This film, made by Bootham School in York, documents lessons and activities undertaken by students during an academic year. Activities include maintaining the school grounds, playing sports and a garden party. There are also snippets from classes such as biology, chemistry and wood work. Title - Bootham. A young boy walks along outside the school building. A close up then shows a clock before a bell is shown ringing. Boys then rush from the dormitory buildings, through the garden and into...

This film, made by Bootham School in York, documents lessons and activities undertaken by students during an academic year. Activities include maintaining the school grounds, playing sports and a garden party. There are also snippets from classes such as biology, chemistry and wood work. Title - Bootham. A young boy walks along outside the school building. A close up then shows a clock before a bell is shown ringing. Boys then rush from the dormitory buildings, through the garden and into another building in the grounds. A shot shows one boy making his bed. Male pupils stand in a line in room, waiting to be weighed; one boy then stands on the scales before his height is measured. An older student stands behind the counter in a supplies shop. A younger student approaches and writes his name on a piece of paper, before being issued with a set of exercise books by the older student. Students are then shown working at their desks and one boy goes over to talk to his friend. The boy then looks out the window and points something out to his fellow student. More shots capture pupils studying in a chemistry lesson, followed by a biology lesson, which involves pupils dissecting frogs. The students then rush past the camera and into the school yard, where they each take a piece of bread from a basket that a member of staff holds. A boy takes a book from the shelf in a library, before the filmmaker captures several views of the wood work class. The next sequence shows the school band playing what looks like some fast paced jazz, and some of the players turn to each other and make funny faces. A soloist sits at the piano playing. The next sequence shows students in the school grounds doing some horticultural work; the boys mow the lawn and weed the flower beds. A cricket match is then shown underway and the boys bat, bowl and field. A young boy then changes the scoreboard, before the action switches to tennis. The boys arrive with shovels, wheelbarrows, and other tools in (what is now) the museum gardens. They begin to dig a large whole beside a wall of the ruined abbey. The next sequence features a garden party and a large amount of guests can be seen on the grass while a band plays. The next sequence captures some of the students camping in a field; they put up their tents, chop branches of trees and make beans on toast. The final shots in this sequence show the boys washing up and views of the pastoral surroundings.