Unhappy Birthday Lemony Snicket

Are you sick of books that end happily ever after? Where no matter what life throws at them the heroes and heroines of stories always triumph over everything?

Why not celebrate Lemony Snicket's birthday by reading (or re-reading) his Series of Unfortuante Events?

Winter Olympics quiz - Winners!

2018 marks the first year that participation in the ILC trivia quizzes will count towards the House Cup competition. Over the year you can battle out with the other houses to gain precious points...

Congratulations to the following students for coming equal first in the Winter Olympics quiz. You have each earned 5 points for your house.

Ted Murphy (Bradman)
Lillie Jones (Bradman)
Harry Leamer-Alessi (Elliott)
Veronica Fragapane (Cuthbert)
Noah Gullan (Elliott)

Every other student who participated gained a point for their house. This week the standings are:

Elliott (33)
Bradman (25)
Cuthbert (20)
Fraser (13)

Don't forget to check out the quiz again next week for your chance to earn more points towards the House Cup.

Hearing Awareness Week

Next week is Hearing Awareness Week (25th February to the 3rd of March). Think about you day. How often is hearing important to you? Talking with friends, hearing the music to go to class, hearing cars approaching when you want to cross the road, music, getting someone's attention, it just goes on and on. Now think about what it might be like to be deaf?
It's hard to imagine isn't it?

Maybe it is time to get into the head of someone who is deaf. Try one of these books:

Whisper by Chrissie Keighery

I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces. How do you know if your friends are talking about you behind your back, or if a boy likes you? They could act innocent, but you'd know from the rumours. You'd hear the whispers. But what if you couldn't hear those whispers anymore? What if everything you took for granted was gone? Being a teenager is hard enough. But being a deaf teenager?





A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life - she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.


For more information about Hearing Awareness Week go to: http://www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au/

Also, check out the tool to help you find out how loud is too loud, and how quickly noises can damage your hearing: http://www.hearingawarenessweek.org.au/too-loud

Google like a pro #2

Using an asterisk within quotes when you are not sure of a word

You can still use quotation marks even when you are not certain of the exact wording of what you are looking for.

Let's say you and a friend are debating about a famous quote from a movie. You remember it differently to your friend, and neither of you can remember which film the quote came from. How do you work out who is right? Put the bit of the quote you both agree on, substituting any words you are not sure of with asterisks:

e.g.

Winter Olympics - Quiz

Announcing HOUSE POINTS are now up for grabs if you participate in the ILC quizzes.

5 points will be awarded to the winner of the quiz, and 1 point for everyone else that enters the quiz. At the end of the year the final tallies will be sent to Mr Philp for inclusion in the House Cup tally.

This week, to celebrate the Winter Olympics we will be testing your knowledge on this years competition, and a bit of history as well. Have you been following the Games?

Go to the quiz

Challenge your friends, support your house, go for glory - see who gets the most questions right!!

Results and winners will be announced Monday 26th of February.

Book trailer - This Savage Song

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives.

Google like a pro #1

Using quotes to search for an exact phrase

You can make Google search exactly the same words in exactly the same order by using quotation marks.

This is great when you have copied and pasted something from a website and can't remember where you got it from. Simply copy the text into Google, put quotation marks around it, and the right website should come up near the top of your results.

It's also really good for find out the rest of the lyrics to that song you really like.

e.g.

Book trailer - The Diviners

The Diviners by Libba Bray

Part murder mystery, part historical fiction, with a large dash of the supernatural thrown in.

1920s New York. A teen clairvoyant. An old evil. It has begun...

Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old home town and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly thrilled! New York is the city of speak-easies, rent parties, shopping and movie palaces, and soon enough Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfeld girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of the Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult - also known as 'The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies'.

When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of it. Even Evie's new pals - hoofers, numbers runners and activists, but all swell kids - are drawn into the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer - if he doesn't catch her first...

You digital footprint

So what is a digital footprint? and why should I care? This video will give you a quick run down. It will also explain how, even if you delete something you post online, it might still be out there for people to find.

Think before you post!

Tennis Quiz

Happy New Year, and welcome to 2018! Most fortnights the ILC runs a trivia quiz for a bit of fun. This week, to celebrate the Australian Open (did you see Federer in the final?), the theme will be tennis. How much do you know about the game?

Go to the quiz

Challenge your friends, go for glory - see who gets the most questions right!!