1st Year Boys Basketball team win their first match!
An amazing win by the 1st Year Boys Basketball team on Tuesday, 13th January. This was their first match and they beat Rathdown 28-8.
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School Self-Evaluation Surveys, January 2026: Teaching and Learning
As part of School Self-Evaluation on Teaching and Learning, all stakeholders are asked to give feedback through surveys sent in December-January. Teachers set Teaching and Learning goals in August 2025 & review these goals and feedback throughout the year.
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TY Weekly Blog: Stripe YSTE, skiing, EPIC Museum and Jeannie Johnston Tall Ship
The TYs started off with a busy first week in January, with the latest updates by Liam (TY). On Thursday, 8th January the TY’s went to the Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2026 to support Callum and Sanket in the competition. They were competing in the Intermediate/Group/Technology category with their FluxChess project. Well done on winning a Highly Commended award.
TY Trip to EPIC museum and Jeanie Johnston
Transition Year students spent the morning of Monday 12th January visiting the EPIC museum (The Irish Emigration Museum) and Jeanie Johnston tall ship in Dublin 1. During the trip students experienced a tour of the ship and followed in the footsteps of those who fled the Famine.
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Senior Debate team compete in 3rd Round of Concern Debate Competition
Big congratulations to the Senior Debate team, Captain Skye Deans, Joseph Mudrak, Amelie Gibbons, Anna O'Donovan, Ciara Daly and Julia Coakley, on winning their 3rd Round Debate in the Concern Debate Competition against St Andrew's College, Blackrock.
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1st Year Computer Studies class enter Young Environmentalist Awards with Scratch coding projects
The 1st Year Computer Studies class have been set up into 8 teams and each team registered their Young Environmentalist project plan with ECO-UNESCO in mid-December. Each team has started to create their Scratch coding project highlighting an environmental issue of their choice based on the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The list of 1st Year projects/issues are listed in this blog.
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Transition Year: The Crocus Project
Transition Year History students planted yellow crocuses in the flowerbeds of the school in memory of one and a half million Jewish children who were murdered in the Holocaust and thousands of other children who were victims of the Nazis.
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Stratford's Wellbeing Theme: Own it -- Move to Feel better
It's January and believe it or not the days are getting longer! This month's Wellbeing blog is about everyone getting more Exercise and Physical Activity – Move to Feel Better. Ms Finnegan explains why this really matters and wants you to Own It.
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Stratford's Breakfast Club: The Early Risers
Our new club, The Early Risers started at the beginning of the school year last August and runs every morning from 7:45 to 8:45 in the Hall.
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TY host quiz and raffle in aid of Focus Ireland
Our Transition Year students organised a fantastic quiz for our last day of Winter term. So much fun was had by all teams, each as competitive as the other.
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