From December 2015, Stratford College is moving to Office 365 Education apps and service for its Virtual Learning Environment. After a lot of research, Stratford College came to the conclusion that Office 365 Education offered all the strategic features and more, that is required for 21st Century teaching and learning in Stratford. It will allow teachers and students to share, collaborate and create work in a cloud-based, secure environment.
Stratford College teachers and students will be using Office 365 Education apps and services as of December 2015 to share notes and to collaborate on project work through the use of OneDrive, OneNote and email. Students will be set up with their own school email address. Students will also have their digital portfolio set up through Office 365 Education.
When students and teachers log in they will have access to an intranet (private, internal website) where notes, homework, videos and class-related resources will be stored. While every teacher and student has a Stratford login, they will each have 1 terabyte (1000 gigabytes) of storage on OneDrive. In addition, teachers and students have access to MS-Office online applications while they are associated with Stratford College. It means that teachers and students have access to resources whether in school or at home due to Office 365 Education cloud-based services.
Stratford is working with the Microsoft Education partner, 365Learning, to set up this Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Training is planned as the next step in this strategic investment for 21st Century teaching and learning. Upgrading our VLE is part of Stratford's e-learning strategy. In the past two years Stratford has upgraded its computer lab (August 2015), installed a school-wide wifi system (August 2013) and rolled out a Bring Your Own Tablet (BYOT) system (April 2014).
Ms Patricia Gordon
Principal
Stratford celebrated Wellbeing Week 2026 (5th - 8th May), a special week dedicated to promoting positive mental health, physical activity and cultural awareness. Students had the opportunity to take part in a variety of fun and engaging activities throughout the week, including walks, workshops, cultural events, sports, and wellbeing challenges.
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Congratulations to 1st Year Computer Studies students - Yair, Liam and Giorgi - who made it to the ECO-UNESCO 2026 Young Environmentalist Awards Finals held on 12th May with their Scratch coding project called "Giorgi the Litter Fighter". This is the first time that a Stratford project has made it to the finals - so very impressive work!
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Well done to the Stratford College Chess team who reached the Libermann Cup Finals to play against Coláiste Eanna on Monday 11th May. This is the first time that the Chess team has reached the finals. While it proved to be challenging with Coláiste Eanna showing great experience and ultimately winning out, the Stratford chess team are determined to be back next year!
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