On Friday, 22nd October Ms Brouder and the TY Business class visited AIB in Rathgar to be interviewed for the Build A Bank competition. Greg Brenner and Laura Kelly write in detail about this involves and who was selected from the class to represent Stratford College.
A.I.B Build a Bank gives students a chance to set up a bank within their own school. It is entered initially into a regional competition where a winner is sent to a national competition. Each Build a Bank team comes up with their own theme for their bank. The team’s goal is to open up/manage student bank accounts. They aim to promote banking within the school and giving back to the community.
On Friday the 22nd of October the 4th years went to A.I.B in Rathgar for an interview with members of the bank and the student officer. We were interviewed one by one and were greeted with muffins and doughnuts while being given riddles to figure out while we waited to be called on.
We got an insight into the interview process and gained valuable life skills. The six representatives that were picked to open up our school bank in Stratford College are Melanjia Cvetic (Bank manager), Ross Smith (Assistant bank manager), Alan Farrell (Finance manager), David Kelly (Marketing Manager), Brooke Feldman (Customer Service Representative) and Jack Mc Avinue (Digital Officer).
Greg Brenner and Laura Kelly (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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