Conor Dougherty, published an article in The Irish Times on Monday, 11 January 2016, which gives an insight into how teenagers who have grown up with mobile technology to hand, manage apps by using constant alerts.
Conor Dougherty wrote a most insightful article in the Business and Innovation section of the Irish Times on Monday, 11 January 2016 called "Growing up mobile: app dings and pings become soundtrack of millennial youth". It explains how app development companies are responding to teenagers needs to have constant alerts and how teenagers manage the apps that they use on a daily basis.
In a further article in the same paper, Karlin Lillington on Thursday, 14 January, gives a further slant to the implications of this behaviour in "Teenagers risk being defined for life by their social media posts".
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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