For Culture Night 2020, Margaret Fitzgibbon (Artist in Residence in Cathal Brughal Barracks, Rathmines) took the opportunity to look back, access and indeed celebrate the many Cultural and Artistic programmes that have been organised since 2016.
The resulting five movie presentations are to be found on the following links and online on the Culture NIght 2020 website.
Margaret was particularly delighted with the collaborative work with Ms Mahon's TY Art students in 2017/2018 who you will see in one of the movie presentations. Margaret wrote to Ms Gordon hoping that Stratford students and staff would enjoy these short videos.
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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