Bootham School
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Bootham School | |
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Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) | |
Established | 6 January 1823 |
Founder | Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) |
Department for Education URN | 121722 Tables |
Headmaster | Deneal Smith[1] |
Deputy Head | Martyn Beer |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 3 to 19 |
Enrolment | 605 as of January 2016[update] |
Houses | Firbank Pendle Brigflatts Swarthmore |
Publication | Bootham Magazine |
Boarding Houses | Rowntree Fox Evelyn |
Former Pupils | Bootham Old Scholars Association |
Website | www |
Bootham School is a
Quaker schools in England
.
The school was founded by the
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
fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose[4] and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.[5]
See also
- List of Friends Schools
References
- ^ "Bootham School York: Deneal Smith appointed new head teacher". York Press. 29 June 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "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". The Independent. 26 January 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs with Stuart Rose as participant". Desert Island Discs. 22 November 2009. BBC. Radio 4.
- ^ "Lady Bunny on Disco, Drag & Demagogues". 7 June 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
Further reading
- Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
- J. S. Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
- F. E. Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
- S. K. Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)
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