Earlier this year, many Stratford students and staff walked to Dáil Éireann on the Greta Thunberg-inspired Climate Change marches that happened all around the world. Friday, 20th September proved to be another day of marching by Stratford students and staff, organised so ably by Green Schools.
This time Stratford students walked to Rathmines and back along the Rathmines-Rathgar main road. Shouting and singing, while displaying posters about the problems of Climate Change, Stratford students got a lot of reaction from passers-by.
Charlie Morris McGill (1st Year) wrote the following piece: On Friday 20th of September 2019 a group of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years at Stratford College went on a march for climate action. We all marched from our school to Rathmines for a good hour! We had a brilliant time shouting our chants for climate action till our voices hurt. With this march we wanted to raise more awareness about the problems going on with climate change and the worry of what it all means for our generation’s future. We marched on behalf of our planet. We got plenty of beeping of car horns and ringing of bicycle bells. This showed to us that there could be some hope left for our planet and our futures.
What will YOU do to help our planet?
Meanwhile Greta Thunberg spoke so eloquently to the UN Assembly about the importance of those in positions of power to make changes. Watch her speech again:
Stratford kicked off it's Science Week activities at the whole school assembly on Monday with the first of many daily quizzes! So far 1st years have had a Young Environmentalist Awards Ideas Factory Workshop, TYs had an engineer from SSE Eirtricity explaining how to build off-shore wind turbines and there's more to come for the rest of the week ...
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Well done to the U19 Boys basketball team who reached the semi-finals against Rockbrook on Tuesday 10th November. In a closely fought match, Stratford lost 41-39 - so, so close!
Major congratulations to the U16 Boys basketball team who won 52-36 against Firhouse on Monday 9th November!
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On Monday, 9th November all the 1st Year Computer Studies students gathered in the Computer Lab to take part in the Young Environmentalist Awards kick-off workshop - an Ideas Factory workshop in fact! Sarah from ECO-UNESCO visited the class to explain the steps to enter this competition and to start brainstorming ideas.
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