2015 is the 10th Year of the the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival. Throughout April there are events citywide celebrating Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy: "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van".
There are five copies of Roddy Doyle's "The Barrytown Trilogy" in the Library as featured in this year's Dublin: One City, One Book Festival. Transition Year students are reading these books in English class and writing book reviews on 1990's Dublin - a time dominated by Italia '90 and unemployment; a time where no hint of the future Celtic Tiger was on the horizon. Roddy Doyle's blunt writing was turned into a very successful film - "The Commitments".
For TY students it is like reading a Dublin in another age.
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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