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."
In the run up to the state exams, Stratford's Wellbeing Team draws your attention to the suite of resources on gov.ie under the heading of Wellbeing support for Exam Students, Parents and School Staff.
As is tradition at this time of year, the annual rounders game took place between our outgoing 6th Years and Teachers. Despite great efforts by our 6th years and some fabulous play, Teachers came out victorious. Fair play to all who played in this game.
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Congratulations to our prize winners at our end of year assembly. Awards including attendance, student of the year and the Principal's Junior & Senior student award for this academic year.
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