Ms O'Kelly has been waiting to hear this talk for some years now (!) and thanks to Ms Donohoe - Jonny Lynch - Lead UI (User Interface) Designer for Scopely Dublin visited Stratford on Tuesday, 21st May to explain in detail about UI design for video games.
Jonny first gave an overview of how he got into UI and gaming design. He then spoke in detail about the following topics:
Everyone was totally in the flow and Ms Donohoe counted 31 questions asked by students! Thank you so much Johnny for visiting Stratford and to Ms Donohoe for organising the morning. It was great having some Junior students who are interested in this topic too.
Ms O'Kelly
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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