In November during Arts Week, Eilis O'Toole, a landscape painter, worked with our TY students creating on site sculptures down at the Grand Canal in response to Patrick Kavanagh's canal bank poems. This culminated in a collaborative water colour painting which will be part of the NAPD Creative Engagement exhibition held at IMMA next October.
Kay O'Brien from the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), visited Stratford College on Thursday, 5th May, to discuss the TY's Creative Engagement project with them.
In November during Arts Week, Eilis O'Toole, a landscape painter, worked with our TY students creating on site sculptures down at the Grand Canal in response to Patrick Kavanagh's canal bank poems. This culminated in a collaborative water colour painting (see the background of this shot). This will be part of the NAPD Creative Engagement exhibition held at IMMA next October.
Ms Reynolds
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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