On Thursday, 12th February a selection of students and staff presented President Michael D. Higgins with a copy of '60 Years A Growing' to complete our Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
A group of students and staff had a truly memorable morning on Thursday, 12th February when we presented a copy of our book, '60 Years A Growing' to President Michael D. Higgins as the culmination of our Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The President spoke very warmly about the book and Stratford College. Below is an extract from Ms Patricia Gordon's response:
"For our Diamond Jubilee the themes were literacy and our past pupils and what we have got is a beautiful book full of wonderful memories. These stress the sense of community that pervades the school, the attachment that students past and present have for Stratford and the important role that teachers play in young people’s lives.
Sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, mother and fathers are represented though the ages. Their memories are not of syllabus and points but of the strong relationships they forged with fellow students and the teachers they had. It is a testament to the enduring and transformative power of the teacher in a young person’s formative years."
There are lots of photographs on the Web Gallery, 2014-2015.
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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