In early September, Ms. Reynolds and her 6th Year English students were asked to recite lines from Heaney's most popular poems, explain them and teach it to their peers.
As a part of our engagement with Heaney, our Sixth year students were asked to recite lines from Heaney's popular poems, to explain it and teach it to their peers. This example of co-operative learning creates a focused Learning atmosphere, as all students strive to achieve the group goal under time constraints! (Click on blog title for more photos.)
'The different perceptions of Heaney were really insightful. They captured what the poet was about before we studied his poems in detail.' Rachel Jones
Ms. Reynolds
The 1st years completed a zombie lab today where they used their scientific methods and thinking to identify patient zero from the zombie suspects. Using measuring skills, pH, observation skills and much more they successfully identified the source of the outbreak!
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The TY Horticulture class were out in the Autumn sunshine planting Spring bulbs using the chaos planting method. This is when a multitude of different spring bulbs (Hyacinths, Daffodils, Tulips, Crocuses, Narcissi) are mixed together and randomly planted so that we have a mixture of flowers and patterns emerging in the spring. It mimics nature and so is more enticing to pollinators and native insects that need the food in Spring.
Stratford is celebrating Maths Week 2026 (12th - 18th October) with daily activities around the school, at breaktimes and in Maths classes! The tutor-time daily quiz is proving to be extremely competitive as each form group tries to solve it and then run to find Ms Matthews in order to win the box of chocolates!
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