Mr. Conaghan has been nominated for the 2015 Carnegie Medal and the 2015 CBI Book of the Year Award for his books "When Mr. Dog Bites". He listed his top 10 controversial books for Young Adults in The Guardian on Thursday, 16th April. How many of have you read?
Mr. Conaghan has been nominated for the prestigious 2015 Carnegie Medal and the 2015 Childrens Books Ireland (CBI) Book of the Year Awards, for his book "When Mr. Dog Bites". On Thursday, 16th April his list of his top 10 controversial books for Young Adults was published in The Guardian.
Number 2 on his list is "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton. This is on the Junior Certificate English course so everyone who has read this book or who is reading it, should look at Mr. Conaghan's review of it and sense the energy of this book.
Check out the list. Check out the books.
In the run up to the state exams, Stratford's Wellbeing Team draws your attention to the suite of resources on gov.ie under the heading of Wellbeing support for Exam Students, Parents and School Staff.
As is tradition at this time of year, the annual rounders game took place between our outgoing 6th Years and Teachers. Despite great efforts by our 6th years and some fabulous play, Teachers came out victorious. Fair play to all who played in this game.
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Congratulations to our prize winners at our end of year assembly. Awards including attendance, student of the year and the Principal's Junior & Senior student award for this academic year.
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