Ms. Finnegan presented six 5th Year students with their Bronze An Gaisce Awards at the 1st Year Assembly on Thursday, 18th April. Gabi Eppel (5th Year) gave a speech at Assembly explaining all about An Gaisce and why you should consider doing it.
Ms. Finnegan presented six 5th Year students with their Bronze An Gaisce Awards at the 1st Year Assembly on Thursday, 18th April. Gabi Eppel (5th Year) gave a speech at Assembly explaining all about An Gaisce and why you should consider doing it.
"An Gaisce is the President's Award and its the most presigious award in Ireland for young people aged 15 - 25. It was set up so you could get involved with your community, to set personal goals to achieve in terms of physical recreation and personal skills, and undertake an adventure journey.
There are three awards: Bronze, Silver and Gold. The pupils who have worked towards the bronze award are actually receiving it today.
We all worked hard for the Bronze award and are so glad we are receiving it. You take part in Community Work, for example Student Council, Green Schools or Log on to Learn; develop a personal skill, for example photography, singing or cooking classes; and you take part in physical recreation, for example basketball, athletics or a running club. You 13 weeks of each and an extra 13 weeks of your choice.
We loved doing the Bronze so much that we are presently working towards the Silver award and we are going on our adventure journey at the start of June. We are all looking forward to doing it. We hope to do our Gold award as well which involves an International adventure. I would strongly encourage people to take part in the Gaisce Award in 4th Year."
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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