Throughout January and February the TY Science students have been working extremely hard preparing their Science projects for their second SciFest@Schools competition. The competition was held on Thursday, 28th February.
The range and depth of Science projects - both Life Sciences and Physical Sciences - proved really interesting. How important is sleep for hand-eye co-ordination? The making of crystals? to name a couple.
Congratulations to Alexey, Jeremy and Josh for coming 1st place. In 2nd place was Nellie, Eva and Jools. Both these groups, along with the TY Technology winning group (Siuin, Rebecca and Valery) will be competing at the SciFest@Colleges competition hosted by TU Blanchardstown on Wednesday, 8th May.
"SciFest was an incredible and fulfilling experience that taught us how to design, plan and carry out an investigation to a high standard." Jeremy, 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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