Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school in the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.[2] There is also Bootham Junior School down the road commonly known as BJS.
| Bootham School | |
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Bootham , , YO30 7BU England | |
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| Type | Independent school |
| Motto | Membra sumus corporis magni (We are members of a greater body) |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Quaker |
| Established | 6 January 1823 |
| Founder | Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| Department for Education URN | 121722 Tables |
| Headmaster | Chris Jeffery[1] |
| Deputy Head | Martyn Beer |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age | 3 to 19 |
| Enrolment | 605 as of January 2016 |
| Houses | Firbank Pendle Brigflatts Swarthmore |
| Publication | Bootham Magazine |
| Boarding Houses | Rowntree Fox Evelyn |
| Former Pupils | Bootham Old Scholars Association |
| Website | http://www.boothamschool.com |
The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823-1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828-c.1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).
Academics
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.[3]
Notable alumni
Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), historian A. J. P. Taylor, actor-manager Brian Rix, applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the leading child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the famous social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the Nobel peace prize winner of 1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer, Stuart Rose.
See also
- List of Friends Schools
References
- "Christopher Jeffrey named as new Bootham School headteacher". York Press. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- "Bootham School". EduBase. Department for Education. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- "The Top 100 Independent Schools at A-level" at independent.co.uk.
Further reading
- Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
- JS Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
- FE Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
- SK Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)