Thursday, 21st March at lunchtime in the English room and it was brimming with students reciting their own poetry at the Poetry Salon 2024! The English Department curated the body of poetry written by students. Special thanks to our Guest Adjudicator and award winning novelist, Ms. Rachel Donohue.
The winning poem was written by 1st Year student Vihaan Reddy. Congratulations also to Emily (5th Year), Rose (3rd Year), Matthew (1st Year) and Edenne (1st Year) who also won prizes for their poems.
Anger By Vihaan Reddy
A force that thrives in a vacant soul,
Enforces the pitfall of one's own dreams,
A sound blaring shattering ambition,
A mass weighed by burden as heavy as can be.
Grasping your thoughts with a fiery passion,
Swallowed whole by bewilderment with not a crumb to build on,
Witnessing the death of one who hasn't lived,
Yet you stare only to dwell a blazed.
If you seize this fire with tasteful eyes,
One would harness the zeal that lies within,
A once blank soul now blessed with desire,
A soul now thirsty for growth.
The Anger within sets a blazing fire,
Creating a soul longing for change and desire.
Thanks to Ms McGill, Ms Talbot and Ms Wieder for organising the Poetry Salon! A wonderful way to spend a lunchtime.
Stratford kicked off it's Science Week activities at the whole school assembly on Monday with the first of many daily quizzes! So far 1st years have had a Young Environmentalist Awards Ideas Factory Workshop, TYs had an engineer from SSE Eirtricity explaining how to build off-shore wind turbines and there's more to come for the rest of the week ...
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Well done to the U19 Boys basketball team who reached the semi-finals against Rockbrook on Tuesday 10th November. In a closely fought match, Stratford lost 41-39 - so, so close!
Major congratulations to the U16 Boys basketball team who won 52-36 against Firhouse on Monday 9th November!
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On Monday, 9th November all the 1st Year Computer Studies students gathered in the Computer Lab to take part in the Young Environmentalist Awards kick-off workshop - an Ideas Factory workshop in fact! Sarah from ECO-UNESCO visited the class to explain the steps to enter this competition and to start brainstorming ideas.
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