TY Business students, Carmel Grey, Fiona Maguire and Christina Greene have been extremely busy producing a Yearbook as part of their mini-company venture.
Mini-company name: Flashback Ltd
Team members: Fiona Maguire, Carmel Grey and Christina Greene.
Research: We carried out marketing research by getting each student to fill out a survey stating how much they would be willing to pay for the yearbook and what content they would like in the yearbook.
Product: A4 Yearbooks
Promotion: A major poster campaign consisting of one A4 poster per floor as well as a large poster in the main hall. We also promoted the yearbook on the school website and at form time
Price: €10.00 per yearbook
Place: We plan on selling them during breaks throughout the school day.
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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