On Thursday the 31st of October, 1st year students went on a trip to the Rathmines library, where we got a chance to see how everything worked in a library and got to borrow some books for MS Readathon.
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Please come along to The Writers' Group. We meet every Thursday at lunchtime in the English room. We have members from 1st year up to 6th year.
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The 2019 Shortlist of Junior and Senior books for the Great Reads Awardwas announced in September. Set up in 2016 by a group of Irish School Librarians this is a yearly award where students read the books, rate them and the award-winning authors (at Junior and Senior level) emerge! The deadline is early January 2020.
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A student standing amidst the debris of discarded books, water bottles, and uniforms. Do teenagers really value protecting our environment or are our protests just a load of hot air? ... by Sarah Jerrard-Dunne (2nd Year)
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Bloomsday celebrates 16th June 1904, the day depicted in James Joyce's Ulysses. As part of the Bloomsday Festival (11th - 16th June), Rathgar village is celebrating Bloomsday on Saturday 15th from 1pm onwards. On Sunday, 16th June 2019 local historian and auther, Ged Walsh is leading an historical literary walk around Rathgar starting from Herzog Park (beside Rathgar Tennis Club) starting at 11am.
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Congratulations to Aoibhe in TY who was shortlisted as a runner-up for the Scéal Eile An Post Secondary School Competition. 1st years, 2nd years and TY all entered the competition that required students to rewrite the ending of their favourite book or add in a new character.
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A huge congratulations to Finn Ninkavel from 3Y, whose film on homelessness premiered at the 2019 Dublin International Film Festival.
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Two 5th Year students, Hannah Flynn and Ross Smith, are two of the leads in the Mill Youth Theatre's production of 'Our Town' by Thornton Wilder on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 17th - 19th April at 8pm.
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The 2nd Years started work on their CBA (Classroom Based Assessment) in Business classes in late February and are now working on their Science CBA. Since September, the Science, Business and English teachers have been working very closely together on the Step Up Project to closely plan the 2nd Year CBAs in these three subjects. Stratford is one of the pilot schools for this Step Up project.
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The 1st Year Digital Media team of Kate, Sarah and Josh, interviewed the TY students - Eva, Finn, Zack and Nellie - who travelled to Limerick on Thursday, 28th March to showcase their film 'Pearls'. Their film was nominated for the 'Best School Made Film' award in the Fresh Film Festival.
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