The May Book Club Choice is aimed at students in 1st and 2nd Year. It is Paul Gamble's book, "The Ministry of Strange, Unusual and Impossible Things" aka 'The Ministry of S.U.I.T.S.'.
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'The Serpent King' by Jeff Zentner is the Library Book Club Choice for March and April. Borrow from the Library at your leisure.
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World Book Day 2017 - Thursday, 2nd March - started off on a high note when it was announced that Stratford College was one of the runners up in the annual World Book Day Award competition. 76,000 students from all over England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland took part in the competition, so an award to be very proud of.
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Leo Mazor describes the Lexicon Library in Dun Laoghaire which the TYs visited on the afternoon of World Book Day, Thursday 2nd March.
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Thursday, 2nd March was World Book Day. Stratford students celebrated it by dressing up on the theme of "Where's Wally?" (and to also celebrate Purim). Dressing up was also a fund-raiser and €50 was raised for the Capuchin Homeless Day Centre. The annual book sale in aid of St. Michael's House was held by the TYs - just over €60 was raised. Fionn Bentley in TY describes the day.
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On 17th February 2017, the winning books in the Junior and Senior Category were announced at the Inaugural Great Reads Award hosted by The King's Hospital Library. Four Junior books and four Senior books were selected from a long list collated by librarians who are members of the Irish School Library Association. Students get to rate each book that they read. The Junior and Senior books getting the most votes - win! The school with the most student votes also win a prize.
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The February Book Club Choice is a mystery thriller written by Matt Dickinson - "North Face". It is the second book in a series. Students can borrow the book from the library.
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Congratulations to Mr. Conaghan who was awarded the Costa Children's Book Award in early January for his book "The Bombs that Brought Us Together". Mr. Conaghan taught in Stratford College in recent years and still keeps in touch with us.
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Throughout November, the TY Library prefects, the TYs, Ms Mahon and Ms O'Kelly asked all students to draw an image of their favourite fictional character on a blank jigsaw piece. Through Art classes and the TY Computer Studies Digital Media module, we came up with this idea of creating a cuboid globe representing the World Book Day Award (2017) theme - "World of Stories".
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Well done to the group of 1st Years who raised approximately €650 for the MS-Readathon 2016. The read 97 books in total between 7th October and 7th November.
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