Transition Year

Bike Week 17 May 2024

Dublin Bay Cycling Centre and Dublin City Council are delivering cycle training to schools from 13th – 17th May as part of Bike Week activities to celebrate and promote cycling.

TYs go on Neoclassical walking tour of Dublin

The TY's got to go on a Neoclassical walking tour of Dublin with Ms Donohoe and Ms Finnegan on Thursday 2nd May.

Senior students attend Revenue Commissioners talk

Visitors from the Revenue Commissioners presented a very informative talk to Senior students on Thursday 2nd May about registering with Revenue, emergency tax and making tax claims.

SciFest@College: TY group come 2nd in Intermediate Technology category

Well done to TY students Kaydi, Amelie and Bláithnáid who came 2nd in the Intermediate Technology category with their "Save the Fishes" game (coded in Scratch) to highlight this issue. Two TY groups competed at the SciFest@College competition in TU Dublin (Blanchardstown) on Wednesday 1st May.

11 Stratford students compete in 2024 Bebras National Finals

What an achievement! Stratford had 11 students competing in the 2024 Bebras (Computational Thinking) National Finals in Maynooth University in two age categories: 12-14 and 14-16. 

TY's visit Sandymount Incinerator and Irishtown Nature park

The TY's visited the Incinerator in Sandymount on 18th April with Ms Finnegan and Ms Maxwell to gain a greater understanding of how it works. What an insight!

STEM trip to Regeneron, Co. Limerick as two TY students prepare for ISEF 2024 in Los Angeles!

TY students Joseph and Liam won the Regeneron Special Award at BTYSTE 2024 which means they will be representing Ireland at the forthcoming Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Los Angeles in May!

Regeneron invited Stratford TY's, 5th Year Computer Science students and Stratford's 7 BTYSTE 2024 students to their manufacturing site in Limerick on Tuesday 9th April.

TY's participate in Trinity College Pytch-Micro:bit research workshop

TY's have been learning to code in Python since January using pytch.org as the way to transition from Scratch to Python. Pytch is developed by Trinity College Dublin and TY's were invited to participate in a further research project where Pytch works with micro:bits.

TY's have an amazing trip to Berlin

This month, the Fourth Years had an amazing TY trip to Berlin! On the morning of the 11th of March, we arrived at Dublin Airport at the early hour of 3 AM and embarked on a 2-hour plane ride to Berlin Airport.

Dublin City Student Enterprise Awards - Big wins! 1st in Junior & 2nd in Senior Categories

Two fantastic wins today, Wednesday 28th February, at the 2024 Dublin City Student Enterprise Awards! And Stratford also received a special e-Bay award - well done Mr Brilly, Mr O'Callaghan and Co.!

Congratulations to 1st Year Business students - Vihaan, Christian and Eli - who won 1st prize in the Junior Section. Congratulations also to TY Business students - Joseph and Liam - who won 2nd prize in the Senior Section.