Since January, TY students have been transitioning from coding in Scratch to coding in Python in Computer Studies classes. The TY's were invited to participate in a Trinity College Dublin Computer Science research project using a learning tool called pytch.org. This tool is purposely built to help students move from coding in Scratch to coding in Python.
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This month our social media spotlight is on the experience of our First Year students. The move from primary to secondary school is always significant and can be both exciting and challenging.
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Big Data - this year in Computer Studies classes all students from 1st year to 6th Year learned to understand what information is gathered by companies and organisations.
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Last day of of the winter term? Well it has to be the end-of-term quiz! For a second year running it was run online and organised so brilliantly by the TY's. Not only was it a quiz (6 rounds of 10 questions), but it was highly entertaining and technically brilliant!
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After months of hard work coding and designing their Scratch projects, the TY's were ready to present their work to the two SciFest@Schools judges on Thursday 9th December.
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This year's Awards Ceremony was again held online on Friday morning, 22nd October but with a mix of livestreaming from each classroom as rewards were announced! Ms Talbot and Student Council co-ordinated an incredible online production, involving filming, editing and producing many videos as each award was announced.
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Every month this year (excluding December) we will be showcasing the work of one of our school departments on Stratford College’s social media channels.
Kicking off with Computer Science in October, the aim of the initiative is to provide some extra insight into what’s involved in studying the subject. We will be sharing videos, animations and photos.
Check out Computer Science’s week in the spotlight here…..
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Ms Beamish's English class were asked to make a short video for homework exploring what it was like going to school during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Congratulations to TY student, Ayush Tambde, who is featured in the latest Leaving Certificate Computer Science Framework bulletin because of his two 2021 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition awards for his quantum computing language called 'Q'.
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Congratulations to Nellie Warren who won two awards at the Fresh Film Festival on Friday, 26th March for her short film 'buachaill'! Nellie won the Cartoon Saloon Award for Best Animation and the Highly Commended Storytelling Award for 'buachaill'.
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