The latest updates from the TY correspondents for this week - Sanket, Brodie, Liám, Ciara and Lucy. An important week for the TY's as this week they got their Junior Cycle results.
For the past 2 weeks TY's have been learning self-defence in the hall. It has been a hard but rewarding experience where we have learned about the realities of violence and how to defend ourselves against an attack.
Our Junior Cycle results were out on Wednesday the 8th and we had special permission to come in and collect them in school.
Congratulations to the three TY entrants into the Stripe Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition and congrats to all entrants throughout the school. Sanket and Callum have made a dynamic chess bot and Ciara has made a wearable device to detect and alert teachers when a student is experiencing a panic attack.
On Thursday, 9th October, TY's went to the Sean O' Casey Theatre to see BULLIED by Michael J Harnett, this was a nice treat after getting our Junior Cycle results the day prior.
On Friday, 10th October we will be celebrating student achievements at the Awards Ceremony.
Sports updates!
On Friday October 3rd the girls football team played a match against Alexandra College. They lost 5-1 with an amazing goal from Natalie on her first match.
The boys, captained by Ianis, had a football match on Monday 6th October against Coláiste Eanna. The boys put in a good effort but unfortunately the opponents were too good for them, and they lost.
On Monday the 6th of October the under 16s and under 19s boys basketball had a match again against Synge Street school, they won both games with Robert (2nd year) getting the Most-valuable-player reward, and Tomer getting 30 points. Late in the 3rd quarter Brodie (TY) hit a buzzer-beating half court shot that really put the momentum back into the stratford team. Well done to the boys and Coach Mr. O'Callaghan.
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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