For the first-time ever students from Stratford College participated in the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO). On Thursday, 27th January our 5th Year students worked through some really tough linguistic, logic and language problems.
In mid-November the 5th Years undertook a workshop with Cara Greene from the Adapt Research Centre to help everyone understand how to approach solving these problems.
We have realised that we have a lot more practice to do and plans are afoot so that we can achieve this aim.
Thanks to Ms Dos Santos (French), Ms Maxwell (Irish), Mr Fennell (Computation Linguistics) and Ms O'Kelly (Computer Science) for being involved.
Stratford kicked off it's Science Week activities at the whole school assembly on Monday with the first of many daily quizzes! So far 1st years have had a Young Environmentalist Awards Ideas Factory Workshop, TYs had an engineer from SSE Eirtricity explaining how to build off-shore wind turbines and there's more to come for the rest of the week ...
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Well done to the U19 Boys basketball team who reached the semi-finals against Rockbrook on Tuesday 10th November. In a closely fought match, Stratford lost 41-39 - so, so close!
Major congratulations to the U16 Boys basketball team who won 52-36 against Firhouse on Monday 9th November!
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On Monday, 9th November all the 1st Year Computer Studies students gathered in the Computer Lab to take part in the Young Environmentalist Awards kick-off workshop - an Ideas Factory workshop in fact! Sarah from ECO-UNESCO visited the class to explain the steps to enter this competition and to start brainstorming ideas.
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