Rachel Jones (5th Year) describes the work involved in the Casting and Painting project that extended through November.
The 5th Years just completed a casting and painting project focussing on bike safety. They took apart a bike and recreated using the casting and moulding process. They then painted their objects and created a still life composition using the objects in order to complete a still life drawing study.
Ms. Murphy
For the past four weeks, the 5th Year art class has been taught by a student teacher, Ms. Murphy - past pupil from Stratford College. She devised a project in which we disassembled a child's bike, made plaster casts of the different parts, then painted the finished products and drew a still life of them. The process was very messy and took a while - for some more than others.
However the finished pieces looked amazing and the drawings were fantastic. it was a very interesting project as we were creating the pieces for our still life rather than just drawing random objects.
Overall it was a brilliant project and we're thankful to Ms. Murphy for teaching us.
Rachel Jones (5th Year)
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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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