Subject Blogs

3rd Year Irish students learn their verbs in the sunshine

Ms Maxwell and her 3rd Year Irish students took advantage of the sunny weather in the past week to go outside and learn their Aimsir Fháistineach verbs!

Great Reads Award 2021 - Get reading

The Schools Libraries Group of the Library Association have selected this year's Great Reads Award books for Juniors and Seniors. The two shortlists are of the best debut Young Adult novels for 2021. The winners will be chosen by second level students in Ireland. For now read as many books on the shortlist as you can!

Green Schools awarded 5th Green Flag for Travel

On the 27th of May, key members from the Green Schools Committee took part in our inspection visit online for the 5th Green Schools Travel Flag application.

Stratford continues to integrate Global Citizenship Education into all aspects of teaching and learning

Stratford College is continuing to integrate Global Citizenship Education into all aspects of teaching and learning this year as part of the World Wise Global Schools Programme.

Go find a Character! 3rd Year English students go looking!

It can be hard to know where to start when writing a short story. You ask yourself: Who will I write about? What will I write about? Where will I set it? Ms Reynolds and her 3rd Year English students are going to start their stories by finding our character out on the street, in Rathgar Village.

Three students win an Intel Best Technology Project Award at the SciFest@College 2021 regional STEM fair

Congratulations to 5th Year students Aaron Egan, Evan Pender and Shane Healy who won an Intel Best Technology Project Award at the SciFest@College 2021 regional STEM fair with their TY Scratch coding project.

Stratford Schools two of 170 schools approved for National Safe Route to Schools Programme!

We are very pleased that Stratford Schools are two of the 170 schools approved for the Safe Route to Schools Route Programme. The programme is funded by the Department of Transport through the National Transport Authority (NTA) and is supported by the Department of Education.

​Faces of Stratford College 2002

Part of a commission/artist in residence at Stratford College, Dublin, 2002. Where I painted a series of student portraits for the Colleges 50th Anniversary . Fresco fragment with gold-leaf. The work was inspired by Pompeii frescos of children’s portraits and Roman/Egyptian funeral mask frescos of mummies. The artwork was unveiled by President Mary McAleese in December 2002. Chris Banahan https://www.instagram.com/bana...

Summer Reading 2021

Summer Reads - relax and stay safe!

Summer 2021 may still not be 100% normal — but in this post-pandemic normal, check out the following links for ideas and inspiration:

Student Council 'Eye on Nature' competition: prizewinning photos announced

The Wellbeing committee have been working especially hard this term to devise challenges for each month we had a variety available for students to choose from including, sustainable cooking, couch to 5k and even yoga challenges. We also had competitions to spark the competitive side amongst each year groups which were the Chasing Joy competition at the start of 2021 and more recently our 'Eye on Nature' competition.