TY students visit Jewish Museum
Ms. Donohoe and Ms. Caspi brought the TY students on a visit to the Jewish Museum on Tuesday, 16th May.
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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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National Drawing Day in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines
National Drawing Day is on 20th May. Cathal Brugha Barracks is hosting drawing sessions facilitated by 'Artist in Residence' Margaret Fitzgibbon. Earlier in March the TY students exhibited some of their work representing International Women's Day.
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Transition Year students explore UCD Classics Museum
Ms. Donohoe and Mr. Kearns brought the TY Classics class to visit the Classical Studies Museum in UCD on Tuesday, 9th May.
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Chinese Language and Culture classes for TY students
Over a series of a four weeks in April and May the TY students were taught Chinese Language and Culture classes.
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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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TY Neo-Classical Tour of Dublin
Ms Donohoe and Ms. Caspi brought the TY students around Dublin city centre on Thursday, 27th April to examine the interior and exterior of many stunning neo-classical buildings that populate our city centre. A number of TY students comment on the morning's tour.
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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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TY tending to Stratford’s Bio-diversity Garden
Since March, Ms. McCarthy and the TYs have been working hard to develop and weed the school bio-diversity garden. A new beech hedge has been planted, with further plans to put in a gate and to put out bird houses.
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