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. Our students experienced a ritual that has connected people for thousands of years. Thank you to all involved for organising.
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 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 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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Ms Skehan brought the 2nd Year Geography students to the beach at the River Dodder weir on Thursday 21st August.
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Stratford will be represented by five 1st year groups at the semi-finals of the 2025 Young Environmentalist Awards in Airfield Estate on Wednesday, 12th March. Each group has coded a Scratch game aimed to heighten awareness about the UN Sustainable Development Goals. They will be presenting their projects in Eco-Dens - think Dragons Den - to a panel of judges.
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The 1st Year Geography students walked along the River Dodder with Ms Skehan on Thursday, 6th February as part of their investigation of velocity and flood defence systems in place along the Dodder.
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On Wednesday 27th November, the TYs and Leaving Cert 5th and 6th Year Geography students went on a field trip to Kippure with Ms Skehan and Ms Finnegan.
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The 4th Years enjoyed taking an active role in a Climate Literacy Sustainable Development module starting 5th September. The TYs were making connections linking systems such as technology-education-food-democracy.
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Following a review of the needs of our students, International Research Findings (OECD) and the NCCA Draft Transition Year Programme Statement we are very pleased to be introducing the following personal development courses as part of our programme next year.
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