Wellbeing

Stratford Green Schools Committee Achieves our 6th Green Flag - for Biodiversity!

Stratford College was presented with its 6th Green Flag for Biodiversity at a ceremony last week in DCU! 

This Biodiversity Theme looks at steps which can be taken in schools to increase awareness of the importance of native plants, animals and habitats and to increase species-richness in a locality.

Click on this link for more details on the Themes.  And see our social media for more photos!

Congratulations to the Green Schools Team and look out for our Polytunnel coming next year!  #disconnecttoreconnect

Disconnect to Reconnect

Last year our students identified social media and lack of sleep as two challenges to their well being. 

Sports Day a great success!

Sports Day 2023 was a great success! The weather was perfect, the competition was keen and it was all slickly organised by Ms Tomlin and the TY's!

Well Being Disconnect to Reconnect

Findings from our Wellbeing questionnaire and Student focus groups suggest that students find lack of sleep and overuse of Social Media are the main negative impactors on their Wellbeing.

The Annual School Walk is back: the Dodder Greenway Route

On a sunny Thursday morning on 30th March, students from 1st year to 5th year walked from Stratford to Tymon Park along the Dodder Greenway Route. 

Laps at Lunchtime!

Student Council, with the help of Ms Maxwell are organising Laps at Lunchtime during the week of 6th - 10th March. Everyone is encouraged to go outside at lunchtime to run, walk, skip, hop 6 laps which is equivalent to 1km! Go for it everyone!

Stratford celebrates Safer Internet Day 2023

Tuesday, 7th February was Safer Internet Day and this year's theme is promoting respect and empathy online. This week in SPHE classes, Computer Studies classes and at form time students will be participating in discussions about different aspects of keeping safe on the internet. 

TY Law Week: 2-day Law Workshop

TY Law Week is being celebrated starting 7th February with a two-day Law Workshop with a visiting barrister.

1st Years get to go to JumpZone!

There was huge excitement amongst the 1st years on Thursday morning, 2nd February, as they all got to go to JumpZone for morning session of serious jumping on trampolines!

TY's organise the Annual Winter Quiz

The TYs put in a huge effort for this year's end-of-term Annual Quiz - from dressing up, to acting out scenarios, to broadcasting over Teams, using Excel spreadsheets to calculate the scores and putting together all the questions in the first place!