Space Week: 2nd Year Science students talk with an Irish engineer at the European Space Agency
Ms. O'Sullivan and Mr. Fennell organised a very exciting phonecall with an Irish engineer, Aisling Shannon, at the European Space Agency.
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1st Year Science students working on stem cell project
Over the past few weeks, the 1st years have been doing a project on stem cells for Science.
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Politics and Society: a new Leaving Certificate subject starting September 2018
Politics and Society is a new Leaving Certificate subject and will be available to all schools from September 2018.
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Computer Science: new Leaving Certificate subject will be introduced in September 2018
The NCCA (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment) published the draft specification for the new Leaving Certificate subject of Computer Science in June 2017. It is currently in the consultation phase which is due to end on 22nd September 2017.
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TY Maths students build tallest free standing tower to practice team work
On Friday 1st September, TY Maths students in Ms. Cronin's and Ms. McGuckin's Maths class had to work in teams to build the tallest free standing tower made from spaghetti sticks, string, tape and a marshmallow on top!
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TY students create innovative musical instruments in MaKey MaKey workshop
On Friday morning, 12th May instead of Music Technology and Computer Studies classes, the TY students worked on a MaKey MaKey workshop where they had to create their own musical instruments. This was a most innovative and creative STEAM workshop!
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TY students compete in SciFest@Colleges level in IT Blanchardstown
On Wednesday, 3rd May three groups of TY students went to IT Blanchardstown to compete in the SciFest@Colleges level of the competition. Two groups had Scratch programming projects and the third group had a Science project. James O'Brien writes about the day.
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5th Year Biology students go on Ecology field trip to Dublin Zoo
On Tuesday, 2nd May, Ms O'Sullivan and the 5th Year Biology students visited Dublin Zoo to undertake their Ecology field trip.
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Stratford celebrates Tech Week 2017
Tech Week 2017 was celebrated in Computer Studies classes from Monday, 24th April through to Friday, 28th April. Students got a chance to use Virtual Reality glasses, explore augmented reality, play music using Makey Makey, play Minecraft on Raspberry Pi's, work with our little Ozobot robot and most interestingly type on an old typewriter! TY students visited the exhibition "Humans need not apply" at the Science Gallery and created their own LED torches at a workshop in Makeshop.
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Tech Week 2017: TYs make LED torches in MakeShop workshop
On Thursday, 27th April the TYs visited the Science Gallery and made LED torches in MakeShop. Leo Mazor (TY) explains what was involved.
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