TWO students who struggled to find a good GCSE revision guide for their favourite subject have found a solution to the problem, by creating their own book.

GCSE astronomy students, Thomas Gray and James Haynes, who attend Bootham School in York, are now selling the book, called ‘GCSE Astronomy: A guide designed by students for students’, online.

Chris Jeffery, the school’s headmaster, said: “Tom and James had just taken their GCSE’s and rather than moaning about a lack of good commercially available revision material, they decided to be their own solution to the problem.

"I’m very proud to have joined a school where students show such remarkable confidence and generosity of spirit.”

Tom and James are now helping to tutor the current groups of students studying astronomy. James said: “We’re keen to ensure that the enthusiasts following in our footsteps can achieve their very best.”

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Russell Newlands, who teaches astronomy GCSE at Bootham, added: “We have offered astronomy at public examination level as one of our enrichment activities for some years.

“We also offer astronomy GCSE to students from other local schools as part of the York Independent State School Partnership, and are really excited to work with about five per cent of the national student body taking astronomy GCSE.”