TY student, Des, spent a considerable time building a model of a Greek Trireme for his Classical Studies project. He explains in this blog what was involved.
TY student, Des, spent a considerable time building a model of a Greek Trireme for his Classical Studies project. He explains in this blog what was involved.
"For the project, I had to pick one story from the different books in the Odyssey. I chose the Cyclops story about Odysseus and his ship. I did a Greek a Trireme. First I got a lettuce basket from my dad's cafe. I made the base first and built around it with coffee stirrers that were 7 inches wide. I then put a deck on top (also made from the basket). Benches for the crew were stuck down and I made the oars from bamboo chop sticks.
I made the sail with an old white vest which I dipped into water which had 11 teabags in it. I let it stay there for a while, then let it dry. Then I took some flour, made the flour and water 'gluey' and put the vest into it, which I then wrung out. I used an iron to get the material hard for the sails. I rang my granny in Bulgaria for advice to do all this work to make the sail look authentic.
It took me about 2 1/2 weeks do complete this model."
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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