PUPILS at a York independent school are bringing natural history to book Natural History At Bootham – The Early Years is the title of the book launched at Bootham School.
Published in partnership with The Sessions Book Trust, it marks 175 years of the school’s Natural History Society – the oldest, continuously running, school science society in the country and probably the world. Headmaster Jonathan Taylor, said: “This claim goes back to the mists of time. “Bootham’s headmaster of the period, John Ford, was a keen educational theorist and was in contact with and the illustrious Matthew Arnold, famous 19th century headmaster of Rugby School. “Although the two disagreed on the commonly held view that intellectual and moral excellence were necessarily found together, Ford was keen to see that education covered more than learning the classics by rote and following elaborate systems of rules. Ford encouraged the then newly popular study of the natural sciences to flourish at Bootham, and in the age of Darwinism, the Natural History Society at Bootham took root.”
The book, priced £12, is available from Amazon.com or from Bootham School. Phone Jane Peake on 01904 623261.
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