JACI is delivering a varied and unique programme this year to students in Stratford College Dublin that covers a range of artforms and aspects of culture including poetry, literature, language, oral history, music, visual art, and heritage. Students are being offered the opportunity to explore Jewish culture and heritage in Ireland, in a hands on way, and learn how it can help us to gain a better understanding of Irish culture as a whole. The programme encourages cross cultural exploration, adaptation, and exchange.
One element which kicked off in December is an intergenerational memory/culture project involving elder narrators from the community being interviewed by students from Stratford College which will culminate in an exhibition in the school in March next year. Incorporating aspects of reminiscence, oral history, life story transmission, creative writing, photography, videography, exhibition and museum studies, the output will ultimately serve as a practical and vital memory archive of an ageing population.From the students' perspective they are getting the opportunity to develop their critical skills, media literacy, collaboration, listening and team work, along with practical technical skills and the experience will feed into their history, CSPE, English, Art and Film making studies.
Note: Jewish Arts and Culture Ireland (JACI) is a sub-committee of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, and is focused on fostering and supporting the arts relating to Jewish culture and heritage in Ireland.
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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