After months of work designing and coding their projects, the TYs were ready to present to two external judges as part of the SciFest@Schools competition.
All the projects had a social conscience - from saving trees, to highlighting disability needs, to saving bats. There were real innovations in the projects - music was composed, sprites were hand-drawn and for the first time a "makey, makey" was used.
After two rounds of judging - many thanks to Hugo Rowsome, SciFest project Manager and Brian Gillespie, Computer Science Lecturer in TU Dublin (who joined on Zoom), the following teams won prizes:
The next phase of this competition is to compete at the SciFest@College round in TU Dublin (Blanchardstown) in May 2023.
Ms O'Kelly
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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