This year marks the first year that Stratford College has entered students into the Bebras international computational thinking challenge. Administered by Maynooth University, each student completes 15 online interactive puzzles and computational challenges in 45 minutes. 3rd Year student Grace MacDonnell describes the quiz in more detail.
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TY Maths students and Leaving Certificate Geography students participated in a field trip to Kippure on Wednesday, 1st November. It was a beautiful crisp day for the field trip and students explored the environment from both a geographical and mathematical point of view.
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Despite Hurricane Ophelia. Maths Week (18th - 20th October) was celebrated in class, during form time and around the school. EU Code Week (also the same week) was celebrated in an "unplugged" manner - no computers needed!
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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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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 is a new Leaving Certificate subject and will be available to all schools from September 2018.
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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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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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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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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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