The Teaching Council's conference - FÉILTE 2020 - took place on Saturday, 3rd of October 2020 from 10:30am to 4:30pm online! This year's theme was 'Collaborating to Connect: Empathy with our Communities'.
Ms O'Kelly - representing CESI (Computers in Education Society of Ireland) -participated in an online showcase and workshop promoting a Communities of Practices (CoP) model based on the Leaving Certificate Computer Science (CESI-CS) Community of Practice.
CESI created a facilitator's guide in 2019 and has made it available to other subject associations or groups of teachers with a particular common interest.
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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