Congratulations to Brian Conaghan who won the Teen/Young Adult Book of the year award the 2018 An Post Irish Book Awards on Tuesday, 27th November.
"The Weight of a Thousand Feathers" was featured as the October Book Club Choice in the library (see blog). Brian Conaghan (or Mr Conaghan as he is also known, when he was teaching English and Classics here!) is no stranger to winning awards. He has previously won the Costa Children's Award in 2016 for his book "The Bombs that brought us Together".
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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