TY Geography-Outside-Class by the River Dodder
On Monday 8th September Ms Skehan and her TY Geography students had their Geography class at the beach by the River Dodder.
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TY Weekly: Climbing Centre, Incinerator field trip, Orwell Lodge visits, Kinia Paired Reading training and Women in STEM talk
The TYs have been really busy throughout March! Every Friday they've been going to the BLOC Climbing Centre near Tallaght, a number of students visit Orwell Lodge Nursing Home every Tuesday at lunch, a field trip to the Incinerator in Sandymount with Ms Skehan, completed a Kinia Paired Reading training morning, attended a Women in STEM talk when past-pupil Olivia Foley returned to Stratford and more! Plus the very cool TY 2025-2026 hoodies arrived - thanks Mr Eppel!
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2nd Years Geography Field Trip to Grand Canal Docks
On Thursday 19th March, Ms Skehan and the 2nd Years went on a Geography Field trip to the Grand Canal Docks and to see where the Liffey meets the sea.
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Celebrating Chinese culture with a tea-party
In Chinese culture, tea is an art form—a practice of mindfulness known as Gongfu Cha, which literally translates to "making tea with skill." Our students transformed the hall into a traditional tea house by hosting a Chinese tea party with food and drinks to sample and share.
Five 1st Year groups compete in YEA ECO Dens semi-finals in Airfield
Well done to the 1st Year Computer Studies class - five Scratch group projects were invited to compete in the 2026 Young Environmentalist Awards ECO-Den semi-finals in Airfield Estate on Wednesday, 11th March. We took the S4 bus and LUAS to get there and back!
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2nd Years participate in Fast Fashion workshop by repairing clothes
On Tuesday, the 24th of February, the second years took part in a Fast Fashion workshop hosted by Leah Gaynor from Oxfam. There, we learned all about ethical fashion and how companies use greenwashing as a deceptive marketing tactic. We watched a video on clothing waste in the global south, and it is safe to say the statistics were appalling.
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1st Year Computer Studies class enter Young Environmentalist Awards with Scratch coding projects
The 1st Year Computer Studies class have been set up into 8 teams and each team registered their Young Environmentalist project plan with ECO-UNESCO in mid-December. Each team has started to create their Scratch coding project highlighting an environmental issue of their choice based on the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The list of 1st Year projects/issues are listed in this blog.
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Green Schools: Seven Green Schools flags and counting
Green Schools are very proud to display the seven Green School flags that have been awarded to Stratford College over the past ten years. The pennants are currently on show in the Classics room and will be moved to a more prominent position for everyone to see in January.
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Stratford's ESB Networks' Weather Watch station goes live!
Stratford's ESB Networks' Weather Watch station went live on Monday 15th December! Thanks to Ms Skehan Stratford has it's very own weather station which students and the public can follow using the weathercloud.net app.
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2nd Year Geography students visit the River Dodder
Ms Skehan brought the 2nd Year Geography students to the beach at the River Dodder weir on Thursday 21st August.
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