5th Year Student, Carmel Grey, spearheaded the phenomenal work done by the Green Schools Committee for their recent inspection on Wednesday, 25th March. The result of this inspection is that Stratford College is to be awarded its second Green Schools Flag for Energy in May! Carmel explains in detail the work that was involved in getting an Energy Flag.
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Tech Week 2015 (26th April - 2nd May) was celebrated in Science and Computer classes with students getting hands-on experience of a Raspberry Pi micro-computer, playing a piano made of celery sticks using MaKey MaKey and playing spelling games with Osmo, an iPad game. 5th Year student Rory Murphy and 1st Year student Alan Farrell recount their impressions of these technologies.
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On Tuesday and Thursday, 21st and 23rd April a selection of Junior students were selected to compete in a variety of the West Leinster School Athletics Competition in Santry. 1st Year student, Nicole Gallagher, was one of the competitors and writes a short report about the competition.
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Stratford College is hosting its annual two-day Access Science Investigations days for Primary School Pupils on Tuesday, 2nd June and Wednesday, 3rd June from 10am - 2pm.
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2nd Year English student, Tim Murphy, writes about the visit by two advertising and design professionals to give the class feedback on their Digital Media work.
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TY student, Oscar McHale explains in detail why he set up the Classical Youth Society of Ireland (CYSI) during the summer of 2014. On Friday, 24th April, Oscar was interviewed by John Murray on his RTE Radio 1 show about why he feels CYSI is so important. You can listen to a podcast of his interview in this blog.
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The first Stratford College CoderDojo Club started on Sunday, 19th April at 4pm in the school hall. Pupils aged between 8-12 years are welcome to come and learn the basics of programming, using Scratch, every Sunday from now until the end of May. Stratford is also celebrating Tech Week 2015 (26th April - 2nd May) in Science and Computing classes.
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The reasons for switching schools vary but in all cases it is a big decision for a whole family. We work with parents to try and make the move as seamless and positive an experience as possible.
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Congratulations to Adam Henderson (2011) who won the 2015 River Island Bursary it was announced on 15th April. Adam is in his final year in NCAD and is the first male entrant to win the prize since its inception 12 years ago.
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World Book Night is a night when people and institutions give away World Book Night designated books to people who wouldn't ordinarily read. Anyone can be volunteer, everyone should read.
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