This week, in Stratford College, Transition Year students have been helping to creatively celebrate Maths Week. To kick the week off, some of the TYs ran an obstacle course during PE classes for 1st and 2nd Years, involving maths questions at different parts of the course.
Thank you to Ms. Finnegan for letting us do this in her lessons. Then, on Friday, TYs also organised an event in the hall involving numerical versions of different board games such as Monopoly, Uno and chess as well as a maths karaoke. Everyone involved enjoyed it immensely and the TYs loved being able to organise it.
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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