The TY's continue to explore new skills and become aware of opportunities to follow such as the Mellon Educate fundraising programme, while all the time organising work experience for the first week in December. Liam (TY) writes about the latest happenings.
On Thursday, 23rd October, Emma from the Mellon Educate Buillding Blitz and Literacy fundraising programme came to visit the TYs and to explain about what TYs need to do in order to fundraise €3500 so that they can go to South Africa in March for a week to tutor students, to help build accommodation and to build friendships with South African students. It was a very exciting talk to listen to.
Friday, 24th October was our last self-defence workshop. Over the past 5 weeks TYs have been learning many different self-defence skills. Thank you to our instructor, Liam, for his invaluable expertise.
We were due to start to learn Padel in Bushy Park from Friday 31st October but because of the torrential rain on that Friday 31st - it made sense to stay in school. The first Padel session will be on Friday 7th November instead.
The TYs also had our first table pong class.
All the while, the TYs are getting organised for their first work experience week which starts the week beginning 1st December.
Reported by: Liam (TY)
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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