74 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF YORK AND DISTRICT 



Queen Anne School (Girls). — The school is provided with three well- 

 equipped laboratories for chemistry, physics and botany, respectively, 

 and the curriculum includes a substantial course of science as part of the 

 general education of every pupil. Chemistry or botany, or both, are 

 taken by the entrants for the First School Examination, the necessary 

 physics and biology being included in the work of the lower forms. 

 Those who show taste and aptitude for science proceed to an advanced 

 course which includes botany, chemistry, physics and mathematics. 

 State scholarships in science were won in 1929 and 1931. The objective 

 of the science curriculum is to train the girls to understand and to apply 

 the methods of scientific reasoning and investigation and to appreciate 

 the wide field of interest opened out by the study of natural science. 



Mill Mount School (Girls). — There is at present one science laboratory, 

 for chemistry, physics and botany. A new laboratory, for biology and 

 physics, is included in the plan of extensions that are to be proceeded 

 with as soon as the official sanction recently applied for has been received. 



The fourth form take chemistry and botany in the syllabus for the 

 School Certificate Examination of the Joint Board of the Northern 

 Universities. 



The science pupils in the fifth and sixth forms take chemistry, botany 

 and physics, generally grouped with mathematics for the Higher School 

 Certificate Examination. 



In the first three years the science part of the curriculum is devoted 

 to the preliminary stages. The science side of the school is being built 

 up by the gradual substitution of biology for botany in the second year. 



Nunthorpe School (Boys). — ^At this school there are four laboratories, 

 the last having recently been provided for advanced physics. The 

 ordinary school course in science is one of four years and leads up to the 

 School Certificate Examination in chemistry and physics conducted by 

 the Joint Board of the Northern Universities. The boys of the fifth 

 and sixth forms taking the advanced course in science and mathematics, 

 study chemistry and physics according to the syllabus of the Higher 

 School Certificate Examination. 



Apart from the formal work in classroom and laboratory there is a 

 school Scientific Society which hears lectures delivered by visitors or 

 by the pupils themselves, holds discussions, and arranges visits to places 

 of scientific interest. 



So far as the public elementary schools are concerned, a general science 

 training is provided for in the curricula of the higher grade (central 

 selective) and senior (central non-selective) schools. For the use of 

 science classes in the higher grade schools six laboratories have been 

 provided within the past few years, and the scholars of one of the schools 

 have the privilege of using a laboratory on adjoining premises. All the 

 seven senior schools have either had laboratories provided or rooms 

 adapted for the purpose. 



Diocesan Training College (St. John's). — Those students who wish 

 to take advanced science can choose between a two-year course in advanced 

 chemistry and a similar course in advanced physics, both these courses 

 being based upon practical work in the college laboratories. There is 



