Read-Watch-Listen Challenge - please try this over the holidays!
Here's a fantastic challenge for all Junior Cycle students in particular, but everyone in general. Read-watch-listen to 16 texts over the holidays!
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Reading is Power! More books for your To Be Read pile during these times!
Reading is Power! During these times of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, here's a list of favourite books to read as selected by Stratford TY students. So unplug, get out a book, relax and read!
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World Book Day celebrated alongside Purim
This year Stratford students and staff celebrated World Book Day on Tuesday, 10th March to coincide with Purim! Everyone was encouraged to dress up as their favourite fictional character.
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Looking for books for World Book Day book swap sale on Tuesday, 10th March
The TY Library prefects are organising this year's World Book Day book swap sale in aid of St Michael's House on Tuesday 10th March. We need books! Students are all being asked to bring in at least two books. Parents/guardians are invited too! The TYs will be serving delicious juices and smoothies as a 'Booky Breakfast'!
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1st Years raise almost €300 for MS-Readathon
Well done to all the 1st Years who participated in this year's MS-Readathon in aid of Multiple Sclerosis Ireland. They raised €282 and read many books between them!
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Careers Evening for Senior Students: guest speakers Peter Cosgrove and Dr Laura Creevey
Will robots take all the jobs? Peter Cosgrove, Future of Work expert and Dr Laura Creevey (Admissions Maynooth University) will be speaking at Stratford's Annual Careers Evening this Thursday evening, 14th November at 7pm about what we need to know about the future of work and student progression.
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1st Years visit Rathmines Library to borrow books for the MS-Readathon
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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Stratford's 2018-2019 Year Book published!
Read Stratford's latest Year Book which was published in early October with the support of the Parents Association.
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Great Reads Award 2019 - Shortlisted Junior and Senior Books
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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Bloomsday in Rathgar: 15th & 16th June
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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