MAGAZINE 2020 THE MAGAZINE OF BOOTHAM SCHOOL AND THE BOOTHAM OLD SCHOLARS’ ASSOCIATION Volume 42 / Issue 2 / December 2020

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

Headmaster Chris Jeffery Deputy Headmaster Martyn Beer Head, Bootham Junior School Helen Todd President of Bootham Old Scholars’ Association Peter Warn

03 The Headmaster 04 - 25 Bootham Features - 04 - 07 - A Year at Bootham: Head Reeves’ Speech 2020 - 08 - 09 - Interview with Helen Sharp - 10 - 13 - Annus mirabilis: Bootham in the time of COVID 19 - 14 - 15 - What makes you Bootham Proud? - 16 - 17 - Drama at Bootham 2019-20 - 18 - 19 - An unusual year at Bootham Junior School - 20 - 21 - Design and Technology: the making of a portfolio - 22 - 23 - Interview with Old Scholar, George Winfield - 24 - 25 - Retirement of Rob Graham

26 - 27 College II 2020: Summer Term Projects - 26 - 27 - Elizabeth Reed: The Dying Roads

28 - 31 Student Work - 28 - 29 - DT work - 30 - 31 - New Work 32 - 38 Leavers 2020 - 32 - 33 - Photograph - 34 - 35 - College Leavers’ Results - 36 - Leavers’ destinations - 37 - 38 - Staff Leavers 38 - 43 School Record - 39 - New staff and students - 40 - 43 - Sport 45 - 61 Old Scholars - 44 - 48 - Across the months - 49 - Christmas Reunion 2019 - 50 - 51 - Barry Smith - 52 - 53 - John Murray - 54 - 55 - Michael Johnson - 56 - 58 - Old Scholars remembered - 59 - Deaths since 2019 - 60 - 61 - Memories of an Old Scholar: Julian Doull 62 Bootham Proud 2021 63 School Reunions 2021

02 The Headmaster

HEADMASTER Chris Jeffery Waiting for the first students to appear at school To see sports fixtures taking place on the field and the on the first day of this Autumn Term – bedecked courts; to witness people free to hug each other; to hear with mask and visor – was a very special moment. ensembles of all ages playing together in a concert; to know that this wretched season has passed and that Living in the school site over the previous six Bootham’s community, in all its multi-dimensional and months had, at times, been a demoralising and cross-generational richness, has returned. unsettling experience. This place was built to ring to the sound of young people just being young Until then, I will continue to marvel at the resilience of our students, who have taken so much in their stride. people with all the joys, messiness and challenge And at the sacrificial hard work and commitment of that this entails. The silence and eerie calm my colleagues in adapting so readily and successfully that had replaced that had long worn off, and I to various new and different iterations of teaching. And was longing to see three-dimensional students at the kindness of parents, Old Scholars and friends of and colleagues again; such a vast improvement Bootham in the words they have offered in support of on the virtual, 2-D versions that I had been all we have tried to offer to our young people. And the communicating with since March. deep, positive and enduring values of a place that I am proud to call home. And wait. To see them streaming back on to the site that morning, armed with their masks, pausing to sanitise their hands before queuing – 1 metre apart – to have their temperature checked, was a great moment. As we all got used to ‘bubbles’ and ‘zones’ and new routines and non- social dining and rotas for Meeting and the many restrictions that needed to be imposed for school to recommence, it was great to be back together, but in some ways a pale imitation of the normal Bootham.

As I write, we are still nowhere near that chaotic and unique ‘normal’ that I have learned to love so much. I long to sit in the Hall in silent meeting surrounded by the whole school, not just a fraction of the whole. I can’t wait until we can resume face-to-face briefings, meetings and coffee times, as well as those passing interactions with my colleagues that are so essential for building of relationships. I am impatient to walk into the Dining Hall on a Saturday lunchtime and see it thronging with families enjoying the amazing food and each Christmas 2019 other’s company.

03 C: One of the many mantras we get taught here A YEAR AT is ‘Speak truth to Power’ and throughout the year Bootham students have done just that. At the beginning of the year one quarter of the school’s student community participated in the Friday Climate Strikes, knowing that if they did so they had to forfeit their free time on a Leave Weekend, hence proving the commitment of the school to do what they believe is right. This was just the start of Bootham’s protesting story as this later evolved into the participation of Pride marches around town, to celebrate an egalitarian identity but also extending that equality in our wider society, marching together regardless if we are in the LGBTQIA+ community or not. We think this is a perfect example of how the Quaker belief of seeing that of God or good in everyone is clearly exemplified. T: Along with active protesting, students have been encouraged to exercise their quasi suffrage this year, parallel to the 2019 election. Whilst the majority of the students may not be able to vote, it was the enthusiasm to explore the political spectrum and discover contrasting ideologies that was apparent over the day and hopefully that will translate to later life, when it really counts to hold those in power accountable for their actions. This once again is speaking truth to power, and letting our lives speak. C: Furthermore, in light of the tragic events surrounding WITH CHARLOTTE DEAN George Floyd and countless others, some students have taken it upon themselves to protest during & THEO RICHES lockdown, recognising the systematic discrimination in not only America’s society but Britain’s system too and campaigning for the fundamental rights that the Black and Ethnic Minority groups have been C: Hello and welcome to the first ever, and hopefully deprived of for too long. These students have set an last ever, Virtual Parent’s Day! It’s a shame we couldn’t example for everyone else that in order for change an all be meeting in person, and we know you’ll all miss open dialogue has to be cast between us and those in your annual Bootham curry or BBQ. But fear not, power. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank all Head Chef Nick has created online recipes for all your those who participated in the face of the risks to their favourite foods and the link is in the programme. My personal health or those who have raised awareness via name is Charlotte and this is Theo and, we’re here now other platforms. to talk to you about the year that we’ve had - something that I’m sure everyone has been looking forward to. T: On a similar note, Bootham has seen a resurgence in the amount of activities dedicated towards creating T: That’s right, we’re here to give you some of the a better world around us, some old and some new. highlights of this Bootham year, whether they have The Eco-brick initiative, spearheaded by Rob Gardiner been at school or in the comfort of home. has made a reappearance this year in the form of - no not another bench - but a bin to accompany it, and it’s proving to be stronger than some people’s will to socially distance. These bricks consist of single-use plastics crammed inside a bottle and then being utilised as a brick to make something. This is just one example of how Bootham has acted on the newest Quaker value of ‘Sustainability’ this year. C: Adding to this, a group of College Girls, led by Erin Davies and Carina Tsang have been running an activity throughout the year in order to make reusable sanitary towels for girls in Developing Countries, thus combatting the period poverty that prevents young women from attending school and receiving a basic education. T: As I’m sure many of you may know, every year Bootham chooses a charity to focus its fundraising efforts on - this year, this has been Slavery International, and a great deal of work has been done to raise money for them - including, but not restricted to, collections taken by yours truly from this year’s Christmas concert and carols by candlelight events.

04 Bootham Features – A year at Bootham: Head Reeves Speech 2020

Climate Strike Protest 30 visors for South Park Home Acomb

Christian Aid fundraising

Super Moon

Lower Schoolroom science

Munich trip

BOOTHAM SCHOOL DRAMA DEPARTMENT PRESENTS U16 Basketball team

The Broadway Musical Book by Music by Lyrics by Mark O’Donnell Marc Shairman Scott Wittman Thomas Meehan Marc Shairman Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by JOHN WATERS

Bootham School Hall Adults £10 Concessions £5

Tickets available at bootham-school.ticketleap.com

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk DT project Girls Netball Team Talking about silence Bootham damatics at BBC Radio York musical production

T: Over the last year, a great deal of work has been The show was an absolute success, selling out on both done on the topic of refugees as well: We started off by evenings and even the dress rehearsal the day before. celebrating national refugee week last June by hosting It was an amazing exhibition of both the musical and a BBQ for refugee families in York, in what I’ve been told dramatic talent of some of the students at the school was a lovely day with plenty of sun and various matches of and a definite indicator to the exciting shows Andy has football on the field. Equally, many of our year 9 students planned for the future. Some standout performances have celebrated this year’s national refugee week by were Lottie Walker in the lead role as Tracy and Raheemah creating beautiful pieces of art on the topic of refugees Oyekan as Motormouth Mabel. and racism, It is through activities like these that we truly T: In terms of Sporting achievements Bootham has seen start to be global citizens, and let our lives speak. These countless successes over the past year despite the seasons artworks have been submitted to an art competition for being cut short by the pandemic. The Basketball teams refugee week and we are very proud of everyone involved. have had universal success including the Under 14s team C: Not only have Bootham students shown their talent for becoming County and District Champions of 2020, the activism, but students have once again demonstrated they Under 16s team being unbeaten in the district for the have no qualms in expressing themselves on stage. Like a fourth consecutive year as well as District Champions and phoenix from the ashes, cabaret returned this year with second in the 2020 County Competition and the Under 13s a great display from students and teachers alike. Special playing their way to the District finals of 2020. mentions go to Henry Calvert and Will Jennings as our C: The standard of netball played throughout the year has presenters, the Glee club who gave a great rendition of ‘All seen a dramatic improvement with many wins under each I want for Christmas’ and the Taskmaster participants, who team’s belt. Special mentions go to the First Team, who lost the vast majority of their dignity. consistently played to a very competitive level, beating C: Another example of Bootham dramatics was our St Peter’s on multiple occasions along with many other first ever Musical, Hairspray directed by Andy Quarrell, victories. Bootham’s newest edition to the drama department.

05 Girls football Swimming and diving team Zac Edwards

T: The Bootham football teams have had similar successes C: Furthermore, students ventured to Iceland once again, with the 1st XI being district league leaders when the with the Geography department, where they witnessed season was cut short, the Under 15, 16 and 18 teams all some of the natural wonders including glaciers and the played in the National ISFA competition with a very Northern Lights. promising future in the years to come. What’s more, T: Finally, last October a group of college students went on Bootham’s Girls’ team has seen even more improvement a diving trip to Malta - everyone underwent a great deal for the second year now, and played exceptionally well of training beforehand, and by the end of the trip they all in the two girls tournaments that were held with over 20 walked away with a diving qualification having had an teams involved. amazing time in Malta. Of course, there have been plenty C: The success doesn’t stop there, several students have more trips in the last year, but we only have so much time. made individual sporting accomplishments over the past C: Now, we realise that the school year has been cut short year. These include, Yelena Davies playing at County level for many of us and it’s been quite a jarring experience for hockey, Ellen Gordon competing on a national level for us all to acclimatise to the new Online Learning system. diving and Oona Gregory the same for swimming. Not However, Theo and I wanted to know about what some only this but Benjamin Scurrah Smyth has represented students have been doing to pass the time. When we York and District for Cross Country and Zac Edwards has reached out to students, staff and parents we were not competed for Bootham in the English schools Equestrian disappointed with what you gave us. Some students have event at Addington Manor and placed 26th out of 71. found their vocation in fundraising for causes that they Finally, Elliot Chan, Louis Otterburn, Harry Loseby and feel passionate about and that may need help in a crisis Charlie Longbottom were all selected to play football for such as this. Edward Smith is one such student, who the Under 18s County football team. Well done to all those with a team of nine others ran and cycled a minimum involved. of 450 miles in June to support the prevention of youth T: Moving on from sports, several of the school’s homelessness in York. We would also like to take a minute departments have been globetrotting throughout the to recognise and thank all of the staff at Bootham for year to several destinations. As per tradition, the modern helping us throughout lockdown, whether that was foreign languages department took students to Munich providing support for students who needed help after and Nice for German and French respectively, not only to the exam cancellations this year or simply making sure learn their rich cultures but also enhancing their language students are keeping active and learning. Thank you for skills. In Munich students enjoyed popular attractions everything you have done for us. such as the BMW World, the Olympic park and the Allianz arena. The trip to Nice proved to be eventful after Mark France trip Shuttleworth’s brush with the law over invalidated tram tickets and a set of angry French policemen.

Diving trip, Malta Iceland

College 2 lockdown German lesson with goat!

06 Bootham Features – A year at Bootham: Head Reeves Speech 2020

T: Tilly Potten took her geography education into her own C: Finally, as you know this is our last year here at Bootham hands in June as she orchestrated her own Geography and I think it’s fair to say, it has possibly had the most field trip to Skipwith Common, discovering a myriad of dramatic end. We want to thank everyone involved in different flora and fauna throughout her trip. She is just helping us through the year. At this point we wish to one example of how the Bootham spirit is embodied introduce the next set of Head Reeves, who will take in its students with their thirst for knowledge despite up our roles next year. Those are, Freya Leaf and Peter the adverse climate. Furthermore, the entire school has Woodmansey as Head Reeves and Hannah Redman and been participating in a kilometre challenge throughout Henry Elsome as Deputy Head Reeves. We wish them luck lockdown in order to stay active. Students have been for the future. recording the number of miles they do by any means T: And that concludes our Parent’s Day Speech. I think of exercise, such as cycling, walking or running. At the it speaks volumes about the values that each and every moment we have clocked a huge 3200 kilometres, with student encompasses throughout the year and is a the goal of reaching around 9500 kilometers, the distance testament to the students themselves and their high level from York to Tokyo, the next Olympics venue. of enthusiasm and commitment. C: Perhaps even predictably, Liz Brown has been our C: Not only have they demonstrated a high calibre of talent standout lockdown enthusiast throughout these countless in all forms whether that is activism, dramatics or sport, weeks. Most notably, her contribution to this year’s House they have also shown us the amazing things they are Fashion competition, with not only a questionable cowboy capable of in the future. It seems clear after relaying to you outfit, but also a tennis player costume reminiscent of Sue all these events over the year, that the Quaker values hold Barker, which makes us question what’s really in those true and how on the impending 200 year anniversary of fairtrade chocolates she’s been selling. I’m sure we’ll be Bootham some of our values have not only stood the test seeing her at Wimbledon next year. of time but also some have evolved to reflect the world we T: Regarding news of some of Bootham’s faculty this wish to live in today. year, we are delighted to say four staff members have welcomed new babies into the world. Congratulations House Captains 2019-2020 to Matthew Parker, Hannah Feehan, Ben Jackson and Raphaella and Jack Mackenzie.

Geography 2020

Technology winners

Lockdown learning

France trip

Transition

Pilgrimage October

Yorkits Send my friend to school

Maths Awards

07 Interview with

HelenHEAD OF COLLEGESharp

hat were the highlights and What are your plans for College in challenges of your first couple the future? W of years as Head of College? We’d like to complete the final phase of the College renovation with a redesigned social space and work I think the development of the new College environment on the first floor corridor. The social studies was both challenge and high-light space will have more of a ‘coffee shop’ vibe’ with for me. The old studies were up in what is space for informal study and armchairs. known affectionately as ‘East Berlin’, well- named as an area seemingly remote from The second thing I intend to launch, as soon as the rest of the school! The studies were the COVID situation allows, is a College Trip. I have social rather than study spaces which may been working with World Challenge to design an have suited some students but many were expedition to eSwatini (bordered by Mozambique struggling to find a suitable environment for to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west work. and south). This will be a significant enrichment opportunity for College students and they will We wanted the new study space to have a engage in social action as well as experiencing an sophisticated office feel that students would exciting expedition. find at university. It was also very important that the design was vibrant and distinctive Did you always want to teach? whilst retaining the heritage of the building. No! I wanted to travel and worked in Europe We asked students for their ideas and we teaching English as foreign language for a while decided we wanted a New York loft feel after university. I then worked for the Devon with locally sourced furniture and fittings, Wildlife Trust and spent my time surveying strong colours and plenty of light by clever butterflies on Dartmoor, which I loved. use of mirrors. Kieran Scott de Martinville (College II – see pages 20-21) volunteered to I started teaching in Devon but mostly outdoor help with the design process. education. I did a lot of surfing and walking with students and Outdoor Education is my ‘second’ Kieran spent hours story-boarding the teaching subject. concepts, working on the colour schemes, producing CAD layouts, sourcing products I then went travelling again. I taught English in and even designing some of the furniture. Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia and worked as a He worked closely with our design company, conservationist in New Zealand before returning to Upside Down Design, and even ended up the UK. working for them in the summer holidays. Kieran and Upside Down Design were Where did you teach before Bootham? brilliant and I’m really proud of what they I taught English at a Further Education College for a produced. while and then at Cheltenham Ladies College.

You’ve already had a broad experience of life at Bootham. Would you give us an outline of your career at Bootham? I will have been here eight years in January 2021. I was a full-time teacher of English to all year groups, Lower Schoolroom through to College. I have also managed our EPQ, Oxbridge and Scholars programmes. I participated in the Independent State School Partnership masterclasses. I was a College tutor and this is the year group that I’ve had the most experience with throughout my teaching career.

08 Bootham Features – An interview with Helen Sharp

What keeps you at Bootham? I’m very excited to have the Head of College role. I had wanted this kind of opportunity for a while but, with three young children, I had to wait until they were more independent before I could commit the time as Head of College. The students are a great bunch and I’m very proud of them. I love the interaction we have and the way Old Scholars are keen to come back and share their experiences. I also like the emphasis on activities which go beyond the curriculum and that students are introduced to Global Citizenship, Environmental Engagement and Social Action as this prepares them for the future.

What is your perception of Bootham as a school? This is the friendliest school I’ve worked in by far. Which book has inspired you the most, I think this is down to the fantastic staff who are and why? dedicated to their work and consistently go over and above what they’re expected to do. They I want to be like Atticus Finch! He’s the show an astonishing level of dedication to our wisest person I know and I aspire to have his students’ academic performance and pastoral understanding of parenting and approach to life. wellbeing. They are a joy to work with and I feel So, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ must be the book that completely supported by my colleagues. inspires me most. Our teachers are individuals and I enjoy the But, I have other recommendations for you! I’m mavericks who challenge themselves and each currently reading a lot of Ayisha Malik. I find her other as this creates a dynamic environment writing funny, irreverent and inspiring because where we can all change and develop. it helps me look at the world through a different lens. And, finally, Lemn Sissay’s autobiography, I also like the use of first names throughout ‘My Name is Why: A Memoir’ is a beautifully the school. I am very familiar with this as a written book which is both shocking and Quaker but this is my first experience of it in inspiring. practice in a school and I think it makes us all more approachable and generates a friendlier environment.

How do you think the Quaker ethos is reflected at Bootham? One thing I find difficult is people claiming something is ‘unquakerly’ when they just don’t agree with it. I think this is problematic because Quakers recognise that we aren’t perfect and need to have a tolerance of making mistakes as this is the way we grow. I think our core ethos is to find that of good in each other. This means we are thoughtful, careful and considered in our relationships and for students means we are supportive rather than punitive if things go wrong. Students can make mistakes and are dealt with through dialogue and compassion. This isn’t a ‘quick fix’ discipline but a gentler process that allows students to grow and develop. It may be a slow process but the outcomes have longevity. I think our community is particularly strong and I like the way students, Old Scholars, staff and parents can all feel that they belong. This is very unusual.

09 Annus mirabilis: Bootham in the time of COVID 19 On November 24th 1992 Her Majesty the Queen February; encompassing a couple of the most difficult -at an event at the Mansion House in London pastoral and disciplinary situations we have ever had to marking the 40th Anniversary of her accession deal with; all the way to the total state-enforced shut to the throne- made a speech that has since down of the school on March 20th (and all that both preceded and has followed that) it has been the year unerringly made it into any of this Queen’s that has kept on giving: generously, willingly and with a greatest hits compilations; expect to see Olivia knowing wink on its smirking face. Coleman reprising it in the next series of The Crown. To appropriate another idea from another well known – this time historical – figure: Lenin (who had quite a lot Referring to that year, in which three royal marriages to do with some of our Queen’s relatives in his time and had collapsed, there had been – how shall I put it- a certainly made 1917 their ‘annus horribilis’): “There are ‘digital scandal’ involving one of her daughters-in-law decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks and a terrible fire had destroyed more than 100 rooms when decades happen.” That is certainly what life felt in Windsor Castle, she chose a phrase that many have like in March and early April. In some ways, so did the appropriated since. With typically regal understatement whole year! she claimed that [1992]: “is not a year on which I shall look back, with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it has turned But… out to be an ‘Annus Horribilis’.” Looking back on it from July – still intact, still smiling, still alive and most definitely kicking – I’m not so sure Annus horibilis is not an original phrase (one first that ‘annus horibilis’ is as apt a description as might recorded about 100 years earlier) and means ‘horrible first appear to be justified. In fact – and while I wouldn’t year’ in Latin (and sounds much more impressive in that go so far as to label it an ‘annus mirabilis’ (or ‘marvellous ancient language). And so it was in 1992, for her! year’ a phrase well beloved of medieval chroniclers and In a rare moment of reflection a couple of months ago, also sounding much better in Latin) – I think that there I found the same phrase emerging from the recesses are far more positives emerging from it than I could of my memory to describe this school year at Bootham possibly have imagined there would be. and with some justification, I think. Looking back on Indeed, I would actually suggest that Bootham School the things we have had to deal with as a school over the is stronger at the end of the year than it was at the start past ten months I would have to say that it has -without of it. Even Richard Burton’s death -about which it is a doubt- been the most challenging I’ve ever had to manage in nearly 16 years as a Headmaster. Even Richard Burton’s death -about which it is still hard to find anything positive to say- at least served to From the awful and deeply upsetting loss of Richard reaffirm so many of our values and the primacy of the Burton at the very start of the year; through two type of accepting, individualised approach that marks unexpected and – if I may be so bold as to say so- out this school from others and makes it special. quite unnecessary snap inspections in October and

10 Bootham Features – Bootham in the time of COVID 19

Even through the debacle of the two no-notice inspections we endured either side of Christmas there were surprising positives to be found. Having, in effect, fallen foul of a procedural technicality in one specific instance (whilst at the same time being told that there were no systemic issue at all with the safeguarding of students), all the comments I received by email and in person from parents without exception, were hugely supportive. They revealed the trust that I hope, with confidence, I can say exists among our parent body regarding our ability to look after and care for our students, as well as an appreciation of the straightforward and transparent way that we try to communicate difficult news whenever we are in a position to have to. I’m grateful for that feedback; it really helps in hard times. And then, just as the inspectors were leaving, the wretched virus came into view, providing all of us with the first hints of dilemmas, decisions and challenges that we had not experienced before and were thus certainly not prepared for. It is often said that adversity builds character. I agree to an extent, but would argue, with greater nuance, that although living through adverse situations can refine certain characteristics within a person, adversity does not build character as much as it actually reveals one’s true character. And I think that’s true of institutions as well. I think it’s true of Bootham School this year, and of all it stands for; of all we stand for. And I like what I have seen. I’m proud of the way that the pandemic has underscored the sense of community we are developing ever more strongly here; of how that is increasingly embracing not just staff and students but parents and old scholars, all of who have played a role in piloting us through this time. Old scholars -young and not so young – have, for example worked with some of our College 1 and 2 students around university entry and preparation, even feeding into innovative projects that our A Levels students have been pursuing. Parents have continued to turn up – albeit virtually- to Reflect30 and the parenting sessions which have arisen from the unique Saturdays parents’ programme we are establishing here; no other school in the country, certainly that I know of, is doing anything similar. Earlier in the year, Elaine Philips instituted our Bootham Proud campaign. As part of that students were asked to submit what they were most proud of about Bootham. The word ‘community’ came out more strongly than any other. It’s a word I have heard repeated by staff, students and their parents over and over again in the correspondence I have had and the surveying we have done in recent times. That deep sense of community is clearly highly valued by people, and, I believe, has only been strengthened by recent events. I’m proud, too, of the resilience that all members of the school have shown in the face of the unexpected, the unwanted and downright unusual. The resilience that my colleagues have shown in changing their work habits and methods and priorities and skills, whilst still seeming cheerful and, above all, being caring has been astonishing to observe. The resilience that parents and families have shown in providing care and support for each other in our virtual school world, as well as in life more generally, has been similarly heart-warming.

11 And, above all, the resilience that our young people have received, expressing your appreciation of what have shown in handling and facing down the my colleagues have prepared and achieved for your challenges they have been presented with (particularly children. This has kept the whole community buoyant. the big one for them: being cut off from their friends) You will never know how much that has meant to all of has been inspirational; the way they have kept going, us working here. sometimes through tightly gritted teeth and visible Secondly, I would like to thank the students who, on a uncertainty, is remarkable. daily basis and repeatedly, have reminded us just why it I am proud also, of the way that our priorities and is that we chose to do this job and just why it is that we values as a school have been so clearly vindicated over still love it. Their responsiveness, openness, cheerfulness the past few months. We set out from the beginning and commitedness have been of great importance to of lockdown to offer ‘care and connection’ as our first my colleagues and, in turn, have helped them to keep priority; all but a tiny handful of the huge number of going as they have got understandably deeply weary as emails, letters, cards and other comments received the end of term has appeared over the horizon. from parents and students over the past three months Lastly, and most importantly, I would like to pay as have given great cause for believing that this approach warm and heartfelt a tribute as I can to my colleagues, has been valued, effective and exactly what was who have been simply extraordinary over the past three needed. months. I don’t want to forget those (mostly support In particular, I’ve loved reading the many comments staff but also a very small number of teachers) who about how much parents have loved overhearing have not been able to contribute even though they will the nature of the interactions between teachers and have wanted to, but had to sit it out on the sidelines, on students, often covertly through bedroom doors when furlough. They also serve who only stand and wait, as lingering innocently on the landing, and realised for the John Milton wrote. first time infact what they have known in theory: just Others of the support staff have worked hard and how special that relationship between teachers and consistently behind the scenes throughout, and I’d students here actually is. make particular mention of the IT team and Luke In the end, though, as much as I am proud of what Gilliver who have done so much to keep the show on Bootham as a school community has achieved, of how the road and support both teachers and learners. it has survived, of how it has responded, of how it has No words will adequately express what debt I owe to grown, I am most proud of what its individual members my wonderful colleagues on the teaching staff. We have given, to make that possible. So I want to end with talked together in March as it was getting increasingly some thanks. clear just what was coming at us and just how big Thanks, firstly to our parent body. Thank you for the threat it might be to us as a school, about the encouraging, helping, cajoling, and otherwise forcing need to trust ourselves to rise to the challenge; how your children to keep engaged with school; to make the magnificently they have done just that. You will not most of the as-near-to-normal-as-possible experience know the hours of preparation that have gone into we have endeavoured to give them. what they have provided your children, the skills they Thank you for supporting their studies, for picking up have had to master with little advance preparation, the the pieces when it’s hard and for managing the tears, commitment, patience and imagination that has been fears, guttural grunts and even tantrums that will poured into trying to make life as normal as possible inevitably have attended education in lockdown from for our young people. time to time. Their contribution has, at times, been as sacrificial in the And thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for toll it has taken as it has been selfless in its motivation. the truly extraordinary number and deep warmth In short, I am in awe of how my colleagues have of the emails, cards, letters and survey comments I responded and how they have served this community.

12 Bootham Features – Annus mirabilis: Bootham in the time of COVID 19

Finally I want to pay tribute to my leadership team who have been equally extraordinary and who have risen to every new challenge with unerring focus, positivity and energy, setting the tone for the whole school. If the sign of true leadership is humble service, they exemplify it and I have never felt more fortunate than I have over the past four months to be part of a team that has so consistently produced work that is so much greater than the sum of its already considerable parts. Earlier, I said that we were not prepared for the challenges that the arrival of Covid-19 would throw at us. Perhaps, on reflection, that’s not completely true. From one point of view it is: in that we didn’t have the knowledge and experience that we now possess, and we’ve had to make it all up as we’ve gone along, encountering unforeseen obstacles and decision points along the way. Nothing could have prepared us for the specifics. On the other hand, whilst the practicalities were new to us, time has shown that we were actually very well prepared. Well prepared in terms of the firm and enduring foundations upon which we have been able to build our response. We have been well prepared through the time-tested Quaker principles of our school, which compel us to put love of people, the building of community and the primacy of higher purpose at the very heart of all we do, and that have served us very well indeed. Well prepared in being able to tap deeply into the aquifer of heartfelt commitment and service that my colleagues bring to work everyday; into the life affirming responsiveness of the young people that we serve; and into the support we all get from the parent body. Given all that, it is perhaps not so surprising that at the end of what should by rights have been an annus horribilis we have seen enough evidence of it being much closer in outcome to an annus mirabilis to truly encourage, reward and sustain us for what is still to come. I have been proud of Bootham School from the moment I was chosen to lead it. But never more so than during the Covid Summer of 2020. – Chris Jeffery July 2020

13 What makes you PROUD Bootham Proud?

In March 2020 we asked students and Old Scholars to tell us what made them proud of Bootham. This was part of the build up to what was meant to be Bootham’s first Giving Day in April 2020. Lockdown intervened and the Giving Day has been postponed until March 2021 but we still wanted to share some of the responses to our question: What makes you Bootham Proud? Here are some of things I suggested: Our history A Quaker school Science: some Bootham Astronomers Bootham will celebrate its bicentenary in 2023 and we Lawrence Richardson (B: 1881-86) have a long history of providing education based on Quaker principles. The school has come a long way since Discovered a new star, S Andromedae, in the Great Nebula its foundation in the early nineteenth century as a school in Andromeda on 1 September 1885 ‘two days, probably for boys denied access to university on the basis of their more, before it was observed in any other part of England’. faith. Established patterns of education based on Quaker Lewis Fry Richardson (B: 1894-98) faith, interests in science, enterprise and social reform Drew and painted the spectrum of the Sun made with the adhered long into the twentieth century, with the best help of the spectroscope in 1896. In meteorology he has elements still incorporated into Bootham’s current ethos. had a number named after him. It is called the Richardson We are proud of our current co-educational status and the Number. way the school has grown and developed after the first Michael Bodin (B: 1945-51) girls joined the school in 1983. The number of Quakers may have declined over the years but the school is still Astronomy was a lifelong interest and he had always committed to its Quaker ethos and values. Bootham intended astrophysics as his career. Early developments remains an important part of the national Quaker network in the field of manned space flight, however, diverted and students and Old Scholars are justly proud of their his attention to the challenge posed by new areas of Quaker heritage. biophysics, and he took up a research appointment at the Institute of Aviation Medicine. Subsequently, he was a Observatory founder member of the Space Rescue Studies Committee Bootham is lucky to have its own purpose built of the International Academy of Astronautics, an advisor to observatory with a beautiful telescope dating from the the NASA moon project, a council member of the British 1850s. Interplanetary Society, and was a Fellow of that Society for more than thirty years. He was awarded a medal by NASA After a disasterous fire in 1899, the Old Scholars quickly for his contribution to the Apollo Space Programme. raised money to rebuild which included a completely new science building. The old observatory (at the bottom of the Michael Hillas (B: 1947-50) playing field) was knocked down and a new one perched Michael was a pioneer in many fields of high- and ultra- on the new science block. The instruments were moved high-energy cosmic ray research and he developed from the old to the new observatory and they continued to key ideas and concepts for gamma-ray observation be used as before. with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. He generously bequeathed money for a new telescope that is Observatory ready to be used by our astronomers of the future.

Jeremy Heywood Liv Garfield Dominic McGregor

George Fox

Juliet Bedford George Winfield 14 UN Peace Day Bootham Features – What makes you Bootham Proud? Old Scholars We are proud of all our Old Scholars and love to Not for Profit follow their rich and varied career paths. Our Jordan Street recent publication Great Lives: How they made Jordan joined Saferworld in April 2017 as a Policy and a difference documents the lives of some Advocacy Adviser with particular focus on the United prominent Old Scholars from the nineteenth Nations, Sustainable Development Goals, youth, peace and twentieth centuries. and security, and promoting peacebuilding responses to terrorism and migration. He has 7 years’ experience I talked about some more recent examples: working with international peacebuilding and conflict prevention organisations, including at the Quaker United Public Service Nations Office in New York, the World Federation of United Nations Associations, and Caritas in northern Kenya. Jeremy Heywood (B: 1973-80) Jeremy had an extraordinary career in the Civil Service Harriet Andrews where he served four British Prime Ministers: as Principle Harriet is director and co-founder of The Politics Project, Private Secretary to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and an organisation that encourages young people to find Cabinet Secretary to David Cameron and Theresa May until their political voices. The organisation provides support his resignation in 2018. He was also Head of the Home Civil to teachers and educators to discuss political and social Service from 2014 to 2018. issues. Business Leaders Creative Arts Liv Garfield (B: 1991-93) Harriet Wood Liv is the chief executive of Severn Trent, and formerly the Harriet works under the name ‘Hazard’ as a graffiti artist, chief executive of Openreach, a BT Group business. She is illustrator and designer. She was recognised in The still the youngest CEO of a FTSE 100 company to date and Guardian’s Top 5 female graffiti artists in the UK, followed one of only five women CEOs of FTSE 100 companies in by the Top 25 female street artists by The Huffington Post. 2020. Her work takes her all over the world. Look on her website for an example of her work on the 79th Floor of 3 World Dominic McGregor Trade Centre, New York: Dominic is the co-founder and, until recently, COO of social https://www.hazardone.co.uk/about marketing company, Social Chain. He is also a strong Lawrence Abu Hamdan advocate for mental health issues. Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist and audio investigator, George Winfield whose work explores ‘the politics of listening’ and the role George, Founder and CEO of SPYRAS has been announced of sound and voice within the law and human rights. He as the UK’s most promising young entrepreneur in creates audiovisual installations, lecture performances, technology and engineering by the Royal Academy of audio archives, photography and text, translating in-depth Engineering Enterprise Hub. research and investigative work into affective, spatial experiences. Juliet Bedford Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo Juliet founded Anthrologica in 2008 and is recognised and Tai Shani shared The Turner Prize 2019 as a group, as a global leader in the application of anthropology in after asking that the jury consider them together; a global health. She is an Adjunct Professor at the College request the judges agreed to unanimously. of Global Public Health at New York University and is a Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Our students Anthropology at Oxford University. Our students are committed to our Quaker testimonies and actively engage with enrichment projects by Harriet Andrews supporting International Peace Day, volunteering in the local community, supporting York Pride, and actively engaging with environmental issues whether through Bootham initiative such as BEAST or national protests such as the Climate Strikes

What makes you Bootham Proud? When I asked students and Old Dominic McGregor Scholars the word repeated most Jordan Street often (by far) was ‘community’ and this has also been reflected in the way we have all worked together through the summer term 2020.

Lawrence Abu Hamden Harriet Wood College Leavers 2020 15 Drama at Bootham 2019-20

What a year 2019/2020 was for the Drama department at being the key theatre company that our Lower Senior Bootham School. I joined as a new Head of Department students were learning about as part of their GCSE Drama). and could quite early see a lot of potential for the things In addition to this, the drama department teamed up the Drama department could achieve. Unknowingly with the drama team at St Peter’s School for a workshop at the time our academic year would be cut short but lead by a representative from Frantic Assembly to give thankfully we managed to squeeze as much as possible our students direct experience of the company’s key into those first two terms. Theatre trips were very much at techniques and style for them to then put into their own the forefront of our thinking early last year. As a believer examined practical work. November saw our first evening that one of the best sources of education is attending showcase of practical work from students in College 2, live theatre we wanted as many Bootham students Upper and Lower Senior and Middle Schoolroom. It was as possible to have this experience. We arranged six an enjoyable evening of outstanding theatre that students different theatre trips between September and January. had developed in lessons during the first term where These included the Senior and College Drama students many supportive parents came to celebrate the work of attending productions of ‘A View from the Bridge’ and their children. In January the drama department began to ‘Woman in Black, Upper Schoolroom students enjoying focus on our students in Upper Schoolroom. It being their a night of Abba songs at the smash hit musical ‘Mamma final year of Schoolrooms Drama, we wanted to give them Mia’, while the school production cast went to see a as many opportunities to engage with theatre as possible. fully realised production of ‘Hairspray’ in the early days Working closely with York Theatre Royal we organised of rehearsals to give them the drive and ambition they for all students to take part in backstage tours of the needed to achieve their own (which they did, but more on theatre followed by a workshop in school lead by Theatre that later!). Lower Schoolroom students travelled across Royal staff. The intention was to introduce students to Leeds to see an outstanding production of ‘The Wizard to all career options linked with theatre outside of the of Oz’ and finally Lower Senior students traveled through obvious performance related roles. Students responded to Liverpool to witness internationally successful physical well to these experiences and we may even have some theatre company Frantic Assembly in their most recent considering careers in the wide range of opportunities in production of ‘I think we are Alone’ (Frantic Assembly the theatre industry.

16 Bootham Features – Drama at Bootham 2019-20

It would not be possible to give an account of last year into the world we had created. What next? How could we without referring to our production of ‘Hairspray’. In possibly top it? I hear you ask. The Drama department is March Bootham hall was transported back in time to adamant that it will not allow current times to cause us to early 1960’s Baltimore. Mashed potato was a food and lose the momentum that ‘Hairspray’ provided. Although a popular dance, the sweet smell of hairspray filled the we may have to look at doing things quite differently, the air and on your living room TV, smiling teens danced time to be creative is now and we will be back in the new the jitterbug and cha-cha to the latest tunes. However, year with something bigger and better! it all started back in September when 39 students from In the last term Bootham entered its phase of remote all year groups came together to create our production teaching. As I am sure you can imagine this was a cast. Over the following 5 months students dedicated challenge for a primarily practical subject like Drama. much of their time to ensuring we achieved the highest However, it didn’t take long for the drama activities to quality production possible. Late night rehearsals were commence. LAMDA sessions, led by Simon Benson, which common, weekend and half term rehearsals became had been a regular feature throughout the school year, regular and as you walked round the school halls during moved online to allow the LAMDA students to further breaks and lunch it was inevitable that you would stumble perfect their craft even during the height of lockdown. across a group of students choreographing dances, In addition to this, the drama department provided ‘The singing songs, playing music or rehearsing scenes for this Monologue Challenge’ which allowed students in Seniors West End hit. It brought together students from all year and College to work remotely 1-1 with staff to create and groups and established friendships that may never have perfect a monologue performance. Recordings of these happened without the opportunity to work together to were showcased during our virtual Parents’ Day in June. create something special. Little did we know at the time Very much continuing the theme of monologues, as part that only two weeks after our production school would of their lessons all Schoolrooms students were required abruptly close for the remainder of that academic year, to submit a monologue performance based on the work making us all even more grateful that it happened in the they had been doing during remote drama lessons as their first place. I am confident in saying that in a year that final assessment. It brought the drama staff so much joy provided multiple significant challenges for the staff and to receive many well thought-out, crafted and ambitious students at Bootham School, ‘Hairspray’ was a pinnacle monologue performances from Schoolroom students highlight. I cannot communicate strongly enough the proving just how essential work in the arts was at quite a hard work, dedication, commitment and overall talent difficult time. that the students and staff put into the school production. In January our cast was joined by 13 student musicians to Theatre and other performance companies may remain create the first full production orchestra that the Bootham closed at this time. It is therefore even more important that Drama department had ever incorporated into their within school we are providing a range of safe experiences productions. After 6 weeks of intensive band rehearsals in Drama and Performing Arts. However, students at they joined the cast to pull the final product together. Bootham can rest assured that once theatres are safe to re- After only two weeks on sale, tickets for ‘Hairspray’ sold out: open Bootham will be knocking on their doors once again. a first for a Drama Department production in many years! We have some lost time to make up for! This then caused us to put on an additional afternoon performance to welcome more of our school community Andy Quarrell Head of Drama

17 An unusual year at Bootham Junior School

September 2019 workshop about ‘Space Travel’. At the end of November Bootham Junior School was a ‘top 3 county Coding league The year started well with Year 2 creating magical table winner’ in York. Victorian fairy gardens and learning about Victorian toys and games. The Reception class visited woods and used December 2019 materials they collected to make mice. Year 3 had fun at RHS Harlow Carr, where they tried out the art of Hapa All the children enjoyed the holiday celebrations. Years Zome: a Japanese way of transferring dye from plants onto 3 and 4 enjoyed a Pop Up card workshop and the BJS fabric. They created pictures of plants using whatever they Spanish Club made special Spanish Christmas cards. Year could find. Year 5 practised speedy mental addition by 2 kept busy writing letters to the Three Kings, who are the creating a pop up shop in pairs before taking the role of ones who bring presents to children in Spain on 6 January: buyer and seller. The buyer worked out the cost of items they asked for sweets. Years 1 and 2 made their teachers with a calculator and the seller used mental methods. very proud with a fantastic nativity performance. Everyone enjoyed the annual Carol Concert and Bootham Recital October 2019 programme. Year 1 were learning about plants and trees. They went on January 2020 a nature walk to look for signs of autumn and decided to have a Quaker silence in the Peace Garden. Meanwhile, Our Year 2 students’ wishes came true and they were left Year 6 went on their residential to the Lake District where sweets in their made up shoes by the Three Kings as part they enjoyed outdoor activities in the sunshine. Year 4 of the Spanish Epiphany celebrations. Our Early Years made ECO bricks and became the proud owners of a children were excited to be back at school and enjoyed prototype ECO stool. Their collection of plastic saved over making pitta bread in the cob oven. Year 3 enjoyed a visit 55kg of non-recyclable plastic from going into landfill. to Howsham Mill where they made and tested solar ovens, Year 2 had a fabulous time travelling back to the Victorian mini water wheels, an Archimedes screw and toasted era at the Ripon Workhouse Museum. Year 4 tried to marshmallows on the fire. They spotted features about the improve their fitness with circuit training in the school hall. river and kept looking for otters that live on the river bank. Year 5’s hard work paid off and they came first in the York Year 5 also enjoyed outdoor education on the Residential Sumdog Maths competition! with a sea level traverse and a walk out on Humphrey Head and Year 6 mathematicians worked together in November 2019 the York round of the @ExploreLearning competition. They really showed super collaborative and reflective The children were delighted to receive the International mathematical thinking. School Award at Intermediate Level from the British Council. This is a celebration of their work in languages, cultural studies and global citizenship. Year 2 visited Moorlands Woods and created some beautiful art based on the work of RFJamesUK. Year 6 took part in a fantastic Maths workshop with Explore learning. Year 5 went to Jodrell Bank and had the opportunity to engage in a

18 Bootham Features – An unusual Year at Bootham Junior School

February 2020 Year 2 did a fabulous job of building their own walls from wattle and daub in their Outdoor Education session, as part of their Houses and Homes Through the Ages topic. They also really enjoyed their drama workshop at the Theatre Royal based on the Enormous Crocodile! Early Years students enjoyed a morning of learning with Stick Man and friends. They enjoyed whittling and some wonderful stories. Year 6 visited Eden Camp and tested out Morisson and Anderson shelters. Year 4 went to Staithes and did lots of rock pooling, finding a long-spined sea scorpion, shore crabs and a baby sand eel. They also worked together to make a massive dragon city. All the children worked collaboratively and creatively. Year 3 children enjoyed exploring a ‘river in a van’ from the Yorkshire Dales River Trust. They found out about erosion and deposition and labelled all the features in a river from its source to the sea. March 2020 Year 5 visited the woods and created art from nature in the style of artist, Andrew Goldsworthy. They also enjoyed reading their explanatory texts to Year 1 and Year 1 shared their reimagined stories based on The Tiger Who Came To Tea. What a talented bunch of writers and budding teachers! Year 1 enjoyed their trip to Pizza Express, making pizzas and learning about the healthy ingredients that go into them. Year 2 travelled back to Tudor times when they visited Barley Hall, where they got to experience what life would have been like for both servants and rich lords and ladies. They also spent time at Moorlands Wood where they learned about habitats, built shelters and found time for hot chocolate and smores. Summer Term 2020 Lockdown meant that most of the children were learning from home and we had some lovely pictures of the work they were doing. Some children continued to come into school where they enjoyed lessons with their class teachers and some extra fitness fun with Helen Todd.

19 DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY: the making of a portfolio Kieran Scott de Martinville worked very hard with Helen Sharp on the design and installation of the new College Studies (page 8). Here are some extracts from his A Level coursework portfolio that demonstrate the exceptional quality of his work.

Identification and investigation of a design possibility I

Emotional Sleep I have chosen to investigate the needs of the modern student. As a student myself, I Mindfulness Cooking support deprivation can also relate and easily investigate the large number of problems encountered by this client group. Studying and academics are a pivotal and important point in anyone's Homesickness Social Media Malnutrition life due to their importance and role in future career options. I also think that all Depression modern students at any point of their academic career encounter an extremely vast set Physical of issues and problems that can eventually be detrimental to mental health as well as Mental Health Physical Hygiene Health exam results. These issues are also disproportionately represented in today's market. I disabilities will have to design and develop a product that can successfully help with one of these issues. I will focus on university students, as newfound independence as well as the age Flat pack Stress Exercise range means that the majority of severe issues develop at this stage in education. I still STUDENT Specialised want to ensure that the final product will be usable by any type of student. Portable PROBLEMS tools Privacy solutions Zach is currently studying for his Academics Name: Zach Chan A levels at Bootham School. I will Organisation Results Age: 16 ask a multitude of questions in Revision Limited Studying: Maths, Further Maths, order to better determine some space Chemistry, Physics of the most pressing problems Finances Resources Hobbies: Climbing , swimming, experienced by a sixth form sleeping Student who intends to study at Budgeting Commute Dual function chemical engineering at uni

Q: ● ○ Due to the limited accommodation space , any A: I’d say that lack of sleep is probably the most influential worthwhile product would have to remain small as Problem on my education. Im having to stay up late and get well as functional up Early, so I really need to get the most out of my sleep. ● Q ○ The design should elegantly solve a commonplace A:Being used to quite a large living space, Im worried that Ill problem experienced by the majority of university Struggle in a small university dorm room/ Im going to need students. to get organised very soon! ● Q: ○ Due to the limited budget experienced by university A:4 Years is a long time, and I hope that my laptop is able to students, the product should e long lasting and not survive it. It's already quite old, and it’s terrible for playing break. If the product is in a market of rapid change, games or streaming films. On the other hand, since modularity or easy upgradability should be computers are always changing , having to keep up with the implemented latest tech is going to be quite expensive! ● Q: ○ Due to the limited space, furniture and decor in student dorms, the product should have a stylish A: I think that these issues are being explored and researched design that matches its surroundings but doesn't extensively, but students in general aren't as aware of them sacrifice functionality or expenses. as they should be. A product to raise awareness or even to ● help with some of these illnesses would be welcomed by all ○ The design should be theoretically be able to be students. manufactured on a large level to reduce costs and reach as many students as possible.

20 Bootham Features – Design & Technology: The making of a portfolio

Development - Structure 1600 * 800 *730

Points of development: After discussing with my client we’ve decided to base the first DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY: prototype around design 4. C

● Ensure the design can be easily converted between its 730 * 800 *450 two modes A B ● Incorporate the best features of the design ideas ● Add a degree of modularity / customizability ● Minimal material use ● Test and ensure all mechanisms can function reliably

This 10:1 model of Design Idea 4 helped me better visualise how the desk would fold into its smaller mode. The front triangle folds upwards and rests on the legs as the table collapses. Testing the models highlighted a few issues:

1. The current base left the table prone to falling backwards 2. Although the table would easily fold when lifted due to gravity, the front triangle didn’t meaning a full size model would be hard to collapse, possibly requiring two people. 3. The model didn’t unfold automatically 4. The side legs seemed to be unnecessarily complex, making it hard to overlap them properly. In the next model I will address these issues by: 1. Redesigning the base 2. Adding locking mechanisms and springs to ease the user in opening / closing the desk 3. Add tension cables into the design which could easily collapse and fold away

In order to address the issue of the prototype not being able to revert back to its open state easily, I went for a simpler approach. The side leg array is now hinged as well as the tables sides. As a result, under gravity they naturally Swing open. A series of cables under tension support the model in its open position. The tension could then be shifted to pull the legs into the centre via the use of a spiral torsion spring, similar to how a tape measure retracts its tape, Hence the model name. Problems may arise ensuring the joints are strong enough to withstand the specified weight in the open position, so a more detailed ‘works like’ model will need to be constructed.

Development - Mechanisms Development - Scale model Points of development: Calculations using trigonometry to Points of development: I used the sliding mechanism to make a After figuring out the folding mechanism, will build a 10:1 looks find the length of the sides of the In order to ensure that the prototype remains stable in i’s prototype for a 90 degree locking joint. The like prototype to achieve the following: isosceles triangle. This section will collapsed position, I’ve developed a series of locking locks could hold the joint open in a 180 ● Check critical dimensions and angles also need a specific joint to allow it mechanisms that can lock both legs using at least 2 support degree position, or lock it at a closed 90 ● Find any issues with the folding mechanism to fold into the correct position in points, and can be easily activated simultaneously using one degree position. This was designed for the ● Introduce the modular aspect of the design the secondary mode. motion. sides of the table, However after testing i came to the conclusion that it wasn’t structurally sound enough and too hard to Using a laser cutter I first operate. experimented with a gear based system. However, I As a result, I will research into different found that although I joint systems to model. I will take could take advantage of inspiration from collapsible tables and the mechanical tents. properties of gears, the turning motion was uncomfortable, and would be hard to implement as it would require a ‘gear chain’ to Simple top: turn from a comfortable Will be made of coated MDF and point on the edge of the featured RGB LED underlights as unit. well as powered USB ports, and a potential USB hub.

I then made a ‘sliding’ based mechanism, which is more compact, and multiple copies of the mechanisms could all be activated at once by adding a wire that connected all of the centerpieces. The final design will feature a metal frame with joints and wooden panels attached. This will increase stability and allow it to be flat packed. The red wire represents tension cables that can rotate on one end to evenly distribute stress.

The middle section is detachable, and can be replaced by either a plane worktop with LED lights, or one with drawers and an opening top revealing storage options. These were based on previous design ideas, and will provide a degree of flexibility and customisation to the finished product

Storage top: Based on idea 5, This reclaimed wood will match the side panels and feature an opening top, revealing further hidden storage.

Development - Evaluation Development - CAD Model

Client feedback: I really like the overall direction this project is going. The design idea that Custom joint system Kiran picked to develop was one of my favourites, and I can clearly see Plywood he has researched and refined the idea a lot. top

I personally think the modular top concept is a very interesting and realistic way to add customizability to the product. These could even be swapped out if damaged.

The LED lights might be a bit too much for the design, and I think the desk would work better without it. The clutter the cables would create wouldn’t be worth it, especially since I don't think a lot of people would use them (I know I wouldn’t) Aluminium pipe The design seems to be made out of mainly aluminum, which Kiran tells legs me is a strong yet lightweight metal. This should facilitate changing the desk between it’s two modes of operation, as well as overall transport. Plus the brushed Aluminium looks really clean and modern.

Overall I really like the direction the design is going in, and wouldn’t really change any significant about it

I found that the development was a super useful part of the project. It allowed me to refine all the mechanisms and intricacies of the design Idea. The initial design idea was much more of a concept and I didn't have a clear idea on how I would make the collapsing legs mechanism

Testing and iterating with physical models allowed me to get a physical Aluminium understanding regarding the mechanism and let me test various solutions. The frame folding mechanism I decided to go with was a lot more simple and utilitarian than than previous ideas, but It will work reliably and consistently. The priority is to meet my clients requirements and I decided that taking this route will allow me to do so.

Developing the joints and their mechanisms was an equally interesting mathematical puzzle, after i decided that custom joints would be the simplest solution to the problem. By experimenting with the laser cutter and adding extra redundancy holes on the plywood, I Was able to adjust each part to get the system working perfectly, then noted all the changes for the next prototype. This included spring placement, layer position and key places to reinforce to ensure structural stability.

Overall the development refined my ideas and made them ready for manufacture

21 In October 2019, George Winfield, Founder and CEO of SPYRAS, was announced as the UK’s most promising entrepreneur in technology and engineering by the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub. He was also recognised as one of the top entrepreneurial talents by the Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards 2019.

Interview with Old Scholar:

George Winfield(B: 2005–12) What does SPYRAS do? The company started to develop a low-cost, paper-based my 3rd year thesis. I was the responsible UK based sensor to help identify sepsis in hospital patients by engineer. I fell in love with the medical side and how accurately monitoring their breathing rate. We realised engineering is changing the boundaries of medicine. there were wider applications for health and wellbeing, Following graduation I went to Imperial and completed a sports and medicine and developed our technology to Research Masters (MRes) - half research and half business provide e analytics and respiratory software to companies (more ‘real-world’ experience) and only 4 people on my around the world. course. This led to me working on a paper sensor project; Back in March 2020, the team joked about placing a paper using a hygroscopic sensor into a mask for people to wear, pre-empting mask (ability to adsorb enforcement to curb COVID-19 transmissions. Who would water) material to have known it would have come into effect only 3 months monitor breathing. later? We have been conducting clinical trials of ‘smart masks’ which monitor respiration and help to promote the correct use of masks as well as detecting possible abnormal breathing relating to health. Where did the idea for SPYRAS come from? For my university placement year I worked for DePuy Synthes, a Johnson&Johnson owned, medical device company designing custom spinal instruments for spinal surgery and also programming and manufacturing 3D printed spines for surgery. They then went on to sponsor

22 Bootham Features – Interview with Old Scholar: George Winfield

What did you study at university? University isn’t always right for everyone but if you think a degree is right for you then think about the job market; the I studied Product Design Engineering at Loughborough environment is always shifting in terms of what businesses and then went to Imperial to work on a Research Masters look for so get as much experience as you can through in Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship. internships, work shadowing or just talking to others. Product Design Engineering blends design principles, ergonomics, engineering science, technology, to create What was your experience at Bootham? new products. This is integrated with manufacturing I loved sport and remember spending Saturday afternoons processes, technology and knowledge to turn the designs playing for different teams. I really enjoyed this aspect of into reality. Product design engineering is the process of school life. developing functional products for customers that can I was also Deputy Head Reeve and particularly appreciated be then sold by businesses in competitive markets. It is the way staff treated me as an equal. This is an excellent fundamental to global market success and requires not basis for life and an ethos we have at SPYRAS. only aesthetics and customer appeal, but also fitness for I enjoyed the Quaker Pilgrimage to Pendle Hill and purpose and correct functionality, together with superior weekly visits to Friargate. I still try to look for the light quality at a competitive price. The course included a in everyone and this is something I try to apply in my placement year when I went to Johnson & Johnson and business relationships. I think this has helped us as we became fascinated by medical applications. have a reputation for treating people fairly and doing The one-year MRes Medical Device Design and what we say we will. I think we are known for being open Entrepreneurship is a unique programme which combines and trustworthy. We also support students with paid development of medical devices and biomedical internships as we think this is fair. engineering knowledge, alongside entrepreneurship skills. The focus is on the intricate and unique field of medical What’s life like in a start-up business? device development and the key entrepreneurship I have to admit, it can be chaotic but it’s exciting with a and management skills required to get the device to huge variety of work and responsibility. We are learning market, from concept to business planning and market all the time and need to be flexible and determined. We emergence. There were only four of us on this course but have received some grant funding to help us develop our it provided a good balance between design and business technologies but we have decided not to seek outside components and led to the launch of SPYRAS. investment. We want to develop at our own pace and so far it’s going well! Do you have any advice for Bootham students choosing courses? I picked my A Levels based on subjects I did well in at GCSE which was a mistake. I enjoyed A Level DT, Geography and Biology (with AS Chemistry) and thought I wanted to do Product Design at Loughborough University. When I went for interview with my technical design files, I quickly realised that other candidates had art-based design portfolios while I was more interested in the engineering of products and was looking at the wrong course. The Engineering Department at Loughborough told me about the Product Design Engineering course which I thought was ideal. There was one major problem: an entry requirement was A Level Maths! I had chosen the wrong A Level subjects for the course I wanted to take. Ideally, I should have studied Physics, Maths, Further Maths and DT. I was so determined to take the Product Design Engineering course that I decided to take a Gap Year where I worked for a welding company in Wakefield and took my A Level Maths at Bootham. I sat at the back of A Level Maths classes and had extra tuition. I wouldn’t have been able to do this without the help of Anne Whittle and Sue Porter. My advice is to do what you enjoy but think about what you want to achieve. Don’t view it as the ‘Be all and end all’ if you pick the wrong subject, just decide on what will build you and the skillsets you have. I decided to invest in myself and build the best foundations for myself by doing an engineering related degree. Who knows where you are going to end up! I have friends who did engineering who are now in finance, lawyers who are now medical students. The main thing is that they took a degree that allowed them to develop core foundations and challenge thinking, all of which has led to them being leaders in their industry and given them the foundations to pivot their career as they please.

23 Retirement of Rob Graham Rob has been a great friend and colleague the 18 years I to try and wake them up, to name but a few, there was have worked at Bootham. After 33 years of employment always fun and laughter. I have admired Rob’s persistence and dedication to the school, Rob in the Autumn term of and resilience on ski trips. Rob hadn’t skied before he went last year decided his life sentence at Bootham was over. on his first trip but really gave it a go. It was touch and He decided to change things, to look at doing something go on the final day of the trip however to see whether a different, and to create more time to put his family and bruised and battered Rob could A) actually get his socks indeed his own health first. on in the morning and B) snow plow one more time down the same green run without falling over. In my early days, Rob was a supportive head of department. He showed me the ropes (literally), Rob has made work for many of us much more enjoyable. introduced me to his sense of humour (which luckily was He has undertaken numerous roles successfully at school very similar to mine) and never got irritated or flustered. including geography teaching, being assistant house He was always kind and encouraging. master in four different boarding houses, Joint head of PE, and in charge of volunteering. He was also the teacher Being an ex St Lukes, Exeter Uni student, his knowledge representative on BSA for many years and has been a and understanding of PE was always very strong. He union representative. always endeavoured to give the students he taught, whatever ability, the opportunity to develop skills, achieve My suspicions about Rob’s departure came at the start of potential and most importantly enjoy physical activity the September term last year when we returned to the and sport. He had a clear philosophy of how PE should be PE office and you could actually see his desk. Some of taught in school which was inclusive and none elitist. his Geography books from 1989 had gone. His ‘personal file’ had also gone. He did actually leave one book on There were many school trips with Rob and having him on the shelf however - ‘Stress for dummies’, he wasn’t a trip meant you had a calm, dependable, hard-working going to be needing that one anymore. Thank you Rob but ultimately hilarious companion. Even in a mini crisis from the Bootham community and especially from the abroad such as: Rob nearly driving on the wrong side of PE department for all your many years of service and the road on a three lane highway in California, or Rob dedication to Bootham. You will be missed! waking a very aggressive (and muscular looking) American and his family up at 6am by banging on students doors Andy Bell

24 Bootham Features – Retirement of Rob Graham

Rob Graham started his career at Bootham on the 5th variety of eccentric venues. City screen ran a “cult film” club September 1987, the same day that I did. I remember starting at midnight on Saturdays in those days, and we being a little overawed by the speed with which he made would often take the whole house along to watch some social headway in the school, and after just a week he oddment of world cinema, making our way back through was already on good terms with every other member of the pre-dawn streets of York in the small hours of Sundays. staff, flirting with the housekeeping staff and generally Our working partnership went further than sharing a fitting in with an excellent set of what we now call “soft boarding house however. July 2000 saw us helping out skills”. He served in Penn house in his first year as deputy with the first ever Bootham “history/art” visit to Moscow housemaster, and became highly popular with the thirty and St Petersburg – a trip as memorable for the rampant or so upper school roomers who boarded at the time. travel bug that laid nearly all the students out flat, as it was A spell of illness required that Rob stepped down from for the glories of the Hermitage Museum. The Moscow hotel boarding temporarily, although he remained in residence we stayed in was demolished shortly after we left it; a wise at the school in what is now the Recital Room, but was precaution I suspect. then a flat of considerable architectural eccentricity. Rob soon recovered, and his marriage to Elizabeth Allen meant In the summer of 2001, Rob, Richard Barnes and I led a that a bachelor pad at the top of two-week expedition to Iceland. The main Penn was no longer quite the thing. activity was trekking in the rough glacial The Grahams therefore moved into country of the interior – an activity that 59 Bootham to take up duties with required technical climbing equipment David Robinson in “53-39”, the College and the constant carrying of a huge rope to students’ boarding house. During be used for river crossings, cliff ascents and this time, Rob, Liz, Elaine Phillips all sorts of other exhausting procedures. The and I became very good friends. students and staff took it in turns to carry One particular New Year’s Eve, when the rope and kit, and nobody enjoyed it or some spectacular fireworks heralded could stick it for more than an hour or two. the arrival of the fifth member of the During one particularly calorie-deprived team, Matthew Graham, will live long day of sleet and high winds, I suddenly in my memory. It will probably also realised that Rob had yet to do a turn at be remembered by anyone out and this and privately wondered why. I got my about on Bootham who got to see the answer when he shouldered the burden for display set off from the balcony that the final, highest, coldest stretch, when he runs along 51’s first floor. knew that everyone else would need their energy simply to keep going. Rob had quite The years whirled past as they literally been one step ahead of me in his generally do at Bootham, and the understanding of what the group needed, position of deputy housemaster in and how best he could look after them. “Landings House” became available That simple act of wisdom, selflessness as Richard Burton decided to step and forethought has stayed with me ever down from boarding after many years since, and it pretty much sums up how of unflagging service. Rob and Liz Rob approached life as a housemaster, and moved in and we quickly established after his time in boarding had finished. a model of working together that saw us both to the purchase and opening The 2009 refurbishment of “53-59” into a of Evelyn house in 2001. The Landings new entity called “Fox House” saw a huge was to be remodelled as teaching reorganisation of boarding, and Rob and Liz space, and somehow it seemed natural that we should wisely chose to move into their own house in order to give decant not only the boys, but also the pastoral team from Matthew some of the more normal domestic world he had the old house to the new. For another eight years, Rob and not seen much of in Evelyn. I stayed on to take on Fox and I ran Evelyn as an extended family of some twenty boys, five the seventy or so mostly young students who would soon adults (we had a resident graduate living on the ground be making it their home. Although I was blessed with an floor), a small child and a dog. It was an extremely happy excellent deputy in the form of Robert Hudson, it took me a time for all of us. The boys that passed through the house very long time to get used to the absence of Rob Graham’s seemed to tune in well to the relaxed, family atmosphere insight into people, or his advice on how to deal best with we tried to create, and I believe many enduring friendships them whenever the going got tough, across the generations were established during that time. We had some wonderful garden parties in the back yard Mike Shaw with the boys, and had some excellent house outings to a

25 The dying roads Elizabeth Reed

Micklefield’s “corpse road”is today, avoided. It’s a pathway see entire villages care so much about the loss of one man paved with the dead, the central point for stories of wraiths to each take a turn at carrying the coffin to its final resting and ghosts. Centuries of superstition cling to what are place, this is unfortunately no longer the case. now just old routes with dark names in the remote British The town of Micklefield is listed in a Royal Charter of countryside. The dead can’t build, but they have a history 963 A.D, making it part of a very special set of Yorkshire of building paths of fear in England. In latter-day times, if townships with a recorded history older than the a dead body was carried across your land on its way from Domesday “Great Survey” of 1086. Micklefield was a the place of death to the place of burial then that path chapelry within the parish of Sherburn in Elmet until 1886. became a “corpse road” and anybody may use it: it became a public right of way. Looking back on it, this is a very This was primarily the reason for the creation of the strange concept and a grey area in the law. It is estimated corpse road — as a functional route to carry the dead from there are up to 800 such roads in England. The roads surrounding villages to the consecrated land in Sherburn have existed for hundreds of years, even pre-dating the where their “mother church” was located. Before the doomsday book ‚— whenever there has been death there expansion of Micklefield in the 1880’s with the industrial have been corpse roads. They were created and preserved revolution and a spike in mining the population in this by the community. area was low with most people making a living from agriculture. In medieval times the dead were feared, as were their corpse roads. But these paths are now far more about life The green heart of this community is the Iron Age than death, with walks along them, perhaps bizarrely, wood which lies to the South East of the village. The becoming a regular family outing. The uncertainty of death wood is home to a field settlement around one and a may have led to many people blocking out stories of such half thousand years old. Despite there being few trees places, no matter how enlightening and hopeful they may remaining from these times, those that survived from the be. Despite the macabre overtones, there is a beauty to the Iron Age settlements reach three metres or more in height community corpse roads: in the area it was common to and often bear signs of axe or adze on their surfaces.

The corpse road passing through the wood

26 College II 2020: Summer Term Project

One of the most fascinating landmarks in the area is the corpse stone located towards the bottom of the wood. According to Karen, a local resident, and protector of the field system, the villagers decided long ago that the dead should get one last glimpse of their home before they leave it for good. This is why the stone was located there, a slab of grey amongst the trees facing back to the village. While the reason for its location is local folk law, there is something charming about the connection to the land that the stone signifies. “In the past, death wasn’t feared in this village as you might expect,” She hinted this might have something to do with the rich mining history in the area that made “death an everyday ordeal”. The coal mining pit came into operation in the 1870s and was the location of an enormous explosion on 30 April 1896, in which 63 of the 300 workers (men and boys) died. Twenty died from the explosion, the rest from afterdamp. Ninety children were rendered fatherless in the disaster, which was a big issue as these men were all the main breadwinners for The corpse road sign to the their families. This tragedy wasn’t the first in Micklefield’s North West of the village history, but it was the first disaster to be properly recorded. The corpse stone Even before the mining industry took off, life was hard in the “grim North” for everyone with the average age being around 32 up until the 1950s, according to parish records. The huge increase in death was the catalyst for the building of Micklefield church: it simply became impossible to carry so many corpses down the corpse road. The future of the ancient road is in some jeopardy as the village grows and blossoms into a commuter town inundated by young families and businessmen. “The character of the village and the close community is breaking apart,” laments Karen. Vandalism has spiked, which she feels may be as a result of the introduction of features such as the off-road motorbike racing track. While some of the track’s proponents argue that it’s an important part of entertaining young people, and consequently reducing crime, the track fringes the Iron Age wood. Since it was built in 2000, there have been two cars stolen and set ablaze in the wood as well as countless “ghost” parties where teens brave the scariest parts of the wood at night. There is a typical insider-outsider conflict here. The original residents of the village feel topophilia —a love of place, as written on extensively by Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan — for the Iron Age wood and the corpse road as it reflects a part of their identity. The corpse road to the South of the village After all, place is a huge part of who we are and how we identify, as Tuan concluded. The change to the physical space as well as how it is now treated has been a hard pill for some to swallow; destruction is often the dark side of development. Going forwards Karen hopes that “there will be some boundaries put in place to protect the iron age wood and the corpse road as both are part of the village’s identity”. It will be interesting to see if it is possible to preserve such a dark but fascinating part of this mining village’s history, while also allowing it to blossom and develop.

Despite the challenge of lockdown and cancelled exams, College II students enthusiastically tackled a variety of extended projects. We have included this example of work from Elizabeth Reed but further projects were presented on Parents’ Day and we would also like to note contributions from Flora Guildford, Amelia Sharp, Amy Austin, Ben Earley, Ella Brooks, Chacha Bho-ob, Ffion Gregory, Isobel Levin, Kit Jay, Maddie Kennedy, Theo Durand, Timothy Chan and Frances Rowe.

27 DESIGN28 & TECHNOLOGY 2020 Design & Technology 2020

29 Violet Bennett (Lower Schoolroom) writes about the challenges of lockdown. Violet was asked to write about NEW different places in her home and chose to use a different style for each room.

DAILY NEWS 7 June 2020

Is the kitchen really the heart of the home? WORK Many people believe the kitchen is the heart of the home. But is this what everyone thinks? In this

article we explore both sides of the argument from two very different

Earlier this week we spoke to Violet Bennett, age twelve, to find out what the kitchen meant to her family. ‘Th e kitchen is one of my favourite places in my house as I am afamilies. big baking fan. However, I am also the sort of person who likes space an and overwhelming. One thing I do love about the kitchen is that it is a space that brings the family 2020 together whether that is whilst having a familyd meal time or to playing myself aand game I can of find Cluedo.’ the kitchen too noisy Not everyone feel s this way though. The Taylor family in Doncaster also spoke to us about the mayhem in their kitchen. ‘Our kitchen is like a madhouse,’ exclaimed Helen, the mum of four. ‘There are always more jobs for me to do, from cleaning the mess my daughter made baking, to picking up my son’s muddy football kit. Then don’t forget after that I am expected to be making my family a nice meal for tea!’

So, it seems like there are definitely two sides to this argument. The kitchen is either the heart of the home where and chaos with a mountingpeople enjoy list ofcoming jobs. togetherWhatever and the spending case it is time clear as that a family, the kitchen or it is is a the place central of noise hub of any home.

By Rita Skeeter

th 2020 Diary June 4

Dear Diary The Bathroom

I hate being locked up in my room all the time. It is like being trapped in a prison. Just staring at The running water pounds against the hard surface, documents with small writing every day. Even in breaktimes I am still finishing off work that I am after wasting half my lessons waiting for my broadband to finally start working! It froths as the bubbles form, behind with.; -blue chair staring at my screen trying to concentrate on The tropical scent rises up, I am constantly sitting on my hard acqu what my teachers are saying. Pineapple, coconut, By eleven o’clock each day my head already aches from the artificial lights and the day continues to Taking me back to better times, get worse. I am trying so hard to ignore the temptation of going outside and enjoying the sun. My eyes close and I drift away, Days then turn into weeks and weeks into months … When will this come to an end? I never thought ver say this but, I can’t wait to go back to school. When I can see and hug my friends again, I’m on a beach somewhere far away, I would e I will be so happy. Sun cream in my hand,

The warmth of the sun on my head,

I remember the calling of the wild birds, The rustle of the monkeys playing in the trees,

The crashing of the waves,

And the salty smell of the ocean breeze, I step into the shallow water,

Surprisingly wa rm, My eyes flutter open, And I slip into the comfort of my steaming bath.

30 Student Work – New Writing

Broken and Gone

Rocks I stood and I saw A rock on the beach Once we were younger rocks keeping to our place Standing tall and proud Appearances smooth, unmoving and proud. Its back to the wind, with a bitter grin But our faces have changed now and weathered. And I stood and I wondered

We are much older, lined, marked and humbled How did it get like that

It’s been a hard life. How did this rock break, how did it change penetrated deep Standing tall, all alone -thaw moved in, Cold freeze Weathered and eroded to the shape it is today DAILY NEWS Into our blank faces, opened up our scars 7 June 2020 Waves breaking against its walls Then melted away, left our insides exposed. Push water into splits and cracks Is the kitchen really the heart of the home? Plants and trees rooted themselves within us. Energy carried all the way across the ocean Many people believe the kitchen is the heart of the home. But is this what everyone thinks? In this Grew strong at our cost. To end in pressure that splits the cracks wide open article we explore both sides of the argument from two very different Animals and man roamed all over us - The water sitting deep, forgotten Earlier this week we spoke to Violet Bennett, age twelve, to find out what the kitchen meant to her Trod heavily and wore us down further Chills in the cold night air family. ‘Th esses exposed, our strength failed Ice expands, pushing and shoving at the stony walls e kitchen is one of my favourite places in my house as I am afamilies. big baking fan. However, I Our weakn am also the sort of person who likes space an Until a jagged split occurs Faces sheared away, exfoliated. and overwhelming. One thing I do love about the kitchen is that it is a space that brings the family together whether that is whilst having a familyd meal time or to playing myself aand game I can of find Cluedo.’ the kitchen too noisy We were reduced again. The seasons change – The cliff now basks in the sun

Not everyone feel Physical assaults, chemicaled, though wounds proud too we still stand. The warm rays soaked up and expanded s this way though. k We have been attac Only to shrink again as night time falls The Taylor family in Doncaster also spoke to us about the mayhem in their kitchen. ‘Our kitchen is Acid rainwater lessened us yet more Causing the massive rock to s like a madhouse,’ exclaimed Helen, the mum of four. ‘There are always more jobs for me to do, Like a crab breaking from its shellhed its skin from cleaning the mess my daughter made baking, to picking up my son’s muddy football kit. Hydrolysis and oxidation too their cruel parts here. Then don’t forget after that I am expected to be making my family a nice meal for tea!’ Played Seasons also bring the rain To slowly dissolve in its acidic sting So, it seems like there are definitely two sides to this argument. The kitchen is either the heart of Once we were young rocks in contrast to them The limestone washed away the home where We’ve adventured and travelled and altered. The feldspars turned to clay and chaos with a mountingpeople enjoy list ofcoming jobs. togetherWhatever and the spending case it is time clear as that a family, the kitchen or it is is a the place central of noise And our bodies have changed and eroded The quartz left on the beach to play hub of any home. We are now older, smoother, grooved and worn. Weathering is however, not limited to the

It’s been a good life. Roots and rabbits burrow deep weather sea moving us To disturb the dormant rock By Rita Skeeter Tumbling in the waves, the And expose its innermost layers To the outside world We played in rivers, colliding and crashing Carried by the flow, worn smooth where we stood Although big now Some made art, coloured and polished by wind varnished. The rock we look at was once vast Desert- Where has it gone?

Eroded Many of us are part of great gorges, Dragged piece by piece into the sea Valleys and canyons, gorged out by glaciers By the never ceasing ri vers and waves Worn away by ice, wind, water,. Just dust, look. waves Crumbled to sand and blown by the relentless wind All rocks have a story inside And awaiting the Glaciers return

Speechless, we tell all To wipe the slate clean

Rory Powell (Upper Schoolroom) -Smith (Upper Schoolroom) Dominic Thunhurst

The Bathroom

The running water pounds against the hard surface, It froths as the bubbles form,

The tropical scent rises up, Pineapple, coconut, Taking me back to better times, My eyes close and I drift away,

I’m on a beach somewhere far away,

Sun cream in my hand,

The warmth of the sun on my head, I remember the calling of the wild birds, The rustle of the monkeys playing in the trees,

The crashing of the waves,

And the salty smell of the ocean breeze, I step into the shallow water,

Surprisingly wa rm, My eyes flutter open, And I slip into the comfort of my steaming bath.

Martha Orton (Lower Schoolroom)

31 COLLEGE LEAVERS 2020

32 Leavers 2020 – Photograph

COLLEGE LEAVERS 2020

33 College Leavers 2020

Adedola Adetokunbo-Ajayi took A Megan Gransbury took A Levels in Art Tamilore Olalusi took A Levels in Levels in Psychology, Economics and and DT Psychology, English Literature and English Literature Religious Studies Ffion Gregory took A Levels in Amy Austin took A Levels in Geography, Biology and Religious Louis Otterburn took A Levels in Physics, Psychology, Spanish and Business Studies with an EPQ Mathematics and Chemistry and an EPQ Studies, and an EPQ Flora Guildford took A Levels in Eve Payne took A Levels in Spanish, Michael Awobokun took A Levels in German, Biology and History and an English Literature and History Physics, Biology and Chemistry EPQ Eddie Phillips took A Levels in Physics, Chacha Bho-ob took A Levels in Julian Hall took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry and an EPQ Psychology, Art and Business Studies Mathematics and Chemistry with an EPQ Deneth Ramanayake took A Levels Annabel Hartley took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics, Further Leo Boddy took A Levels in Business in Geography, Psychology and Mathematics and Chemistry and an EPQ Studies, DT and Classical Civilisations Mathematics and an EPQ Elizabeth Reed took A Levels in Ella Brooks took A Levels in Classical Toby Haswell took A Levels in Classical Geography, English Literature and Civilisations, English Literature and Civilisations, English Literature and Religious Studies History and an EPQ History and an EPQ Theo Riches took A Levels in Physics, Henry Calvert took A Levels in Ben Hunter took A Levels in Physics, Spanish, Mathematics and Further Psychology, Business Studies and Mathematics and Chemistry Mathematics Drama Kit Jay took A Levels in Psychology, Francis Rowe took A Levels in Biology, Hannah Catchpole took A Levels in Business Studies and Religious Studies Economics and Chinese with AS Level Psychology, Business Studies and and an EPQ Mathematics English Literature with an EPQ Will Jennings took A Levels in Physics, Kiran Scott De Martinville took A Levels Timothy Chan took A Levels in Biology, Spanish and Mathematics in Physics, Art, DT and Mathematics Mathematics and Chemistry and an EPQ Amelia Johnson took A Levels in Ella Shearer took A Levels in French, Art Physics, Art and Mathematics and English Literature and an EPQ Zach Chan took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry and an Nell Judge took A Levels in Chemistry, Ameen Shehu took A Levels in Physics, EPQ English Literature and History, with AS Mathematics and Chemistry Level Politics and an EPQ Ian Cheung took A Levels in Physics, Joe Shillabeer took A Levels in Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Anna Keag took A Levels in Psychology, DT and Mathematics and an EPQ Chemistry and an EPQ Business Studies and Mathematics Millie Sneesby took A Levels in Natalie Cheung took A Levels in Maddie Kennedy took A Levels in Art, Geography, Psychology and Biology Biology, Business Studies and Classical Civilisations and History Grace Spensley took A Levels in Mathematics and an EPQ Poom Kirdpradit took A Levels in Psychology, Business Studies and Maks Cnotek took A Levels in German, Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry Religious Studies Physics and Mathematics and an EPQ Guy Lawrence-Downs took A Levels in Bella Spensley took A Levels in Mary Davidson took A Levels in French, Biology, Mathematics and Chemistry Psychology, Business Studies and Art and History and an EPQ Drama

Erin Davies took A Levels in French, Isobel Levin took A Levels in Geography, Nikita Tcarik took A Levels in Art, Spanish and History with AS Level Economics and History and an EPQ Biology and Russian and an EPQ Politics and an EPQ Paul Lin took A Levels in Physics, Carina Tsang took A Levels in Charlotte Dean took A Levels in Chinese, Mathematics and Further Economics, Classical Civilisation and German, English Literature and History Mathematics English Literature with AS Level Politics Charlie Longbottom took A Levels George Van Dam took A Levels Theo Durand took A Levels in Art, in Business Studies, DT and English in Physics, Mathematics, Further Biology, Mathematics and Chemistry Literature Mathematics and Chemistry and an EPQ

Ben Earley took A Levels in Business Harry Loseby took A Levels in Business Kipp Whysall took A Levels in German, Studies, Chemistry and English Studies, DT and Physical Education Economics, Mathematics and English Literature with an EPQ Literature and an EPQ Anna Molloy took A Levels in Ryan Gao took A Levels in Biology, Psychology, Art and History and an EPQ Bruce Zhang took A Levels in Physics, Chinese, Mathematics and Chemistry Chinese, Mathematics and Further Eddie Monkman took A Levels in Art, Mathematics Annie Gransbury took A Levels in English Literature and History Geography, Art and English Literature Gerald Ng took A Levels in Physics, DT, with AS Level Politics Mathematics and Further Mathematics

34 Leavers 2020 – College Leavers’ Results

35 Bootham School Leavers Destinations 2020

Adedola Adetokunbo-Ajayi University of Law Chun Lok Ng University of Mechanical Leeds Gerald Exeter Engineering with a year in Industry Amy Austin University of Sociology Newcastle Tamilore OIalusi Durham Criminology Sophia University Michael Awobokun Swansea Applied Medical Olamide University Sciences Louis Dean Otterburn University of Mechanical Nell Bednarski Judge Durham Law Jackson Leeds Engineering University Eve Payne University of Film Studies and Chana Bho-ob University of Marketing and Glasgow Spanish Newcastle Management Edward Jack Phillips University of Medicine Ella Brooks Lancaster History Manchester University Deneth Ramanayake University of Physics and Hannah Catchpole University of Psychology Manchester Philosophy Newcastle Elizabeth Reed University of Geography Tsz Nok Chan University of Nursing St Andrews Timothy Glasgow Theodore Riches University of General Zachary Hin University of Civil Engineering Sheffield Engineering Kun Sheffield Liam Roche Durham Law Foundation Wei Xuan Cheung University of Aeronautics and University Southampton Astronautics with an Industrial Kiran Scott de Imperial Design Placement Year Martinville College Engineering London Natalie Cheung Northumbria Physiotherapy University Ella Jade Shearer University of Combined Honours Newcastle Maksymilian Cnotek University of Engineering Aberdeen (Mechanical and Olamiposi Shehu University of Mechanical Electrical) Nottingham Engineering with a year in Industry Mary Davidson University of French and Spanish Emmeline Manchester Millie Sneesby Northumbria Psychology University Erin Davies University of Politics and Bristol International Isabella Spensley Oxford Brookes Events Relations University Management

Charlotte Dean Durham International Grace Spensley Oxford Brookes Business and University Relations University Marketing Management Theo Durand Imperial Biochemistry College Carina Tsang Glasgow Business and London Management (SocSci) Benjamin Earley University of Business Edinburgh Management George Van Dam University of Mathematics Manchester Ryan Gao University of Biochemistry Essex Kipp Whysall Durham Law University Annie Gransbury Keele Criminology University Keyan Zhang University of Computer Science Manchester Ffion Gregory University of Philosophy Sheffield

Flora Bunny Guildford University of Liberal Arts With Previous College Years Bristol Study Abroad

Annabel Hartley University of Computer Science Frederick Bettam University of Economics with Newcastle Surrey Foundation Year

Toby Haswell University of Ancient History Angus Cockerill University of Neuroscience Birmingham Cardiff including Benjamin Hunter University of Mechanical Preliminary Year Sheffield Engineering with a year in Industry Bethany Glover University of Textile Design the Arts Susanna Keag University of Psychology London Newcastle Eddie Greenhill University of Classical Studies Madeleine Kennedy University of Classical Studies Newcastle and English Bristol Caroline Gu University of Medicine Guy Lawrence-Downs University of Mechatronic Sheffield and Robotic Exeter Engineering with a De Montfort Product Design year in Industry Thomas Jack Kennedy University Isobel Lucy Levin Durham Geography Florence University Ross Kessell University of Maths with Newcastle Business Yuxuan Lin University of Marketing and Portsmouth Management Rolf Marr City University International Politics Anna Molloy University of Interior Design the Arts Missan Kaykor Imperial Medicine London College Eddie Monkman Manchester Met Politics London

36 Leavers 2020 – Leavers’ Destinations, Staff Leavers Staff Leavers 2020 Sarah Allen Sarah Allen retired from our teaching staff this year and will be very much missed. When I asked for messages from the community about her, the phrase that came up most often was “Thank you”. She has done so much for the Bootham Community in so many ways. We all have benefited from her friendship, support and good humour, and many of us feel that Bootham will not be the same without her. Sarah always brought a calm and serene presence to the staff room and many of us have found her to be around this September, as she trades in her marker pens and be an inspiration in so many ways. We will really miss her wise and students’ exercise books for the world of holiday lettings. She has level-headed advice. The students often loved her lessons and of already been spotted lurking around Photographic Lane at the course were inspired by her to engage in numerous noble causes beginning of term – it must have been the professional within her from visiting the elderly to raising awareness of homelessness in finding it difficult to cut the cord from a place where she has so York. All of us at Bootham have been incredibly lucky to have had many memories and built up so many lifelong friendships! After Sarah as a friend and colleague. all, Bootham was also Carol’s home. Tracey Copestake Not only has Carol been a dedicated subject teacher – giving generously and willingly of her time to allow the best chances Joan Atwell of success for her students and not one to easily give up on her I would like to take students, even the more sultry and disinterested boys - but she you back in time has taken on so many other roles over the years. She introduced to Feb 2006 when Spanish to the school which has become a popular MFL choice Joan Atwell joined for students at GCSE. From agony aunt to party organiser, from Bootham School to close friend and confidante to work in the Junior the consummate educational Common Room. This professional that she is, Carol has was shortly followed had an impact on Bootham in so by a teaching role many different ways. in September 2006. Carol’s Le Touquet trips were During the following legendary and became a fixture 14 years of service in the school calendar so much at Bootham School Joan has taught a number of subjects, so that her name, we are told, supported and guided a countless number of students and how has become synonymous with can we not mention the huge amount of costumes made, sourced this seaside resort in Normandy. and altered for both productions and drama exams. I consider Her great organisational skills myself incredibly lucky that I have had the chance to work closely and sense of fun ensured that with Joan during her last year at Bootham School. Although it all that took part in this annual has only been a short time. It does not take long to see the time, extravaganza enjoyed an unforgettable experience. Ask anyone dedication and care Joan puts in for her students. The quality of who took part in this trip and they will tell you about the trip costumes for Hairspray went way beyond any expectations. I also anthem – Rick Astley’s “never gonna give you up” - their time at the know that the magic that Joan worked on the Hairspray costumes French bakery and their visit to the chocolate factory. For Carol was not a one off and this happened many times before. Nothing with her impeccable and “chic” sense of taste and style, the trip is too much trouble for Joan and however unreasonable or last was also an opportunity to indulge in a spot of shopping, one of minute the request, she will always help you out, even if it requires her favourite hobbies, at the local hypermarket – rumour has it she her to be in three places at once –and Joan is an expert in that. I had a dedicated reserved luggage bay on the coach! feel somewhat cheated that my time with Joan has been short. As an experienced trip leader, Carol also brought her sense of fun But even in this short time I have learned so much from Joan. Her to the annual Flamingo land expedition looking forward to her vast experience in teaching is inspiring. Her knowledge of Drama favourite ride, the airborne bikes, and checking in on her friends and Theatre goes way beyond anything I could ever expect to gain. Marvin, Miguel and Clive at the sea lion show. As a performer and Joan has returned to South Africa to enjoy her retirement after comedienne with her sidekicks Liz Brown and Angela Woods, a career of shaping and moulding the futures of many students. Carol was also famed by countless students as one of the “three However, I do not expect that Joan will stop there. We wish her stooges”. The act became arguably one of the most famous, all the best for the new chapter in her life and look forward to enduring and anticipated at the Bootham Christmas Cabaret as hearing about her new ventures! Carol and her chums constantly managed to reinvent themselves Andy Quarrell and think of ever so wackier ways of entertaining students and Carol Campbell staff. After over a quarter of a century Finally, we cannot mention Carol without acknowledging what of dedicated service to the an extraordinary housemistress she has been at the helm of Bootham community, we said Rowntree and the real bond her and her family have had with “au revoir” and “hasta luego” to the House. There, she has been like a “second mother” to all Carol Campbell in June – but the girls who boarded during her tenure and she was, as ever, hopefully this will certainly not characteristically generous with her time and always available be an “adieu” or “adiós”. Not only to the girls in her care. She treated all the boarding students has Carol left her indelible mark as if they were her own children, often going over and beyond on the generations of students to ensure the well-being of this extended family. She will have who she has taught French and Spanish to, inspiring so many of been instrumental in the personal development of so many girls. them and instilling in them the enjoyment of discovering a new Whether they are aware of it or not, Carol will have instilled some language and culture, but more importantly Carol’s presence has of the Quaker ethos of the school into these students, which truly permeated the life of the school for such a long time that she has contributed to making them the strong and compassionate has become a solid fixture and a true Bootham icon. As such, it individuals ready to make a difference to the world around them. is unbelievable, indeed inconceivable to think that Carol will not Mark Shuttleworth

37 Staff Leavers 2020 had the very good fortune of working alongside this intuitive Jenny Daly and kindly colleague for four years. During that time, the house Our long serving Registrar, ran smoothly and with perfect cooperation and understanding Jenny Daly, left Bootham between the pair of us, and the house tutors. This was certainly in at the end of December no small part owing to Russell’s excellent “people skills”, and his 2019 following 22 years generosity in stepping in whenever a little extra help was needed of dedicated service to at short notice. His tenureship of Evelyn was all too brief, but was the school. Jenny was characterised once again by a tremendous sense of fellowship, instantly recognisable as and I am sure that Old Scholars who benefitted from his care will the first point of contact stay in touch with him long into the future. for new parents and It was around this time that we cooked up the idea of launching students at the school GCSE Astronomy at the school, and for several heady terms we and her tireless dedication talked of little else as we mapped out the shape of the teaching and outstanding we would share. Russell was the perfect running-mate for administration guaranteed launching this course, and his unabashed geekery propelled him that all newcomers enjoyed a smooth and seamless transition into into a predictable level of expertise across all sorts of arcane parts the school. Having played such a central and important role at the of the syllabus. For example, his lessons on the development of school for so many years, Jenny will be greatly missed by staff and renaissance Astronomy were detailed, intricately researched and students alike and we wish her all the very best for the future. scientifically rigorous, but segued neatly into modern astrophysics Gavin Blackstone with scarcely a pause. Only Russell could have sold early sixteenth century trigonometry to GCSE students, and they loved him for Russell Newlands it. Filling the gap he now leaves fills me with a large measure of apprehension, and I doubt we’ll ever quite replace the loss of his broad knowledge of this subject. On a personal note, Russell was a close friend throughout our shared time at Bootham, and somebody I always looked forward to meeting up with at the start of morning briefing each day. He was never short of something interesting to tell me, and always seemed to have something he was looking forward to. He was an excellent uncle to Rosie, the Fox house dog. He will be greatly missed as he moves to the far side of the world, but I’m sure he will rise to the challenges of his new life with his customary panache, and will quickly become an indispensable part of his new community. There is a very well-equipped observatory at his new school, and it won’t be long before Russell is inducting a new crowd of excited students into the mysteries of the oldest science. Mike Shaw Emma Thomas Russell Newlands joined the Physics department at Bootham Emma Thomas joined the MFL Department as Head of Spanish in in 2007. He quickly established himself as a very special teacher 2015. She brought with her a wealth of experience and a passion with a charismatic and (some might say) eccentric approach to for her subject that she readily shared with her students. She education. This was informed partially by his own experiences as engendered a great enthusiasm for Spanish language and culture. a boarder at Sidcot School, where he discovered the joint charms Emma encouraged her students to share their enthusiasm with of curiosity and iconoclasm; both central features of Quaker the wider community and they regularly took part in the Thursday education around the world. He then enjoyed a series of previous Recital programme where the audience was impressed by the appointments that had shaped him into a physics teacher of great natural fluency of the A-Level Spanish groups. In 2018 one of expertise and practice experience. He has a deep understanding Emma’s students was winner of the CIOL Best Candidate 2018 of the subject that can only be won through long reflection and Award for Spanish Language for Business Award. practice, and is a natural evangelist for the physical sciences. She encouraged students to immerse themselves in Spanish Russell was an instant hit with Bootham students, who valued his culture as well as language. Students travelled to London to the egalitarian approach just as much as they were intrigued by the Cervantes Theatre and regularly went to see Spanish language air of mystery Russell habitually created. “When was his birthday?” films at York City Screen. She also took students on a cultural tour they had asked, and were given the answer that it was the 29th of Cantabria and a very popular immersive language course in February. They all trusted him so much that this instantly became Madrid. part of the Newlands canon, and remains an unchallenged truth to this day, giving Russell a calendar age of under 20. His true Emma will be greatly missed and we would like to take this age remains a topic of some speculation, but is unlikely ever opportunity to thank her and wish her all the very best for the to be known to all but a chosen few. Russell’s physics lessons future. are broadly acknowledged to be exciting and full of incident. Mark Shuttleworth However, the “danger” he is well-known for was almost completely stage-managed for the students’ benefit. It certainly entranced them, and made them feel part of an inner circle of explorers. Being able to recruit students into a common journey of discovery is a rare talent, which Russell has in abundance. Russell was always strongly connected with boarding at Bootham, proving that the best gamekeepers really are rehabilitated poachers. He was a house tutor in Fox house from its inception, and his duty nights were always eagerly anticipated by the boys. Whenever I was on duty, the house office was normally a place of relative solitude. For Russell however, it would always fill with Bootham students eager to spend time in the company of somebody they genuinely regarded (and rightly) as a good friend. With the promotion of Robert Hudson to a senior post at Bloxham school, the role of deputy housemaster of Fox became available, and Russell was appointed to it in 2012. I therefore

38 School Record – Staff leavers, New staff and students During the year we bid fond farewell and grateful thanks to:

Sarah Moore and Lucy Brown (BJS Support), Giuliana Ribeiro de Sousa, Lynn Askey and Emelia Winteringham (Catering), Jennifer Daly (Registrar), Helen Armstrong (Registrar’s Assistant), Louise Dunn (Attendance Officer), Desmond Clarke and David Mather (Music teachers), Eva Attridge and Raphaella Mackenzie (BJS teachers), Robert Graham (Sport and Geography Teacher), Emma Thomas (Head of Spanish), Sarah Allen (RS Teacher), Russell Newlands (Physics and Astronomy Teacher), Joan Attwell (Drama and English Teacher), Carol Campbell (MFL Teacher). Thank you to Paul Irvine who returned to help us in the Spring and Summer Terms 2020. New members of staff:

Harriet Metcalfe (Careers Administrator), Olivia Hall (Medical Centre), Jane Apperson and Deborah Grafton-Telfer (BJS Support), Grace Kimber (BJS TA), Nathan Walton (BJS Teacher), James Long, Lydia Greengrass, Julie Ramsey, Rebecca Stokes (Catering), Anelia Jane Cox (Housekeeping), Fiona Ward (Registrar), Richard Woods and Steven Rouse (Facilities Assistant), Simon Edwards and Ashley Larwood (Minibus Driver), Claire Garnett (Attendance Officer), Rebekah Atkins (Head of RS), Ruth Gilroy (Head of Spanish), Lucy De Gaye (Drama and English Teacher), Pilar Esteban (Spanish Teacher), Jilian Garside (Music Teacher). Resident Graduates 2020/21: Daniel Carroll, Grace Field, Imogen Galloway, Amy Higgins, Christopher Palmer, Louise Thorpe, Andrew Bassett.

New senior school students: Lower Schoolroom Annie McDermott Upper Schoolroom Pre-A- Level Course Alexander Beard Finn Monaghan Mikey Adams Quintin Ho Nellie Betts Eshal Moton Isabel Bojke Anson Lam Austin Bowker Harry O’Brien George Christie Ariel Ou Tamon Byas Rory O’Connor Ted Eames Jessie Qiao Scarlett Cameron Martha Orton Harry Geng Bryan Zhang Octavia Carmichael Richie Penty Ji Rong Hon College One Yoyo Chan Millie Porter Lily Latham Janice Chan Oliver Richardson Michael Li Ximena Burrows Wenzhen Chen Ellayana Roberts Carmen Perez Mendoza Samuel Chan Joshua Cooper Charlie Russell Marina Perez Mendoza Rhian Evans Samuel Darcy Rhys Sellers Floella Thompson Alice Fielden Oliver Docwra Hugo Smart Kiko Townsley Audrey Fok William Gale Beth Sprake Jemima Gorst Lower Senior Austin Gleadall Charlie Taylor Isobel Heppenstall Lily Gordon Max Theyers Harry Chan Josh Hunter Nathaniel Graham Ben Thomas Hayley Chui Bakir Husremovic Jack Hai Lizzie Tuckley Wesley Ho Chun Kit Kong Finley Hamilton Nessie Watson Charlotte Kwok Oliver Levin Alfie Hodgson-Clark Tom Watts Bedat Lee Joe Morton Lucas Hu Anais Weightman Adrian Lee Kesh Naidoo Hollis Hudson Clara Whitby Guanlu Li Olivia Smith Henry Jacobi Andrew Yau Berrie Screeton Andrew Udeh-Joseph Yannie Kan Seb Young Adham Shaaban Eric Yang Oliver Langston Jessica Wakelin Chenhao Zhu Middle Schoolroom Archie Lawer Alex Willis Jasmine Astorga Oliver Llewellyn Anthony Wong Xenia Nettleton Adrian Ma Nicole Yip Gabes Reinholz Joey Malouf Joyce Zheng Belal Shaaban

39 Sports News: 2019-2020

It was a major disappointment to the whole department when lock down was forced upon us as all our sports teams were making such good progress. We were also looking forward to consolidating the record breaking athletics success achieved the year before in the summer term. There was a real buzz about sport at Bootham and the basketball success we had in February was phenomenal. Our 1st XI football team were having another very good season and were top of the District league. Four of the 1st XI team had been selected to represent the U18 County team. Netball teams were getting more competitive under our new PE teacher and coach Rachel Rogers. Students within PE lessons had a desire to improve their own ability and also work as part of a team which was great to see. And then lock-down, which brought new challenges in terms of trying to maintain fitness and the motivation to exercise within the home. Weekly seminars with PE staff kept our students going and provided the resources and ideas for them to maintain their personal fitness. Students and staff also participated in a two week Km challenge near the end of term, with over 11000km completed within the two weeks either on foot or on a bike. The Km challenge preceded a fantastic on-line sports day with various distance challenge activities and an on-line decathlon. Bootham students rose to the occasion in all respects. My opening comment on the morning of sports day was that I hoped the on-line event was going to be ‘The first… and last’ of its kind despite its success. We were all looking forward to getting back to competitive sport and to the benefits of communal exercising and competition. Andy Bell Director of Sport

Individual Success Yelena Davies County Hockey Ellen Gordon National Diving competitor Oona Gregory National swimming competitions Maya Lindridge York City athletics representation Theo Lindridge York City athletics representation Finlay Coad York City athletics representation Josie Marr York City athletics representation Benjamin Scurrah Smyth York and District Cross country representation Elliot Chan U18 County football Louis Otterburn U18 County football Harry Loseby U18 County football Charlie Longbottom U18 County football Zac Edwards English Schools National Equestrian event qualifier

40 School Record – Sport

Football Basketball • 1st XI District league winners 2020 • U12 played in the NBA regional competition • U15, U16 & U18 all played in National ISFA competitions • U14 Basketball team County Champions 2020 • Continued development and interest in girls football with • U16 Basketball team unbeaten in district basketball for four tournaments and fixtures year. District Champions 2020 • Four U18 County players • U16 Basketball team second in the County competition 2020 U12: Jack Bailey, Louis Barwick, Alexei Bassi, Callum Booth, Robert Coad, Zac Edwards, Charlie Grant, Oliver Heppell, Peter Herman, • U14 Basketball team District basketball champions 2020 Olly Mair, Leo Porter, Noah Rowntree, Benjamin Scurrah-Smyth, • U13 Basketball team District finalist and County round Alfie Tomlinson, David Wormald, Cameron King. competitors 2020 U13: Will Griffiths, Matthew Horne, Henry Sprake ©, Douglas • Numerous Bootham students representing York Eagles Thomas, Zeid Abu Zannad, Arun Brar, Nick, Lapish, George Gunn, U12: Jack Bailey, Alexei Bassi, Robert Coad, Zac Edwards, Riwan Rawnsley, Toby Gledhill, RobertUnder Coad, 15 District Zac ChampionsEdwards, Charlie Charlie Grant, Olly Mair, Noah Rowntree, Benjamin Scurrah- Grant, Leo Porter, Noah Rowntree, Benjamin Scurrah-Smyth, Smyth, Alfie Tomlinson, Lewis DeSouza, Sam Bullman, Gil U14: William Abbas, George Anderson, Harvey Tomlinson ©, Edward Andrew, Laytham Harper-Hindy. Barton, Max Brooks, Ollie Hudson, Luca Kennedy-Foster, George U13: Theo Lindridge, Rory Powell Smith, Henry Sprake, Douglas Pearcy, Luke Higgins, Matthew Horne, Will Griffiths, Isaac Cardow, Thomas, Zeid Abu Zannad, Nick Lapish, Freddie Thornton, Will Joe Murphy, Silas Gunn, Ned Ottaway, Nick Lapish, Matthew Horne, Griffiths, Lewis DeSouza, Robert Coad. Henry Sprake. U14: Edward Barton, Max Brooks, Luca Kennedy-Foster, George U15: Tom Hayes ©, Finlay Coad, Toby Shillabeer, Mani Cobb, Pearcy, William Abbas, George Anderson, Isaac Cardow, Alexander Stark, Tommy Sun, Harvey Tomlinson, Charlie Fricker, Harvey Tomlinson, Luke Higgins, Joe Murphy, Theo Lindridge, Tom Carter, Montgomery Grenyer, Edward Barton, Joe Murphy, Silas Gunn, Isaac Cardow. Silas Gunn. U15: Tom Carter, Finlay Coad, Mani Cobb, Tom Hayes, U16: Aidan Cardow, Euan Brooke, James Brierley, Harry Clough, Montgomery Grenyer, Toby Shillabear, Alexander Stark, Will Finlay Coad, Jacob O’Brien ©, Charlie Phillips, William Kirby-Welch, Abbas. Benjamin McCartney, Oscar Manners, Tom Otley, Tom Hayes, Tom U16: Euan Brooke, James Brierley, Harry Clough, Charlie Carter. Phillips, Cameron Pickavance, Aidan Cardow, Tom Hayes, 1st XI: Will Jennings, Harry Loseby, Eddie Monkman, Louis Finlay Coad, Montgomery Grenyer, Gordon Kam. Otterburn, Eddie Phillips, Charlie Longbottom, Daniel Raubitschek, U19: Tim Chan, George Van Dam, Gerald Ng, Nikita Tcarik, George Bristow, Elliot Chan, Aidan Cardow, Jacob O’Brien, Jay James Brierley, Charlie Phillips, Euan Brooke, Aidan Cardow, Boughflower, Peter Woodmansey, Eli Tomlin-Kent, Charlie Phillips, David Paulinus, Harry Clough, Yaowen Zhang. Girls 12/U13: Charlotte Jacobi, Martha Clough, Millie Haynes, Caty Gardiner, Robyn Harrison, Imogen Lowe, Sabrina Agius, Indy Bray, Netball Summer Harvey, Gabrielle Wolfenden, Sofia Mesa, Lily Butterworth, • Successfull 1st team season with a number of excellent wins Eve Shillabeer, Evelyn Russell, Imogen Lowe. Kaitlyn White, Emma Valles. U12: Megan Brown, Eve Shillabeer, Hannah Casson, Violet Girls U14: Martha Clough, Martha,Eleanor Cairns, Joanne Peng, Bennett, Emma Valles ,Holly Feasby, Lily Butterworth, Dinithi Maya Lindridge, Charlotte Brown, Emily Bulman, Daisy Kraemer- Ramanayake, Isabelle Hyams, Zahra Sharif, Imogen Lowe, Dent, Yasmin De Souza, Nell Maughan, Luana Booth, Emily Evelyn Russell. Brereton, Eleanor Cairns, Effie Dodds-Aston. U13 VII: Olivia Whitby, Caty Gardiner, Millie Haynes, Lilia Dean, Girls U15: Zara Forbes, Eleanor Cairns, Ava Harris, Isabelle Martin, Sabrina Agius, Aria Gausden, Sofia Mesa, Indi Bray, Rosa Freya Forbes, Ida-Sofie Parsbo, Hattie Hills, Laura Daniel, Daisy Carter, Martha Clough, Robyn Harrison, Summer Harvey, Kate Kraemer-Dent, Kitty Fisher. Hayes, Yasmin Seedat, Romiliy Tuckley. U14 VII: Charlotte Brown, Daze Kraemer-Dent, Effie Dodds- Aston, Connie Plenty, Emily Bulman, Yasmin De Souza, Maya Lindridge, Aurelie Gale, Nell Maughan, Emily Brereton, Rachael Zhuang, Joanne Peng, Aurelie Gale, Aria Gausden ,Robin Harrison, Lilia Dean. U15 VII: Alice McWalter, Julia Kusmierek, Poppy Lea, Ellen Gordon, Gaia Gausden, Bella Sharp, Phoebe Watts, Emma Templeman, Alex Broughton, Yelena Davies, Anna Waterman. U16 VII: Lilly Toure, Elise Hills, Robyn Munday, Hetty Kirkby, Hattie Hills, Hannah Bettam, Alice McWalter, Yelena Davies, Bella Sharp. 1st VII: Charlotte Dean, Amelia Johnson, Annie Gransbury, Megan Gransbury, Anna Keag, Eve Payne, ChaCha Bho-ab, Freya Leaf, Libby Tomlinson, Josie Marr, Lilly Toure, Hannah Redmond, Emily Watson, Sarah Templeman, Nell Judge, Isobel Levine, Ellie Redshaw, Hetty Kirkby, Hattie Hills, Yelena Davies, Gaia Gausden.

41 Hockey End of year sports awards • The U13 team came a fantastic 3rd place at their Area Tournament. Netball Schoolrooms Netball player of the year: U12: Imogen Lowe, Emma Valles, Eve Shillabeer, Lily Butterworth, Aria Gausden Eliza Loftus, Megan Brown, Isabelle Hyams. Seniors Netball player of the year: Yelena Davies College Netball player of the year: U13: Caty Gardiner, Lilia Dean, Rosa Carter, Aria Gausden, Millie Charlotte Dean Haynes, Chloe Atkinson, Indi Bray, Kate Hayes, Rachel Henley, Robyn Basketball Harrison, Olivia Whitby, Issy Ashforth. Schoolrooms Basketball player of the year: Will Abbas U14: Emily Bretherton, Charlotte Brown, Yasmin De Souza, Daze Seniors/College Basketball player of the year: Jamie Brierley Kraemer-Dent, Maya Lindridge, Connie Plenty, Nell Maughan, Rachel Zhuang, Effie Dodds-Aston, Emily Bulmann, Irie Thyers, Joanne Peng. Football U15: Yelena Davies, Amy Douglas, Jess Spence, Anna Waterman, Bella Male Schoolrooms footballer of the year: Silus Gunn Sharpe, Pheobe Watts, Alex Broughton, Alice McWalter, Lilly Ho, Ellen Female Schoolrooms footballer of the year: Imogen Lowe Gordon, Poppy Lea, Gaia Gausden, Eleanor Gardiner, Robyn Munday, Female Seniors footballer of the year: Laura Daniel Emma Templeman. Male Seniors footballer of the year: Jacob O’Brien U16: Connie Hopwood, Rania Harper-Hindy, Ava Harris, Hattie Hills, Scanlan Trophy for overall Footballer of the year 2019-2020: Hannah Bettam, Immy Eyre, Josie Marr, Libby Tomlinson, Alice Louis Otterburn Hetherton, Chloe Willis, Laura Daniel, Grace Wiggers, Anna Waterman, Yelena Davies, Lucy Glover. Swimming 1st XI: Freya Leaf, Charlotte Dean, India Leonard-Morgan, Izzy Levin, Schoolrooms Swimmer of the year: Chloe Atkinson ChaCha Bho-ab, Annie Gransbury, Megan Gransbury ,Eve Payne, Senior/College swimmer of the year: Oona Gregory Robyn Munday ,Emily Watson, Hattie Hills, Yelena Davies. Team swimmer of the year: Charlie Phillips Swimming Most Improved performer in PE • Competed well at the ESSA relay Gala Male: George Pearcy Female: Izzy Ashforth • Victory against Ampleforth away Junior Girls: Lilia Dean, Caty Gardiner, Olivia Whitby, Eliza Fielding, Outstanding Sports Person – in recognition of Chloe Atkinson, Romily Tuckley, Kate Hayes, Kaitlyn White, Rosa talent and endeavour Carter, Megan Brown, Eliza Loftus, Chloe Newell, Isabel Hyams, Macy Junior Girl: Lilia Dean Taylor, Evelyn Russell. Junior Boy: Robert Coad Junior Boys: Rory Powell-Smith, Toby Gleahill, Benji Alwis, Nick Intermediate Girl: Yelena Davies Lapish, Zeid Zannad, Felix Dodds-Aston, Gil Andrew, Robert Coad, Intermediate Boy: Tom Hayes Oliver Lawery, George Gunn, Luke Hazel. Ostend Vase: Aidan Cardow, Rob Graham Inter Girls: Kitty Fisher, Oona Gregory, Mollie Malone, Ellen Gordon, Effie Dodds-Aston, Ele Cairns, Hannah Reid, Charlotte Brown, Amy Douglas, Amera Brar, Marion Dutton, Eleanor Gardiner, Amelia Lawery. Inter Boys: Charlie Phillips, Charlie Fricker, Toby Chan, Elliot Heald, Finlay Coad, Douglas Brewer, Lawrence Brewer, Ali Abu Zannad, Tom Carter, Ollie Steane. Senior Girls: Charlotte Dean, Freya Leaf, Robyn Munday, Ffyon Gregory, Kitty Fisher, Libby Tomlinson, Erin Davies. Senior Boys: Guy Lawrence-Downs, Zach Chan, Theo Riches ,George Van Dam, Eddie Phillips.

Cross Country • 24 Bootham students ran at the district cross country championships with a number of top 20 finishers Equestrian • Zac Edwards qualified for the National Championships in her first competitive year and came 21st out of 76 competitors

42 School Record – Sport Italy Ski Trip: December 2019

53 pupils flew over to Folgarifa, Italy over the Christmas break, on the Bootham School Ski trip. The week included 4 hours daily of ski lessons, apres ski activities including bowling and ice skating and also trying some authentic Italian cuisine! A big well done to all pupils on the trip, who all had a fantastic week along with the staff!!

43 Thank you to everyone for keeping in touch this year and Joel Gallagher-Coates sharing so much news. If you have news to share, please (B: 2012-19) A good example of let me know and I’ll include it in my monthly newsletters. transfer of learning for A level [email protected] students. We heard Old Scholar and ex 1st XI player Joel is now Visitors playing American football for his etween October 2019 and October 2020 we University. welcomed the following Old Scholars: Peter Angus McMillan (B: 2016-18) Longbottom (B: 1953-59), Paul Hyams (B: 1954-58), Angus is now running for York Angus Cockerill (B: 2012-18), Rolf Marr (B: 2011-18), B Athletic Club and helped his Bethany Glover (B: 2011-18), James Byas (B: 1993-98), Harvey team secure a top-10 finish in the Herman (B: 2002-09), Jeremy Coventry (B: 1956-60), Irene Saucony English National Cross Sarigu (B: 2016-18), Ellen Smith (B: 2016-18), Igor Ljepoja (B: Country Relays. 2014-16), Toby Holder (B: 2011-16), Lauren Moore (B: 2010-17). Robert Palmer (B; 1950-52) visited us on 20 November and gave a presentation to College and ISSP students Monthly News about Astro-physics and careers in Physics. Robert earned a Ph.D. in physics at Imperial College, London. He joined October 2019 Brookhaven Lab in 1960, and worked first with Nicholas Peter Longbottom Samios and others on high energy physics experiments. (B; 1953-59) Peter brought Later, his focus shifted to accelerator physics, starting with the family of his late friend, the invention of the inverse free electron laser in 1972. In Ray Bagnall (B: 1953-58) 1973, he proposed a method called longitudinal stochastic to visit the school and cooling, now known as the Palmer method, of correcting subsequently donated the momentum spread of particles as they circulate around a watercolour painted by a student in the time of Peter’s an accelerator. The method has been used at CERN in father, Jack Longbottom (B; 1926-29) Switzerland. He is currently working with his group on the design of muon colliders. November 2019 Robert is the recipient of many prestigious awards, Many apologies to Elizabeth that I missed this notice from including the 2010 Advanced Accelerator Concepts Prize. the last magazine. In 1993, he shared the American Physical Society’s W.K.H. Elizabeth Banks (B: 2001-05) Panofsky Prize with Samios and Ralph Shutt for the 1962 discovery of the Omega-minus particle. He received the Elizabeth (Betty) Banks defended American Physical Society’s Robert R. Wilson Prize in 1999 her PhD thesis in history at New for his outstanding achievements in the physics of particle York University in June 2019, and accelerators. He is a member of the National Academy of is Max Weber Fellow 2019-2020 at Sciences. The success of many of today’s superconducting the European University Institute accelerator magnets can be traced back to Robert’s ideas. in Florence. Her thesis was in Soviet history, which she first became December 2019 interested in in Elizabeth McCulloch’s history classes at Bootham. Thank you to Andy Allinson (B: 1973-80) who, once again, She is transnational historian of the Soviet Union. Her supported our Thursday research examines Soviet history in global perspective, lunchtime Recital Programme. integrating histories of Soviet actions overseas with critical transformations of the twentieth century Our Christmas Coffee and including decolonization, globalization, technological and Mince Pie morning was well environmental change. attended and in lieu of Reunion photos this year, we hope you She is currently revising her manuscript, Parallel recognise some current and Internationalisms: The Soviet Union and Mozambique in the former members of staff on Cold War Era, for publication. This work draws on extensive page 49. archival and oral history research in Russia, Mozambique, and the US to explore how the ideological ideal of socialist solidarity was put into practice by leaders, officials and Lawrence Abu Hamdan citizens in the USSR and Mozambique, in a wider context of (B: 1996-2003) decolonization and cold war. “The African-Soviet Modern,” For the first time in a co-edited special section of articles is forthcoming in history, the 2019 Turner Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle Prize was awarded to all East (issue 41.1). four contenders on the shortlist. From October to December 2020, she is also a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Studies Modern Congratulations to Old and Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Scholar, Lawrence Abu She received her PhD in History from New York University Hamdan, who shared and holds an MA in Russian Studies from the School of the prize with Helen Slavonic and East European Studies in London. Her broader Cammock, Oscar Murillo research interests include gender histories, transnational and Tai Shani after history, the cold war, environmental history and the history asking that the jury consider them together, a request the of fishing. judges agreed to unanimously.

44 Old Scholars – Across the months

January 2020 Claire Rakich (Daniel) & Shelly Cawood (B: 1996 - 2001) held their own Reunion in York in February. Claire wrote: Peter Kurer (B: 1947-48) was awarded the M.B.E this New Year in the Queen’s Honours list, for his contribution to ‘When I was at Bootham School in York, I shared a room with Holocaust Education. Shelly Cawood. Peter was born into a Jewish family in Vienna. Peter’s In 2001, just before we left at the age of 18, we promised each farther learned the SS were coming for him and, with the other that we would meet on 20th February, 2020 at 2:20pm help of a Quaker family in Manchester, arranged for Peter at the fountain in Parliament Square, York, even if we’d and his brother to escape on the kindertransport. fallen out, lived the other side of the world, or we had other commitments. Peter still works to educate people today about his past and his experiences Yesterday, the date we during and after the made 19 years ago finally Second World War. happened! We’re 36 and 37 In 1997 Peter had the now, have three children thesis ‘The Missing between us and the Chapter’ What the fountain isn’t even there any Quakers did for the more, but our friendship Jews of Nazi Europe, remains. accepted by Yad (Also, afterwards in Victor Js, we randomly bumped into Vashem, the Holocaust Mrs Campbell, our former French teacher and Deputy Museum in Jerusalem. Housemistress who, for some reason, doesn’t age!)’. David Wilson (B: 1997-2000) visited us in January. David March 2020 has set up the charity Building Budland, which is for the relief and assistance of people in Nepal who are the victims Old Scholar Joe Alexander Shepherd of natural disaster, trouble, or catastrophe - in particular, (B: 2003-2010) played in aid of the but not exclusively - by the building of schools and Charlie Gard Foundation at the homes. They became officially registered with the Charity National Centre for Early Music, York, Commission of England and Wales in September 2019 on March 7. Joe studied at Bootham, and are now registered with HMRC. They are a completely where he learnt to play the piano from voluntary led charity. a young age, before moving on to Paul McCartney’s Academy of Music in Congratulations to Hannah Feehan (B: 2002-05) on the Liverpool as a teenager. birth of baby Elizabeth. Fergus du Plessis (B 2015 - February 2020 2019) celebrating the Festival of Holi, which anticipates the We launched our Bootham Proud campaign, as part of our coming of spring and colour in Giving Day awareness, and asked the Gorkha province of Nepal. students and Old Scholars ‘What Fergus was on a ten week makes you Bootham Proud?’ (see volunteering programme with pages 14-15). The emblem for our Raleigh International which first ‘Giving Day’ is ‘George Fox’. involves supporting some of Our Giving Day campaign has the poorest members of the been delayed until March 2021 community who live in remote mountain villages without (see page 62). running water or electricity. These villages were among We were delighted to welcome the worst hit in the 2015 earthquake. The volunteers have back former Head, Jonathan been involved in digging trenches for water pipes and Taylor, who is seen here proudly sanitation, they also visit schools to talk about the projects. sporting a lovely new ‘George Fox’ The volunteering programme is followed by a 250 km trek to as well as his Cornish scarf. familiarise them with the communities and environment. At the end of March, Philip Clark (B: 1985-88) published a new book ‘Dave Charlotte Ellery Brubeck: A Life in Time’ about jazz (B: 2009-16) launched pianist Dave Brubeck. the KCL Quarantine BBC Music Magazine gave a 5* Art Competition. It was review: ‘An articulate, scrupulously originally designed researched account based on for Classics students first-hand information, this book and staff who needed presents Brubeck’s contribution to a project to focus on music with the critical insight that and distract them in it deserves.’ isolation but she extended the opportunity to anyone who Philip is a music journalist who felt particularly creative during quarantine or perhaps lonely has written for many leading and in need of a project to help them. publications including The Wire, Sadly we had to cancel our Sports Reunion due to the Gramophone, MOJO, Jazzwise, spread of COVID 19 virus and our College II students left us The Spectator, Times Literary on 20 March without the usual leaving celebrations and Supplement and the Financial Times. He regularly writes photographs. We promise we will celebrate with you as for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. soon as it’s safe to do so.

45 His apt reference to John Melling as being part of a fourth category of friendship and sociability is intriguing. I recall that just maybe I was also part of that group. I say this advisedly as neither of us was thought to be sixth-form material at the time, although both of us graduated subsequently followed by satisfying and fulfilling careers. However I feel strongly that the rounded education Bootham gave us with its extra-mural activities and general decency stood us both in good stead and gave us the will April 2020 to take us as far as our talents might go. Not long ago I was moved to speak at a Quaker funeral which was a first! Thank you to all Old Scholars who joined our virtual Reflect We really do appreciate the sacrifice our parents made in 30 Meetings on Saturdays throughout April to June and/ sending us to Bootham during post-war austerity and wish or supported our on-line Community Choir. These were the School continued success in these challenging times. unusual ways to keep in touch but it was a pleasure to see so many familiar faces. Gavin Macpherson (B: 1948-1952) and his wife Jeane, celebrated their Diamond Wedding on 23 April 2020 at To help alleviate the shortage of the peak of the Corona Virus outbreak! The great family PPE, old scholar Nick Janiurek celebration planned in Harrogate had to be abandoned. (B: 2009=16) is 3D printing visors However, Gavin and Jeane’s son and daughter-in-law, Robert from home for frontline workers. and Carole, live only a short walk away through the woods Nick is currently studying in Burley-in-Wharfedale. They stepped in with an invitation Industrial Design at Brunel to a delightful candle-lit champagne Dinner for Two in the University. summer house in their garden with fairy lights and balloons! They enjoyed a perfect evening celebration served at safe #PPE #frontliners @Bruneluni social distance – followed by fireworks. @BoothamOldSchol May 2020 James Marr’s (B: 1973-79) website and book ‘Exploring We had to cancel our Annual May Reunion which was the place in between’ reminded us of times when we particularly disappointing as we know many Old Scholars could travel. For those of us who are still dreaming of had been planning to travel to York to celebrate special holidays, have a look at James Marr’s website for his articles anniversaries. Some groups still managed to meet via Zoom and photographs based on his extensive travels. James’s and/or enjoyed sharing memories over email. interest is in the ‘journey itself, along the way taking the We had intended to hold a Richard Burton Memorial time to explore cultures, wildlife, landscapes, history and, Concert as part of the weekend programme and a number not least, the individual traveller’s own resourcefulness and of Old Scholars had volunteered to help. We will hold the courage’ and this approach is reflected in the stories he concert as soon shares. as we can but we Website https://www.latitude14.com/ were very grateful to Josephine and Robin Peach who gave us access to a recording of a beautiful duet with Jo and Richard Burton from a Bootham Recital in 2017. You can hear the recording https://api.smugmug.com/services/embed/9431584864_

Mike Shaw entertained us with a couple of podcasts about astronomy including one from May about the Super Moon: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C-QoVgLIZ8XsYjGDd- rx1iBdJZeOnyBA/view Paul Feehan and Chris Jeffery supported our virtual Recital Bob Johnson (B: 1949-55) His essay ‘Why Quakerism is Programme. more scientific than Einstein’ has been published in the April 2020 edition of Philosophy Study. We were delighted to hear from John Tillotson (B: 1948-51): Having time to re-read Magazine 2019 I was struck by Chris Jeffery’s view of Bootham being “different”. Reading on, I spotted Emeritus Professor Malcolm Page’s comments in his obituary of John Melling (page 55) forgive the pun! Both were good friends of mine and my twin brother Peter. Malcolm was a scholarship day-boy, so it is unsurprising that he succeeded so well academically.

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It was lovely to hear from Richard Sturge (B: 1951-56) I think the teacher in the photo that appears fleetingly on the head of the website is Clifford Smith who taught me biology in College 2 & 3. I think he also had some part in my eldest sister’s education when she was at the Mount during WW2 -- and was a much more active biologist than I was -- when quite a lot of the science at the Mount was taught at Bootham. Even in my day, one or two Mount girls came to A level Chemistry with us. She certainly knew of him. I’m really writing to ask whether the school still maintains its contacts with Ampleforth and to share with you a story about that. About 35 years ago I represented Quakers at an ecumenical gathering at Canterbury and on the first Dominic McGregor joined Marvin evening found myself sitting at dinner opposite the then Sordell and Sarah Hughes for a Cardinal, Basil Hume, who had been Abbot of Ampleforth. webinar discussion on 20 May. They discussed how to deal with He enjoyed telling me of the occasion when Bootham boys, loneliness and adversity during were evacuated from York in 1940. When they arrived the lockdown. boys of the two schools were assembled and welcomed by the Headmaster (with suitable hand gestures): Friends, Big thanks to Bootham Old Romans... In the 50s the contact continued. The cricket Scholar and journalist Abi match was a big occasion. I was the 1st XI scorer, and Hayward who gave a brilliant I remember when we went to Ampleforth we were all masterclass on how to write a feature article to our College II somewhat embarrassed by the presence of jugs of beer in Geography project students. the table at lunch. Some weekends in Summer we would cycle to Ampleforth and camp by the fishponds in the valley Fascinating and enlightening and opposite the school. Ampleforth adopted the use of italic no fake news in sight! handwriting (when we still used fountain pens) and Percy Lovell (our wonderful music master) learned it from them. June 2020 He introduced it to Bootham and it did wonders for my Harriet Ennis took part in the on-line University of York otherwise chaotic scrawl – and timely, it gave me a chance of getting through GCE..’ Tim Makins (B: 1968-73) wrote to us about the Radio Club: ‘The Radio Society, under 55 Bootham, was one of those clubs and societies that was generally ‘owned’ by a particular clique from a particular year group, usually the 4th form. It was next door to the aero-modelling society, which faced into the school. The radio society faced out of the school, with a window looking up to the street. The workman’s room, next door, was often used by boys as a smoking room in the evenings. We had keys for all the doors Festival of Ideas. in the school! The radio room was used by various radio Congratulations to and electronics enthusiasts. Most of the equipment was Lotte Inch on the recent birth of provided by the boys themselves. We used to get old valve Alfie Jago Inch-Kentley. wireless sets and take them apart or remodify them. There was a receiver from a Lancaster bomber – the R1155 model. Thank you to Isaac Vohra, I wonder what happened to that. Some people made valve Meredith Armstrong and Maria Winter for supporting or amplifiers, and ‘Radio Bootham’ was sometimes run from virtual Recital Programme. there, and sometimes from the studies up above. ‘Radio University Talks Bootham’ connected an amplifier to the earth and the I want to say a big ‘Thank you!’ to a number of Old Scholars radiator pipes, so that anyone could connect a loudspeaker who helped me run a series of University Talks this half term. between the two, to listen in. In those days, pupils were not We met on Wednesday afternoons to talk about particular allowed to own a radio. I never knew why this was. I had courses, universities and experience of life after Bootham. many sets confiscated! We also used to keep a toaster down These discussions are so useful for our College students and there, to make toast during morning break. This was also I love catching up with you all on-line. If you would like to be forbidden, so the toaster was kept in a locker. When the involved in this programme then please get in touch. locker door closed, the power was cut off.’ Old Scholars who helped: Milly Briden, Bea Townsend, Richard Kay (Bootham 1988-95) was busy rehearsing two Isaac Vohra, Charlotte Ellery, Maddie Pope, Vuk Zivanovic, choirs over zoom. Here’s a link to a piece composed and Christopher Chivers, Liam Langedijk, Eliot Watson, Irene put together by Richard with the video created by former Sarigu, Xanthe Mitten, Millie Gladwin, Dominic Bielby, teacher at Bootham Junior, David Todd. Frances Marshall, Olivia Stainforth, James Murray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318cfczHMIk

47 Leavers from 1968 (and a few from 67) Nigel Aiken (B: 1954-59) Apologies for the late announcement of Nigel and Janet Aiken’s Golden Wedding The 1968 Old Scholars have been meeting and sharing stories of life after Bootham. John Fieldhouse is now Anniversary in July 2019. working on a collection of these stories. So far 23 Old September 2020 Scholars have contributed and we’ll share the document with other Old Scholars and Bootham students when it is Phoebe King (B: 2010-17) We’re delighted to hear Phoebe ready. There are some really interesting reflections, career started a Midwifery degree at the University of York in September 2020. and life histories and advice for current students. Congratulations to Dominic Bielby (Bootham 2011-18) July 2020 Dominic Bielby’s first piece of academic writing has been Thank you to and Oliver, Louis published in Per Incuriam! Taking up a topic he found for supporting our Benedict Baily extremely interesting in Tripos, his article “Disrupting Destiny: virtual Recital programme. The Limits of Post-Colonial Self-Determination” takes a look A big ‘Thank you’ to Robbie Millar, at the place of self-determination in today’s International Hugh Hillman and Catherine law, where it fails and how it may evolve, for the better, in the Wragg who recorded some lovely future. If you’re interested, please give it a read! short welcomes for our new Old John Brooke Fieldhouse Scholars. I would also like to (B: 1961-68) thank Meredith Armstrong for letting me use her “Leavers’ Song” for a short video we made The Hidden Apartment and of leavers’ photos (you can see this on the Old Scholars Other Stories facebook page). (John) Brooke Fieldhouse’s second book The Hidden Apartment & Other Bootham Parents Day Stories was published in August – thank you Peter Openshaw (B: 1970-72) 2020 - hardback by Matador Books, During Parents’ day this weekend, three College II students debut novel The Gilded Ones was gave an on-line presentation about their Covid19 research published 2018 by Matador Books. project. People from all over the world attended the meeting, which lasted about an hour. Tim, Frances and Theo were astonished to discover that one unexpected guest was Professor Peter Openshaw of Imperial College, October 2020 London; member of the government advisory panel on Covid19 – NERVTAG. Peter then took part in a detailed Josephine Peach in concert and generous Q+A, fielding complex questions from our Jo Peach has supported two pre-recorded concerts, firstly in students. One topic covered by the Bootham team was celebration of the work of Andrew Carter (YouTube Andrew so new, he said, that it had only been described in the Carter at 80) and secondly in scientific press the week before. Most young academics celebration of the 103rd birthday don’t present their theses to scarily senior researchers until of Dr Francis Jackson (YouTube they get to their PhDs, so the Bootham team are well ahead Francis Jackson at 103). in their studies… Tom Crosbie (B; 2003-09) is now Guylaine Eckersley – Royal Academy of Music hosting a radio show on Jorvik Guylaine sent a link to a lock-down performance with Radio, every Sunday at 11pm. On fellow students in the Bassoon Department. Look out for 94.8FM if you’re in York or listen Guylaine in this virtual performance of ‘RAM Bassoons online. present 633 Squadron’ Natalie Amery wrote to share https://www.facebook.com/1669068196 some news: videos/10215558116020538/ ‘I was at Bootham from 1989 to 1996 under my natal name of Jonathan Amery. About three years ago I started seriously August 2020 examining my gender identity and now identify as a trans- Shirley Nightingale (M: 1945-52) Thank you to The Mount feminine non-binary person. I have socially transitioned and Old Scholar, Shirley Nightingale, who donated some am in the process of medical transition, and my full legal photographs of Bootham Old Scholars. A few examples are name is now “Natalie Marian Jonathan Amery”.’ included here.

Congratulations to Chris Dobson on his marriage to Wanda at St Michael Le Belfrey on 23 October.

48 Old Scholars – Across the months, Christmas Reunion 2019 Christmas Reunion 2019

49 Barry Smith 1941 – 2020 • Bootham 1981 – 1993

Barry came to Bootham in 1981, the first sports all aspects of the inter house competitions, be related thing he did, was to join my first Germany it sport, drama or music, his enthusiasm was Exchange trip at short notice when a colleague infectious - and - inspiring! The annual staff dropped out. He subsequently played a very matches were a highlight for Barry, Cricket, helpful and supportive role in all the exchanges Basketball, or Football, he was always willing to be we did in that decade. Barry was very much a involved, football was his major sport and he was “team player”; outside of his main subject, he always in the thick of the action, the boys called was heavily involved in sport, he ran the football him Billy Bremner, after the legendary captain of 2nd X1 for many years, giving much of his time to Leeds United and Scotland, because of his playing refereeing home matches and taking his teams style, his ginger hair and the fact that he also was to away fixtures; this at a time when we played vertically challenged!! Like so many wonderful block fixtures on Saturday afternoons and 1st and Bootham teachers who commit themselves totally 2ndXL games on Wednesdays. He was always to the second oldest profession, the immense prepared to help out; he would take tennis teams contribution that they make to our community to fixtures and he played a key role at the annual only really becomes apparent after they leave, and Sports day. Barry was Head of Swarthmoor house, this was especially true in Barry’s case. he was very committed to his house, supporting - Colin Raper

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Barry joined Bootham from Derwent School but he invited to “staff supper” (an institution long gone, had previously been at the Universities of Sheffield but at the time central to the staff experience of and York where he had been a full-time academic Bootham), and any teachers present would get working in Biological research. He had always to meet the speaker over a leisurely dinner before been interested in the pre-university educational the lecture began. Some of these speakers went Barry Smith world and seized the chance to go into school on to join government advisory panels and other teaching when it presented itself. Barry came to sorts of influential posts. These were very valuable 1941 – 2020 • Bootham 1981 – 1993 Bootham looking for an open-minded, exploratory experiences for our College students at the time. school and liked what he found. Head of Biology Colin Raper sums up Barry’s huge contribution to throughout his time at Bootham, he ran the sport at Bootham with great authority, so I won’t Natural History (N.H.) Society, which at the time mention that here. In finishing, I’d like to add featured many much-loved and exotic live animals. that Barry was very popular with both students Visitors to the school were always steered towards and staff; a genuine ‘father of the staff room’. The what was effectively a small zoo, and it was attendance at his funeral by so many members of frequently what prospective parents remembered the Bootham community speaks very well to the best after having had a look around the place. reputation he established with us all. Best of all; Indie the Python, who often went on manoeuvres to comic effect around the school - Mike Shaw Barry Smith tug of war buildings, once turning up in the stored furniture of the then unknown new head, Ian Small, who had borrowed some space in the old fives-court before the start of his first term. Barry edited the N.H. Journal annually, and ran N.H. expeditions, in which 50 students and a handful of staff spent a week camping near the sea, in an ‘NH-rich’ setting; walks, visits and learning all played a part in these. Barry would lead nature- rambles, fossil-hunting trips and bird-watching sessions with enthusiasm and expertise in equal measure. The trips were always characterised by his good-natured leadership and a good number of students turned up for as many as seven outings in a row as they progressed through school. Old scholars’ events still feature a measure of Colin Raper (left) and Barry Smith reminiscence about Barry’s NH summer trips, and they characterised all that is good about Bootham. One fascinating aspect of his time with us was the fortnightly “NH lecture”, in which Barry used his connections in research to hook in selected guest speakers to present lectures on a wide range of Biological themes. The guests would be

Staff Room 1988 Barry Smith top row first left

51 John Murray: letters home It’s with great sadness that we report the death of John Murray (B: 1944-4) but as recorded in his memorial notice (page x) John left the school a wonderful archive of letters he wrote to his parents in the 1940s. These letters give a unique glimpse of life at the school and we hope you enjoy a selection from John’s first term at Bootham in 1944.

This afternoon I have walked right round one hour. And a committee meeting Upper Schoolroom the city walls, about 3 ½ miles, and saw a sometime next week, so we get a half Autumn Term 1944 barge going through locks on the littelest holiday; we have had one already to river. celebrate Diamond’s Scholarship. 1944 September 21 Dear Mummy, and Daddy, Please could you look around and inside I have got the Meccano Magazine all the desk in my bedroom and send me right. I arrived here at 3 o’clock. We had an hour my scout badge and my enrolment card. to wait in Leeds, so we went to the New (There is no need to tell me the desk’s in a Please could you tell Phyll that I got some Theatre. mess, I know it!) apples on Saturday from the place she told me about. I’ve now unpacked all my things, and Well, I’m very glad Ruth liked the record, have been exploring all the maze of did she get the card I sent her? Half term is in about 2 weeks. How the corridors with David Lawson. We found time flies! Lots of Love From John all sorts of exciting places, including the In a shop in York there is an eliminator Gym. All the luggage, except my bike, Tues 10: P.S. I’ve just got your letter, and which is a little box like thing. You plug arrived on a wagon, after I got here. I met am very sorry to hear about David, how it into the mains, and it brings the mains another boy called Midgely who didn’t awful for him. Your letter came without it voltage down to 2 volts and H.T. Battery know anyone, and we went a walk in the being stamped, so I am sending it back voltage, so that you can run a battery set city. (I think ‘town’ sounds much better.) to you! off the mains, through this machine. It The York train was packed full of soldiers, would be very useful here, and also when and we had to stand in the corridor. I have my piano lessons on Thursd. at 8:30, we return to Cotingham, as it is for AC. I’m writing this letter in the John Bright I like them very much. I practice from It costs 30/-, do you think I could have Library. There are lots of new boys this 12:45 to 1:15 every day (generally)! (please) it for a Christmas present? I’ve set term, and some of the old one’s say “this my heart on it. I even dreampt of it! school will soon be made of all new boys” Love from John xxxx (brats). All the boys are very nice here. I went to Rufforth again yesterday and 1944 October bought a pound of delicious pears for 6d I met Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Green, and gave Dear Mum, from the nurseries there. them your greetings (etc), Mr.Gilbert showed me about and seemed to be Thank you very much for the parcel, I got Love from John. doing 100 things at once! it all right, and it did take me a long time P.S. I did use all my sweet coupons. to undo all the knots! Daddy came here Thanks for the tuck. I’ve just got the I am in bed-room 2, the same one as I on Wednesday, and had dinner here. was in when we came before, and my After dinner we went up the minster parcel. school-number, or just number, is 154. tower, and then went to the station to get I am not at the bottom of the list. I am the 2:55, but Daddy found that he needn’t 1944 (October?) 22 Friday in Mr. Smith’s house, with Lawson and go till 4:58. So we had tea in the city. Dear Mummy, Midgely. As you know, both Lawson and Midgely like messing with electricity! Please will you tell David his letter was Please will you send me my gas-mask. very nice, and I liked all about the sky! Thursday: I had a good night and had my I forgot to tell you that on the say here tablet in the morning, I have got a glass We don’t use any of the same books we saw a place here people were digging of water in the bedroom to take it with. here (as far as I know, I haven’t got them out surface coal. I went for quite a long I am now going to post this letter in the all yet). We generally eat tuck in the bike ride on Thursday; all along masses city. Please send it on to Daddy, Love from afternoons, or at break. Mrs Ward’s cake of roads and turned hundreds of corners. John xxxxxxxxxx was very nice, but it’s all gone now. We went right into the country. The meals here are very good, so the This is only a short letter but I’m writing 1944 October 6 answer to that is yes. again soon. Dear Mum, I played soccer on Monday, and I think Love from xx John xx I’m very sorry I haven’t written befor the boots are a bit too small. now, its very norty of me isn’t it. (puzzle. P.T.O. P.S. Today (Sat) I and another boy find the correct spelling). There is now I got Mr. Ward’s letter, and please will you went in a party with other people, all a JUNIOR SOCIETY in which there is thank him very much indeed. over the Minster. We went into the crypts SCOUTS some people are in dramatics, too and the man told us all about it. Love from John and other things, isn’t it good. The scouts Afterwards, during the service we looked have a patrol room each. I am in Auburn’s after the barrier rope, and only let people (Sandy’s) patrol. 1944 October Sunday through to the service, not the sight-seers. Dear Mum, We went to the very top of the central I have eaten up all the biscuits, etc.? (You square tower too; it costs 6d to go up. know what to do). Thank you very much This afternoon I cycled to Rufforth I’ve been up twice now. This time some for your last letter, it was nice as usual, aerodrome and watched planes landing boys sent gliders off the top. There is a fancy Mr.Ward driving a bus, it must have and taking off over the boundary fence. clock inside the Minster that strikes with 2 been awful going round corners, and very They did go low (naturally!). mechanical men who hold hammers and bumpy! (Mr.Gill can drive much better). There is a quarterly meeting here next hit rods which make the sound. The clock (Don’t tell him!) Sunday but we have only to go for is (I think) called a “Jack clock”. THE END

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1944 October 26 On last Saturday night, (yesterday) a man I have written to Mr.Ward. Dear Mum, called Mr.Hextall-Smith came to talk to us. He’s now a farmer, but five years ago he On Saturday night Dr. Raistrick gave Thank you very much for your letter, but was headmaster of a secondary school. He a lecture to us on lantern slides about I have not changed my mind about the told us why he so suddenly changed from Yorkshire in general, explaining that it was Eliminator. I forgot to tell you, that, as well a schoolmaster, with a good lot of money, really a plateau with dints in where the as changing the current down, you can to be a small farmer on a farm of 93 acres. rivers were. He stayed over the week-end also charge accumulators through it off It was very interesting. here. the A.C.mains. It could be a present from Half term is next Tuesday, that is October I hope everyone is all right at home, and you and daddy and Auntie Ester, etc., all that no one is ill or anything awful. together. 31. If you come over to York for the day, do you think you could bring the ‘Novlart’ What is happening about the cooker I don’t know exactly when half term is yet. outfit from my den? It is (I think) in the and the motor for the fridge? Have they But I’ll tell you when I do. orange box on the left of the gramophone, brought those condensers back that you not behind it. I hope you come. I generally write my letters on Sundays said I could have? and post them on the same day, but I got the parcel safely from Mrs. Uttley, I Love from John sometimes I might post them on Monday. didn’t see her, but Keith put it on my desk, and it was there I found it. Thank you very 1944 November 19 Sunday I’m glad the sprouts were nice, I’m glad I much for the biscuits. (Yum yum). didn’t have them! Dear Mummy, Have you any idea what Daddy would like My football boots are still quite for a Christmas present? I have already Today was another “dispersal meeting”, comfortable. made five Christmas cards. Could you tell which means that we can go where we me who will be at home for Christmas? want. I went to the Methodists near Monk There is no need to send my scout shirt Bar. and corduroy trousers, as we don’t need By the way, I forgot to tell you that the them yet. I’m quite all right and aren’t ill reason why William Penn might have Please will you send my Union Jack. I think at all. sounded a bit ‘Patchy’ is that it was meant it is in the top drawer in my bedroom, or it is in the den. If it’s in the den it most Thank you very much for the stamps. to be an hour play, but was cut down to half an hour by the BBC, so bits had to be likely is in the orange box behind the I’ve got 11/9d left in the bank. There’s so left out. gramophone to the left. many things to buy in a town. I will show you the Eliminator that I want if Last night there was a film show, a talkie, My music is called North, South, East and you come on Tuesday. in the J.B. Library. It was called “Menace at West. It has got tunes in it from all over the Midnight”. There were wireless controlled world. LOVE FROM X JOHN X planes, and all sorts. It was meant to be just after the last war. Love from John. 1944 November 12 Yesterday afternoon we went to Rufforth P.S. Probably you could come here for the Dear Mummy, and saw where a plane had crashed into a day at H. Term. Thank you for your last letter, the eliminator farm-house, and wrecked it all, set the barn works all right so you can forget all your and sheds on fire, and killed three people. 1944 October 29 Sunday doubts about it. One of the plane’s engines (it was a four Dear Mummy, engined one) went on going and landed in After buying all my Christmas presents, the aerodrome oil store, which set on fire We listened to “Willam Penn” on the and my sweet ration, and a plug that’ll fit too. There was bits of plane lying all over, wireless on Wednesday Night here, I’m the mains plugs here for my eliminator, I and bricks, too. There was a ground fog glad you did too. Edward Livesy, the have precisely 0s – 0d (or nothing) left in when it crashed. The pilot thought a lamp producer, is an old Bootham boy. He also the bank and only 6d in my pocket. If you on top of the hanger was the runway light, produces “Country Magazine”. The wireless could send 5/- or so it would last me to the it came in to land and hit the house. we heard it on was a 7 valve one, and it had end of term. two loudspeakers. Love from x John x

53 Memorial Minute to the life of Michael Alwyn Johnson

Michael Johnson in his Michael Alwyn Johnson was born on 12th June Bootham study 1953 1936 and died on 18th February 2020. He was As soon as he was able to gain his Certificate twin brother to Christine who had been born 3 of Education he started his teaching career at days earlier. Their parents were Quakers and so Matthew Bolton College where he become a senior Michael was a birth right Friend. During his long lecturer and taught there for 17 years. life he gave his love, time, skills and energy to the Religious Society of Friends, until ill-health He was then offered an opportunity to return to his no longer made this possible. For most of that old school, Hallfield School, Edgbaston, as Deputy time his Preparative Meeting was Bull Street, Head and remained there until his retirement Birmingham. in 1997. In this role he was far more than just a teacher. He developed the boys through elocution He attended Bournville Infants School and then competitions to memorable productions in front Hallfield School, Edgbaston, but at the age of 13 of parents and others, ski trips to Aviemore in the years his schooling moved to Bootham School, Cairngorms for a period of 33 years with Christine York, while his sister attended The Mount School, and boys from the school, and outings to the York. Birmingham Town Hall for concerts. He and On leaving Bootham School in 1954 Michael went Christine frequently had boys to their home where on to study at Birmingham University’s Faculty his large trainset was very popular. The number of of Commerce where he gained a Bachelor of bereavement cards received by Christine from past Commerce Honours Degree. National Service students, after Michael’s death, were a tribute to then intervened before he could pursue his the significant impact he had on a number of lives. chosen career in the teaching profession. As Not only did his Quakerism inform his life as an a conscientious objector he was directed to educator, but he devoted much of his time to undertake Hospital Service for a period of 2 sustain and nurture the life of the Religious Society years. He chose to become a theatre porter at of Friends in this area. He attended Bull Street Selly Oak Hospital and, later, a porter in the X-ray Meeting from childhood, where he learned to carry department of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which he out simple tasks in the Meeting. These formed his enjoyed. character and desire for greater service as an adult. He became a member of Bootham Old Scholars At 25 he accepted nomination as Clerk to Bull Association and was an active member for the Street Preparative Meeting. Harold Reed, who was rest of his life. The Association worked closely with a very well-known Friend at the time, gave Michael The Mount Old Scholars, holding Joint Reunions, a copy of Advices and Queries in which he had Branch Meetings and Committees with which written “Remember a Clerk departs from accepted both Michael and Christine were closely involved. practice at his peril”. This was very sound advice Michael was on the B.O.S.A. Committee for many which Michael carried with him throughout his years and served as Joint Branch Secretary for the service to the Religious Society of Friends. Midlands Branch with Christine. They took great Shortly before his 30th year he became pleasure in having Old Scholar functions at their Assistant Clerk to Christopher B. Taylor, Clerk of home. Michael became the Branch Liaison Officer Warwickshire Monthly Meeting. This led onto for B.O.S.A, which involved oversight of the other Michael becoming Clerk for a few years. Later on, in Branches. They were always pleased to receive 1998, he again became Clerk following the sudden invitations to attend other Branches up and down resignation of the existing Clerk, and continued the country. Michael enjoyed meeting other Old in this role until December 2000. He was devoted Scholars and renewing friendships. He was elected to his local and Monthly Meetings. He seemed to as President of the Association in recognition of his know everyone at a time when it was not unusual service over an extended period.

54 Old Scholars – Memorial to the life of Michael Alwyn Johnson for 80 or more to be present at Monthly Meetings. Among the letters of condolence there are two, in Yearly Meeting held no attraction for him. particular, which describe the affection and respect in which he was held. The first is from Michael He believed it was the Clerk’s duty to complete Darby who served as an Assistant Clerk to Michael Monthly Meeting business in a quick and orderly at Monthly Meeting: fashion. One of his inspired ploys was to ask those who were making the tea to rattle the teacups “He set a high standard for the preparation of the loudly in order to encourage the Meeting to wind- agenda and we managed pretty well between us. up on time. It was not hard work provided that we did it in a thorough way and, of course, we had Olive Phipps He was also an Elder and Convenor of Elders at to guide us. But it was fun too. I shall remember Bull Street for many years. He was appointed to Michael with affection and for the times we met Bull Street’s Properties Management Committee and his leadership and service to our beloved and, later, became Clerk/Convenor. Bull Street Society of Friends. These have been both a strength Meeting House was refurbished and the very and enjoyment for me and for which I am glad and successful Priory Rooms developed during his grateful.” Clerkship. This was a major task and now stands as the most visible evidence of the care, effort, The second quote is from Diana and John Lampen: patience and determination he brought to the task. “We chuckle when we recall Michael as Clerk of Some Friends were not happy with Quakers being Monthly Meeting saying, ‘I’ve ordered the horses involved in business and there was, it must be said, and carriages for 8.30’.” ill-feeling among Friends at the time, but in spite of these difficulties he always looked for the good in Friends will remember Michael for his kindness and everyone. The refurbishment of Bull Street Meeting his sense of humour, mischievous at times, as when House and the establishment of the Priory Rooms he sported a bow tie at his last Monthly Meeting as have put Central England Quakers in a most secure Clerk in 2000. He was far from being a dour Quaker; financial position for which we are most grateful. he was an amusing person to know who had a ready store of anecdotes to share with a twinkling Later, after 68 years at Bull Street, and with great smile. He was a most supportive Friend and he is sadness, Michael decided it was necessary to move greatly missed. on. He visited most of the Meetings in the area and offered support to weak or small Meetings, Christine Johnson, including Redditch Meeting which had moved Barnt Green out of its Meeting House and was meeting in and Redditch Meeting rented accommodation in the Town Centre and, Barry Stimpson once a month, at Barnt Green Meeting. With the Barnt Green encouragement of Michael and Christine numbers and Redditch Meeting increased and the two Meetings merged, meeting Tricia Bradbury at Barnt Green Meeting House. This was where Stourbridge Meeting Michael settled and was an Elder and Overseer Edward Creasy before ill health intervened. Warwick Meeting.

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Thomas (Noel) Kingsley Allan (B: 1947-51) He was then persuaded to become a community development officer in South Wales where he spent six years supporting It is with great sadness that we report the death of Noel Allan on disadvantaged residents at Public Inquiries on Town Planning 14 March 2020. issues, teaching children photography, producing a community Noel Allan was born in Stocksfield and newspaper and organising local action groups aimed at spent his early years kayaking waterways diminishing inequity. around Northumberland and riding In 1982 Steve returned to Cambridge, this time to study his pony. He won a scholarship from Economics. He met Deborah Mitchell, an Australian student, and Newcastle Preparatory School, to they married in York in 1984. After Steve completed his PhD at Bootham. He excelled at tennis and the University of Warwick, they moved to Canberra and had two after his A Levels he gained a place at daughters, Helen and Lydia. Newcastle University to read Medicine. On graduating, he joined the Royal Army Steve’s research interests ranged from industrial relations Medical Corps for his National Service. exploring bargaining between unions and oligopolies and income He was employed by the Falkland convergence concerned with the analysis of economic growth Islands Dependecy Service where he sources and income convergence across countries. worked as an expedition doctor and researcher. He lived near Hope Bay in a modest hut where his medical abilities were John Elliott (B: 1961-63) reported in the press when he removed a colleague’s appendix, Dr John Elliott was born in Britain and moved to Singapore using the kitchen table to perform the operation. at the age of 4, but was educated in England. He attended Back in the UK, he became a cardiac surgeon but, after witnessing Bootham School in York, leaving in 1963. He entered Clare his mother’s early death from breast cancer, switched to radiology College, Cambridge with an Exhibition in Natural Sciences and and moved to Bristol with his wife and two small daughters. He obtained a degree in Experimental Psychology in 1967. He went was interested in teaching, research and practice and joined on to obtain a doctorate from Sheffield University in 1975, then Michigan University. After emigrating to the US he continued to joined the faculty at Sheffield where he was a lecturer from practice and teach medicine in Michigan, Texas, California and 1976 to 1988. He returned to Singapore, where in 1986 he was a Washington. His passions included spending time with his family, founding member of the psychology programme at the National hiking and camping, gardening, enjoying the arts and reading. University of Singapore (NUS), and was instrumental in shaping Latterly, he worked in a veterans’ hospital near Tacoma, as well as that programme. He remained on the faculty until his retirement being part time assistant professor of radiology at the University in 2018. of Washington. John was warm and enthusiastic about life and is fondly He will be remembered for his infectious sense of humour, remembered as a caring educator, a dignified and kind intellect and love of Natural History. He is survived by his wife gentleman and a fine friend with a wry sense of humour. He was Claudia, his children Karine Terenzi and Noella Allan-Rosher, step married to Myra Elliott, a dental surgeon. They have two children, children Darcy Baker and David Brown, 8 grandchildren and his Fred and Clare. He died in Singapore of prostate cancer, aged 74. sister, Margaret Memories of John always include his pythons. He kept them in all stages of his life. In his teenage years at Bootham he charged Michael Kingsley Allan (B: 1954-58) fellow students to watch his python eating a meal (a mouse). It is with sadness that we report the death of Michael Allan on 19 At Clare he kept a python in his digs on Castle Street. There January 2020. he also would enthusiastically seek out and share inexpensive fine sherries, play his cello, and conduct experiments on all He attended Bootham where he enjoyed playing hockey comers with his foot-tickling machine to aid his research in this and cycling around York with friends. A highlight was his under-appreciated field of study. He kept a python at home in confirmation by Archbishop Michael Ramsay. Singapore, which now survives him. After leaving school and further studies he became articled to his He became passionate about orchids. John was the President father as a chartered accountant. Once qualified he was invited of the Orchid Society of SE Asia and Editor of the Malayan to join the family business, T and G Allan, and in due course he Orchid Review. He chaired the 20th World Orchid Conference in became a director. Unfortunately, ill health forced him to give up Singapore in 2011. He worked on the exhibit at the Chelsea Flower his directorship but he was then able to support his elderly father Show this year despite his illness. He enjoyed classic cars and was and raise funds for Christian Aid and the British Legion. For many the proud owner of a 1962 Volvo sports car. years he was a church warden for St Peter’s church in Bywell. He also pursued studies in ornithology and other interests through He served part time as a Research Fellow for the Bioethics the U3A. Advisory Committee at NUS. He was an Sadly, he had a serious car accident in August 2019 which left him Academic Advisor with poor health. to the UK Open University Psychology Stephen Dowrick (B: 1966-70) degree programme Stephen Dowrick died on 3 August 2013 from brain cancer. He in Singapore. He also became one of Australia’s finest economists and published served on Singapore’s influential and path-breaking papers in the world’s leading National Medical economic journals. Ethics Committee and After leaving Bootham he undertook volunteer work for a year National Bioethics at Blackfriar’s Settlement, Southwark, in London, where his Advisory Committee. He job was driving a van for a project named Workshop for the served on Singapore’s Disabled. He then went on to study Natural Sciences at Churchill Childrens’ Society College, Cambridge. He participated in social and political justice Executive Committee campaigns and was eventually suspended indefinitely from and chaired its classes for obstructing a visit to Cambridge by the President of Research Committee. the Greek ‘Junta’, the activity of which offended Steve morally and ethically.

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Leeds University Film Unit and then as an independent producer, took him all over the world including Lebanon, Libya, Syria Ghana and India , as well as local locations. His stories about his travels and adventures are legendary as many will have seen in the talks and screenings he gave to local organisations. Several of the films he made are held in the Yorkshire Film Archive and are available to view on line. John was an avid conservationist, and a well- known figure seen cycling Rebecca Kennedy (B: 1996-2003) around his home town and beyond, using the car only Rebecca (Bex to her friends) passed away on the 22nd March when absolutely necessary. this year after a short battle with sepsis. Her immune system He had many and varied couldn’t cope. She died peacefully in the arms of her parents at interests which he pursued York District Hospital. She was only 35 and she lived in her own with energy and unfailing good humour. These included Sustrans house on Bishopthorpe road where she had many happy times (Sustainable Transport) cycling organisation, he was a keen with her friends and family. All of our children went to Bootham European and supported many conservation organisations. John school and she is sadly missed by Fraser, Sophie and Lucy. She was a founder member of the Honley Village Community Trust, a had some great teachers and many treasured memories of her winner of the Queens Award for Voluntary Organisations and was time there. She went on to complete a Psychology degree at still a member of the management committee at the time of his Hull University. She always did her best despite having to live death. For many years he was the editor of the Honley Flyer, the with Ataxia. Her favourite time was at Christmas with a glass of newsletter of the Trust and only retired from that post at the age champagne in her hand laughing and joking and throwing her of 87 when as he put it, he kept falling asleep at the keyboard! magic reindeer food all over her brother and sisters. We miss her every moment of every day. John left his wife Marcia, 3 children from his first marriage and 2 Graham Kennedy stepchildren. His memory is a blessing to all who knew him. John Seares Murray (B: 1944-1949) Born in Birmingham on Alfred (John) Rowntree (B: 1958-61) 12th April 1931 John’s It is with great sadness that we note the death of John Rowntree parents were Albert (Bootham 1958-61) on 12 July 2020. Victor MURRAY a After leaving Bootham at the age of 17, John worked as a manager theologian and President at John Lewis for some years, at Newcastle, Southsea and London. of Cheshunt Theological He then had a lengthy career with the Citizens Advice Bureau. Training College in He appeared to enjoy his managerial role and advising people. In Cambridge during and retirement John returned to Leyburn, North Yorkshire. He loved after the war. He wrote the rural surroundings of Wensleydale. He devoted his retirement a number theological to charity and voluntary work and was a member of the local books. Rotary Club. He will be sadly missed by his partner, Rodrigo, and John’s mother Winifred his family and friends. Seares (MURRAY) got a first class honours degree Lili Sarnyai (B: 2000-04) in Science at Manchester University, (unusual for women at the time!) During the war the family moved to Grassington in the Dales, and it was from there he attended Bootham School as a boarder. John held a regular correspondence with his parents and many of his letters written about his time at Bootham can be found in the school archives and paint a vivid picture of life at the school in the 1940s. John who would be the first to agree he was not an academic, preferred the more practical approach to life. He moved to Honley in Holmfirth as a young man in the early 60’s, having already begun what was to be a life-long career in the media. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Lili Sarnyai. Lili After national service in the RAF John went to Cambridge was an ultra-trail runner, living in Geneva. She was training for the University from where his interest in the media began to take Swiss Peaks Ultra when she fatally slipped and fell from a high cliff shape on Varsity Magazine. While at Cambridge he won a in the Valais-Aigle-Villar area. Her family and friends remember photographic competition run by the prestigious Picture Post her as someone full of life who found joy in small and great things Magazine and was recruited to their staff upon graduation. And alike. She loved Switzerland and its mountains and running the he was off as they say. The rest of his life his love of photography trails under the endless blue skies was her life. continued and developed into film and video production. His work filming documentaries for Yorkshire Film Company and

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Timothy Pickles (B: 1965-70) Framework, a UK management consultancy group where he specialised in training and organisational development. From Although a Yorkshireman, Tim Pickles had a lifelong love of the here, he was invited to become Communities Best Practice Lake District with a home in Keswick for most of his adult life. Director at Sift, a pioneering tech company based in Bristol, His passion for the fells was reflected not only in his walking and founded both online communities trainingzone.co.uk and and climbing expertise but also in his writings about the hrzone.co.uk whilst there. area. Throughout his varied career – from youth social work to management consultancy and Interfaith ministry – he was also Following a decision in 2005 to work less, Tim retrained as an equally passionate about supporting the LGBTI community. Interfaith Minister and practised as a spiritual counsellor with the Sacred Space Foundation. He also trained as a shiatsu therapist Tim, who died suddenly but peacefully in Thailand where he and in Bangkok, Thailand. He became a Professional Practice Adviser his husband spent the winter months, was born in 1952 in Ilkley, to the Interfaith Ministers Association and also Chair and Director Yorkshire, to Charles, a solicitor, and May, a keen local historian. It of Male Journey Ltd, a charity dedicated to providing ‘Rites of was family caravanning holidays, with his younger sister, Helen, Passage’ for men. Tim provided services to various communities to the Lake District that instilled his love of the area – despite as an ordained minister, and as a mentor and teacher. In the fact these holidays were frequently wet, cold and required between, he loved writing opinion pieces, reflections, blogs and farmers’ tractors to rescue the caravan from muddy fields. contributing to books. Tim described his recent path as one of Like his father, Tim joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club as a contemplative mysticism, balancing action with humanity in the young man becoming an active and valued member, including community with the stillness of personal contemplation. Vice President from 2005 to 2007, and co-editing their well- For over 40 years Tim was active in addressing the impact regarded guide book ‘The Lakeland Fells’. Fit and active, he of discrimination on the LGBTI community and supporting was not only an accomplished fell-walker and rock-climber – individuals within it. While working in Glasgow he met his completing the Munros in 1992 when just 40 – but also enjoyed first long-term partner, Alan Brown, the two enjoying a 15-year canoeing, ski-touring, cycling and – perhaps surprisingly – croquet partnership and dividing their time between Lenzie, near But his interests were not just confined to outdoors activities. Glasgow, and Keswick. They maintained their friendship after it He loved travelling and exploring, theatre and film – was part of ended in 2002. Tim began to travel more, particularly to Thailand the Keswick Street Players, a volunteer at Keswick’s Theatre by where he met Sittichai Pumpo, or Aod as he is known to friends, the Lake and a member of the Keswick Film Club – and regularly in 2011. Aod moved to Keswick in 2013 and in May the following attended a book club. His book collection demonstrates his year, Tim and Aod were married, becoming the first same-sex passion for antiquarian books and maps. Tim was also a Quaker couple to be married in a Quaker Meeting House in the UK. The for most of his adult life, and regularly attended the Keswick Marriage Act had received Royal Assent in England only weeks Meeting House. before. Tim and Aod bought a house in Sam Kamphaeng near After graduating from Bristol University with an honours degree Chiang Mai in northern Thailand and had spent several months in geography and a PGCE certificate, he began work as a teacher there each winter. It was here that Tim died, unexpectedly but at his former Ilkley school, Ghyll Royd, later becoming an peacefully. He was given a Thai Buddhist funeral where Aod was associate lecturer at Bristol School of Education. From 1974 to joined by his sister, Helen, and close friends Penny, Alan and 1979 he co-ordinated youth social work activities with a Bristol- Stephen. Tim’s ashes will be brought back to St Olaf’s church in based organisation, Venture 12, before moving to Newcastle as Wasdale to be scattered alongside those of his parents. Director and Head of Programmes with North East Work Trust. Tim Pickles was born on 4th November 1952 in Ilkley, Yorkshire. In 1985 he moved to Glasgow as youth policy consultant for Save He died on 1st February 2018 of a heart condition, aged 65. the Children before, in 1989, making a career change and joining

58 Deaths notified to the Trust Office since the last edition of Bootham Magazine

Name Bootham Dates Date of Death

Richard Pulfrey 1952-55 11/12/19 Barry Smith Teacher 1981-93 23/1/20 Timothy Pickles 1965-70 1/2/18 Stephen Dowrick 1966-70 3/8/13 William Whittaker 1963-68 30/11/14 John Nathaniel Rachkind 1966-70 24/6/19 Roger Blackshaw 1940-42 7/2015 Michael Johnson 1949-54 18/2/20 Thomas (Leslie) Pumphrey 1945-49 13/10/19 Michael Kingsley Allan 1954-58 19/1/20 John Elliott 1961-63 13/12/19 Fletcher Nicholson 1950-54 16/3/20 Rebecca Kennedy 1996-2003 2020 John Duerden 1953-58 4/5/20 Bernard Blackburn 1958-61 15/5/20 Richard Rylands 1942-45 25/3/20 Paul Murdoch 1963-68 John Sears Murray 1944-49 20/5/20 (James) Guy Hirst 1952-56 15/4/20 Alfred (John) Rowntree 1958-61 12/7/20 Lili Sarnyai 2000-04 6/8/20 Nigel Laird 1947-53 31/8/20 Philip Morris Teacher 1981-83 7/20 Thomas (Noel) Kingsley Allan 1947-51 14/3/20

59 Memories of an Old Scholar: Julian Doull

Bootham Staff 1972

Having received the 2019 edition of the Bootham magazine, I was of course sorry to hear of Ken Wood’s death – a man who taught me a great deal, not least a Lincolnshire expression which I still use to this day but which is definitely not fit to be consigned to print. My 2:1 (Hons) from Liverpool University in 1978 is due in no small part to Ken’s teaching and guidance, and also that of the (possibly forgotten) Siegfried Reiter, who came to us from Graz in Austria for our College II year on an exchange with Ken and who seemed to exist on a diet of apples and nothing else.

But when I turned to Ken’s obituary page and saw the • Gordon Pullin taught me Latin and led our school 1972 staff photo I was literally stopped in my tracks trip to Rome, a city I have loved more than almost and transported back the best part of 50 years. What a any other ever since and have frequently revisited, picture! A few memories, if I may, which I know some of especially over the last 10 years or so. my contemporaries will share: • Cyril Rankin. A small group of us (mainly Simon • Ken himself, a lovely, gentle and very shy man but with Dunmore and myself) were moved across from the a wicked sense of humour. main buildings to Penn House much earlier than would normally be the case, and from then until the • Gerard “Fritz” Wakeman was great fun with an end of our time at Bootham we had the privilege of impressive barking voice. a small dormitory (3 or, at one point, 4) and our own • John “Spike” Hawthorne (with an e!). One of our A level private bathroom: luxury or what? French teachers. He wanted to borrow a very rare book • Ed Simmonds was more prominent in my earlier years, from one of the libraries in York to show to us, and said very old school but I have to say that his wife Elizabeth that he was sure that the librarian would agree to that. made the most fabulous Scotch pancakes – ever We asked him why he was so confident, to which he since then, I have judged all Scotch pancakes by her replied “I’m the librarian.”. standard, and all have been found wanting. • Michael Allen never taught me directly but in his • Fred Legg, David Champion (DYC) and Clifford Smith senior position was such an influence across the never taught me directly but, again, were influential – if school. I have so enjoyed reading his articles over the a teacher was unexpectedly absent through illness or years – most of them obituaries, sadly, but still bringing whatever, one or other of them would take the class back many memories. and simply tell stories of the history of the school and/ • Harry Mason. This may be a bit of a school legend, but or their own life experiences. All of them were great I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared of anyone in my raconteurs. life. I couldn’t swim, I was terrified of water and the • Michael Foad was such fun, an emotionally devoted more poor Harry tried (he was a bit strict, to be fair) the lover of classical music who instilled in me my own worse things got. In the end he just gave up and told love of the genre, which lasts to this day – every week my contemporary Adrian Gray (son of John, front and the Sunday Times asks an interviewee for an ideal centre in the photo, and brother of Patrick) to teach dinner guest list, and mine are Winston Churchill, me. I swam my first length within a week. Ludwig van Beethoven and Sir Kenny Dalglish.

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(If you didn’t know much about me before that, you do indeed, later years, and for me this was definitely now!) My main memory of Michael, though, is as the Peter. The man inspired me from a very early age and, musical director of our 1972 College I/Mount annual I suspect, probably still does to this day. He taught production, “Patience” – delayed by several months me more than I can say about English language and because of the miners’ strike and coal shortages but literature, guiding me through both O and A levels still judged to have been a great success. I still have and working very closely with me as the producer of the programme signed by everyone who was in it and “Patience”. I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say that plenty who weren’t. he was a surrogate father for me throughout my time at Bootham – on one occasion I overheard Cyril Rankin • Clifford Smith (again). When I arrived at Bootham remark to someone that “that boy gets more and more in September 1968 as a tiny, frightened and very like Peter Heywood with every day that goes by”. To say homesick little boy, Clifford was the first teacher I met. that I turned red would be an understatement. Peter From that first moment on he was without fail a kind and Brenda were kind enough to invite me to their and sympathetic guiding light who never let me down. home when I was at Bootham and for several years I have seen at least one Times obituary citing him as an afterwards so I also got to know Jeremy and Simon. early inspiration, and this is no surprise at all. As luck I well remember a friendly argument with Jeremy (7 would have it, in later years he became a neighbour years younger than I was) as to whether or not I had and good friend of my late uncle Sidney Steel, himself a signed their visitors’ book on a previous occasion – he York council member for some years: the last time I saw won, of course! It was a great pleasure to follow his Clifford was a year or so before he died, at the funeral of career for so many years, and so sad when he died at Sidney’s wife – the years just fell away and we chatted such a young age: Michael Allen’s obituary in Bootham for ages. couldn’t be bettered, and the photo of Peter, Jeremy • Finally, Peter Heywood. People talk of “my” teacher and Simon on Westminster Bridge (again, taken during as being a major influence on their formative and, my time at the school) was a pleasure to see.

Ken Wood Gerard Wakeman Peter Heywood Fred Legg Bootham late 1960s

Michael Allen Clifford Smith David Champion

John Hawthorne and Cyril Rankin

Leavers 1972 including Fred Legg, Ed Simmonds and Harry Mason (front row)

Farewell to Michael and Anne Foad March 1975 Leavers 1973 including Gordon Pullin

61 Proud of Bootham? Help us shout about it!

Bootham is grateful for the donations, from generations of Old Scholars, parents, staff and supporters, which have helped us build our school and community. We are holding our first Giving Day on 16 March 2021 to celebrate our pride in our community and raise money for:

• Richard Burton Music Scholarship What’s required? • Equipment for the Sports Fitness Suite • Mainly your help to disseminate messages from the Development team on 16 March to your Bootham • Renovation of some of our boarding rooms with the networks via social media and email. opportunity for groups (whether family, year or boarding) to come together and sponsor rooms • We’ll send you all you need and just ask that you share it with your contacts. If you’re able to reach out to We will be holding Bootham’s first Giving Day, which will friends who might like to also be ambassadors on the have as its theme, Bootham Proud (#BoothamProud). day, we’d be thrilled if you could, and we can help with Giving Days are events that a small but increasing number the comms around this of schools and universities in the UK are organising • We will also plan social media activities for 16 March to celebrate their alma maters as part of their annual that you could be involved in beforehand and on the fundraising efforts. day – selfies, short videos, etc – which you share with us We believe that Bootham’s longstanding Quaker ethos, to use in our messages, and which you ideally would embodied most visibly in our the quality of our education share on your main social media channels, where programme and strength of our community – along with appropriate. so much more – is something that the entire Bootham Our combined creativity and sense community can be extremely proud of and delighted to of fun will make Bootham’s celebrate. first Giving Day a guaranteed We are looking for Giving Day Ambassadors – Old Scholars, success, so we look forward staff members and parents past and present – to help us to your help in showing get the word out and help make this a success, and we’d why we we’re all love have many of you support us in doing this. #BoothamProud! PROUD

62 Bootham Proud, School Reunions 2021

Reunion Weekend Programme - Friday 7 May – Sunday 9 May School Friday 7 May Proud of 6.30-8.30pm Buffet Supper - Staff Dining Room Bootham School welcomes you back with a delicious Reunions ‘21 informal buffet supper in the Staff Dining Room at Bootham School. You and your significant other are These are provisional dates for Reunions 2021 but invited to catch up with fellow Old Scholars from both are obviously subject to any relevant regulations at The Mount and Bootham Schools. Please RSVP online to reserve a plate! the time. We will keep in touch with you via email RSVP at www.oldscholars.boothamschool.com/event/ and social media. fridaybuffet Later in the evening Old Scholars will be meeting in We are planning some alternative, on-line, events. the Ye Olde Starre Inne, Stonegate. Bootham? Look out for emails and social media posts from Elaine Phillips and Robbie Millar. 8.30pm School buildings close – no overnight parking on site Saturday 13 March 2021 Saturday 8 May Sports Reunion 9.00am Reflect 30 Dig out those old boots, trainers and shorts and join us for a Thirty minutes of silent meeting with Bootham staff range of sporting activities throughout the day. Basketball and parents. All Old Scholars are welcome to attend. tips off at 11 am in the sports hall, with 7-aside football Followed by coffee in the Dining Room 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, 9.45am AGM in the Auditorium everyone is welcome especially spectators. The Old Scholars need as much support as we can get! 10.30am Coffee in the Dining Room with past & present Contact Robbie Millar ([email protected]) members of staff Tel 07770 600144, if you would like to play. 11.15am Address from the Head, Chris Jeffery, in the Friday 7 May – Saturday 8 May 2021 Auditorium See separate programme. 11.30am Head Reeves’ speech in the Auditorium

Date to be confirmed 11.45am Tours of the school London Reunion 12.45pm Lunch in the Dining Hall The Antelope in Belgravia, 6.30pm – 8.30pm. 1.15pm Sporting fixtures will begin. Come along and cheer Early September 2021 on current students as they play tennis at 1.15pm and cricket at 1.30pm; it’s your chance to relax and enjoy Celebration with College leavers. Look out for forthcoming the sporting atmosphere! information on the website and by email. 2pm Swimming Gala in the pool, Old Scholars v current Reflect 30 at Bootham students We are holding virtual Reflect 30 meetings in the Spring Term and will advise you of the Summer Programme via 3pm - 3.45pm The Old Scholar Big Splash - the pool and the social media. inflatables will be made available to Old Scholars and their families for some splashy fun 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 3.45pm - The Legendary Afternoon Tea in the Dining Room Bootham, as well as current parents) who want to explore a 4.30pm little of the benefits of Quaker silence and ideas. It will last 30 minutes, starting at 9am. There may be a few thoughts 5pm School buildings close offered by a member of our community, but plenty of time for reflection and refreshment…a little oasis of calm During the afternoon on Saturday, Old Scholars will be able to at the end of a busy week, as well as the chance to sample explore the school and grounds, but will be expected to wear a something of what our students experience here, and, in so name badge at all times when on site. many cases, grow to really value. Everyone is welcome to join us via: PARKING AT BOOTHAM ON SATURDAY https://portal.boothamschool.com/moodle/course/ Parking will be available to Old Scholars from 11.30am on Saturday view.php?id=989 morning, and cars can be left overnight, preferably in parking Saturday 9 January 2021 bays. Any cars which are left on the playground are done so at the Saturday 6 Feburary 2021 owners’ risk. The School site will be locked up promptly at 11pm on Saturday 6 March 2021 Saturday evening, any cars left in the car park will not be able to be Saturday 20 March 2021 removed until Sunday morning at 8am.

Bootham Old Scholars’ Events 2021 Sunday 9 May A warm greeting to all Old Scholars! Are you a Reunion 10.30am Old Scholars are very welcome to attend Friargate regular? Or maybe you haven’t been back to Bootham for a Meeting Reunion for a few years? Either way, there’s plenty going on in 2021 to enjoy and experience with your old friends, as well We would really appreciate your help in re-connecting with as many as the chance to make new ones! Old Scholars as possible, especially with the Bi-Centenery in 2023 approaching. If you know of anyone we may have lost touch with Take a look at what’s in store this year with please do ask them to get in touch with us, we’d love to catch up. 2021 Reunion programme.

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