Stratford was represented at this year's CESI (Computers in Education Society of Ireland) 2019 Conference in Athlone. The theme of the conference was "Creativity, Collaboration, and Computers: Practitioner Perspectives".
Ms O'Kelly co-presented a presentation led by Professor Brendan Tangney, co-director of Trinity College's Centre for Research in IT in Education (CRITE) and Dr Jake Rowan Byrne, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Teaching & Learning and Computing, Trinity College Dublin.
The presentation was titled: "The Digital Learning Framework and Leaving Cert Computer Science with Bridge21: Theory and Practice".
Stratford College is one of the 40 Phase 1 Leaving Certificate Computer Science schools.
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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