We are very excited at Bootham this week, as we are launching our first ever teaching group for edexcel's astronomy course. We're running the course over two years, at two hours per week on Wednesdays and Fridays, using the school's extra-curricular activity slot to make the necessary time available. as an additional bit of adventurous living, we have opened the class to three different year-groups in the school, so that we can try out vertical teaching with students of different ages working together. The course is being delivered by Russell Newlands, who specialises in space-science and cosmology, and Mike Shaw, who will take on planetary science and astrobiology. Other parts of the course (celestial trig, observational practice etc) are being shared out between the two. Our first group comprises around a dozen students, chosen by competition from a large field of applicants.
If you are not currently a student at Bootham and would like to know more about our entry requirements, contact us via the main school website (click on the badge at the top of this page).
