Last Friday, 28th September, all our senior students traipsed down to the Omniplex in Rathmines to assess Lance Daly's new film, "Black 47".
We're analysing this text for Daly's vision of the famine and how he communicated this to his audience. We'll be comparing this text to Colin Murphy's novel, 'Boycott', (also set during the famine) for their routes through fictionalising a tragic historical event. Mr Murphy is due to visit our school on Wednesday, 3rd October, to discuss these questions and more with our sixth years. Please check out Rory Glynn's (a 5th year student) astute and remarkably insightful review of Daly's film on his blog. Enjoy!
Ms Reynolds
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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