Gabi Eppel (3rd Year) describes the work that the Green Schools are doing at present with the focus on reducing black bags and choosing new class representatives.
The Green Schools Committee meet up every Tuesday from 1.25pm until 1.45pm. Lucy Murphy (5th Year) as Chairperson, leads the meetings and brings up any issues. At the moment we are choosing representatives from each year and discussing how we can reduce black bags. We are discussing ways to promote recycling and to make it an automatic thing to do.
Gabi Eppel (3rd Year)
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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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