Well done to Captain Amélie, Jack, Matthew and Jean-Luc for competing in their first Concern Debate online against Temple Carraig School last week.
They had a difficult motion to oppose: 'In a fair society, billionaires should not exist'. The team focused on taxation of the uber wealthy, the philanthropy of certain billionaires like the Collison Brothers and the Gates Foundation, and the fact that in a fair society billionaires should exist, as to ban them would restrict people's rights. Conversely, workers' rights and anti-fraud legislation need to be more robust; the mere existence of billionaires is not the reason why our society is not fair, but the absence of proper regulation is.
We will soon find out the result, in the meantime the team are busily preparing for their next motion, for which they are the proposition taking on Arklow CBS: 'The world would be better off if everyone ate a plant-based diet'.
Ms Talbot, Debates Co-ordinator
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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