World Book Day is on Thursday, 7th March. The day will kick off with a 'Bring a Book, Buy A Book' sale in the school hall from 9.30am to 11am, in aid of St. Michael's House. Parents/guardians and students are all invited to the book sale and you can buy 3 books for the price of €2!! The TYs will be running the book sale.
There will be many other events throughout the World Book Day and these are currently being organised by the TY Library Prefects. There will be prizes too, including books donated by author Brian Conaghan, 2018 winner of the An Post Irish Book Award for best Teen/Young Adult with "The Weight of a Thousand Feathers".
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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