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".
In the run up to the state exams, Stratford's Wellbeing Team draws your attention to the suite of resources on gov.ie under the heading of Wellbeing support for Exam Students, Parents and School Staff.
As is tradition at this time of year, the annual rounders game took place between our outgoing 6th Years and Teachers. Despite great efforts by our 6th years and some fabulous play, Teachers came out victorious. Fair play to all who played in this game.
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Congratulations to our prize winners at our end of year assembly. Awards including attendance, student of the year and the Principal's Junior & Senior student award for this academic year.
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