EDUCATION IN YORK 73 



to the school certificate and matriculation standard, and it is hoped to 

 add physics to the curriculum next year. 



In the lower forms the boys take chemistry, physics, biology, nature 

 study, elementary zoology and botany, and practical gardening. 



The School Natural History Society was founded in 1834, and has 

 had a continued and successful career, producing many eminent scientists 

 and field naturalists. It has regular meetings in winter and will shortly 

 hold its Sooth meeting. In summer many excursions are arranged. 



The Mount School (Girls). — There is one laboratory at this school, 

 and an observatory with an excellent telescope which is found of great 

 assistance in certain scientific studies. 



Biology is now being substituted for botany as the main science subject 

 up to the school certificate standard. Those pupils who so desire will 

 take chemistry in addition, but in any case work in elementary physics 

 and chemistry is included in the biology course. The work after matri- 

 culation is arranged according to the needs of the individual, whether 

 working for College Entrance, Higher Certificate, or the first M.B. 

 examination. 



Girls who are taking advanced physics join classes at Bootham School. 

 Pupils proceeding to careers such as those of nursing, physical training 

 or massage often take a general course for one or two years after matri- 

 culation, and this course may include zoology, botany, mechanics, or 

 anatomy. 



A Scientific Society organised by staff and pupils gives opportunities 

 for out-of-school work in natural history, field botany and scientific 

 experiment. Meteorology is part of the work of the Scientific Society, 

 and records taken in the observatory are kept. 



Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School (Boys). — The science work at 

 this school includes nature study and general elementary science in the 

 junior school ; physics, pure and applied mathematics, inorganic and 

 organic chemistry in the middle and upper forms. The standard reached 

 is that of the Higher School Certificate of the Northern Universities 

 and the Intermediate Science of the London University. Scholarships 

 or exhibitions in mathematics and science have been gained directly 

 from the school to Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Shefiield and Edinburgh 

 universities. 



Bar Convent Secondary School (Girls). — At this school there is one 

 laboratory for science subjects. In the fourth and fifth forms the science 

 syllabus of the School Certificate Examination of the Joint Board of 

 the Northern Universities is followed, covering chemistry, physics and 

 botany. In the lower forms the curriculum gives a progressive course 

 in elementary science. 



York College for Girls. — There is one laboratory at this school for 

 chemistry and physics, and pure and applied mathematics are taken to 

 the stage of the Higher School Certificate of the Joint Board of the 

 Northern Universities. Physics is taken to the subsidiary stage of the 

 same examination. One of the advanced courses conducted on the 

 lines of those recognised in other secondary schools by the Board of 

 Education is in science and mathematics. 



