Scot Gardner visiting Saint Ignatius

Australian author Scot Gardner will be visiting Saint Ignatius this Thursday and Friday. All year 7 students will have an opportunity to hear Scot talk about himself and his work before participating in writing workshops.

Scot has a lively sense of humour, and has enjoyed writing his whole life. He is most often inspired by real things, in particular the language and things said by young people to allow give his work that touch of realism.

"Write brutal, write brief." - Scot Gardner (official website).

Now in the cinema - Paper Towns

John Green's Paper Towns has been turned into a movie, and is now showing in the cinema. 

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. 

After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. 

Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew... [Blurb from Goodreads.com]

Feast Day!

Racing Spheros

Feast Day was enjoyed by one and all. In spite of the amazingly beautiful weather outside, the ILC saw its share of traffic with students enjoying gaming on the Xbox and Wii. The spheros were also out with students racing them around a track, while others played on the school MineCraft server.

MineCrafters hard at work

Outside the petting zoo, mechanical bull, sumo suits, jousting, jumping castles and obstacle course , talent show and so much more provided loads of entertainment. Congratulations to all the organisers.

Students relaxing playing Xbox and Wii