In November during Arts Week, Eilis O'Toole, a landscape painter, worked with our TY students creating on site sculptures down at the Grand Canal in response to Patrick Kavanagh's canal bank poems. This culminated in a collaborative water colour painting which will be part of the NAPD Creative Engagement exhibition held at IMMA next October.
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Ms Mahon judged the Raspberry Pi punnets made by each of the 1st Year students in Computer Studies classes during March and April. The winning designs are used to package the Raspberry Pi's installed in the computer lab.
Read more →Three groups of TY students competed at the SciFest@College level of the competition in the Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown on Wednesday, 4th May. Two of the groups entered Scratch projects into the Intermediate Technology competition and the third group entered their Mindfulness project into the Intermediate Science section of the competition.
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Stratford is examining how different learning opportunities can improve well being. Aspects of this exploration include digital profiles, digital portfolios and online collaboration work. Watch three short videos where 2nd Year students talk about the impact these initiatives are having on their learning.
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Five Stratford students were lucky enough to get invited to Facebook's European Headquarters in Dublin at the end of April to hear how other schools have set up best practice anti-bullying structures in their schools. 3rd Year student James O'Brien, recounts the day.
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Hearty congratulations to the 1st Year Boys Basketball team who beat Kishoge by 24-17 to win their League Final on Tuesday, 4th May. The whole school was elated on hearing of their win!
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This month's Book Club Choice is a book by Simon Mason. It's a mystery book. Borrow it from the library and see what you think.
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For the past number of months teachers and students in many classes and subjects worked on projects relating to the 1916 Centenary Commemorations. Read this blog for a review and links to the different vantage points explored over this last while.
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On Monday, 16th May ten 2nd Year CSPE students are invited to attend the Thomas F. Meagher Foundation Scholarship Presentation Lunch in the Oireachtas Members Restaurant. In April the 2nd Year CSPE class entered the Flag Week video competition run by the same Foundation.
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On Thursday, 21st April, Ms O'Kelly was invited to speak at the annual Irish Computer Society (ICS) Skills Training Conference about teaching and learning in Stratford's Computer Studies classes. On the same topic on Friday, 13th May, Ms O'Kelly will speak at the inaugural ‘21st Century School of Distinction’ Awards Ceremony and Showcase organised by Trinity College and hosted in Google.
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