World Book Day 2019 in Stratford College kicked off with high-powered fruit juices and smoothies made on the spot by the TYs, while students, staff and parents browsed the many, many books in the book sale. Student, staff and parents were actively encouraged to bring in two books and €2 to make it the best book sale and 'booky breakfast' ever! And it was - we raised €180 for St. Michael's House. The juices and smoothies were also awesome!
The book sale was only one of the events during World Book Day. During the Book Sale, Zack had conjured up a great quiz to keep everyone puzzling over the answers. Well done to Eva in TY who won this quiz!
At form-time, classes were competing against each other in the 'make-a-jigsaw-puzzle' as fast as you can (30 pieces) and 'guess-the-teacher's-shelfie' quiz. 1st years made the jigsaw puzzle the fastest and 3Y got most of the teachers' shelfies correct! Throughout Computer Studies classes students took part in a World Book Day Kahoot quiz ... but with a twist! If you answered the right answer, you were wrong!
At lunchtime Ms Talbot organised a Poetry slam - "Reading is Power" - in the Library where students read out their favourite poems or ones that they had written themselves. In the afternoon, Ms Finnegan brought the TYs to the Lexicon Library in Dun Laoghaire to relax for the afternoon in this beautiful building.
The next excitement to look forward to is dressing up as your Literary Hero on Purim - Thursday, 20th March!
Many thanks to the TY Library Prefects who have been working on preparing for World Book Day since January. Eva, Zack, Valery, Jeremy, Grace, Popi, Annabel and Finn all sported their World Book Day t-shirts designed by Eva.
Ms Talbot and 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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