Read Rebecca Lee's insightful response to Sylvia Plath's poem "Mirror", whereby she defends the prevalence of selfie culture in modern times.
Do women spend a disproportionate amount of time learning about how to improve their physical selves or looking in the mirror? What impact does this have on women's self-esteem? Plath explores these questions and the importance women give to their reflections and how this image helps to either build or destroy their self-esteem in her poem, 'Mirror':
A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Read Rebecca Lee's insightful response to Sylvia Plath's poem, whereby she defends the prevalence of selfie culture in modern times: click on this PDF link to read 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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