Ms. Reynolds expresses her delight with the children's books created by TY English students. Browse through them in the Flipbooks.
We're delighted with the success of the new Co-Curricular Children's Writing module in the TY Art and English Programme. Taking on board the feedback we got from last year's TY group that said they'd like more creative writing, we developed this new course. After the birth of my first child, I fell in love with Children's Literature. I was so impressed and surprised by the artistic and literary skill that's involved in creating a children's book that I decided to introduce this genre to our TY students, through a series of writers' workshops. Students analysed numerous works from writers and illustrators such as Micheal Rosen, Shirley Hughes, Martin Waddell and Janet and Allan Ahlberg; identifying their rhyming schemes, use of imagery, repetition, rhythm and figurative language. Once they had their final drafts of their stories completed they then proceeded to illustrate them in Art class. Please enjoy perusing through their beautiful books in the two Flipbooks below.
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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