On Tuesday, 27th September, Stratford officially raised the ISPCC Anti-Bullying Shield Flag. Stratford is the 26th school in the country and the 3rd school in Dublin to be awarded this flag. To receive it is a real honour. Stratford is also celebrating Friendship Week (26th - 30th September).
We were delighted to be able to raise our ISPCC Anti-Bullying Shield Flag today at Stratford College. Being only one of three schools in Dublin, to have attained this flag, is a real honour. This is the result of three years of collaboration with our students, teachers, Parents' Association and our Board of Management, to ensure that Stratford College actively and effectively tackles bullying. We had to adhere to a rigorous analysis of our approaches to bullying and to reflect collectively on our internal school structure to ensure it promoted openness and tolerance.
In particular, our restorative anti-bullying model, was commended by the ISPCC, as not only did it identify bullying prior to it emerging as a problem, but it focused on raising empathy building as well as improving general levels of self-esteem. This epitomised the ISPCC approach to anti-bullying.
Our students are now able to report their bullying concerns anonymously on the ISPCC Shield button on our website. We also hold biannual sociograms as means of identifying bullying. For these, our form tutors sit down with each student and ask them a set series of questions to ascertain if anyone is being treated unfairly in the class. Alongside this we hold an annual Friendship Week, whereby we celebrate friendships culminating in our Friendship Fair. This comprises of varies interactive experiences for our students to engage in, all framed around getting them to reflect on what friendship means to them.
To underpin this activity, we are now working towards attaining a ISPCC Shield Youth Award for altruism and gaining the status of being named a Health Promoting School by the Health Service Executive. These actions all contribute to the national focus on Well Being, and the provision of 300 hours of Well Being to our students in 2017.
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Ms Reynolds
The 1st years completed a zombie lab today where they used their scientific methods and thinking to identify patient zero from the zombie suspects. Using measuring skills, pH, observation skills and much more they successfully identified the source of the outbreak!
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The TY Horticulture class were out in the Autumn sunshine planting Spring bulbs using the chaos planting method. This is when a multitude of different spring bulbs (Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Crocuses, Narcissi) are mixed together and randomly planted so that we have a mixture of flowers and patterns emerging in the spring. It mimics nature and so is more enticing to pollinators and native insects that need the food in Spring.
Stratford is celebrating Maths Week 2026 (12th - 18th October) with daily activities around the school, at breaktimes and in Maths classes! The tutor-time daily quiz is proving to be extremely competitive as each form group tries to solve it and then run to find Ms Matthews in order to win the box of chocolates!
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