2023-2024

Applications for 1st Year 2025

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ONLINE PAYMENTS

Following receipt of your fee invoice (by email) you should register at https://pay.easypaymentsplus.c... Fees should be paid by 8 direct debits commencing on the 1st September or in full before the 1st September. Click for more details. 

Hot Pot Meals at Stratford College!

A link to the Deli613 App and Vsmail giving more details will follow at the start of term. 

Supplied in handy ‘hot pots’ the menus include vegetarian and vegan options and follow Department of Education nutrition and calorific guidelines.

Safe Route to Schools Update

A ‘School Zone’ road surface sign will be painted directly on Zion Road on the northern side of the turn for Victoria Road. This is to advise motorists they are in a School Zone and to drive accordingly.

Two new ‘School Ahead’ with flashing amber signs will be installed on Zion Road on the northern side of the turn for Victoria Road. This is to advise motorists they are in a School Zone and to drive accordingly. 

Blister paving has been laid for pedestrian crossings. This surface provides a warning to someone with a visual impairment that they are at a road crossing. The surface is an essential safety feature and consists of rows of flat topped blisters in a square pattern.

And a bike shelter and bike racks was provided by SRTS last year and is at the rear of the school. 

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Department of Education: Schools experience of implementing the Wellbeing promotion process using School Self Evaluation in primary and post-primary schools.

Earlier this year Stratford College was invited to take part in the video recording of best practice being carried out by NEPS (National Educational Psychological Service) for the Department of Education from the perspectives of school staff and students. Click here for more details and watch the video!

Transition Year Programme 2024

Following a review of the needs of our students, International Research Findings (OECD) and the NCCA Draft Transition Year Programme Statement we are very pleased to be introducing the following personal development courses as part of our programme next year. 

Schools out!

2nd Years finished classes on Friday 31st May and to celebrate the whole summer ahead of them, Ms Maxwell and the 2nd years went outside to celebrate!

Farewell and Thank You!

For the first time in 25 years, I won’t be welcoming you back to school this August. That is a hard sentence to write, and even now as my time in the school winds down to a very busy end, it’s something I don’t quite yet believe.

3rd Year Classics students visit Ely Arch

3rd year Classics students visited Ely Arch - just beside the River Dodder - on the last day of the summer term with Ms Donohoe and Ms McGill. Junior Cycle Classics students have to compare a building in their local area with a building in Rome. 

3rd Years present their Design Thinking 'Fast Fashion' projects as part of Trinity extenDT2 research project

Throughout the summer term all 3rd Year Computer Studies students participated in Trinity College's ERASMUS extenDT2 research project into Design Thinking with Emerging Digital Technologies. Through Design Thinking and using any of the three technology applications (ChoiCo, MaLT2, SorBET and nQuire for Students) - the 3rd years came up with games to help change the behaviour and understanding of people about Fast Fashion.