Transition Year

Subject Blogs, Subject Blogs, Subject Blogs, Subject Blogs, Irish, Transition Year / 2 May 2014

An Gorta Mór

TY Irish students, Fiona Maguire and Isabelle Cahill write a book about the Great Famine in Irish. Browse through it to see their comprehensive work.

3D Topographical Models created by TY Geography students

The TY Geography students have been busy creating different 3D models of the landscape. Browse through photos of the models.

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Subject Blogs, Science/Maths, Transition Year / 30 April 2014

SciFest@Stratford - first time in Ireland Scratch programming projects featured

On Tuesday, 29th April, Stratford College hosted its first-ever SciFest@Stratford. A SciFest is like a mini 'Young Scientist' competition but held in the school itself. Lots of students can enter a SciFest and the rest of the school gets to see their work too. External SciFest judges visit the school to choose the prizewinners.

Good meets Bad: How a Scratch project was designed

This year TY students all had to take a module in Programming using Scratch as the means to learning how to do this. Fiona Maguire and Carmel Grey describe in brief how they created their Scratch project which was presented to the SciFest@Stratford judges on Tuesday, 29th April.

TY students recount their Work Experience placements

During March and April, TY students went out on work placement every Friday for six weeks. Read their experiences in the varied companies that they worked in.

TY Classical Studies projects: The Odyssey

Ms. Donohoe explains what has to be done for the TY Classical Studies projects on The Odyssey.

TY Classics student explains how he built a model of a Greek Trireme

TY student, Des, spent a considerable time building a model of a Greek Trireme for his Classical Studies project. He explains in this blog what was involved.

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Transition Year / 10 April 2014