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This site is intended for anyone interested in astronomy, and particularly anyone who would like to be a member of the Bootham School Astronomy Society. This membership is available to all members of the Bootham community, and students from other York schools who have attended the ISSP course on astronomy at Bootham. If you choose to subscribe by email, you will receive an email of any new post within about twenty four hours. There will also be twitter updates before an observatory session, and you are recommended to follow me on twitter using the button on the right of this screen.

Monday 10 September 2018

New academic year, new ISSP groups!

As we enter a brand-new academic year, I hope to get this blog going again by enrolling the help of the students taking GCSE astronomy at Bootham.

This year, 32 new GCSE students for the course have been enrolled. This makes Bootham one of, if not the largest centres for this subject in the world! Although we are thrilled to have seen the many successful results of our last intake, our intention has always been to foster a real love of the subject, develop some practical skills and observational habits. Getting an A*, an A or a B as the vast majority of last year's 30 students managed to do is a byproduct, rather than an aim of our teaching.

We begin teaching again on Weds 12th September - I can't wait to meet everyone!