Ireland Reads and so does Stratford!
We have a new national day to celebrate reading and it started on Thursday, 25th February 2021! Everyone was invited to read on this day.
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Great Reads Award 2019 - Shortlisted Junior and Senior Books
The 2019 Shortlist of Junior and Senior books for the Great Reads Awardwas announced in September. Set up in 2016 by a group of Irish School Librarians this is a yearly award where students read the books, rate them and the award-winning authors (at Junior and Senior level) emerge! The deadline is early January 2020.
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World Book Day Book Sale on Thursday, 7th March: Parents invited! We need books too!
World Book Day is on Thursday, 7th March. The day will kick off with a 'Bring a Book, Buy A Book' sale in the school hall from 9.30am to 11am, in aid of St. Michael's House. Parents/guardians and students are all invited to the book sale and you can buy 3 books for the price of €2!! The TYs will be running the book sale.
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World Book Day 2018 ... the great snow-in
World Book Day was celebrated on Thursday, 1st March... however the snow stopped our school celebrations this year. The plans were for a book sale and to dress up (it was also Purim on the 1st March). The 1st Years did work hard on our entry for the World Book Day Award. Unfortunately we didn't win any prize this year.
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Group of 1st Years raise over €300 for MS-Readathon
Well done to Grace Robbins, Sarah Nelkin, Evan Pender, Nathan Slattery and Sean Noonan who raised approximately €340 for MS-Ireland as part of the recent MS-Readathon.
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Summer Reading for students and parents alike
With the start of the summer holidays, students should be actively encouraged by their parents/guardians to read for pleasure and parents/guardians should also read as an example to them. Go to your local public library, join your local public library summer reading programme or ask your friends what they'd recommend to read. In this blog a number of websites are listed where you can get lists of books to read.
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Stratford participate in the Inaugural Great Reads Award - books selected by Irish School Librarians
On 17th February 2017, the winning books in the Junior and Senior Category were announced at the Inaugural Great Reads Award hosted by The King's Hospital Library. Four Junior books and four Senior books were selected from a long list collated by librarians who are members of the Irish School Library Association. Students get to rate each book that they read. The Junior and Senior books getting the most votes - win! The school with the most student votes also win a prize.
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World Book Day: TY students read a selection of Classics books
For World Book Day, Thursday, 3rd March, the TY Classics students each had to read the first couple of pages of a selection of books and write a short review of them.
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The Life-Long Benefits of Reading for Pleasure
In the Spring 2015 edition of "The School Librarian", Professor Alice Sullivan, University College London Institute of Education, summarises the benefits of reading for pleasure based on her research with colleague Matt Brown using the 1970 British Cohort Study. Professor Sullivan is one of the keynote speakers on this topic at the International Research Methods Summer School in Mary Immaculate College in June 2015.
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Ms. Reynolds has put together a list of books that she recommends that students from each year should read during the summer. The list is in the 2014-2015 school booklist now available in About Us/Current Listings. This is just a small selection of the recommended books. Enjoy!
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