so dearly is the morning meeting. Over the past year we have heard from many different members of the community. Chris Jeffery steals the show on a Friday morning,usinghisweeklyreflectionsonschoolandlife in general to try to bring the school community togetherwhileencouragingindependentreflectionforevery individual.

Other meetings have ranged from Harriet Ennis making the whole school laugh with videos of chimpanzees being tickled to Liz Brown along with a team of students called The world shaper action group (aka WAG) inspiring the whole school to write letters about reuniting refugee families in the UK. Some of these letters were even quoted by Rachel Maskell, our local MP, in parliament.

Beth: We have been privileged to welcome a wide range of visiting speakers who have helped to shape our way of thinking. For instance, a talk by an inspiring Quaker called Kurt Strauss who as a child was saved by kinder transport to a hard hitting story from a man who managed to turn his life around after struggling for years with a life-threatening drug addiction. In addition, we were lucky enough to welcome Natasha Devon, a Youth Mental Health campaigner, who gave several talks to both students and parents on the issues of self-esteem, self-image and managing the pressures of teenage life.

Tom: As we have prepared this speech we’ve been ever more conscious of Toni Morrison’s words. We are already feeling the pain of missing Bootham but we know that we will always have the good times we have had here, to cherish.

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Bootham Features - A year at Bootham: Head Reeves Speech 2018

Peter Pan

Winners of the German debating competition Dom Bielby and Eliot Watson

Language school in Madrid March 2018

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Gavin Blackstonehat does the role of bursar involve?

I’m responsible for everything in school that isn’t academic. Primarily my roleistoensurethefinancialstabilityoftheschool and to plan strategically in line with our investment strategy. My team provides services to students and teachers, whether that’s catering, housekeeping, estates and maintenance, marketing, fundraising, HR or administration support. My role is to keep all the plates spinning at once and I know we’ve done this successfully if peopledon’tnoticewe’rehere!

Why did you choose Bootham?

I’ve lived in York since I was 21 and was aware of Bootham and role it has in the York community. I had been bursar at Fulneck School near Leeds for four years before coming to Bootham. Fulneck gave me a fantastic grounding but Bootham was my ideal job, as it had the positives of Fulneck within my home city. I was delighted when the job came up and I was appointed.

How different is Bootham from previous roles?

There are more resources here and more opportunities for growth. The facilities are well maintained and modernised. There’s a real sense of community which is important to me and my family. I think Bootham is unique in the way it welcomes everyoneintothingslikeReflect30,BoothamBreakfast and Saturday lunch. I also think the daily morning Meeting is important and am pleased that support staff are also involved, as it means we all share the same experiences and have time to sit andreflecttogether.

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What attracted you to work in the education sector?

My background was in Public Sector Audit and AdvisoryandasignificantclientformewasManchester City Council where I worked with their LEA on accounting and governance. I also enjoyed managing major projects in the world of Chartered Accountancybut,whenmyfirmmergedwithanother, I thought it was a good time to move into the ‘real world’ and the role of Bursar appealed as itwasbroadlygroundedinfinancialplanningandmanagement.

What are you most proud of achieving as Bursar?

I think I foster a good team ethic where we take collective responsibility for daily operations and significantprojects.IhaveastrongteamandIlead by personal example.

At my previous school, I was particularly proud of the sixth form centre which we renovated one summer drawing most skills from within my team as we had limited resources. I am proud of the facilities we provided and excited that I’ll have the opportunity to work enhancing College facilities at Bootham in the next 24 months.

You son is in Lower Senior: what’s your perception of Bootham as a parent?

My son is thriving here and my wife and I are delighted with Bootham. He joined the school half way through the year but he was welcomed by his peers and within a week had a wide range of friends. Bootham is very accepting of individual interests and he’s allowed to be himself here. We’re delighted with his academic development and the excellent teachers he’s had across subjects. The whole family feels very much part of the Bootham community and we love to come into lunch on Saturdays and join in with school events such as Carols by Candlelight.

What are you plans for the future?

I want to carry on with investment in physical and human resources and to make certain we have strategictargetsandplansthatwillreallybenefitcurrent and future students. Our next major project at the Senior School will be to centralise College facilities and provide a modern working environment. The idea is to house College 1 and 2 together with areas for individual and group study together with improved social and relaxation spaces. The Junior School will also enjoy new playground facilities with a wonderful sensory garden.

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Bootham Features - A interview with Gavin Blackstone

Would you recommend school finance as a career?

Yes, if you are someone who enjoys a very fast pace of work (it can be relentless at times as the role is so broad) and are resilient. You need to be a good communicator and very adaptable and responsive to change. No two days are the same. If you are a perfectionist, then this job is not for you because you have to move between projects quickly and be prepared to turn your hand to everything.

It’s hard work but very rewarding and I would recommend it.

Finally, tell us about your ideal weekend

This is about spending quality time with my family, particularly with my wife as most of the time we are too busy running the ‘Mum and Dad Taxi Service’. An ideal weekend would be at home with thefamily,walkingthedogandthenallfiveofourfootball teams winning, which has never happened yet!

All our futuresIn western society, most obviously, all but a tiny minority of adults will have experienced at least 12 years of public education; a good proportion of those will have done up to six years more than that. No wonder that this is the one area of public policy that politicians seem most keen and confident to change when they take power, and about which the public appears to believe that it ‘knows’ most.And yet the one question that needs to be asked most often and most urgently often appears rarely to be asked at all (at least out loud and in the public space): ‘what is the true purpose of education?’ Or more especially, ‘what is the purpose of our national education system?’

Is it to equip individuals with knowledge, skills and qualificationstoachieveathrivinglife?

Is it to ensure that those citizens create wealth for the nation?

Is it to ensure that the nation develops a stronger and/or fairer society?

Is it largely to preserve the status quo or radically to change it?

Is it to ensure global progress; to make the planet a better home for all?

Is it something else entirely?

Whatever the answer to that question -for governments, for individuals, for nations, for the planet- one thing is sure: education is primarily about creating the future. Creating the future by shaping the lives, outlook, skills and ideas of the young any system produces.

It would therefore appear to be sensible -perhaps essential- to spend time trying to understand, as far as it possible to do so, the likely form of that future, as well as how its emphases and its challenges may be different from those facing us today. Any education system that solely prepares young people for their next steps in the current paradigm is failing those young people; sadly, short term political control of education will inevitably tend to that approach.

Futuregazingisveryclearly,andbydefinition,notaprecisescience;definitiveconclusionsareunlikely.Howevernottoattempt to gaze would appear foolish in the extreme, not least when the availability of knowledge and exponentially increasing data about current trends and historic patterns of change can allow us to extrapolate conclusions that we can project forward. There are plenty of thinkers employed on such pursuits; we can choose to ignore them because their predictionsbyverydefinitioncannotbeproved,orwecanengage with them and discern where there might be a helpful confluenceoftheirideas.

So, if education is fundamentally about preparing individual young people -and through them preparing our nation and the world it is part of- for a thriving future, let’s at least develop an idea of what that future is likely to be like. Not to try at least would appear to be an abrogation of our responsibility to the generations entrusted to us. To echo the aphorism (wrongly) attributed to enlightenment thinker Benjamin Franklin: If we failtoprepareforwhatiscomingwemustpreparetofail!

Worse still would be for us to fail the young people that we are responsible for, by not at least trying to read the signs of the times.

All our Futures Conference (Bootham School, York; June 10th 2018)

As part of Bootham School’s Development Plan we spent time during the 2017-18 school year researching the most prevalent and convincing predictions about what the future for which we are preparing our students for might look like, so that we could interrogate our current curriculum in the light of our findings.Tothatendagroupofstaffandagroupofparentsspent time reading, researching and discussing about such things.

As a culmination of our research we held a one day conference, supported and sponsored in part by Tomorrow’s Company,towhichweinvitedfivespeakerswhosharedtheirvision and expertise about the key areas of interest that had emerged from that research. They shared the fruits of their thinking with Year 12 students from a variety of schools in and beyond York.

20 minute TED-style talks from each speaker, followed by Q&A and discussion both in plenary and small groups, gave the young people plenty to consider, and feedback was very positive indeed. The small groups ended the day by considering what they had learned before writing a manifesto setting out the key facets that they believed would be central toaneducationtofitthenextgenerationofschoolpupilstoface the future.

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Our speakers were:

1. Chris Jeffery: Bootham Headmaster and founding Chair of The HMC Wellbeing Working Group as Conference President

2. Jules Evans: Policy Director for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London spoke about Wellbeing and Thriving

3. Kresse Wesling, MBE: multi-award winning environmental entrepreneur spoke about Sustainability and the Environment

4. Mike Shaw: Bootham’s own futurist and Biology and Astronomy Teacher spoke about Lifespan and ‘Lifepath’

5. Nik Gowing: BBC news presenter, journalist and author spoke about Political, Economic and Geopolitical Change

6. Rohit Talwar: futurist, strategic advisor and author spoke about Technology and AI

A Manifesto for an Education for All our Futures

The following summarises a representative collation of the work of delegates at the All our Futures Conference:

We believe that the education our schools and systems must provide to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future should have as its ultimate purpose thedevelopmentofsuccessfulindividualswhoflourishbycontributing to the task of making the communities, nation and world they live in fairer and better for all

This can be done by nurturing, developing and encouraging individuals who are:

1. Knowledgeable, curious, and motivated intrinsically to learn about the world they are part of; able to make connectionsacrossdifferingfieldsofknowledge

2. Aware of how to promote and safeguard their own mental, physical and spiritual health

3. Technologicallyliterateandconfident,butnotunquestioningly so

4. Critical and properly sceptical in their approach to all sources of information and opinion, and hungry for truth

5. Aware of their own individual purpose in life and their responsibility to wider society and the world; willing to take action for change and progress

6. Flexible, adaptable and farsighted

7. Original, creative thinkers, having the courage and confidencetousetheirknowledgetobeproblemsolversand to ‘think the unthinkable’

8. Global in outlook; ethical; tolerant of difference and empathetic to all

9. Entrepreneurial, seeking to develop and implement new ideas within the communities they are part of to tackle the challenges of the present and the future

10. Culturedandactive,abletofillleisureandfallowtimewith enriching and life enhancing pursuits

In order to achieve this, the following need to be prioritised:

1. The Knowledge we need

We believe that the education our schools must provide to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future should ensure that the knowledge it seeks to impart should include or even prioritise the following:

• The science and maths of AI and Biotech

• The environmental challenges facing humanity

• Global history, current politics and economics; how the world has become what it has become and why it is as it is

• Big Data: how it originates and how it is used

• Global awareness: how others on the planet live and experience life

• Culture: the rich global and national heritage students inherit in all aspects of the Arts

• Philosophy: exploring the wisdom of the ages that promotes personalandsocietalflourishing

• Personalfinance:whatisneededforindividualstobeprepareforlongtermfinancialsecurityinamoreuncertainworld

2. The Skills we need

We believe that the education our schools must provide to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future should prioritise the knowledge needed for the cultivation of the following core skills:

• Creativity of thought (arising from secure knowledge), especially in pursuit of solving problems and new approaches in a changing world

• Artistic and cultural creativity

• Discernment of ‘truth’ in everyday life and discourse

• Self-reflectionandself-care

• Collaboration, co-operation and bridge building

• Effective public and interpersonal communication, both written and spoken

• Ability to adapt to changing circumstances and challenges

3. The Mindsets and Attitudes we need

We believe that the education our schools must provide to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future should prioritise mindsets and attitudes that are:

• Entrepreneurial; seeking to develop and implement new ideas and approaches at a local level

• Innovative; willing to consider and propose new ways of addressing issues, both old and new

• Long term; seeking to understand the purpose and application of their learning beyond the here and now

• Ethical; seeking to act ethically in their own lives and challenge the unethical in the wider world

• Sceptical; seeking to question and critique in the pursuit of truth

• Community minded; valuing positive contribution to the communities of which each individual is a part

• Global; recognising our connection to and responsibility for that which is beyond our local or national interests

• Resilient; developing the mental, emotional and physical foundationsforaflourishinglifeinthefaceofuncertaintyand challenge

4. The Values we need

We believe that the education our schools must provide to prepare the next generation for the challenges of the future should prioritise the encouragement of the following core values:

• Fairness and equality

• Personal responsibility and integrity

• Good environmental stewardship and social responsibility

• Empathy, kindness and tolerance

5. The Assessment to which we are subject

We believe that the way that the education provided by our schools is assessed by government and tested by any public exam/assessment system should value what really matters for the future rather than what can be most easily measured, employing a range of tools to do so. It should value:

• Knowledge of topics necessary for higher study and foundational/crucial to an understanding of the current world or the future

• Ability to think critically and creatively with that knowledge

• Ability to communicate that knowledge and our thinking arising from it cogently and effectively

• Ability to work with others to achieve a goal.

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From 2014 - 2015, I worked with the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in New York, to support their diplomatic work pushing for a more peaceful and just world. Present since the 1940’s, this small office has, much like Quakers throughout time, packed a considerable punch despite quite limited resources. Historically, Quakers have always spoken out against war, injustice and violence – and their work at the United Nations is no different. There are many organisations and religious traditions that share a similar mission to the Quakers at the UN, but QUNOs approach is unique. QUNO does not shout the loudest, or chastise those who articulate different, often incompatible visions of the world. Instead, a way of working that detaches ego from the individual and the organisation is professed, with efforts concentrated upon working behind the scenes to try to advocate for people-centred approaches to international efforts to maintain peace and security.

Through this mission, there are two main, intertwined threads to Quakers’ work’ at the United Nations – facilitationandinfluencing.Inanutshell,Quakersattemptto bring together, bridge divides between, and carefully advisediplomats,UNofficialsanddecisions-makersto make choices and pursue policies that will prevent violentconflictandbuildinternationalpeaceandsecurity.In this work, Quakers are of course not neutral actors. We are not neutral on issues of chemical weapons use, on foreign intervention and occupation, on the arms trade, or on human rights abuses. Yet, we attempt to overcome divisions on these issues, in a way that is not confrontational or hostile.

TheQuakerUNofficetriestodothisbyfacilitatingquietdialogue for diplomats, to enable a space where critical issues can be explored, ideas exchanged, perceptions shifted, and hopefully, new, more peaceful, directions set. This work includes advocacy – a nicer, version of what might be referred to as lobbying – but always directed towardsachievingaworldwithoutwarandconflict,andnever with ulterior, or paid-for, motivations.

Over the years Quakers have focused on a range of different issues, but in a world comprised of so many challenges – there is obviously a limitation on what can becoveredandprioritised.TheNewYorkoffice,inanyone year, can cover issues such as the war in Syria, the elections in Burundi, through to the latest negotiations on a new UN policy direction for peacekeepers – but with just a handful of staff, cannot focus on everything.

QUNOs work is obviously not a science and successes are not always immediately evident, but for a small organisation there have been some considerable achievements.In1996forinstance,theQUNOofficeinGeneva played a crucial role bringing diplomats together to discuss the indiscriminate and destructive nature of land mines – a process that ended up leading to something called the Ottawa treaty which bans the use and production of land mines and has 133 states signed up. While, at one time it was thought that over 40% of the diplomats working at the UN in New York, had been to Quaker House and witnessed the way Quakers seek to overcomeconflictanddivision.

During my time at QUNO, I was lucky enough to contribute to some particularly exciting and historically significantwork.In2014,negotiationswereinfullswingto decide a new global development framework that was due to replace the Millennium Development Goals. QUNO, together with some likeminded peacebuilding organisations, worked to ensure that this new framework acknowledged the well-known links between peace and development, but that did not make its way into the MDGs. Over the course of 12 months, QUNO ran a series of quiet convenings with diplomats from key negotiating countries, to push a consensus towards ensuring the replacement Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognised that development cannot happen without peace, and must address conditions that prevent peace from happening, if it is to be successful.

When every Head of State came together in September 2015, they unanimously signed off on what is now known as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – complete with a standalone goal (Sustainable Development Goal 16) that is focused towards building a peaceful, just, and inclusive society. The universal agreement that peace is a global development priority was a long time coming, and without organisations like QUNOworkingtoquietlyinfluencepolicymakers,maynot have happened.

Aside from work to support this process, I was tasked with supporting QUNOs efforts to progress a peace processinPalestineandIsrael.ThisworkreflectsQuakers’long-standing commitment towards supporting a just peace in the Middle East. Quakers have in fact been present in a peacebuilding capacity in this region since before the State of Israel existed. Tellingly, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – the branch of American Quaker relief work – were trusted to be the officialcustodiansofPalestinianrefugeesin1947afterthey were displaced from their homeland when Israel was created, before the responsibility was handed over to the United Nations. Over the past seventy years, Quakers in Britain, the United States, and around the world have continued to search for an elusive peace in Palestine and despite the many setbacks have always stayed true to this mission. QUNO have been part of this commitment, given that New York is the home of the UN Security Council and the lever of power in issues of international peace and security.

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Bootham Features - All our futures

When I arrived at QUNO, the third assault on the Gaza Strip had just ended – where over 2,200 Palestinians were killed and approximately 70 Israelis lost their lives. Over the following 12 months, an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsened – with little aid reaching residents due to a blockade by the Israeli Government. It was a time of serious frustration with the inability of the United Nations to do anything to prevent the violence and protect the lives of those in need of help. Not to be overwhelmed by this inertia, QUNO and a few other organisations, worked behind the scenes to explore if any new momentum could be created to push the UN security council to renew negotiation to end the blockade and the unsustainable situation in Gaza and catalyse a new course of action that leads to an end to the occupation and a peaceful future for the people of Gaza, and, indeed, for all Palestinians and Israelis.

To do this, we devised a strategy that would force the members of the UN Security Council to have to attend asessionwheretheywouldhavetolistentothefirst-hand experiences of Palestinians and Israelis that were suffering because of the violence and humanitarian crisis. Whattranspiredwasthefirsttimein18yearsthattheUN Security Council held a meeting on Gaza, and the Ambassadors of the UK, the US, France and China hearing how their inaction has had disastrous consequences for so many. If it was up to the American or British delegations at the UN, this meeting would probably not have happened, but Quakers believe it is important that we speak truth to power – which sometimes involves saying and doing things, that major governments oppose.

This milestone UN Security Council meeting created new momentum, which led to the Security Council passing a resolution calling for the end of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2015. Unfortunately, a change in policy for the new United States government in 2017 has curtailed this positive drive, but when the time comes to reignite progressive alternatives in the Middle East, QUNO will be well placed to help shape and drive this process forward.

Since leaving QUNO in 2015, I have continued to work

for organisations focusing on peace and reducing violent conflict.TheorganisationIworkwithnow,Saferworld,isa close partner with QUNO, and allows me opportunities to continue my advocacy work at the United Nations while additionally offering new experiences such as travelling to East Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East, and South-East Asia. In this role I can take forward the work I didatQUNOtohelpinfluencethenewglobalSustainableDevelopmentGoals(SDGs)andgettoseefirst-handhowthey can positively affect people’s lives.

I would certainly recommend pursuing a career in international affairs or international based work, as it is certainlyaveryfulfillingpath.However,unfortunatelyit is not the most lucrative or well-resourced – and is acompetitivefieldwithtoofewjobs.ThebestadviceI can give to any aspiring seniors or college students who are interested in pursuing such a path is to take full advantage of Bootham’s extra-curricular clubs such as Amnesty (and if they don’t exist, start them up – like my peers and I did with our Peacejam group), while making sure that you choose a university course that allows you to delve deeper into international issues. For those who are slightly older, perhaps currently at university, have a look into the QUNO Geneva Summer School – a yearly two-week course that takes 30 students a year and provides helpful exposure to what life and work is like at the United Nations.

While I only worked at QUNO for 12 months, I am by no means a Bootham one-off. In fact, this year, two ex-Boothamer’s will be working for QUNO – Mimi Evagora-Campbell (2008 – 2014) in New York, and Cassidy Mckenna (2004-2010) in Geneva. Mimi will be working with my former colleagues to support their peacebuilding and prevention work, and Cassidy will be part of the Human Rights and Refugees program that is housed out ofQUNOsGenevaoffice.Perhaps you could be next?

- Jordan Street, Bootham 2004-09

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One of the joys of living in a boarding house is having the opportunity to spend time with and form bonds with people from all over the world and this year the boarding community at Bootham is a truly diverse one. Our one hundred boarders come from as nearby as York and as far away as the other side of the globe. With boarders hailing from America, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malta, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand we are lucky at Bootham to be able to live in an environment in which we can learn from and celebrate a range of individuals and cultures with each bringing their unique attributes to boarding life.The autumn term has seen this lived out in the boarding community with a Mid-autumn festival organised and run entirely by the College boarders and an upcoming Thanksgiving celebration which will involve time for reflectiononthethingsforwhichwearegratefulandalotofturkey!Aswemovethroughtheyearwewillbelookingtomarksignificanteventsfromvariousboarders’homes; recognising how different cultures have shaped who we are and teaching each other about the times of the year that matter most to different countries and peoples. Indeed, the food committee have already startedplanningChineseNewYear!

The diversity of the boarding community here and what it means to come together and build a home in the boarding houses has also been a theme of this term’s boarders’ meetings. As well as allowing a rare and precious moment of stillness for the boarders, the meetingsgiveusachancetoreflectonideasandvaluesthat help us to build a community that both celebrates diversity and strives for unity. So far this term Chris Jeffrey has spoken with the students about the impact that they make in the school and how they would like to beremembered,SarahAllenledareflectiononpeaceand Beth Steer and David Swales both spoke on the theme of home. David’s meeting took place on World Quaker Day, the theme of which could not have been more apt for our boarding community; “crossing cultures, sharing stories.” The boarders thought about the passage from Quaker Faith and Practice which begins “Do you try and make your home a place of friendliness, refreshment andpeace?”andusedLegotoreflectonhowweeachbring our own unique characters and experiences together to turn the boarding houses into homes. The later meetings in the term led by Emily Harper and Russell Newlands both drew on the suitably autumnal theme of leaves to think about each person’s unique characteristics and how we can embrace change.

Alongside our international students we have been pleased to welcome increasing numbers of domestic boarders into the boarding houses through our weekly andflexi-boardingoptionsthistermandanumberofour day students have taken advantage of our occasional boarding system to have a taste of boarding life and a chanceforaslightlylongerlie-in!

Bootham BoardingAn International Community

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Bootham Features - Boarding at Bootham

A New TeamThe start of the school year is always an opportunity to welcome new people into the school community and this year was no exception as September saw a number of new faces in boarding. As well as welcoming 35 new boarders into Evelyn, Rowntree and Fox, Beth Steer joined the school as the new Director of Boarding and Wellbeing having worked for ten years at St Edward’s School, Oxford and the Rowntree girls have been delighted to welcome in a new house team of Emily Harper as Housemistress and Helena Landau as Assistant Housemistress. Emily has been in boarding at Bootham for a number of years, previously as Assistant Housemistress in Rowntree and Helena is an important member of the Learning Support Department. The Rowntree girls have loved welcoming both Emily and Helena who have brought with them a high level of warmth and care, and a love of Harry Potter, Colin the Caterpillar cakes and the very popular games of Cat BingoandTiddliwinks!Alloftheboardinghouseshavealso been fortunate to welcome new Resident Graduates this term with Laura and Jemima joining Rowntree, Zak and Eetu being welcomed into Fox and Georgia and Erica becoming the newest members of Evelyn. The Res Grads bring with them huge amounts of energy and enthusiasm and the boarders can often be found in the evenings enjoying a range of activities run by the Res Grads including badminton, basketball, board games and baking.

Leave weekendsForthefirsttimeinrecentyears,theSeptemberleaveweekend saw boarders being offered the opportunity to stay in the boarding houses. Whilst many of our boarders are invited to stay with day students or go to friends, family or guardians across the UK, a mixture of our boarding community from the youngest to the oldest were able to rest in their own beds, continue to enjoy the very popular weekend boarders’ brunch and make the most of facilities including the sports hall, the music block and the library. They were also able to take part in a range of activities beginning with dinner in the beautiful surroundings of the city’s old Grand Assembly Rooms and including other treats such as chocolate lolly making and food making classes. The highlight of the weekend was undoubtedly a trip to the fairground at York Balloon Fiesta which saw the boarders summoning up their courage on the rides and testing their skill to win teddy bears, all culminating with a spectacular hot air balloon showandafireworksdisplay.

ActivitiesThefirstweekendoftheyearsawtheboardersallgetinvolvedinthefirstannualBoarders’SportsDay!Thewinning team showed agility, speed and skill in mastering the egg and spoon race, the three legged race, the bean bag race and a sack race that saw an impressive and bewilderingrangeofapproaches!Aparticularhighlightof the evening was seeing Fox housemaster David Swales sprinting down the hall to lead his adopted team to near-victory in the relay race. This was just the start of a term packed with activities including a chocolate murder-mystery tour, a Harry Potter movie marathon and the ever-popular cinema trip. The highlight of the activities schedule for many of the boarders this term came on the 6th of October when they celebrated National Boarding Day. This is an annual initiative run by the Boarding Schools’ Association to highlight the very best of boarding across the country. To celebrate, our boarders made handprint art for each of the boarding houses(includingadogpawontheEvelyncanvas!)andall took part in a hotly contested quiz night. For those who knew their literature, song lyrics, sports and national flagsandwhowereabletoidentifytheboardingstaffas babies there were prizes to be won including a lucky dipinthemysterybox!Withlotsofactivitiesplannedforthe next half of term including a ghost tour, a shopping trip and Christmas festivities, keep an eye on Twitter (@boothamboarders) and Instagram (Bootham Boarders) to seewhattheboardersgetuptonext!

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Early yearsOur year sped by with a bustle of exciting adventures. The children enjoyed being in the classroom and outdoors but the highlights for many were our weekly trips out of school. Forest school, with Mr. Thorpe was afirmfavouriteandchildrendevelopedtheirresilience,adventurous natures and love of outdoor learning. We took trips to the theatre, the park, the library and the riverside, among other places. All of the children finishedtheyearwithawonderfuloutdoorconcertforthe families where memories were shared and made together.

Key Stage 1We have spent a lot of time learning outdoors this year. We had the exciting chance to spend a night away with our friends, at Helmsley Youth Hostel. Mr Thorpe took us on a late night walk and showed us the different star constellations. The next day we all went to Dalby Forest to meet the Gruffalo. Later in the year we faced Arctic conditions when we visited the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We battled hail and snow to learn about polar bears and found out how they are suited to their habitat. We have also had a lot of fun lessons outdoors instead of learning intheclassroom.Wefinishedtheyearwithmuchsunnierweather when we visited Filey to explore animal habitats, learn about the human and physical geographical featuresandhavefishandchipsandice-cream!

Year 3Year 3 have had a year full of adventure and creativity, beginning with our Global Arts week in which they learned about all sorts of art from around the world including Japanese origami, Mexican sugar skulls, African drumming and Aboriginal painting. Particular highlights since then have included travelling all the way back to Victorian times at the Ripon Workhouse museum, mummifying oranges and casting pewter amulets as part of our Ancient Egypt topic, and putting on a whole play about the Rainforest in the space of one day for theirfamilies!Theyalsohadawonderfultimeontheirresidential to Helmsley, including taking a trip on a steam train and hiking to see a waterfall.

Year 4During Anti-Bullying Week, Year 4 celebrated their strengths and talents. They discussed what makes them unique and special. Each ring of a paper chain represented a talent, a difference, or a strength in their class. They decided to put together all their differences, strengths and talents to help each other grow stronger and build a safer and better world. They also spent a very exciting four days on a residential at Osmotherley. They joined in many adventurous activities including climbing the cliffs of Wainstones, worming, building dens, studying rock pools and roasting marshmallows. They also learned that working collaboratively is the surest route to success and happiness. Year 4 left Osmotherley awash with wonderful memories and stories to tell. Finally, they turned wildlife explorers and went pond dipping at Moorlands Woods. From pond snails to whirligig beetles, they uncovered a variety of weird and wonderful creatures.Theylearnedtouseidentificationchartsandtoname living things in their local environment.

Children from the Junior School wanted to share the high-lights of their year.

A year at Bootham Junior School

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Year 5Over the course of the year, we have covered topics about space, rivers and the most favourite of all - chocolate. We spent several messy sessions creating chocolate sweets to sell to our parents. We enjoyed an even messier time at Marrick Priory climbing ropes, abseiling, walking in the Dales and generally covering ourselves in mud. During the Summer term we learnt all about Rivers and had a second short residential so that we could follow the River Tees from its source to the sea, withsomeenjoyablefishandchipsalongtheway.Anexciting year all round.

Year 6From Extreme Earth and War and Peace to Economics and The Fiver Challenge, there’s never a dull moment in Year6!We’vestudiedBiology,PhysicsandChemistrythisyear with The Human Body Forces and Changing States and Reactions, as well as investigating mathematical concepts such as Pi, Fibonacci numbers and Pythagoras’ theorum linked to DT. Our English work included writing character descriptions through action and speech, as wellasformallettersofcomplaint,narrativeflashbacksand balanced arguments. We’ve read the works of great war poets and Shakespeare; our study of Macbeth gave way to a timely visit to the pop-up Rose Theatre in York towatchthe‘ScottishPlay’.We’vecreatedflood-proofhousing, sewed our own ‘Mini-Me’s’ and coded computer programmes. In addition, we’ve been awarded cycling proficiencycertificates,achieveddistinctionsinMandarinandwontworegionalSumDogcompetitions!We’vealsohad some invaluable experiences within our Outdoor Education curriculum learning archery, hand-carving hammers and cooking outdoors , as well as visiting Flamborough Head and the North Yorkshire Moors as part of our Geography work. Our week-long residential in the Lake District in October included fell-walking, ghyll-scrambling and climbing in a mine. Water-sports and water safety were undertaken on the glorious Allerthope Lake, and the year ended with a spectacular performance of ‘Who’s Your Mummy?’ - what a jam-packed, diverse year for the end of our primary school education. We’re all setforthenextexcitingchapter!

And finally…Congratulations to all children in Years 4, 5 and 6. They have been successful in completing Trinity Colleges Art Award at the Explore Level. This is an Entry Level Qualification.Moreinformationabouttheawardandthenext levels, Bronze, Silver and Gold can be found on the arts award website.

In order to gain this award children have explored a wide variety of art forms over the course of the year. Their journey began with our Whole School Global Arts Week and open exhibition back in September. More work, trips etc followed and an external moderator visited to validate assessments.

Bootham Features - A Year at Bootham Junior School

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Openshaw Travel BursaryManna wanna! This time last year, I was part way through my three months volunteering in Burkina Faso with International Citizen Service to try and help end the stigma around disability in the country. The experience had multiple stages, with an application and rigorous interview stage coming first. We were asked about our motivations for applying to help out, and our qualifications for how we’d do so if we got picked. I was asked whether I’d prefer to go to Rwanda, Malawi or Burkina Faso if I were to be chosen, and chose Burkina Faso because of my half-reasonable French (which I’ve come back speaking with a West African accent). Then came fundraising before the trip. This was one of the most rewarding parts of the journey, and I was helped massively by the Openshaw Bursary, which was set up in memory of an Old Scholar in order to help Bootham students do something that would help communities across the world. The conditions of the bursary very much interlink with the ethos of the school, with a focus on aiming to ensure that everyone is equal, and, of course, walking cheerfully over the world! In addition to the money awarded by the bursary, I also carried out a few little fundraisers like sweepstakes (based around Bake Off, giving me great license to reel off baking puns for a couple of weeks) and by speaking to local businesses to help out too.

Fundsraised,wefinallytoucheddowninOuagadougou,BurkinaFaso’scapital,after17hoursflying.Weweregreeted off the plane by International Service, and after having pushed our 25 kilo bags up the side of the bus, a station wagon rolled up with a cooler-box in the back filledwithcoldsachetsofwaterandabagofMadeleinecakes. To get a mental image of our reaction to that water, having forgotten to buy any leaving the airport, and absolutely slick with sweat, just imagine Napoleon’s men sprinting towards the Nile after 2 days march without water. Similar scenes of relief.

During the coach journey to Koudougou, where we’d be living, the main thing that was apparent was just how grey the UK really can be. Our cities are oftentimes concrete metropolises, with a real lack of colour. The opposite is the case here, with orange dirt roads, 13-year-olds zipping around on motorbikes in bootleg football kits, and shops, constructed from corrugated iron and adobe, selling ‘Brigestone’ tyres and ‘Samsang’ phones, which line the roads into the big cities. These carry on all the way through the city, with bike mechanics, ‘les boutiques’, which are like our corner shops in the UK, and craftsmenworkingtorepairdoorsandmakingcoffinscontinuing as far as the eye can see and, undoubtedly, for miles further.

Also lining the roadsides are food stalls, providing mainly meat, which you can see being butchered and cooked right in front of you. The meals, (apart from on birthdays, when we’d have a relative feast of a full chicken and other expensive foods) followed a pattern: a base of pasta or rice,oneortwopiecesof(unidentified)meat,loadsofsauce, and maybe a bit of French bread. Remnants of the Frenchpresenceheredefinitelyliveon.

Another massive part of the volunteering experience was that of living with a host family. Normally it’s a one-to-one ratio of UK and Burkinabé volunteers, however in our household there were two UK volunteers to one Burkinabé,whichworkedoutfine.Wealllivedquiteclosetogether regardless, as the only methods of transport we had were walking and cycling. The family we lived in was super kind and one of my favourite parts of living in-country, helping me through all the ups and downs (including a somewhat traumatising rabies scare). They also, in addition to the work we did at the charity, helped me get in touch with a gent called Jean-Luc, a disabled guy who we played wheelchair basketball with regularly, and also taught entrepreneurial skills, maths and French

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Bootham Features - A year at Bootham: Head Reeves Speech 2018

(Burkina Faso’s national language is technically French, however more people speak only local dialects like Mooré, as Jean-Luc did). He and I have kept in touch, and he’s currently in the process of starting up his own business,whichisincrediblyexciting!

Playing and coaching sports such as wheelchair basketball (or Handibasket as it’s known in French) was another huge highlight. I’ve loved basketball for years andachievedmycoachingqualificationsinwheelchairbasketball a few years ago, so getting the opportunity to coach it again in an entirely new location was a real treat, anditdefinitelyhelpedusconnecttothelocalsinawaythatIthinkonlycompetitioncan!

There were of course some downs as well, such as arguments between our team at the charity, the lack of variation in the diet, and feeling unsafe at night (a sentiment which was really hit home to us by our host father,whomadeitclearonthefirstnightthatifwewanted to drink, then we should just bring it back to the house rather than staying out after dark too much). We took this advice, and the time passed largely without incident. I can honestly say that the whole experience has been really enriching and life-changing for me, but I just thought it’d be remiss not to mention that it was not all rosy. The challenges did, however, really help my development as an individual, and helped me to somewhat understand the challenges faced by the locals slightly better.

In closing, I’d absolutely recommend taking a gap year to any student. I’m saying this as a guy who went into his gap year planning on studying Classics at university, yet I’mnowinthemiddleofmyfirsttermstudyingPhysicswith a Foundation Year at the University of York (and this is having studied A-Levels in Geography, Economics, andFrench!).ItwasinBurkinathatIrealisedthiswasthecareer I wanted to pursue as I had plenty of spare time

in which to read and research my interests further. Other people may well decide that uni isn’t for everyone, and I personally also found my time spent working in Australia reallyrewardingtoo,andImadesomefirmfriendsthereas well. The last part of my gap year before uni was spent sailing around Europe on the Tall Ships Races for a month, which was also funded in large part by a bursary, so even with limited funds, I think a gap year really is what you make of it, and I hope any students reading this are encouraged to take one. For the parents, whilst ICS is for 18-25 year olds, it is actually a subsidiary of Voluntary Service Overseas, which also has a mass of volunteering opportunities for adults, so hopefully that means joint gapyearsarenowonthecards!

- Ewan Morrice (Bootham 2010-17)

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Ian went to Brentwood School, where his father and two uncles had been and a cousin followed. This is where he began his ‘stage career’!! His first part was playing a doughnut at prep school, a small role that clearly caught his interest, as by the time he was in VIth form he was tackling major roles, including Orlando, Brutus and Hamlet.Whilst at Brentwood he was planning to be an architect, though even then his housemaster said he should think about teaching; an idea that Ian rejected without hesitation. By his own admission, his A-level results weren’t brilliant, but he did take an impressive number of subjects and passed English, History, French and Art. At the last moment the Bartlett School of Architecture asked for Pure and Applied Maths and Ian managed tocatchupinayearbystudyingfor28periodsaweek!

Ian was awarded an English Speaking Union Scholarship to Harvard School in Los Angeles. He had a wonderful year in America. Here, he achieved a ‘letter’ (equivalent of ‘colours’) for tennis in the school 1st VI (and even partnered Jack Kraemer’s sonforawhile!).Harvardwasrunasamilitaryschool,andESUScholarsusuallymadeCaptainbutIanmadeMajor,thefirstoneto do so. He was awarded the Easton Medal for Leadership and won a medal for History from the Daughters of the American Revolution (he had memories of these ladies as formidable and statuesque).

At the end of the year he took a seven week trip by greyhound bus, staying with ESU hosts or family friends in Dallas, New Orleans, Norfolk, Richmond, Washington, Philadelphia, Buffalo (for Niagara), Montreal, Quebec, Boston and New York. He came home on the Queen Elizabeth.

Ian started at the Bartlett but quickly decided not to do Architecture. He tried to change to English or History but his original A-levels were not good enough. He left but didn’t dare face parents, so he went to the cinema and saw ‘Dr.No’ through twicebeforegoinghome!(Herememberedhowhelaterearnedkudos with Bootham College 2 for being a university dropout …). He got a job as a supply teacher at a very good secondary modernschoolinRainham,Essex.Thiswasaterrificexperiencewith good leadership from the Head and Deputy. He learned a lot from the dedicated staff.

Ian then went for an interview at Sussex University, then only 2 years old and by chance his interviewer had just spent a semester at UCLA. They spent most of the interview talking about Los Angeles. To Ian’s surprise, at the end of the interview the interviewer just said ‘see you in September’. He had three exciting years at Sussex, where the programme of study was innovative and demanding. He got involved in the Union, and became President in his second year. There weren’t sabbatical years then, so he did his degree in the normal 3 years. He earned a 2:1 and went to Oxford for a Dip Ed. In those days Oxford sent Dip Ed students away from Oxford for the middle term, so he was posted to Abbotsholme in Derbyshire. This was another marvelous experience with a Quaker Head, Robin Hodgkin, who Ian found to be inspirational.

After his Dip Ed through the ESU he got a Woodrow Wilson Fellowsip to Pomano College in Los Angeles for a year – another great experience. He came back to Oxford to do a B.Lit but had a poor tutor and spent far too much time on Drama. He was elected President of Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) and acted and directed in the Oxford Playhouse. Diana Quick preceded him and years later, when Diana was on tour in York, they would meet up.

Ian left Oxford without the B.Lit, and nearly became a professional actor at the Nottingham Playhouse under Stuart Burge. However, Abbotsholme asked him to return, which he did. This was a lucky move as this is where he met Alison and got married. He became a boys’ Housemaster and she was a girls’ Housemistress (she was Head of History and he was Head ofEnglish).Thecouplehadabusybutfulfillingfewyearsunderanother inspirational Head, David Snell.

Then they relocated to Stowe School in January 1979, with Catherine (21 months) and Hannah (7 months). It was an awful winter in house they were given, and everything froze up. However, there were many good staff and there was much exciting teaching. After welcoming Naomi to the family, they bothtaughtandbecamethefirstHouseparentsofthefirstproper boarding house for VI form girls. Ian became Head of Drama, and enjoyed acting with Alison and directing.

In 1988 the move came to Bootham where both Ian and Alison were active members of our community: we all mourned when Alison became ill and passed away in 1998.

Ian Small, Headmaster 1988-2004

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Ian Small, Headmaster 1988-2004

Ian remembered many really outstanding staff in all departments, good colleagues and friends. He said he had three superb Deputy Heads, David Champion, Michael Allen and Graham Ralph. Ian loved life at Bootham and said he had a marvelous sixteen years.

Under Ian’s leadership, Bootham continued to thrive. Student numbers increased, boarding was extended to include girls, Bootham took over Ebor Prep and eventually moved the Junior School to a purpose built site in Rawcliffe. Main school facilities were developed, and in 2004 ‘The Independent’ newspaper listed Bootham as 8th independent school in the country based on A Level results.

Former Clerk of the Bootham School Committee, Rita Oldroyd, wrote on Ian’s retirement:

Howquicklyhegainedthesupportandconfidenceofthestaffwho helped him to lead such an effective team. It is no easy task for a Head in what can be a rather lonely position — dealing with pupils, parents, staff, the committee and, of course, local Friends at Yorkshire General Meeting. During all those years, Ian has always had the full support of a loyal School Committee, totally committed to Bootham. At each meeting, members always looked forward to lan’s reports — the highlight of our meetings. They were always presented in such an interesting style and any challenging comments we made were accepted in the same way as we offered them. In the last sixteen years, which for many Independent Boarding Schools have not been easy, we have seen huge developments at Bootham. New boarding facilities, extra classrooms and a delightful sports Hall have so enhanced the already excellent facilities. As Headmaster, he quickly ensured he knew all the pupils and showed an interest in them and their many activities. Not only did he attend sports andgamesfixtures,musicalandculturalevents,butalsofoundtime in his busy schedule to produce plays. Under his guidance, Bootham has become fully co-educational and an ideal new Junior School at Ebor has been built. People may wonder how, in such a full life, all those things could be accomplished. So, if I can be critical — his main fault was his failure to take his day off on a Thursday!However,Ianwaspersuadedtohaveasabbaticaltermin 2001. This enabled him to study at the Huntingdon Library in California and also enjoy a marvellous and very strenuous visit to the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon.

Chris Hoggett’s Head Reeve’s speech in 2004 described ‘Mr Small’:

‘Mr Small’s legacy to the school is anything but small. We recognise the special part that he plays in many aspects of school life, and the support and encouragement that he gives to us. I think that he knows all our names, and genuinely believes that each of us has something special to give, which should be nurtured. As well as providing effective leadership, he has turned his hand to many other activities - cooking hamburgers for the barn dance, pouring tea on parents’ evenings, sorting out the lighting for plays, dressing up (or is it down?) for charity events, and a host of other tasks that he has not been too proud to take on.’

Following his retirement from Bootham, Ian pursued his interest in theatre with an MPhil from the University of York. He was also an active member of the York Georgian Society and served as Chairman. He was a member of York Opera, as singer and director, for many years and continued to act and spread his love of music, drama and poetry through the Bootham Recital programme. We will all remember him as ‘God’ in the 2016 York Mystery Plays.

He kept in touch with Bootham with great regularity and was an active member of the Old Scholars Association, recently serving asPresident.HewasalsoaregularsupporterofReflect30andBootham Breakfasts.

He was involved in Boarding Schools Association (Chairman 1993-5), and was Trustee of HMC projects, bringing East European students to the UK. Ian supported students who came to Bootham under this scheme and regularly hosted them at the beginning of term. He really changed lives with this work.

In addition, he was sometime governor of Queen Margarets, The Minster School, Woodhouse Grove and Abbotsholme.

He enjoyed spending time with family and friends and was justifiablyproudofhisdaughtersandtheirfamilies.HelovedBootham and, in return, we loved him and he will be greatly missed.

- Graham Ralph and Elaine Phillips (based on notes from Ian Small)

Ian Small, Headmaster 1988-2004

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To what extent have the games and festivals of ancient Greece influenced the games and festivals we hold in the modern era?For a week in July, we travelled to Delphi, Olympia, and Athens in Greece in order to discover how the ancient games and festivals held there were similar or different to modern games held in more recent history and how ancient art and modern media has portrayed athletes and sports. By visiting the ancient sites and the museums concerning the athletic and literary festivals of the Ancient Greek world we gathered information and deepened our understanding of these ancient traditions and the way they have been carried forward into the modern era. As a result of our trip we feel we have successfully furthered our knowledge of the link between the ancient and modern Olympic games and we have also learnt about the Delphic festivals that were held in 1927 and 1930.

The games and ancient festivals of the ancient world were heavily religious. Sporting events and theatrical festivalswereprecededbyreligioussacrificesandprayer. For example, before the Olympic games prayers were dedicated to the gods Zeus and Apollo and also to Herakles, the mythical founder of the games. These religious roots have disappeared in the modern Olympics and other modern festivals. The very places that ancient games and festivals were held were also religiouslysignificant.Delphiwasthecentreoftheknown world as proclaimed by Zeus in mythology after hereleasedtwoeaglesflyinginoppositedirectionswho collided over the site. Delphi was also sacred to the god Apollo, with a temple that housed an oracle for the god being the focal point of the site. Olympia also held religioussignificance,thetemplededicatedtoZeusthatstoodtherewasconsideredthemostmagnificenttemple second only to the Parthenon in Athens. Mount Kronos also stands in the ancient site of Olympia which suggestsahistoryofreligioussignificancegoingback

before the ancient Greek civilisation as Kronos was the father of the gods that the Ancient Greeks worshipped. Athens was the patron city of the goddess Athena and the site of the Acropolis was dedicated to her with the Parthenon, the greatest temple in the ancient Greek world,housingamagnificentstatueofthegoddess.The Ancient games and festivals were also held in the same place, with the Olympic games always being held in Olympia and the Pythian games always being held in Delphi. This contrasts heavily with the modern Olympic games which are held in a different city every four years and, rather than serving as a way to honour religion they serve as a way for the cities that host them to regenerate run down areas and even rebrand as the eyes of the world turn to them for a few weeks of the summer. The host cities of the modern Olympic games are decided through complex bids which consider many different factors concerning the nature of the city and any potential it may have to redevelop or have facilities that lend themselves to holding the games. An example of this was the London 2012 Olympics, their successful bid relied heavily on their promise to use the Olympics to regenerate the borough of Stratford. This contrast between the religious and completely secular games of theancientandmodernworldwasthefirstdifferencethat we discovered.

ThetraditionoftheOlympicflameistheonetraditionthathasremainedremarkablyunchangedsincethefirstOlympicsinAncientGreece,tothisdaytheflameislitin Ancient Olympia (and sometimes Athens) as it was during the ancient games and then transported to the location of the games by a torch relay. The ceremony is still extremely religious, with almost no change from the ancient ceremony, and the Greek women who perform it wear traditional ancient Greek dresses.

“There were no team games then, let alone such oddities as synchronised swimming” – Mary Beard

A prayer is still said to the ancient god Apollo (the god of sun and light) after the sun’s energy is harnessed usingametaldishtolighttheflame.Itisanextremelyspecial thing to witness. Whilst we were in Athens, we wereluckyenoughtoseethelightingoftheflameinthe Panathenaic stadium for the 2018 youth Olympics in Buenos-Aires, it was a truly special occasion and as we watched it we felt as if we could have been watching a ceremony from Ancient Greece.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic games, used the reconstructed Panathenaic stadium in Athens, which had been built on the site of an Ancient Greek racecourse and excavated in the 1830s, toholdtheopeningceremonyforthefirstmodernOlympic games in 1896. The stadium was then used in the 2004 Athens Olympics. The stadium is a physical reminder of how much the ancient games inspired the people of the late 19th century which has led to the games of today.

In 1927 and 1930 the Delphic Festivals were held in the ancient site of Delphi, these festivals were held by Angelos and Eva Sikelianos. Angelos was a Greek playwright and along with his wife, Eva, he set up the festivals in which they aimed to replicate the ancient games and festivals of Delphi as closely as possible. The couple were inspired by the values of Ancient Greece and wanted to promote solidarity and mutual respect amongst the people of the world during the turbulent European politics of the early 20th century. They performed Aeschylus’ ‘Prometheus Bound’ in the ancient theatre just as they would have done thousands of years before. They also performed the Pyrrhic dance in Delphi’s ancient stadium which was an ancient dance performed by men wearing full battle armour that aimed to replicate the movement of warriors in battle. The fact that almost 1,500 people came to the Delphic festival of 1930, and the fact that it was heavily covered bylocalandnationalnewspapers,showshowinfluentialthe ancient games and festivals were in the 20th century and how those in the modern era respect the ideals and traditions of ancient times.

Similarly, musical shows and recitals are still held in the theatre of Herodes Atticus on the Acropolis in Athens. For example, the actor Bill Murray recently performed in the same theatre where ancient literary festivals that

praised the work of Aeschylus and Euripides were held thousands of years ago, this shows the culture of the ancient world is alive and well in the modern era.

Although, during the Delphic Festivals, every effort was made in order to replicate the ancient games and festivals as closely as possible, the sporting events in the modern Olympics are mostly unrecognisable to those of the ancient games. Whilst in Olympia we discovered that, for example, in the ancient long jump the athletes held weights in their hands to aid them, discus throwers did not spin before they threw as modern Olympians do but threw from a standing position, there were even races in the ancient games in which athletes sprinted in full battle armour which heavily contrasts to the sportswear worn by modern athletes. The modern games also include a far larger variety of events in comparison to the ancient games. The ancient athletic games consisted of foot-races, throwing events, wrestling, boxing, and chariot racing. Whereas, in the modern games we have the traditional athletic contests, aquatic sports, long distance running races and much more. This shows that, in terms of the events within the athletic games, the ancient games have acted as a starting point for the modern games which have developed over time to encompass a much larger range of events.

Those allowed to participate in the modern games differs greatly from those allowed to compete in the ancient. To compete in the ancient games, it was compulsory to be male and a citizen of a Greek city state. This differs greatly from today where women are allowed to compete and the Olympics welcome teams from all over the globe. The 2016 Rio Olympics even welcomed a team of 10 refugees who were able tocompeteunderaneutralflagwhentheycouldnot compete for their home nations. This shows how attitudes to those who are allowed to compete have changed, with the modern games being much more diverse and inclusive than the ancient.

Cheating was taken very seriously in the ancient games, one example of ancient cheating was for athletes to hide curses written on tiny objects under the track to hinder other athletes. Any ancient athlete caught cheatingwouldhavebeenimmediatelydisqualifiedfromtheireventandweremadetoeitherpayafine

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or pay for a statue often of the gods to decorate the entrance to the stadium in Olympia, these statues then served as a warning not to cheat. Cheaters in the ancient gamescouldalsoexpecttobefloggedorbeatenaspunishment.

When Sparta violated a peace treaty the entire city state was banned from competing at the Olympics. The similarity of this case with the modern Russian doping scandal is so striking, you could be forgiven for thinking nothing had changed. When some Russian athletes were allowed to compete again they were made to wear grey uniforms that lacked any Russian paraphernalia. This shows that in both the ancient and modern Olympics, allegiance to one’s country or city state was extremely important and symbolic.

For those athletes who didn’t cheat, the rewards were plentiful. If an athlete won a footrace in Olympia they could expect a statue of themselvesto be erected in the grounds of Olympia amongst statues of the gods of Olympus. Ancient pots have been found which depict runners and discus throwers which shows how popular the athletes were as they were used to decorate everyday items. Today not much has changed in our attitude to those who are successful athletes, for example Usain Bolt has become extremely famous after he became the fastest man alive and has appeared in many TV adverts. Both Bolt, and the famous British athlete Mo Farah, have iconic poses, that they replicate at the end of their races, which are instantly recognisable to many across the world. This recognisable aspect of these athletes has clear

similarities with the ancient athletes having statues of themselves erected in Ancient Olympia.

From our research, we have concluded that the ancient gamesandfestivalshavebeenheavilyinfluentialastheyhave provided a base for the modern ones. Although the modern games have expanded and become more complex and inclusive than the ancient ones, the core values of the ancient games and festivals have remained almost unchanged in the modern era. The Delphic festivals being the best example of this as it was the core values of the ancient world which inspired the festivals. Modern literary festivals are still held in ancient venues in Athens and Delphi which shows how in the modern era we still strive to replicate the literary festivals of Ancient Greece. This isn’t to say that our modern games have not developed with more events being added and more being allowed to participate. Overall, we have concluded that the ancient games and festivals have acted as a base for the modern games and festivals, this base has been built upon and the games and festivals have developed over time but have still retained the core values and ethics of the Ancient Greeks.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Bootham, the Classics Department and of course the Southall family for making our trip possible.

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The architecture of ancient Roma is perhaps one of its greatest legacies. Not only does it act as a symbol of Rome’s imperial prowess but also as a physical reminder of an Empire that dominated Europe, to a lesser extent North Africa and Eastern Asia, and set a precedent for other civilisations to follow. Stylistically, the architecture of Roma was not grown at home, but rather adopted from its classical predecessor, the Ancient Greeks. That is not to say they didn’t adapt and mould it but for the sake of this short study, one should assume that the infrastructure referred to is conforming to the Roman’s methodology.

We began our ‘Bootham Southall Grand Tour’ in Barcelona, perhaps a less obvious expression of what one might consider a traditional Roman destination. Originally a castrum (a military camp) the Romans remodelled ancient Barcelona circa 10BC,underEmperorAugustus.Theydefinedits infrastructure and civic order and as such it represents a wholly fair and reasonable model to address our question.

The Romans didn’t just bring buildings with the grandeur of the Flavin Amphitheatre in Rome (commonly known as the Colosseum) or the magnificenceoftheForumRomanumbutperhapsmoresignificantlyawayoflife,aculture,whichismetaphorised through their architecture. Beneath the modern metropolitan city of Barcelona lies a somewhat hidden city, these hidden spaces give thebestflavourofthephysicalinfrastructurethe Romans employed. The Romans built not expecting to leave, their conquest was an assimilation locally of all that was Roma. Before their arrival, Barcelona was little more than a small town in the northern Hispania, this changed dramatically. Fullers, bakers and wine shops were

the ‘day to day building blocks’ they brought with them, hoping to give the inhabitants a taste of what Rome and the ‘empire’ had to offer. On our tour this was perhaps best articulated in the Museu D’Historia de Barcelona. We were left with a real sense and appreciation of the footprint the Romans created. We could have quite easily have been wondering the ancient streets of Pompei, Ostia or even Roma itself. The archaeological remains declare what Barcelona was.

Tarragona echoed much of what we saw in Barcelona. A vibrant city before the arrival of the Romans, it quickly grew into a bustling metropolis. The architecture and infrastructure offered a dramatic contrast to the simpler in style (but not to be understated) buildings seen in Barcelona. Sightlines in Tarragona were dominated by the striking Circus and Theatre, with the Local Forum having a lesser role in terms of pomp. The Circus itself was colossal, in absolute and relative townscape terms , stretching 290 metres in length by 75 metres wide. Its’ simple rounded rectangular shape reminds one of the Circus Maxima in Rome, however, there is more to consider. The function of a Circus as a place of entertainment is a core Roman idea, but designs differ. The Circus in Tarragona is a free-standing building in its own right, whereas the Circus Maxima in Rome uses the topographical geography of contouring hills to its advantage to create preformulated tiered seating. Whilst this is evidence contrary to the notion of this template of infrastructure, one could argue that this in fact the opposite. It articulates the Romans ability to be resourceful and draw on what is around them. The architectural concept is the same – a Circus is a Circus is a Circus.

This idea of ingenuity is seen with the theatre in Tarragona. This capitalises and uses its surroundings to its full advantage. Built into the gentle sloping hill side down towards the sea, the seats sit effortlessly on the ground beneath. This creates a structurally sound piece of infrastructure but perhaps more interestingly articulates the

To what extent could it be argued that the physical infrastructure of Roma was used as a template for the Provinces, with specific reference to Roman Hispania and Gaul?

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clever utility of Roman architects and builders using what they had rather than trying to ‘reinvent the wheel’. This provides the best possible answer to the question we posed. Simplistically, one might say Roma wasn’t used as a template for the Provinces in the sense that the buildings found across Hispania had their own character and on occasion a very different design. However, what they did bring with them was a wealth of knowledge, expertise into building techniques and the types of buildings required to win the people and provide them with culture, entertainment and protection.

Themostsignificantdestinationforuswasthecity of Nimes, often known as Gaul’s Rome, Nimes held a huge importance within the Empire. It was a regional capital and represented a model for other cities. This was expressed in terms of the replication of physical infrastructure and the adaption of culture. Walking through the present-day streets allowed for the ancient to become obvious. In the cities heart lies a great amphitheatre, which dominates all sightlines and againisamirrorofthemagnificenceofRoma’sheart, the Flavin Amphitheatre. We noted its orientation, the rounded oval/lozenge shape of the building, the sweeping arches that make up the external facade and the tiered seating reaching up into the skies. It is truly remarkable.

This example of template is by no means a one-time occurrence within Nimes. Nimes really does earn its title; France’s Rome. The Maison Carree exhibits everything that one would expect from a Temple found within the City of Rome. The Temple itself is in the Vitruvian style, raised on a podium and encompassed by Corinthian columns. Whilst this by itself does not make somethingdefinitivelyRoman(oneshouldnotethat ‘temples’ were originally Greek), it does in this case however support the idea of template. Nimes perimeter walls, similarly well known to us in York, are an expression of what the Romans did in fortifying and making a city their own. Each city becomes a Roman city through its expression of physical infrastructure supporting a political,

religious, artistic and artisan culture. Nimes differed from many provincial settlements in its general acceptance of Roman and everything that entailed. The ancient tribes fought side to side with the then young Roman Empire as its expansionist leaders battled their way across continental Europe. As a consequence of this Nimes became a western power house and a real exemplar of Roman architecture, culture and values.

Simply, it could be said that the city of Arles is more of the same, which is exactly the point. Like Nimes, Arles prospered under rule of the Romans, having already developed into a vibrant and bustling harbour town under the Phoenicians. As with Barcelona, Tarragona and Nimes where in each there is an expression of template -a single stamp, pressing it down each time, with little focus on variety and originality. Arles has its own Amphitheatre, Theatre, Local Forum and Temples. Whilst again these buildings in their origins are not intrinsically Roman (mostly Greek), there presence represents Roma.

That is not to say that the Romans merely ‘copied and pasted’ a version of Roma in every place they settled. In almost all cases there was some consideration for local traditions, the inhabitant’s way of life and arguably most importantly the physical geography, harnessing it rather than it being a restraint.

In conclusion, what we found was a set of inhabitancies which to an extent had their own identity but without fail had an overwhelming sense of what could be described as a scaled down Rome feel about them. The infrastructure we encountered had a constant nod to the idealised, highly engineered forms found within Roma itself. They created a template which could be effortlessly rolled out across the provinces, firmingtheirdominancebothphysicallyandculturally, using architecture as a tool to achieve this.

- James Haynes and Ben Kelsall

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Change!

The exciting prospects of birth,

A child’s growth, life and progress,

Fresh possibilities adapt to age;

All of this change!

Opportunity for new hope,

A child’s transformation is how it all starts,

Seasons end;

All of this is change!

Optimism Equality,

Freezing anticipation,

Invites only one word;

Change!However, there are many other things that youwillfindmakeachange,

Examplesare:Diesel,hopeandreflection.

They may not be obvious examples but somewhere in the past, all of these made a difference. For better and for worse.

Our lives are always changing. They always have and always will.

- Sam Dallas

Change!

Change can bring possibilities,

And can sometime also adapt,

Seeingthebirthofbutterfly

Like seeing a blossom emerge,

From one single opportunity,

These are all small possibilities,

Itcancomefromseeingareflection,

From seeing a little bit of diesel,

Can adapt you and give you hope,

To use for your own growth,

Or for your future adventures,

You can maybe see yourself aging,

And becoming a better you,

This can bring you fear,

Watching seaons aging in front of you,

As you know that you yourself,

Will change the world for the better,

Of the equality of our world,

This can be an exciting future,

To see the real birth of you,

You know what you love,

What you care about,

And the things that will,

Make you so much better.

- Charlie Fricker

Possibility

Possibilities are chances for opportunities

The seasons are a chance to blossom like in spring when the trees grow their blossom

Everyyearfilledwithanticipationisachanceforatransformationlikeacaterpillarchangingintoabutterfly

Each year we strive for equality for the minorities,

There will be people who try to stunt this growth but we still keep going.

There will be people we meet who will bring us hope and when we need them most, we will freeze them out but theywillfighttomelttheicethatwearecreating.

Weshouldlearntousefreetimetoreflectandtolearnabout the world, but as we are doing this we learn just how cruel the world is, but it is easy to go too deep and drag ourselves into the darkness and get trapped there. This is one of the times when we need those we met and those that bring us hope.

Wehavetolearnhowtoadapttofitintothisworldandsociety, and the people that don’t are cast out like diesel fumes, we should strive to bring these people into our lives and make sure that they know that they are wanted.

Whilst the world is cruel we always know that there is light alongside the darkness and that we can always go back to the light no matter what we we can never go too far, despite the fact I know this I, far too often, go too deep but I always have part of that darkness still with me.

- Jasmine Smale

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Richard Cubitt took A Levels in Economics, English Literature and History, and an EPQ

Bianca Dutton took A Levels in Geography, Psychology and Business Studies

Joe Elliot took A Levels in Art, Biology and Economics

Ben Exall took A Levels in Geography, Economics and History, and an EPQ

Jack Farnworth took A Levels in DT, Classical Civilisations and English Literature

Emmi Garside took A Levels in French, Art and Drama

Rachel Gladwin took A Levels in Art, English Literature and Religious Studies

Bethany Glover took A Levels in French, Art and DT

Tom Gray took A Levels in Physics, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics, and an EPQ

Eddie Greenhill took A Levels in Classical Civilisations, English Literature and History

Jerry Guo took A Levels in Art, Classical Civilisations and English Literature

James Haynes took A Levels in Physics, Art, Mathematics and Classical Civilisations, and an EPQ

Emma Hodgson took A Levels in Spanish, English Literature and History, and an EPQ

Lotte Horberry took A Levels in Psychology, Art and Biology

Kate Jeffery took A Levels in Art, History and Religious Studies, and an EPQ

George Johnson took A Levels in Physics, Biology and DT, and an EPQ

Sian Keag took A Levels in Psychology, Biology and Mathematics, and an EPQ

Ben Kelsall took A Levels in Economics, Mathematics and Classical Civilisations

Ross Kessel took A Levels in Physics, Art and Mathematics

Bruno Korica took A Levels in Geography, Business Studies and Economics

Marco Kwok took A Levels in Psychology, Art and Mathematics

Lily Kwok took A Levels in Biology, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry

Percy Lee took A Levels in Physics, Chinese, Economics and Mathematics

Terence Li took A Levels in Biology, Chinese, Economics, Mathematics and Chemistry

Natalie Little took A Levels in Art, Business Studies and Classical Civilisations

Hannah Long took A Levels in Psychology, English Literature and Religious Studies with AS Level Biology

Olly Longbottom took A Levels in Geography, Physical Education and Business Studies

Victor Luo took A Levels in Physics, Art, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Harvey Lyon took A Levels in Physics, Spanish, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Nova Ma took A Levels in Physics, Art, Chinese and Chemistry

Samson Mak took A Levels in Physics, Chinese, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Rolf Marr took A Levels in Geography, Biology and Economics

Hugo McCartney took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and English Literature with AS Level Further Mathematics

Luke McDonnell took A Levels in Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Chemistry

Angus McMillan took A Levels in Geography, Physical Education and Business Studies

Meraj Mohammadi took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Jessie Meyer took A Levels in Physics, Art, Biology and Chemistry, and an EPQ

Kelly Ng took A Levels in Psychology, Chines, DT and Mathematics

Julia Ogilvy took A Levels in Business Studies, DT and English Literature, and an EPQ

Shaan Okhai took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry

Tomisin Olalusi took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Chemistry

Rebecca Parkin took A Levels in Classical Civilisations, English Literature and History

Nicholas Pinnington took A Levels in German, Classical Civilisations and English Literature, and an EPQ

Olivia Plowman took A Levels in Biology, Business Studies and DT

Asa Pomeroy took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry, with AS Level Japanese

Femi Adeshina took A Levels in Psychology, Business Studies and Economics

Najeeb Al-Shabbi took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics with AS Level Additional Mathematics, and an EPQ

Meredith Armstrong took A Levels in Music, English Literature and Religious Studies, and an EPQ

Zeren Atacocugu took A Levels in Geography, Classical Civilisations and English Literature, and an EPQ

Mark Awobokun took A Levels in Biology, Mathematics and Chemistry

Zoe Bagley took A Levels in Spanish, English Literature and History, and an EPQ

Arthur Bell took A Levels in Art, Psychology and Biology

Dominic Bielby took A Levels in Geography, German, History and Religious Studies, and an EPQ

Laura Bowes took A Levels in English Literature, History and Religious Studies

Megan Campbell took A Levels in Psychology, Biology and Chemistry, and an EPQ

Jack Catchpole took A Levels in Biology, Economics and Classical Civilisations

Harry Chan took A Levels in German, Business Studies, Chinese and Mathematics

Soe Chan took A Levels in Physics, Art, Chinese and Mathematics with AS Level DT

Phoebe Cheung took A Levels in Physical Education, Biology, Chinese and Mathematics

Edwin Chung took A Levels in Biology, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry

Angus Cockerill took A Levels in Biology, Economics and Religious Studies

George Cooper took A Levels in French, Spanish and History with AS Level Classical Civilisations

Chad Cosgrove-Stephenson took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry with AS Level Further Mathematics

Marianna Cox took A Levels in Drama, Classical Civilisations and English Literature, and an EPQ

Stella Cross took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry with AS Level Further Mathematics, and an EPQ

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Oscar Poon took A Levels in Biology, Mathematics and Chemistry, with AS Levels DT

Maddie Pope took A Levels in Spanish, Art, English Literature and Latin

Jane Qu took A Levels in Biology, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry

Daniel Quinn took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and History

Irene Sarigu took A Levels in Physics, Italian, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Chemistry, and an EPQ

Imogen Schofield took A Levels in Art, Business Studies and Classical Civilisations

Alistair Search took A Levels in Geography, Art and Classical Civilisations

Alex Sedov took A Levels in Physics, DT and Mathematics

Ben Smith took A Levels Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Chemistry and History

Ellen Smith took A Levels in Biology, Mathematics and Chemsitry, and an EPQ

Morgan Smith took A Levels in Psychology, Economics and History, and an EPQ

Claudi So took A Levels in Biology, Business Studies, Chinese and Mathematics

George Spencer took A Levels in French, Biology and Economics

Eleanor Stainforth took A Levels in Psychology, Biology and Classical Civilisations

Romi Thornton took A Levels in Art, Mathematics and English Literature

Oliver Thow took A Levels in Geography, DT and Classical Civilisations, and an EPQ

Solly Tomlin-Kent took A Levels in Physics, Economics and Mathematics with AS Level Further Mathematics, and an EPQ

Matthew Valks took A Levels in Physics, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Isaac Vohra took A Levels in Psychology, Biology and Chemistry, and an EPQ

Joe Warn took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry

Beatrice Watkins took A Levels in Art, DT and English Literature

Ben Welham took A Levels in German, Classical Civilisations and English Literature

Grace Whorley took A Levels in German, Biology and Chemistry, and an EPQ

Tom Widgery took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Maria Winter took A Levels in Drama, Music and English Literature, and an EPQ

John Yu took A Levels in Physics, Chinese, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

Matthew Yeung took A Levels in Physics, Biology, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry

Derek Yip took A Levels in Biology, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry

Eudora Zheng took A Levels in Physics, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics with AS Level Chinese

Cathy Zhong took A Levels in Physics, Chinese, Mathematics and Further Mathematics

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Femi ADESHINA Business with Industrial placement Exeter

Najeeb AL-SHABIBI Maths & Computer Science Oxford

Meredith ARMSTRONG Law Kent

Zeren ATACOCUGU Ancient History Newcastle

Mark AWOBOKUN Biological & Chemical Sciences with Foundation

Swansea

Zoe BAGLEY History &Politics Edinburgh

Arthur BELL Work /

Dominic BIELBY Law Cambridge

Laura BOWES Journalism Newcastle

Megan CAMPBELL Psychology Newcastle

Jack CATCHPOLE Business Studies Sheffield Hallam

Harry CHAN Hotel Management & Operations Modul, Vienna

Soe CHAN Architecture University for the Creative Arts

Phoebe CHEUNG Physiotherapy Sheffield Hallam

Edwin CHUNG Biochemistry with placement year

Essex

Angus COCKERILL Apply 2019 /

George COOPER Spanish & Arabic Cambridge

Chad COSGROVE- STEPHENSON

Physics Warwick

Marianna COX Anthropology with Innovation Bristol

Stella CROSS Civil Engineering Sheffield

Richard CUBITT English & Film Birmingham

Bianca DUTTON Adult Nursing Manchester

Joe ELLIOTT Apply 2019 /

Ben EXALL Modern History with Economics Manchester

Jack FARNWORTH Sport & Exercise Science with Foundation Year

Derby

Emmi GARSIDE Apply 2019 /

Rachel GLADWIN English & Film Studies Exeter

Bethany GLOVER Art Foundation Epsom

Tom GRAY Economics with a year abroad UCL

Eddie GREENHILL Apply 2019 /

Jerry GUO Culture, Criticism & Curation University of the Arts, London

James HAYNES Art Foundation / Architecture

Leeds / Edinburgh

Emma HODGSON Combined Honours: Spanish & History

Newcastle

Lotte HORBERRY Apply 2019

Kate JEFFERY Art Foundation Leeds

George JOHNSON Aerospace Engineering with Foundation Year

UWE

Sian KEAG Apply 2019

Ben KELSALL Apply 2019

Ross KESSEL In Clearing or apply 2019

Bruno KORICA Business Management w Politics Glasgow`

Lily KWOK Veterinary Medicine RVC

Marco KWOK Psychology Integrated Masters York

Percy LEE PPE Lancaster

Terence LI Pharmacy UCL

Natalie LITTLE Business Management York St. John

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Hannah LONG Apply 2019 /

Olly LONGBOTTOM Sports Marketing Leeds Beckett

Victor LUO Engineering & Architectural Design UCL

Harvey LYON Aerospace Engineering with study in continental Europe

Bristol

Nova MA Interior Design Edinburgh

Samson MAK Mathematics & Statistical Science UCL

Rolf MARR Apply 2019 /

Hugo McCARTNEY General Engineering Durham

Luke McDONNELL Natural Sciences Lancaster

Angus McMILLAN Management Sciences Loughborough

Ali MERAJ MOHAM-MADI

Electronic & Computer Engineering with Industrial Placement

Newcastle

Jessie MEYER Medicine Nottingham

Kelly NG Criminology Lancaster

Julia OGILVY Product Design Huddersfield

Shaan OKHAI Chemistry with a Foundation Year Loughborough

Tomisin OLALUSI Mechanical Engineering Bath

Rebecca PARKIN English Sussex

Nicholas PINNINGTON International Relations & Operations Leiden, Netherlands

Olivia PLOWMAN Midwifery Studies, Registered Midwife Northumbria

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Oscar POON Human Nutrition Chester

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Jane QU Biological Science UEA

Daniel QUINN Engineering Lancaster

Irene SARIGU Computer Science York

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Alistair SEARCH Architecture Liverpool

Alex SEDOV Product Design Engineering Loughborough

Ben SMITH Physics Durham

Ellen SMITH Biology St. Andrews

Morgan SMITH Law Manchester Met

Claudi SO Education Studies UCL

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Eleanor STAINFORTH Adult Nursing Nottingham

Romi THORNTON Art Foundation Leeds

Oliver THOW Political Science & International Relations

Birmingham

Solly TOMLIN-KENT Economics Bristol

Matthew VALKS General Engineering Durham

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Joe WARN Chemistry Newcastle

Beatrice WATKINS Art Foundation Leeds

Ben WELHAM Journalism Studies Lincoln

Grace WHORLEY Pharmacy Manchester

Tom WIDGERY Engineering Oxford

Maria WINTER Contemporary & Popular Music Newcastle

John WU Mathematics Imperial

Matthew YEUNG Engineering Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Derek YIP Biomedical Science Coventry

Eudora ZHENG Mathematics & Statistics UCL

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Staff Leavers 2018

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Rosa di Lorenzo School NurseThank you to Rosa. At the end of the summer term 2018, staff and students bid farewell to, Rosa di Lorenzo, who retired as nurse in the Health Centre at Bootham School. Since 2001, Rosa has worked tirelessly for the well-being of all who came into contact with her during the school day. Students and Old Scholars will remember Rosa for her patience and empathy, combined with a wonderful sense of humour.

In addition to looking after all the students and staff of the school, Rosa also participated in the delivery of PSHE to students in Lower, Middle and Upper Schoolrooms and Lower Seniors. Her vast professional experiencewasextremelyvaluableandbeneficial,butherabilitytoremaincheerfulandpositive,nomatter how troubled her patient might be was an asset we’ll be lucky to replace.

Rosa plans to spend her time pursuing hobbies and enjoying time with her family. We will all miss her but wish her well in her well-deserved retirement.

Stephen Oakden School LibrarianStephen retired at the end of the summer 2017 after seven years at Bootham, during which time he had developed the Library into a popular study space for students and moved forward the Library’s digital research facilities. His programme of external speakers was enjoyed by all students and College students particularly appreciated help he gave with academic research. We wish him well for a happy retirement.

During the year we bid fond farewell and grateful thanks to:Zoe Cooke (HR), Julie O’Keefe-Howard and Kay Brooks (BJS Swimming Teachers), Anthea Shepherdson (Music), Janet Stephenson (Housekeeping), Ros Tobin (Head’s Secretary), Jane Harris (School Counsellor), Sue Horobin (Reprographic Technician), Nicki Husband (Cover Supervisor), Rosa Di Lorenzo (School Nurse), Sue Gordon (Senior Curriculum Assistant), Sue Hollins (Junior School Secretary), Adrian Pawlak (Kitchen Assistant)

Sue Gordon left fulltime employment with us at the end of the summer term 2018 but we’re delighted she has continued to work with us on a consultancy basis.

New senior school students:SPRING TERM 2017/18

Lower Schoolroom

Luke Higgins

Upper Schoolroom

Justin Kwan

College One

Erik Papp

SUMMER TERM 2017/18

Upper Schoolroom

Kitty Fisher

Lower Senior

Brin Waldron

AUTUMN TERM 2018/19

Lower Schoolroom

Zeid Abu Zannad

Sabrina Agius

Issy Ashforth

James Bailey

Arun Brar

Indi Bray

Sam Candy

Rosa Carter

Martha Clough

Isidora Cobb

Finn Cook

Lilia Dean

Eliza Fielding

Caty Gardiner

Aria Gausden

Ben Gladwin

Toby Gledhill

Noah Green

WillGriffiths

Omar Habli

Robyn Harrison

Summer Harvey

Kate Hayes

Millie Haynes

Luke Hazell

Miriam Hills

Matthew Horne

Ben Houlston

Charlotte Jacobi

Ben Kimberling

Nick Lapish

Milo Leefe

Amelia Lennox

Winifred Leung

Theo Lindridge

Alex Mackle

Javi Malagon

Lorenzo Manca Iglesias

SofiaMesa

Joe Mottram

Forby Penty

Carmen Perez Mendoza

Marina Perez Mendoza

Ralph Plowman

Rory Powell-Smith

Finn Pudsey

Riwan Rawnsley

Ruby Salter

Francesca Seedat

Yasmin Seedat

Henry Sprake

Tserena Tang

Douglas Thomas

Freddie Thornton

Romilly Tuckley

David Vicary

Sam Webster

Olivia Whitby

GabrielleWoffinden

Middle Schoolroom

Logan Anderson

Luana Booth

Alex Gegas-Ganev

Chris Gegas-Ganev

Alexander Smith

Hugo Sneesby

Upper Schoolroom

Ali Abu Zannad

Alice Ainger

Aidan Anderson

Molly Blacklock

Alex Broughton

Sam Dallas

Yelena Davies

Gaia Gausden

Madeleine Hicks

Lilly Ho

Gordon Kam

Rachel King

Julia Kusmierek

Evie Latham

Kiko Lee

Jasmine Smale

Jess Spence

Ollie Steane

Lower Senior

Parker Cantrell

Ocean Cheng

Louis Durand

Vlad Filippov

Polina Gremushkina

Adrienne Mosiek

Robyn Munday

Ida-SofieParsbo

Maël Rawnsley

Kit Tse

College One

Adedola Adetokunbo-Ajayi

Amy Austin

Michael Awobokun

Henry Calvert

Maks Cnotek

Theo Durand

Ben Earley

Anton Furniss

Ryan Gao

FfionGregory

Annabel Hartley

Ben Hunter

Kit Jay

Anna Keag

Maddie Kennedy

Poom Kirdpradit

Isobel Levin

Paul Lin

Tamilore Olalusi

Camille Parsbo

Eve Payne

Francis Rowe

Ella Shearer

Olamiposi Shehu

Millie Sneesby

Bella Spensley

Grace Spensley

Niamh Wilson

Bruce Zhang

College Two

Frances Hearld

Foundation A-level

Haruna Nishida

New members of staff:Martyn Long (School mini bus driver), Emma Croft (Junior School Midday Supervisor), Emily Simpson (Artist in Residence),FayStephenson(MarketingandAlumniOfficer),MatthewParker(DTTeacher),LouiseVarner(HRAdministrator), Sally Morrallee (Bank Nurse), Beth Steer (Director of Boarind and Wellbing), Victoria Seller (PE teacher), Liam McCreesh (Learning Support), Jenny Adams (EAL tutor), Andrew Moriarty (Cover Supervisor), Louise Dunn (Receptionist), Kay Bilborough (Housekeeping), Ben Jackson (Art Technician), Luke Highstead (School Counsellor)

Resident Graduates 2018/19:

Erica Thacker, Zak Agnew, Georgia Traill-Scott, Eetu Jyvala, Laura Dunsby, Jemima Morrison

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School Record - New staff and students

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Sports Review: 2017-2018

Football• U16team:Semi-finalinDistrictcup,Quarter-finalin

CountyCup,Quarter-finalinISFANationalCup

• 1stXI:Quarter-finalofCountyCompetition,Runners-upinDistrict league

U12: Matty Parlett, Yiyang Xu, William Abbas, George Anderson, Isaac Cardow© , Harvey Tomlinson, Edward Barton, Max Brooks, Ollie Hudson, Luca Kennedy-Foster, Raphael Last, George Pearcy, Luke Higgins

U13: Tom Hayes ©, Finlay Coad, Toby Shillabeer, Charlie Kuylestierna, Max Cooper, Ben Lees, Mani Cobb, Alexander Stark, Tommy Sun, Isaac Cardow, Harvey Tomlinson, Max Brooks, Charlie Fricker, Tom Carter

U14: Aidan Cardow, Euan Brooke, James Brierley, Jay Brown, Harry Clough, Finlay Coad, Jacob O’Brien ©, Charlie Phillips, Elliot Blackstone, William Kirby-Welch, Benjamin McCartney, Elliot Chan, Mani Cobb, Oscar Manners, Tom Otley

U15: Finley Richardson, Daniel Raubitschek © , Jay Brown, George Bristow , Jacob O’Brien, Archie Kaye, Ben Barnett, Aidan Cardow , Eli Tomlin-Kent , Jack Frampton, Evan Shelton, Peter Woodmansey, Oscar Spink, Harry Wooldridge, JayBoughtflower,ElliotChan

U16: Will Jennings, Harry Loseby, Adam Sullivan, Josh Campbell, Eddie Monkman, Louis Otterburn ©, Eddie Phillips, Charlie Longbottom, Joe Shillabeer, Daniel Raubitschek, Ryan Beaumont, George Bristow, Toby Waterman, Elliot Chan, Eli Tomlin-Kent

1st XI: Finn Van der Voort,, Ben Exall, Luke Conkleton, Will Stevens, Joel Gallagher-Coates, Alistair Search, Eddie Greenhill, Femi Adeshina, Solly Tomlin-Kent ©, Olly Longbottom, Joe Fielding, Harry Loseby, Louis Otterburn, Joshua Chan, Ben Kelsall, Ross Kessel

NetballU18 VII - Maria Winter (Capt) Megan Campbell Marianna Cox Hannah Long Amy McFadyen Kelly Ng Laura Bowes Morgan SmithImogenSchofield

U16 VII - Annie Gransbury ChaCha Bho-ob Natalie Cheung Megan Gransbury Nell Judge

Charlotte Dean Amelia Johnson Ella Brooks

U15 VII - Lilly Toure Freya Leaf Hannah Redman Elise Hills Jessica Leaf India Leonard-Morgan Sarah Templeman Molly Bray Emily Watson

U14 VII - Hannah Bettam Chloe Willis Ava Harris Hattie Hills Josie Marr Libby Tomlinson Darcie Morland Immy Eyre Hetty Kirkby Laura Daniel Alice Warrington Emma Van Dam Amy Thyers Rania Harper Hindy

U13 VII - Amy Douglas Lucy Glover Poppy Lea Chloe Ross Emma Templeman Tabitha Todd Anna Waterman Phoebe Watts Alice McWalter Ellen Gordon

U12VII-CharlotteBrownDazeKraemer-DentEffieDodds-Aston Connie Plenty Emily Bulman Yasmin De Souza Maya Lindridge Ellen Pickervance Aurelie Gale Nell Maughan Emily Brereton Rachael Zhuang Joanne Peng Aurelie Gale

Highlight –The U19 team played in an Inter Area Tournament on Wednesday 7th March after qualifying via the York and District Tournament earlier this year. The Bootham team were representing York and Selby and played against a team from Scarborough and Ryedale. The scores at the half way point were 19-17 to the opposition, but the team knew if they focused a little better they were capable of winning thematch.Thesecondhalfwasasfastandskilfulasthefirstbut, our girls played some amazing tactical netball, keeping the ball for long periods of possession, and outwitting their opponents. With some strong defensive work we turned the ball over a number of times, and our shooters were outstanding - the score ending with Bootham being Champions34-30.Brilliant!

1st XI Football team

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Basketball• U13 District Champions

• U14 District Champions

• U15 District Champions

U12: Edward Barton, Max Brooks, Oliver Hudson, Luca Kennedy-Foster, Raphael Last, George Pearcy, Yiyang Xu, William Abbas, George Anderson, Isaac Cardow, Frederick Mazzi

Matty Partlett, Harvey Tomlinson, Aziz Al-Dakheel

U13: Tom Carter, Finlay Coad, Mani Cobb, Tom Hayes, Max Cooper, Ben Lees, Montgomery Grenyer, Toby Shillabear, Alexander Stark

U14: Euan Brooke James Brierley Harry Clough Mael Scott De Martinville Charlie Phillips

Jay Brown Benjamin McCartney Cameron Pickavance Aidan Cardow

U15: Henry Stevens, Elliot Chan, Zehan Hu, Finlay Richardson Edward Hopwood Daniel Raubitschek Ben Barnett George Bristow Jack Frampton Jimmy Zhang Yifan Pang

U16: Harry Loseby, Josh Campbell, Louis Otterburn, Zak Chan, George Van Dam,Gerald Ng, Nikita Tcarik, Danila Travkov, Edward Hopwood

U19

Benedict Santos-Pearcy, Rolf Marr, Joe Warn, Percy Lee, Samson Mak, Alex Sedov , John Wu, Toby Price, Nikita Tcarik

U13 District Basketball Champions

HockeyU12: Emily Bretherton, Charlotte Brown, Yasmin De Souza, Daze Kraemer-Dent, Maya Lindridge, Connie Penty, Nell Maughan,EllenPickavance,EffieDodds-Aston,IrieTheyers

U13: Tabitha Todd, Anna Waterman, Poppy Lea, Lucy Glover, Chloe Ross, Ellen Gordon, Alice McWalter, Hazel Tomlinson, Phoebe Watts, Darcey Cameron, Iris Valles, Emma Templeman

U14: Hannah Bettam, Immy Eyre, Ava Harris, Connie Hopwood, Hattie Hills, Josie Marr, Zara Forbes, Libby Tomlinson, Emma Van Dam, Chloe Willis, Freya Forbes, Laura Daniel, Rania Harper-Hindy, Saskia Bindloss

U15: Molly Bray, Qiu Qiu Chen, Elise Hills, Holly Kelsall, Alice Kuylenstierna, Freya Leaf, Jessica Leaf, India Leonard-Morgan, Hannah Redman, Sarah Templeman, Lilly Toure, Emily Watson, Hattie Hills, Miao Zin Chong

U16: Amelia Johnson, Cha Cha Bho-ob, Charlotte Dean, Erin Davies, Megan Gransbury, Annie Gransbury, India Leonard-Morgan, Emily Watson, Alice Kuylenstierna, Elise Hills, Yi Lin Xu, Lilly Toure, Molly Bray, Hannah Redman, Frey Leaf

1st XI: Ellen Smith, Zeren Atacocugu, Laura Bowes, Morgan Smit,h Anna Clarke, Georgia Haynes,

Katie Lund, Amy McFadyen, Livvy Thew, Laura Hagmann, Yasmin Wild, Maria Winter, Stella Cross, Grace Whorley, Zoe Bagley.

Cricket• 1st XI: Winners of the Quaker Cricket Tournament held at

Bootham

U12: Edward Barton, Matty Parlett, Isaac Cardow, Harvey Tomlinson, Ollie Hudson, Max Brooks, George Pearcy, Yiyang Xu, William Abbas,

U13: Finlay Coad, Montgomery Grenyer, Mani Cobb, Tom Hayes, Ben Lees, Toby Shillabear, Alexander Stark, Archie Richardson. Tom Carter, Charlie Fricker, Edward Barton, Matty Parlett

U14: James Brierley, Will Kirkby-Welch, Montgomery Grenyer, Charlie Phillips, Euan Brooke

Finlay Coad, Harry Clough, Aidan Cardow, Toby Shillabear, Elliot Blackstone, Ben Brown, Tom Otley, Cameron Pickavance, Elliot Hearld, Will Foster

U15: Montgomery Grenyer, Daniel Raubitschek, Jack Frampton, Will Kirkby-Welch, George Bristow

James Brierley, Charlie Boddy, Samuel Johnson, Evan Shelton, Tom Otley, Ben Barnett,

1st XI: Ben Exall (capt), Joe Warn, Angus Cockerill, Ryan Beaumont, Louis Otterburn, Daniel Raubitschek

Angus Bindloss, Alistair Search, Lewis Kilbride, Solly Tomlin-Kent, Ben Barnett, Deneth Ramanayake, Harry Loseby

RoundersSeniorGirls–MariaWinterMeganCampbellImogenSchofieldHannah Long Marianna Cox Kelly Ng Morgan Smith Zeren Atacocugu Anna Clarke Maya Haigh-Greaves Georgia Haynes Katie Lund Amy McFadyen Livvy Thew Yasmin Wild Laura Hagmann Kate Hey Emma Hodgson Natalie Little Laura Bowes

U15 Girls - Emily Watts Freya Leaf Lilly Toure Hannah Redman Elise Hills India Leonard Morgan Molly Bray Yi Lin Xu Qui Qui Chen Sarah Templeman Jamie Johnston

U14 Girls - Hannah Bettam Josie Marr Ava Harris Connie Hopwood Immy Eyre Hattie Hills Libby Tomlinson Emma Van Dam Chloe Willis Hetty Kirkby

U13 Girls - Darcey Cameron Eleanor Gardiner Ellen Gordon Poppy Lea Alice McWalter Vidya Prithiviraj Emma Templeman Tabitha Todd Anna Waterman Phoebe Watts Chloe Ross

U12 Girls - Emily Bulman Emily Brereton Joanne Peng Rachel Zhuang Maya Lindridge Daze Kraemer-Dent Ellen Pickavance Nell Maughan Charlotte Brown Yasmin De Souza Aurelie Gale

SwimmingJuniorGirls-CharlotteBrownEffieDodds-Aston Nell Maughen Yasmin De Souza Maya Lindridge Emily Bulman Ellen Pickavance Oona Gregory Amy Douglas Vidya Prithivija Amera Brar Marion Dutton Weiging Ge Eleanor Gardiner Amelia Lawery Carol Chen

Junior Boys Finlay Coad Douglas Brewer Lawrence Brewer Frederick Mazzi Harvey Tomlinson Edward Barton Tom Carter Max Cooper Charlie Fricker Benji Alwis

Inter Girls - Libby Tomlinson Emma Van Dam Grace Wiggers Rania Harper-Hindy Josie Marr Hetty Kirkby

Inter Boys - Charlie Phillips Harry Clough Harry Cooper Ben Brown Elliot Heald Will Kirby-Welch

Senior Girls - Charlotte Dean Grace Whorley Bianca Dutton Meredith Armstrong Fed Ricci May Fu Jamie Johnston Erin Davies Carina Tsang Katie Lund

Senior Boys - Guy Lawrence-Downs Zach Chan Theo Riches Percy Lee George Van Dam Will Johnston Danila Travkov Eddie Phillips

Highlight – Two girls and two boy’s teams travelled to

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School Record - Sport

HuddersfieldonFriday6thOctobertocompeteintheNorthEast ESSA Relay Gala, where they swam in medley and freestyle relays against other schools from the North East. The girls’ teams swam well with some good performances, but did not manage to get onto the podium this year. The Intermediate boys gained a bronze medal in their freestyle relay, whilst the senior boys gained a fantastic silver in their medley relay and bronze in the freestyle relay. It was a late night, but well worth the experience of competing in a high qualityfieldwithofficiatingofthehighestorder.

AthleticsIn another excellent term of athletics 32 Bootham students qualifiedfortheYorkCityathleticsfinalsfromwhichtherewere 21 top 3 placings. A superb effort for a school of Bootham’s size.

Top3finishersattheCityAthleticschampion

First place: Yiyang Xu Hurdles, Freddy Mazzi 100m, Tabby Todd 200m, Oona Gregory 300m, Finlay Coad HJ, Tom Hayes Discus, Toby Shillabear Hurdles, Josie Marr 200m and HJ, Lilly Toure Shot

Second Place: Maya Lindridge 100m, Raphael Last Hurdles, Finlay Coad 200m, Libby Tomlinson HJ, Hetty Kirkby Shot.

Third Place: Anna Waterman Hurdles, Eleanor Gardiner Discus, Hannah Bettam Hurdles, Freya Leaf Discus, Yilin Xu 200m, Sammy Johnson Hurdles.

Track and Field cup: Once again the School also performed well amongst strong competition with some excellent individual performances from Lilly Toure, Tabby Todd, Finlay Coad and Josie Marr.

Lilly Toure, Tabby Todd, Libby Tomlinson, Josie Marr and Finlay Coad also represented York in the North Yorkshire Schools competition.

Oona Gregory and Tabby Todd (York City athletics Champions)

Sports DayFirbank were overall winners of Sports day. After terrible conditions during the last two events, it was a glorious day for sports day at the University Track with a lovely atmosphere and some very good performances

Tennis• EuanBrookereachedthecountyfinaloftheRoadto

Wimbledon Tournament

• U14 team runners up in York league

U13 Boys: Alex Stark, Tom Hayes, Mani Cobb, Archie Richardson, Montgomery Grenyer, Charlie Kuylensierna

U14 Boys: James Brierley, Euan Brooke, Harry Clough, Cameron Pickavance, Alex Stark, Elliot Blackstone, Tom Otley

U15Boys: Finlay Richardson, Jack Frampton, Edward Hopwood, Peter Woodmansey. George Bristow

U18 Boys: Finn Van Der Voort, Luke Conkleton, Harvey Lyon, Jack Catchpole

U18: Maddie Pope Morgan Smith Maria Winter Laura Bowes Anna Clarke Georgia Haynes Morgan Smith Laura Hagmann

U15 Girls: Yi Lin Xu Emily Watson Lilly Toure Hannah Redman

U14 Girls: Connie Hopwood Hattie Hills Libby Tomlinson Josie Marr

U13 Girls: Bette Gleadhall Iris Valles Weiqing Ge Alice McWalter Emma Templeman

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Individual Representative SuccessToby Price – Modern Pentathlon (GB)

Angus McMillan – Cross Country & Track and Field (England)

Georgia Haynes - Fencing (England)

Montgomery Grenyer – Cricket (County)

Will Abbas, Tom Hayes, Finlay Coed, Mani Cobb – Basketball (County)

Ellen Gordon – Diving

Individual Awards

AthleticsTabitha Todd

Finlay Coad

Josie Marr

Elliot Chan

Footballer of the yearSolly Tomlin-Kent

SwimmingOona Gregory

Finlay Coad

Bianca Dutton

Guy Lawrence-Downs

Charlotte Dean

Individual Sports Trophies

Tennis - Finlay Richardson

Most improved girl in PE – Qui Qui Chen

Most improved boy in PE – Euan Brooke

Outstanding Sports Person Junior Girl – Tabitha Todd

Junior Boy – Montgomery Grenyer

Intermediate Girl – Freya Leaf

Intermediate Boy – Elliot Chan

Certificates for outstanding commitment in sportOlly Longbottom

Alistair Search

Joe Warn

Maria Winter

Megan Campbell

Marianna Cox

ImogenSchofield

Laura Bowes

Hannah Long

Morgan Smith

Kelly Ng

Ostend VaseBen Exall

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Monthly NewsVisitors

November 2017

Art exhibition by Matthew Miller (B: 2001-08)

Old Scholars were invited to Matthew’s exhibition at Bedern Hall (2nd November to 15th December)

Congratulations to Old Scholar, John Pickup, who left Bootham in 2017 and has been offered a Higher Level Apprenticeship with York Council for two years, working towardsaqualificationinProjectManagement.Johnwas all set to go to university but then decided it wasn’t for him and applied for the apprenticeship. He went through a tough selection process including two rounds of interviews and a presentation to a panel of three managers before being offered the apprenticeship working in sustainable transport.

Visit to Singapore and Hong Kong – great to see so many of our lovely Old Scholars on our brief trip.

February 2018New book by David Artiss

Congratulations to David Artiss (Bootham 1948-50) who published a new book about the work of a nineteenth century German author, Theodor Storm.

Dom McGregor’s Social Chain was featured in The Guardian newspaper. Dom (Bootham 2004-11) is co-founder of Manchester based Social Chain.

December 2017It was wonderful to see so many old friends at the annual Bootham Fellows Christmas Coffee and Mince Pies event. Former students, staff and parents joined current staff for a walk down memory lane and a good old chinwag.

January 2018Old Scholar Peter Kurer (B: 1947-8) came to school on Wednesday 31 January to speak about ‘What the Quakers did for the Jewish community in pre-war Europe’. He spoke passionately to an evening audience of over 150 people from Bootham and the wider York and Quaker community.

B etween November 2017 and October 2018 the following Old Scholars visited staff at Bootham: Sam Frost (B: 2007-09), Michael Tan (B: 1982-85), James Waggott (B: 1987-93), Ash Schofield

(B: 1998-2005), Guylaine Eckersley (B: 2010-17), Henry Teo (B: 1981-85), Benjamin Dawton (B: 2004-11), Ronald Myers (B: 1953-57), Sarah Jackson (B: 1992-99), Stephen Taylor (B: 1975-79), Max Fend (B: 2006-13), Matthew Pang (B: 2013-17), Michael Richardson (1947-51), Mimi Evagora Campbell (B: 2007-14), Howard Hung (B: 2007-13), Jamie Price (B: 1986-90), Nick Janiurek (B: 2009-16), Zack Lu (B: 2005-07)

We were delighted to welcome back Old Scholars to the March Sports Reunion, May Reunion Weekend and Old Scholars 2018 celebration in September. We were also pleased to see so many Old Scholars at the London Reunion in June.

Old Scholars have also supported our Fellows Christmas CoffeeMorning,BoothamBreakfastandReflect30programme.

Thank you to Old Scholars and Honorary Old Scholars who supported our Thursday Recital programme: Josephine Peach, Andrew Woodmansey, Andy Allinson, Graham Ralph, Ian Small, Charlotte Spink, Louis Baily and Hannah Feehan.

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November 2017 continued

Monthly News

March 2018We were delighted to welcome back so many Old Scholars for the Sports Reunion. Thank you to those who braved the wet conditions.

Chris Marsden OBE (B: 1958-63) spoke to the Bootham community about his career and work with human rights.

Old Scholar James Thistlethwaite took on a 26ft installation of his art at Laguna Beach, California, as part of Seven-Degrees ‘Summer of Colour’ season. A one-night only event that featured participating artists from Summer of Color, the event was an opportunity to see more work from the amazing muralists that have added public works of art to the community of Laguna Beach.

Mimi Evagora-Campbell (Bootham 2007 - 2014)Staff were delighted to welcome back Mimi. Since leaving university she has been living in Geneva interning for two UN organisations (working in the Strategy and Policy division and Emergency Operations Department). She is moving to New York in August to take up a role as ProgrammeAssistantwithQuakerUnitedNationsOffice.

June 2018Harriet Ennis and Harriet Wood (Bootham Head of Psychology and Bootham Old Scholar respectively) collaborated to deliver masterclasses in Psychology and Mural Art for York ISSP’s new Primary Schools’ project. The two Harriets met in the recital room over a lecture on mindfulness and cooked up the plan. They hope that the mural will soon decorate the blank wall outside Clifton Library.

April 2018Bootham Old Scholar, Geoffrey Smith (B: 1966-73), Professor of Pathology at Cambridge University and works closely with the World Health Organisation, as well as lecturing and advising all over the world, came to talk as part of our external lecture programme.

May 2018On Wednesday 16th May Bootham School held a non-uniform day where students were invited to ‘Wear Blue’ in an effort to raise money for, and raise awareness of, the charity Dig Deep. Old Scholar, Toby Putnam (who left Bootham in 2012), brought this charity to our attention earlier this term during an inspiring Meeting.

We launched our new book ‘Great Lives: How they made a difference’ at the May Reunion. The book is about the work of some inspirational Old Scholars from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is available from theBoothamTrustoffice.

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Monthly News

July 2018July saw the re-installation of the sun dial kindly donated by the Richardson family back in 1908. The sun dial stood on the Masters’ lawn, however when the tennis courts were extended in 2014, it unfortunately became homeless. It is lovely to see it now back in pride of place, very close to its original position and (especially in July) basking in the sun. Honorary Old Scholar David Robinson was kind enough to offer his expertise and installed it for us, it was fascinating and instructive to watch him at work. It was a great pleasure then to welcome Michael Richardson back to Bootham – great grandson – and show him the sun dial in situ, and reminisce on his time at Bootham.

Congratulations to Bootham Old Scholar and music teacher, Hannah Feehan, on the birth of baby Jimmy.

Sunbathing in the 1920sWe enjoyed perfect sunny weather at Parents’ Day and by chance a Bootham family gave us a copy of a photograph of Francis Armitage (Bootham 1922-24) recording the sunlight in the early 1920s. Mike Shaw thinks the photo must have been taken on the roof of 51 Bootham, and David Robinson has explained Francis was using the school sun recorder. This instrument had a glass sphere within a wrap-around band on which paper could be placed - bright sun burnt lines in the paper enabling the length of sunlight to be measured each day. This band appears side-on as a black trapezium in the photograph.

September 2018Old Scholar Gemma Hayward, who is currently taking a year out of medicine to study a global health MSc at the university of Maastricht in the Netherlands, let us know thatshe’dhadherfirstpaperacceptedbythescientificpublication PLOS.

The article considers how the media reports natural disasters and makes for very interesting reading, and is especially refreshing in these days of ‘fake news’; it’s good to see our Old Scholars seeking truth.

You can view the article at http://currents.plos.org/disasters/article/an-evaluation-of-global-hazard-communication-with-ethical-considerations/

Meanwhile Gemma’s older sister Abi is studying journalism in Vancouver, Canada having recently interned at Canadian Geographic.

So fantastic to hear from our Old Scholars and see they continue to ‘Let their life speak’.

October 2018Creative arts and social actionOn Tuesday 9 October, we were pleased to welcome Maddy Leftwich (Old Scholar 2008), and Haylee Venus, the founder of a theatre company called Mek Ah Step, into school. Maddy and Haylee are now involved in a joint initiative to combine the creative arts with social action and their morning meeting, lessons with Lower and Middle Schoolroom classes, as well as Specials brought this alive.

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Tom Pearcy (B: 1981-88) attempted to break a world pumpkin rowing record in October 2018.

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Old Scholars - Poetry

Just a ditty I dreamt up last week spoofing the climate change deniers:

There’s no climate change, I know,

Cause the Bible tells me so.

Moses told it to us all,

Or perhaps it was St.Paul.

Yes,Idenyit!

Youcangoflyit!

I just don’t buy it.

The Bible tells me so.

This can be sung to the tune of “Jesus loves me”.

- Peter Barwick (on his 84th birthday).

National Poetry DayBut who will write us a National Poem for National Poetry

Day?

The weary Laureate shakes his locks;

His are the lines that everyone mocks.

“Shutuptheshutters,putforwardtheclocks!

Tell them I’m sick, or away.”

National Poets there were in the past – all of them dead and gone.

On Mount Parnassus the air is still.

Nobody goes there, it’s all uphill.

And metrical verse is a yesterday skill;

Showmethewebsiteit’son!

Dawn will still break and dusk will still fall on National Poetry Day.

But in between will anyone careIf quality verse is increasingly rare?

Why, the state of our prose is a cause for despair

Unremarked in a similar way.

- Roger Bush (B.1948-52)

Inspiration: The free-diverDoyourememberyourfirstbreath?

Airpiercingflesh

A wound that will not heal

To be, to breathe

This vital silver breeze

This addiction will last a lifetime

Mechanical, involuntary

Stale becomes fresh

Dark blood becomes bright

This bond, this mortal chain

from birth until death

Each breath a link

Our lives so frail,

hanging by this thread

Each breath our last

Inhale

Exhale

By this I am bound

Yet for these few minutes

the clock is stopped

And beneath these waves

I am free

- Sam Cockerill

Things of a sad nature

There are you know

things of a sad nature

encountered during the rush of days

that moment standing at the window

the empty garden or

people who disappeared one day

but are still living

As you hammer down the highways

orruntowardsthefinalcall

pause a minute and see

what’s in that moment

and take heart

step out of your shadow

into the glorious morning

speak to that person

see them smile

- John King

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The recent death of Jeremy Heywood at the ludicrously young age of 56 received immense coverage in the national media. In an age of fractured politics it was truly remarkable to find four Prime Ministers, two Labour and two Conservative, united in paying tribute to a man who had worked with them, at the centre of government, for more than twenty years.

Jeremy’s contemporaries at Bootham will remember him as exceptionally able academically, but also as someone who liked to be involved in all aspects of school life. An able cricketer, he enjoyed all sports, and was an enthusiastic supporter of Mount/Bootham dances and drama. The elder son of Peter Heywood [Head of English 1967 - ’87] and Brenda, a highly reputed archaeologist, he made light of being the son of a member of staff. He got on well with everyone, pupils and staff, and, in particular appeared to have an uncanny knack of knowing and remembering all that was going on.Hewouldlaterusetheseskillsprofitablyduring his political career. He was an extremely effective Head Reeve and won a scholarship to read History and Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. [After interviewing him, one of the dons described him as ‘the one totally outstanding candidate’.] He went on to gain a First.

Entering the Civil Service, he soon managed to obtain a post in the Treasury, and it was here that he met Suzanne, whom he later married in 1997. A happy, lively young couple, they were to have three children, and Jeremy was a devoted father. It was not long before he found himself working for Norman Lamont, and when Lamont became Chancellor of the Exchequer he insisted on taking Jeremy with him, over-riding protests from the civil service hierarchy that he could not possibly appoint someone so young as his special adviser. Subsequently Jeremy acted as private secretary to Kenneth Clarke.

It was Tony Blair who promoted him further, ultimately appointing him as his Principal Private Secretary. He became indispensable, working phenomenally hard, and quietly helping to shape government policies. The role suited him perfectly. He had always shunned publicity, and here he was answerable to nobody other than the Prime Minister. ‘I like to be invisible,’ he said; but within 10 Downing Street he was a highly visible gate-keeper to the inner sanctum of the PM’s office.

When Blair gave way to Brown, somewhat acrimoniously, Jeremy left government and worked for Morgan Stanley in the City. ‘The one time in my life when I was to earn more than my wife,’ he said, ruefully but humorously. The shift fromthepoliticalfieldwasnottolast.

Gordon Brown appeared to make a somewhat chaotic start to his premiership. ‘Bring back Heywood!’camethecry-andJeremydulyresponded, and restored order. Was it the call of duty, or the lure of power? He served Brown with hisusualefficiencyandinsight,onlyobjectingwhen he was phoned at home one morning at 5 a.m. by the PM to discuss policy. Subsequently he carried on in the same role for a slightly less demanding David Cameron, who, it has been said, stood in some awe of him. In 2012 he was appointed Cabinet Secretary.

Nowhewasdefinitelyinthepubliceyeandanswerable, for instance, to Parliamentary Select Committees. He was unfazed by them. In an article for ‘The Guardian’ in 2016 Andy Beckett wrote: ‘Through two temperamentally opposed Labour administrations, the turbulent Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, and into the current, dominant-but-brittle Tory government, Heywood has been a uniquely influentialconstantinDowningStreet:afixerandanenforcer,aconfidantandacoordinator,a peacemaker and a crisis manager, an assessor of policies, an interpreter of protocol, a relentless accumulator of responsibilities and contacts and

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institutional knowledge, a conductor of internal inquiries, a keeper of secrets. A former Downing Street chief of staff says: ‘Jeremy’s like a drug. People get addicted to him quite quickly. Prime Ministersarenotsureabouthimatfirst.Thenthey say, ‘Umm, that’s rather good. I need that.’

He remained in this post until his reluctant resignation in 2018.

What should one make of this extraordinary career? The qualities that stand out are the capacity to work successfully at frantic speed, the depth of analysis, the sheer power of his memory, the decisiveness and, above all, the ability to relate to and function with people of widely differing views and methods of work. Jeremy was the ultimate civil servant, dealing with crises too numerous to list and retaining a wry sense of humour allied to a determination and an impatience to get things done. This resulted in widespread reforms within the Civil Service. Jeremy was a moderniser, not a fuddy-duddy traditionalist, and his reforms were viewed with some alarm by a number of colleagues. Cuts were made in personnel, not least at the TreasurywhereheandSuzannehadfirstmetandembarked on their careers.

Various honours were bestowed on him: Companion of the Bath [2002], in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, watched with most justifiablepridebyhisparents;aCVOin2003;aknighthood in 2012 and a peerage when he retired in 2018. “Lord Heywood of Whitehall’ - how wonderfully appropriate. Sadly, he did not live to appreciate or make use of the last.

We shall never know how much his extraordinary workload and responsibilities contributed to thecancerthatledfirsttohisresignationandthen to his untimely death. What we do know is that he relished every challenge, and enjoyed findingsolutionstothecrisesthatseemtobe a permanent part of politics. And still he found time to socialise, to party, to make time for his good friends and - most particularly and

importantly - to care for his family. To watch Yvette Cooper talking about him so emotionally on the day he died was to realise the affection in which he was held and the impact he made throughout government.

He will be greatly missed by his friends and by those whom he served; maybe the two are indistinguishable. Truly Bootham should be justly proud of this most talented and eminent recent Old Scholar.

- Michael Allen

Bootham 1973 - 1980

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Geoffrey Taylor, who died after a short illness on 11 October 2018 aged 82, will be remembered for the care and rigour of his French teaching, his years of service as resident housemaster on Landings, his introduction of rowing and rugby football, his teaching of Russian and his school trips to Russia and France. Yet the image that comes most easily to mind is of a gleeful Geoff dressed in hunting attire escaping from school on a Saturday afternoon to go beagling, a strenuous exercise kept up by some Oxbridge colleges, public schools and the military. Geoff was a founder member and former Master of the Derwent Valley Beagles and when that folded joined the Ampleforth hunt, running cheerfully over the moors in rain and wind.

He was born in Scarborough in 1935 and attended grammar school in the town. He spent his National Service as a Captain in the Royal Signals in Germany before reading Modern Foreign Languages at Pembroke College Oxford. In Oxford he met his wife-to-be, Sue, who was training to be a nurse: they married and set up home in Nottingham. Here Geoff was a managementtraineeattheheadofficeofBootsthe chemists, but soon decided he would like to teach.

A teacher training course at Nottingham University led to jobs at grammar schools in Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, and by now he and Sue had their family of Philippa, James and Edmund. Geoff spent the best part of a year at UCL adding Russian to his languages. More teaching led to four years as Head of Department at Trent College. In 1979 he and Sue returned to Scarborough, thinking to open a B&B or a language school; in the event he took a job at a local prep school for two years, until the offer came to teach at Bootham.

Geoff arrived in 1981 to teach French, and be resident housemaster on Landings (home to Upper and Lower Senior boy boarders). Younger son Edmund became a pupil at the same time, leaving after O levels; Geoff was to stay 13 years.

Geoff sought excellence, stressed perfection in his teaching, was appreciative of his pupils’ efforts, and they in turn valued his dedication and mastery of the language. Marie-Jo Cockcroft soon joined the department and Geoff and Marie-Jo grew to value their respective strengths as the years ensued. Geoff was de facto head of the department, was meticulously fair in allocating rooms and sets, and supported her independent teaching. He enjoyed a good working relationship withpupilsandgreatlyhelpedBriggflattsHouseactivities. He tended to return to Sue in his schoolflatinbreaks,anditwasonlyafterheleftboarding that his strong sense of humour came to be more widely appreciated.

TheTaylor’sflatlayunderneaththelargeBedroom10. Many nights noises on their ceiling started a weary journey along corridors and stairs to open the bedroom door to darkness and sounds of simulated snoring and growing frustration at not being able to catch anybody doing anything. One night, however, the denizens of the bedroom were shocked when Geoff leapt through a window mid-riot. The boys took to calling him ‘Monty’ after that, and were so impressed they clamoured for repeat performances. Geoff trained his Labrador Hal, who could not resist cake hidden under beds, to lick the faces of boys who overslept.

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Geoff delighted in new initiatives. While he was involved with at least the 2nd XI Hockey amongst established sports, he also provided Rowing and Rugby.ThefirsthearrangedthroughYorkRowingClub (he had rowed himself) and pupils were proud to row for the School team; the second he ranhimselfontheschoolfield,thoughthisdidnotprogresstoafixturelist.HealsointroducedRussian, and he and Sue took pupils to Russia and France.

Sue was keen to be involved in school life, and appearedonstagewithGeoffinBriggflatts’production of Cinderella. She set up and for many years ran the second-hand clothes shop in school for the BSA. Unable to use her nursing qualificationsinSchool,shesetupaconsiderablebusiness providing carers to visit people in their own homes.

Retiring in 1994 Geoff wrote and edited a monthly French magazine with audio cassette tapes, and for a few years toured the country successfully marketing it to schools. Sue continued to run her nursing business for a while. From their large home in Scarborough they were very active in a twinning arrangement with Pornic in Brittany, hosting visitors and being guests themselves in alternate years. Sue lost her battle with cancer in 2011, and Geoff struggled for a while to live on his own. A Roman Catholic, he attended his local church and joined several other outside groups. Beagling continued to be a joy; visits to the Moors with the two other founder members of the Derwent Valley Beagles began to be likened to Last of the Summer Wine, (with Geoff as the tall organising one, of course). But the time for making hay was coming to an end, Geoff’s physical strength began to fail, and even walking becamedifficult.Severelyillayearago,hespentthree months in hospital and recovered against the odds to take a room in a residential home where he was well looked after even though he raged against the dying of the light. Two weeks

before his death his friend Henry Kaye (father of William) drove him into the countryside to see the beagles in full cry; even though he didn’t leave the car he was delighted to see his beloved moors again. He had looked forward to attending John Gray’s Reunion in York but was admitted to hospital with pneumonia, and died peacefully that morning. He is survived by his three children and two grand-children.

- David Robinson

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Emeritus Professor Michael Hillas

Colleagues will be sorry to learn of the death, on 26 November 2017, of Emeritus Professor Michael Hillas, at the age of 85 after a short period of ill-health. The following obituary has been prepared by colleagues and friends.

While at Bootham he became interested in astronomy and he and Michael Bodin, a fellow scholar, spent many happy hours in the school observatory. This led to his life-long interest in astro-physics culminating in his gaining a personal chair in physics at the University of Leeds in 1990. A year or so before his death, Michael very kindly donated funds to the observatorythatmadeitpossibletobuyafinesolar telescope that would never normally be found in a school context. It will come into its own next November, for a transit of Mercury that will be visible from the school. Michael collaborated with cosmic-ray scientists world-wide as is evidenced in this obituary prepared by his colleagues for the University of Leeds records.

His remarkable abilities as a physicist were firstrecognisedduringhisundergraduateandpost-graduate days at Leeds. After acquiring his BSc (1955) and PhD (1958), Michael went to Harwell with the rare distinction of holding a fellowship. There he worked on an experiment to study high-energy cosmic-rays. He returned to Leeds in 1959 as a lecturer, and was promoted to a readership in 1969 and to a Personal Chair inPhysicsin1990.Hisscientificpassionwascosmic-ray physics and his unique skills were a major factor in the very high international standing in which the Department was once heldinthisfield.HewasawardedtheRutherfordMedal of the Institute of Physics in 1998. In support of this nomination, one referee wrote “if there had been a Nobel Prize for cosmic rays, Michael would have it”. In 2005 he was awarded the Gurang Yodh Prize by the International CosmicRayCommunity“forhissignificantandoutstandingcontributionstothefieldofcosmicray astrophysics”.

Michael had outstanding talents both as an experimental physicist and as a numerical modeller of physical phenomena. While at Harwell in 1959, he measured the absolute difference between the charges of the proton and the electron: this remains one of the best measurements of this quantity. At that time, some years before the discovery of the microwave background radiation, it was thought that a charge difference between these two particles might contribute to the expansion of the Universe. However, it was unquestionably his quite remarkable ability to combine unusually penetrating physical insight with extraordinary powers of calculation that led to the works for which he will be best remembered. At a young age he could add and subtract logarithms in his head while in the days before computers or electronic calculators were available, his prowess on the slide rule was legendary. He had engraved the logarithms of the fundamental constants on the back of his 5-inch slide rule and consequently could estimate the magnitude of effects with extraordinary speed. Using the calculating power of modern computers, he developed a world-renowned series of Monte Carlo calculations which embraced algorithms of great ingenuity and beauty. With these he was able to achieve results more elegantly and more rapidly than any of his competitors or imitators. Indeed, his record on any computing device showed him to be vastly superior to any one else in his ability to attain results of importance with high efficiency–andhealwayshadagoodideaoftheanswerbeforeherantheprogram.HisfinalMonte Carlo program for high-energy cosmic ray studies, known as MOCCA, was used extensively in the design of what became the Pierre Auger Observatory, the largest cosmic ray detector ever built and which now covers a land area of the size of West Yorkshire in Western Argentina.

With a combination of insight and calculation, he developed new ways of looking at the showers initiated by high-energy cosmic rays. His deep knowledge of astrophysics and his ability to think laterally led to the proposal that the experimentalists in Leeds, who had previously enjoyed the relative comfort of the Yorkshire

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Moors, should move their activities to the South Pole: ten years of very successful work there was thus initiated.

Michael also contributed enormous insights to the understanding of cosmic rays. At the ‘kick-off meeting’, held in Paris in 1992, that led to the creation of the Pierre Auger Observatory Catherine Cezarsky, who was to become the Director of the European Southern Observatory, reviewedthisfield.Shestartedbyremarkingthat “Hillas had said it all in 1984”. Catherine was referring to a review article in Annual Reviews of Astronomy and Astrophysics in which Michael had expressed the essentials in a few simple equations, illustrated in a single diagram now known simply as ‘the Hillas plot’. This article has had nearly 700 citations. During Catherine’s talk, Michael sat quietly in the audience saying nothing.

By the standards of today, Michael’s early published output would be seen as very low. When he got his chair in 1990, he had published fewer than 30 papers in refereed journals. At least four of his truly seminal ideas, still widely used and including the description of the Hillas parameters, were published only in conference proceedings. No write-up describing the MOCCA code exists. Michael did physics because he loved his subject and was always extremely modest about his achievements. He was not one of today’s high-pressure salesmen: he got enormous pleasure from doing the work and seemed to care little whether others accepted it or not.

After his retirement, Michael remained in the Department of Physics and Astronomy as a Research Professor. On the day of his retirement, he revealed to an international audience a new approach (which he had devised only two days before) to the design of the next generation telescopes planned to explore very high energy cosmic rays. This revelation, like many before, was made in a characteristically understated and very modest way. Within the Department of Physics and Astronomy, he delighted generations of undergraduates with his inspiring and carefully prepared lectures and with his inexhaustible enthusiasm for helping them to understand the intricacies and beauties of Physics and Astronomy, both in the lecture room and the laboratory. He involved himself very little in committee work within the University or nationally or internationally. On one occasion, he was sent a very lengthy questionnaire by a psychologist who was attempting to discover how people successful in research had achieved their eminence. Michael’s reply was polite but succinct: ‘Such success as I have had, I attribute in part to not wasting my time dealing with questionnaires such as this’. He knew where his priorities lay.

Michael’s creative talents were by no means confinedtocosmicradiationandastrophysics.He was an active artist and, within his local Arts club, arranged exhibitions which always included examples of his own work. Hand-drawn Christmas cards from him were a visual delight. As an undergraduate, he had taken Geology as a subsidiary subject and it remained an absorbing interest throughout his life and especially so after his retirement. He was a keen hill walker and, while delighting in the scenery for its own sake, he always sought to understand the geological background. He had both the ability and confidencetotackleproblemswhicharousedhiscuriosityinanyfield,beitevolution,stonecirclesoreconomics!

Michael was a quiet and modest man, reserved but with great personal charm. Tributes to him have poured in from all continents including Antarctica. All agree that he had a brilliant mind, but what stands out additionally is the strong sense of personal loss. His clear interest in the work of others and his patience and generosity in making suggestions for future development were greatly valued. His eccentricities only added to his charm.

He is survived by his sister, two nieces and a nephew, together with four great nephews and three great nieces.

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John Dilworth AbbattJohn Dilworth Abbatt passed away in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on November 3, 2016, having been predeceased in 2010 by his wife Ainslie Ann Goer Abbatt (née Ferguson). John was born May 13, 1923 in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire and was a student at Bootham from 1936 to 1939. Prior members of his family including his father, Geoffrey Peile Abbatt, had also attended Bootham. Graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1945 as a medical doctor, heworkedduringhiscareerinthefieldsofmedicalradiobiology, occupational medicine, public health, and epidemiology. Together with his family, John moved to Ottawa, Canada in 1966 and then retired to Victoria in 1983 with Ann. They are survived by their children, Sarah, Joanna (Louis Montpetit) and Jonathan (Chiho Tokita), and grandchildren Alexandra, Sophie and Juliana.

Colin CowieI knew Colin very well. He was not academically gifted and left Bootham early, but then went on to lead a very successful life in the motor trade, until his tragic and sudden death about 1976. He married Pamela Lewis in 1962 and they lived in or near Formby, Lancashire. Later, they moved to central Wales, where Colin was elected to the local Council.

Colin was a close friend of mine at Bootham. He was a colorful and cheerful character and will certainly be remembered by any of his contemporaries.

Stuart Cockerill

Lawrence David Burton MBE (B:1941-1946 Head Boy)

Lawrence Burton was born in Clifton Junction Manchester on 10th January 1928. He attended Lancaster Grammar School and Bootham where he excelled in sport and became Head Boy. He attended Manchester University where he achieved a BA in Commerce. In 1951 he joined Pilkington Tiles in Manchester and rose to became Sales and Marketing director. He was a majorfigureintheTileandCeramicsindustry.WhenBritain joined the common market, he became the head of the UK delegation to the European Standards Organisation which set the standards for ceramic and quarry tiles across Europe. For this contribution to the Tile industry he was made MBE at Buckingham Palace in 1993.

Lawrence left Pilkington Tiles in 1982 to become Sales and Marketing director for Dennis Ruabon quarry tiles in North Wales before retiring in 1993. Not one to take things lightly he joined the Oswestry Civic society and became chairman receiving the Freedom of the Borough in 2004. As an acknowledged expert on Lancastrian pottery he co-founded the Lancastrian Pottery society in 1997 and appeared on such programmes as the Antiques Road show and Flog it. He enjoyed being a family man, picking up his two grandchildren Joseph and Thomas from school and going to Old Trafford with his son Andrew to watch Manchester United.

Lawrence quoted the following from a newspaper interview in 2003.

‘I was brought up with the view that if you have the opportunity to do good things you should do them. I don’t want to sound pious or worthy. It is a way of keeping young and I enjoy it ‘ He died on 22nd December 2017 and leaves his wife Margarite, son Andrew, daughter in law Kate and grandchildren Joe and Tom. A kindly, gentle man who believed in doing good for the sake of it.

Helena Randall (nee Wike)

Helena ‘ Eli’ Wike started at Bootham in 2005 as a day pupil. She performed in the Joint Production and enjoyed playing rounders against St Peter’s (her mother, Claire, was Deputy Head at St Peter’s from 2007-11). She helped with the charity half-marathon. She particularly enjoyed Geography which she went on to study at Lancaster University. Eli married Luke Randall in 2013. She was remembered fondly by staffatBoothamwhohadseenherflourishduringhertime at Bootham. It was a shock to hear of her sudden death,asaresultofaroadtrafficaccident,inMay2018.She was much loved by friends and family and several Bootham staff attended her funeral and remembered her as a kind and gentle young woman. She will be greatly missed and our sympathy goes out to her family.

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David Brett Duffield

DavidBrettDuffieldwasbornin1937inLeeds.

After leaving school he worked with theatre companies, most notably The English Stage Co. and Nottingham Playhouse. He eventually became Resident Playwright for the Nottingham Playhouse (1964-5) and then Artist in Residence at The American University in Washington DC (1966-7).

Between 1968 and 1975 he worked as author, factory worker, mountaineering instructor and part-time lecturer with long periods in Hungary and Yugoslavia.

In 1976 he completed his BA in Philosophy/History of Art at Leeds and went on to lecture in History of Art at Bradford College, before moving on to be lecturer in History of Design at the University of Ulster.

He gained his PhD from the Royal College of Art in 1983 and was chair of the CIRCA magazine 1985-94. In 1986 he was a visiting scholar at Columbia, MIT, Harvard and the University of Philadelphia, and later Gervers Fellow and Research Associate at Canadian universities.

Between 1995 and 2001 he was Reader at The University of Ulster and Course Director for the BA Fine and Applied Arts Course.

He was also the author of stage and radio plays, and two novels; and of several books on architecture, decoration and cultural history. These have been published by, amongst others, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Cork University Press, and Wordwell. These various writings, and numerous academic papers, have been translated into Spanish, Catalan, German, Swedish and Chinese. The plays have have been performed in German and Slovenian.

He was married to the artist Barbara Freeman and lived in Belfast.

Raymond (Ray) Bagnall (53 – 58)Nov 1939 – Sept 2018

Ray’s time at Bootham was epitomised by his dazzling ventures down the right wing and his pinpoint centres which contributed massively to the unbeaten soccer season of 1957. One notable, scintillating, end-to-end game, which had the whole school out on the touch line, Bootham were losing 3-4 in the closing minutes. 3 times RKB dazzled & Bootham won 6-4.

Ray graduated from Edinburgh University gaining a B.Sc. in Forestry and, seeing little prospect for work in the UK, in May 1962, Ray daringly took advantage of a sponsored 2 month passage to New Zealand, arriving with just 10 pounds in his pocket. There he began work with the Forestry department surveying mile upon mile of native tree stocks in the outback. Ever organised, his tidy reports on such things as ‘de-barking machines’, were much admired by senior management. He developed the use of bark forpurifyingeffluentandeventuallyrosetotheposition of Forestry consultant, retiring after 37 years service in 1999.

His home in Nelson, (the sunshine capital of NZ) was resplendent with a pool, fastidiously covered and kept over heated (said his son).

His schoolboy enjoyment of puns never left him. Indeed he became pun-ctilious in his attendance at Rotary (100% attendance for most of his 30 years); maintaining their Year Books studded with his talented and computer edited photographs. His pride and joy (after his family) was his manicured lawn – no weeds were tolerated and holes left in it by cricket stumps were immediately repaired.

Thoughhekepthimselffit,(runningmarathons),his health steadily declined over 4 years though, (described as a stubborn Yorkshireman), this never stopped him being a Mr Fixit about the house to the end.

He leaves his wife of 50 years, Ruth, children Susan & Martin and 6 adored grandchildren.

Peter Longbottom

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Jason Lawn

It’s with great sadness that we report the loss of a young member of our Old Scholars’ community. Jason Lawn left school in 2012 afterfifteenyearsatBootham Senior and Junior Schools. He was deputy head boy at Bootham Junior School. During his Schoolroom years he was an active member of the football and cricket teams, but in later years focused on academic achievements. When he left school he told us he had particularly enjoyed his trip to France and this photograph is from that Geography trip to Cevennes in October 2010. He is remembered with great fondness by our staff as a cheerful and gentle young man who was an important part of our Bootham community. We send our sympathy to Jason’s family and friends.

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John Sidney Moore was born October 4th 1930 in Ghent, Belgium. Son of Norman & Edna Moore and beloved brother of Audrey Mabel. John Sidney’s mother, Edna (nee Hardaker) was one of 5 children, sister to Lillian, Mable, Harold and John. Their father, John Thomas Hardaker was also one of 5 children whose father was also John Hardaker. He was one of 2 children whose father was, yes, also John Hardaker! – Consequently, my brother was not surprisingly christened John in 1966 – the traditional line of “Johns” is evident back to September 1807.

At an early age, John Sidney was dispatched back to England to live with his Uncle Harold Hardaker so that he could be educated in the UK. Indeed, he spent the majority of his childhood under the watchful eye of his Uncle Harold - residing at his ancestral home Abbeydale, Grove Road in Ilkley.

Dad attended Wells School in Ilkley for 4 years, before moving to Cressbrook in Kirby Lonsdale. When he turned 13 years old on October 4th 1943, his Uncle, Harold Harkaker, enrolled him into Bootham which he attended from 1944 to 1947. Uncle Harold wrote a letter to the Head of Bootham school with the following instructions:

‘I am looking after the education of my nephew, John Sidney Moore, who will be 13 years old in October of this year.

‘In the event of my nephew going into the family business which is a Textile Engineering concern, he will require to be conversant in the German language, but as at the present stage one cannot foresee in which direction his ability will lie, I think it will be better that he should continue with Latin in preference to German as second language.’

In 1945, whilst at Bootham, John Sidney contracted Scarlet Fever and was sent to the Fever Hospital. Uncle Harold received a letter from The Headmaster of Bootham which said:

‘The doctor’s diagnosis of Scarlet Fever was most unexpected. It is an extremely mild case and John seems to be wondering just quite what all the fuss is about, but isolation is of course, essential.

Notice was served to Bootham in March 1947 that John would leave in the summer to ‘continue his studies at the Technical College, Bradford, where he would take a 3 year course in Textile Engineering and Cloth Manufacture.’

On John Sidney’s departure from Bootham, Uncle Harold wrote to the Headmaster,

‘We have been very pleased with the progress that John Sidney has made and the examinations which he has passed at whilst at Bootham. We feel sure that he has been very happy at the School and will always have pleasant memories of his schooldays.’

In 1950 John Sidney graduated from City of Bradford Technical College with a Diploma in Cloth Manufacture together with a City & Guilds of London Institute Department of Technology Diploma, and a First in Woollen & Worsted Weaving and Design.

John Sidney completed his National Service during 1950 to 1952 serving in the Royal Tank Brigade. The Tank crew of no. 23 ZS 41 consisted of four positions – John Sidney being the Comander. This crew of 4 young lads became lifelong friends, a real close 4-ball, John Pearson becoming God Father to Anne Fiona.ProbablyqualifyingadmirablyashewascalledJohn!

JohnSidneyjoinedthefamilyfirm,JohnTHardakeratthetender age of 21. He was encouraged by Uncle Harold to attend Evening Classes to study Spanish, as unbeknown to John, John T Hardaker was to form a close alliance with Spain and their Spanish Agent, Frank Berhat and John Sidney became very close friends.

In 1958, on August 16th, John Sidney, aged 27, Textile Engineer, was married to Sonia Anne Stringer, aged 22, Assistant Buyer at Grattan. John was introduced to Sonia by her mother, Elizabeth Stringer, who was attending the same Spanish Evening Classes with John and obviously took quite a shine to him – quickly deciding that he would be an eminently suitable son-in-law and husband to her beautiful daughter.

Between 1957 and 1962 whilst learning the ropes within the familyfirm,JohnSidneyfurtheredhiseducationinordertoenhance his career. He completed no less than 16 courses ranging from Management to Export, passing every one with the highest Merit – with the exception of French – for which he wasawardedaFAIL!

When John Thomas’ son, Uncle Harold died in 1966, the year that John Sidney’s son John Edward was born, John Sidney Moore took over the family business becoming Chairman & Managing Director.

In 1982 John Sidney executed a rescue necessitated by the recession, and reformed the company – John T Harkaker (1982) was born and they relocated to Brick Lane Mills, in Bradford.

John Sidney was a true gentleman and a scholar. He was a great provider, John Edward and I had an enviable, childhood filledwithhappinessandlaughter,privatelyeducatedandasafamily we never wanted for anything.

We had Whitsuntide holidays in a little round, thatched roof house in Winterton, Summer holidays in Abersock, with an enviable Beach Hut and where dad built cars out of the sand and latterly we toured Europe, caravanning as dad spent most ofhisworkinglifelivingoutofhotels!

John was a Sports fenatic. In particular, all sports involving many different types and shapes of balls. At school, a very goodHockeyPlayer,thenplayingforHalifaxinthefirstteamwith Bob Illingworth, his lifelong school friend from Bootham.

Golf was however, John Sidney’s passion - come rain or shine, he would regularly play 36 holes, on Saturday & Sunday, meticulously cleaning his clubs after every match ready for their next outing.

John Sidney loved his garden. He built his own rose gardens, tendered his own vegetable plots and taught his young son, John Edward how to lay bricks whilst the building of yet anothergreenhouse!(SherryShedswelatterlycalledthem)!

After they moved to Gargrave, John Sidney took a particular interest in St Andrews Church and in February 2001, he made a very generous donation towards the cost of refurbishing the Church windows.

John Sidney also took on the role of Church Warden for 5 years. When he handed over the mantle, he received a letter from the Secretary of the Church, and I quote:

“John, I am sure you must have felt the sincerity and depth of feeling at the recent meeting when it was proposed that you be made a Church Warden Emeritus as a symbol of our thanks for all your hard work. May God bless you”.

John Sidney enjoyed good health and a very full, fortuitous life. However, for the last 18 months he was a resident at Milton House in Gargrave, where the level of care he received from Carol and her team was exemplary.

On August 16th of this year, John and Sonia celebrated their Diamond Wedding Anniversary receiving a Congratulatory card from Her Majesty the Queen – to which John Sidney commented“quiteanachievement”!

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Name Bootham Dates Date of Death

Richard Copeman 1946-51 4/16

Michael Hillas 1947-50 26/11/2017

Zama Mvusi 1976-77 1995

Margot Watkins Parent 20/2/2017

Michael Wilfred Flowers 1947-51 4/1/2018

Lawrence Burton 1941-46 22/12/17

Jason Lawn 2005-12 15/1/2018

Robert Rowat 1950-54 19/1/2018

Colin Cowie 1950-54 1976

Joan Smith Wife of Clifford 16/2/2018

Christine Southall Wife of Patrick 2018

Carolyn Bedford Wife of Julian 24/3/2018

John Jesper Eades 1932-38 5/3/2018

Alastair Summers 1955-60 23/3/2018

(Richard) Raymond Walsh 1941-42 24/4/18

(Helena) Eli Wike 2005-07 21/5/18

(John) Michael Dixon 1951-57 11/5/2018

David Carter 1943-44 2018

David Brett Duffield 1949-55 2016

Raymond Bond 1945-50 2015

John Sidney Moore 1944-47 12/9/18

Ray Bagnall 1953-58 7/10/18

Geoffrey Taylor Teacher 11/10/19

Ian Small Headmaster 29/10/18

Jeremy Heywood 1973-80 4/11/18

John Dowell 1944-50 2/9/18

Old Scholars - Remembered

IntroductionThe 1960s are now known as the “swinging 60s” when young people finally had the freedom that had not been given during previous generations. For those of us who were at the school in the 1960s, in many ways it really doesn’t seem that long ago. However for those who have been at Bootham more recently, these reflections of what Bootham was really like in those days may be something of a shock - both to students, parents and staff!

Bootham at the time was a school of 260 pupils, all male and all boarding with the exception of one day pupil in each year known as a “York Scholar” with some support from a scholarship. The school had an intake at the age of 11(Lower Schoolroom) with a second main intake at the age of 13 (Upper Schoolroom); most pupils were from UK and Irish based families with a few from overseas, mainly with parents working in the UK and many, although not all, had previously been to a Prep school. School terms were 12/13 weeks long with no half-term holidays and pupils were not allowed to stay away from the school for a night during term time, not even at home. The only exception was for a very serious family crisis such as the death of a close relative. In over 5 years at the school, Andrew only stayed away from the school for 2 nights, to attend the wedding of a cousin.

Teachers were all known as “nixes” with the head teacher as “head nix”. All teaching staff wore fairly formal clothes, either a sports jacket or suit with tie and some would wear black post graduate gowns, a few with their degree hoods. Teaching staff were addressed by pupils as “Sir”, pupils would always be addressed by their family name, so we would be “Robinson” and “Sessions”. It was the expected courtesy that pupils would always stand up in silence when a nix entered the room and remain standing until permission was given to sit.

UniformThefirsttasteofBoothamcamebeforeyouevenarrivedandthiswas a list of the required uniform. A sports jacket or school blazer with grey trousers and a school tie were de rigeur. A suit was also required for wearing on Sundays with the school tie. Some of the descriptions of clothes were quite strange – for example sockshadtobe“runningattheheel”!Alluniformitemscouldbepurchasedattheschooloutfitters,aslightlyold-fashionedshop, Southcott’s, located on the corner of Parliament St and Church St . And all clothes had to be marked with Cash’s name tapes sewn on. There were quite strict rules on certain aspects of clothing and personal dress. With tight trousers in fashion, the rule was the trouser bottoms had to be no less than 14” and the tape measure did come out from time to time (although it did not stop the helpful ladies in the “sewing room” from narrowing trousersonrequest!).Hairhadtobetidyandshort,inspiteofthe fashion for long hair and if it was over the ears, a mandatory visit to the school barber, a German called Mr Brough, would ensure you ended up with a genuine army haircut. Students in the classes from Lower Schoolroom to Lower Senior would have to present themselves for shoe inspection each weekday after breakfast when a House Reeve would check if their shoes were sufficientlypolishedforthedayandbedroomReeveswouldcheck that beds had been made up to correct “hospital corner” standards.

At school, the normal dress code was jacket and tie at all times during lessons with casual clothes only allowed during free time.

RulesIn protecting the boys in its care, the school was quite restrictive about letting you off the premises although every encouragement was given to the many activities on the premises. To make this happen, there was a detailed list of rules. On the wall in the corridor, opposite the current food menu screen, was quite a large notice board with locked glass doors where the school rules were posted and would normally be updated each term. The rules were quite detailed ranging from bed times to applying for “leave” to go outside the school premises – these ranged from “City” leave to go shopping to “Walls” leave or Rowntree Park or Bicycle Ride (and where to). There was also a list of activities which were prohibited with a list of punishments. These were generally columns for more minor offences (writing lists of words from a word book) ranging to gating which meant you could not leave the school grounds, even if your parents or friends visited. So some of the things which were not allowed were:-

• Missing the morning silence at 7.22 am – 3 columns

• Not wearing a cap outside the school grounds or hands in pockets – 5 columns

• 10 columns in a week – Saturday gating

• Leaving the premises without ‘leave’ – penalty from 10 columns to 3 weeks gating.

• Going to the cinema except when “Flix” leave was made specially available – 10 columns plus 1 week gating

• Going into a coffee bar or restaurant (except with parents) – 10 columns plus 1 week gating

• Smoking – 10 columns plus 3 weeks gating

• Drinkingalcohol-suspensiononfirstoffence,expulsionforrepeat offences

The School BuildingThe buildings are surprisingly unchanged in many ways although most are now more comfortably decorated. With something like 250 boarders, more of the accommodation was devoted to bedrooms with most of those for older pupils located on the other side of the road making the morning rush to get to silence quite hazardous. The sick wing or” Lodge” was in effect a residential hospital of something like 25 beds. Until the opening of the current school hall, the JB library was the hall and had a gallery – it just accommodated the 260 pupils with a stage on which the senior staff sat. Lavatories were nearly all male only with the main ones sited next to the wood and metal workshop where the locker rooms are now.

You may be surprised to read what the school was like 50 years ago. Andrew Robinson (current Chair of the BOSA Committee) and Michael Sessions (Head Reeve in 1966-67) recall the school during the years 1962-67

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Going home and half termsTerms were either 12 or 13 weeks long with 7 weeks holiday in the summer, 4 weeks at Easter and 4 weeks at Christmas. There were no half term holidays and you were not allowed home to stay overnight, not even at weekends. Exceptions to this were only ever made in extreme circumstances such as a death in the family or a wedding of a close relative.

BellsLife at school was dominated by bells. From the wake-up bell at 7.00 which rang for 2 minutes, to the silence bell at 7.20 and for the beginning of every class and every meal time and every bed time there would be a bell.

FoodFood was generally quite average and nothing like the quality of food served in modern times but hungry growing boys ate it. Meals were always served in the dining room where pupils sat in houses (there were 8 houses – Bright, Ford, Fox, Fryer, Penn, Rowntree, Tuke, Watson) with either a housemaster or Reeve/House Reeve at the end of the table who would serve the meal. There was no self-service. And food was probably where more of the slang words would be used than anywhere else in school life.

SlangMilk-bull, Water – licks, Butter – slab, Margarine – grease, Sugar –sand, Bread – bars, Lavatory – Zees (after Adamsez, the manufacturer of the boys urinals)and a special one for College students who had access to cooking facilities, Geeze – cheese on toast. As well as the slang words, there was a strange tradition of sarcasm. So “suppose you are not going on a bike ride this afternoon” meant that the expectation was that you ARE going for a bike ride. This became quite complicated with double and treble sarcastic comments making it quite tricky to decode what was intended.

The BedroomsWith the exception of the 7 day pupils, everyone had a bedroom allocated which would normally have between 7 and 10 beds and each bedroom had a Reeve or House Reeve in charge. Other than the bedrooms for those in the schoolroom classes, most were on the other side of the road. The bedrooms will seem to be very basic by modern standards. All beds were metal framed and the bedrooms had curtains but no heating. Bedtimes were surprisingly early starting at around 7.45 pm for 11-13 year olds and even 17-18 year olds in College II had to go to bed at 9.30 pm in the winter and 9.45 pm in the summer . The morning bell went at 7.00am and the silence bell went at 7.20am. This allowed 2 minutes for all to be in their allocated seat in the school hall (the hall was the JB library until the new hall was opened in 1966). At 7.22am, the hall doors were barred and anyone late received 3 columns.

SportAs in the modern school, sport was a very important activity with everyone involved. There was a range of compulsory sports – Football in the autumn and spring terms, Athletics in the spring term, Cricket and Swimming in the summer term – every pupil took part in these sports with most organised by house. All pupils competed in at least 4 events in Athletics and the same in Swimming where every single pupil was able to swim a minimum of 9 lengths. It may seem extremely odd in this day and age but the normal swimwear was absolutely nothing with trunks worn only at weekends when visitors were around – to prevent the filtersfromblockingwithfibres!

In addition, there were other sports activities - Badminton in the gym, Judo , Fives in what is now the small lecture theatre at the bottom of the observatory and school teams in Hockey and Tennis.

TechnologyIn the 1960s, the Personal Computer hadn’t been invented, nor had Microsoft or Apple or Google or the mobile phone - so no e-mails, internet, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube or Netflix.Communicationwaseitherfacetoface,byletterorthefixedlinetelephone.Portableradioswerenotallowedforany

pupils although College students were allowed a record player (vinyl) and a tape recorder (reel to reel). To be able to phone home, there was a single pay phone in a wooden cubicle located in the front hall of the main building. There was also a room with a single radio where the JB library extension now is which was always packed on a Sunday afternoon for “Pick of the Pops”. And up to 1965, there was no Television at the school.

HobbiesWith plenty of leisure time and only limited opportunities to leave the school grounds, there were a range of societies to keep occupied with – natural history, woodwork and metal work which included canoe building, a radio society where radio and TVs were constructed and listening to radios and watching TV was allowed (it was known as “testing”). Walking, especially on the North Yorkshire moors with a nix as leader, was very popular but probably the most universal hobby was cycling and practically every pupil had a bicycle so sheds existed to store over 250 bikes, eachwith their frame stamped and labelled – possibly the best escape as “Cycling Leave” opened up a range of possibilities.

GirlsThe 1960s were quite different from now, in spite of the “swinging” label. Same sex relationships were illegal until 1967 and 93% of all children were born to married couples. Unlike today’s education, sex and relationship lessons did not exist in thosedayssowehadtolearntheoldfashionedway!

The opportunity to meet girls was extremely limited and not really encouraged other than for Mount pupils. There was an internal mail system between Bootham and the Mount through which letters from boys to girls could be sent with no charge. At the end of each term, there were dances between Bootham and the Mount, organised in age groups, and for older Bootham pupils there was a joint choir, a joint orchestra and a joint opera production with joint meetings for worship on Sunday and Wednesday mornings at the old Meeting House at Clifford St.

StoriesAndrew remembers missing prep with two friends to see the Rolling Stones in 1963 who were the headline act in a package tour appearing at a cinema just past Clifford’s Tower. The subsequent gating is still seen by his children as possibly the only“cool”thinghehaseverdone!Onanotheroccasion,Andrewremembers coming into the school grounds with friends and two or three girls who were not Mount pupils, to be greeted by Tony Pim, the resident Senior Master, with the words “what on earth are these City girls doing here in their night clothes” (they were wearingfashionablepyjamasuits)!Andmanyhavestoriesaboutbeing caught in a pub and being told “don’t be here when I next turnround!”

SundaysFor many this could be the most boring day of the week. After the compulsory Sunday meeting wearing a suit with tie, the rest of the day was free. It was a popular day for parents to visit but after that, the most popular activity was a cycle ride which allowed you to sunbathe by the river and even swim in the Ouse (yes, really) or maybe a date in Rowntree Park with a girl from the Mount.

ConclusionThe school of 50 years ago may seem dramatically different from the all-inclusive school we know now with its informal forms of address and dress. In truth, the school of the 60s had probably not changed much since the end of WW2 in the mid-1940s and the main changes didn’t begin until the mid-1970s. However, judged by the strict standards of boarding schools at that time, Bootham was still different and much more liberal. In having no corporal punishment, no suggestion of younger boys having to assist older boys (in its most extreme form, fagging), an acceptance of pupils from all races, religions and culture and a general sense of looking after pupils in a rounded sense, Bootham was still ahead of its time.

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Saturday 9 March 2019

Sports Reunion

Dig out those old boots, trainers and shorts and join us for a range of sporting activities throughout the day. Basketball tips off at 11 am in the sports hall, with 7-aside football and netball following at 2pm. Lunch is at 12 noon and afternoon tea at 3.45 pm. Last year saw a record number of Old Scholars participating in the different sporting events, everyone is welcome especially spectators.

TheOldScholarsneedasmuchsupportaswecanget! Contact Robbie Millar (Robbie_millar09@hotmail.co.uk) Tel 07770 600144, if you would like to play.

Friday 10 May – Sunday 12 May 2019

See separate programme.

Thursday 20 June 2019

London Reunion

The Antelope in Belgravia, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.

Early September 2019Celebration with College leavers. Look out for forthcoming information on the website and by email.

Reflect 30 at Bootham

Join Bootham’s regular thirty minute Quaker Meeting on a Saturday morning for the wider Bootham community (former parents and staff, Old Scholars and other friends of Bootham, as well as current parents) who want to explore a littleofthebenefitsofQuakersilenceandideas.Itwilllast30 minutes, starting at 9am. There may be a few thoughts offered by a member of our community, but plenty of timeforreflectionandrefreshment…alittleoasisofcalmat the end of a busy week, as well as the chance to sample something of what our students experience here, and, in so many cases, grow to really value. The meeting will be followed by coffee and croissants provided (as ever) by the wonderful Bootham School Association.

Everyone is welcome to attend:

Saturday 19 January 2019Saturday 16 Feburary 2019Saturday 30 March 2019Saturday 11 May 2019Saturday 15 June 2019

Bootham Breakfast

We would like to invite you to our traditional Bootham breakfast on dates throughout the year. As usual, coffee will be available in the Committee Room from 8 30am, with breakfast served between 9.00 and 9.30am in the Dining Hall.

Saturday 12 January 2019

Saturday 9 February 2019

Saturday 4 May 2019

Bootham Old Scholars’ Events 2019

AwarmgreetingtoallOldScholars!AreyouaReunionregular? Or maybe you haven’t been back to Bootham for a Reunion for a few years? Either way, there’s plenty going on in 2019 to enjoy and experience with your old friends, as wellasthechancetomakenewones!

Take a look at what’s in store this year with 2019 Reunion programme.

PARKING AT BOOTHAM ON SATURDAY

Parking will be available to Old Scholars from 11.30am on Saturday morning, and cars can be left overnight, preferably in parking bays. Any cars which are left on the playground are done so at the owners’ risk. The School site will be locked up promptly at 11pm on Saturday evening, any cars left in the car park will not be able to be removed until Sunday morning at 8am.

Reunion Weekend Programme - Friday 10th May – Sunday 12th May

Friday 10th May

6.30-8.30pm Buffet Supper - Staff Dining Room

Bootham School welcomes you back with a delicious informal buffet supper in the Staff Dining Room at BoothamSchool.Youandyoursignificantotherareinvited to catch up with fellow Old Scholars from both The Mount and Bootham Schools. Please RSVP onlinetoreserveaplate!

RSVP at www.oldscholars.boothamschool.com/event/fridaybuffet

Later in the evening Old Scholars will be meeting in the Ye Olde Starre Inne, Stonegate.

8.30pm School buildings close – no overnight parking on site

Saturday 11th May

9.00am Reflect30Thirty minutes of silent meeting with Bootham staff and parents. All Old Scholars are welcome to attend. Followed by coffee in the Dining Room

9.45am AGM in the Auditorium

10.30am Coffee in the Dining Room with past & present members of staff

11.15am Address from the Head, Chris Jeffery, in the Auditorium

11.30am Head Reeves’ speech in the Auditorium

11.45am Tours of the school

12.45pm Lunch in the Dining Hall

1.15pm Sportingfixtureswillbegin.Comealongandcheeron current students as they play tennis at 1.15pm and cricket at 1.30pm; it’s your chance to relax and enjoy thesportingatmosphere!

2pm Swimming Gala in the pool, Old Scholars v current students

3pm - 3.45pm The Old Scholar Big Splash - the pool and the inflatableswillbemadeavailabletoOldScholarsandtheir families for some splashy fun

3.45pm - 4.30pm

The Legendary Afternoon Tea in the Dining Room

5pm School buildings close

During the afternoon on Saturday, Old Scholars will be able to explore the school and grounds, but will be expected to wear a name badge at all times when on site.

Sunday 12th May

10.30am Old Scholars are very welcome to attend Friargate Meeting

11.30am Meeting for Worship at The Mount, all Old Scholars welcome

12 - 1pm Brunch at The Mount, all Old Scholars welcome

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