The 5th Year Computer Science students presented their Analytics projects on Monday, 1st April, to Hugo Rowsome, Project Manager of Scifest, Ms Gordon, Mr. Fennell and Ms O'Kelly. Stratford College is one of the 40 Phase 1 schools selected to teach the new Leaving Certificate subject, Computer Science.
As part of the Leaving Certificate Computer Science curriculum, students have to work on four group projects called Applied Learning Tasks (ALTs).
The 5th years presented their ALT 2 projects, which focused on Analytics. The four projects analysed:
Students had to work out an hypothesis on a social issue that they were interested in. They then downloaded a related dataset, read it into a Python file and from there they codeed the following mathematical functions - the mean, the median, the mode and the frequency. With these functions they generated information from their data set to analyse their hypothesis.
Ms O'Kelly
Stratford College opened its doors on Sunday 6th September for a vibrant Open Day and welcomed prospective students and their families, and members of the community. The event started with presentations from the principal, Mr. Barrett, from Chief Rabbi Wieder, the Chair of the Board, and an inspiring student representative.
On Monday 8th September Ms Skehan and her TY Geography students had their Geography class at the beach by the River Dodder.
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On Friday morning, 4th September, there was huge excitement as 4th, 5th and 6th year students gathered in the hall with their Form tutors to go watch the amazing film - The Odyssey, written and directed by Christopher Nolan - in the Rathmines Omniplex cinema. In the IMAX1 cinema to be precise!
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