Ready Player One - Now in the Cinema

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. 

Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. [Goodreads.com]

Mrs Kelleher rates this read 

Movie taglines 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 Movie taglines quiz. You have each earned 5 points for your house.

Matt Ruiter (Cuthbert)
Petar Panjkov (Elliot)
Georgia (Fraser)
Makaelah Naus (Bradman)
Ruby Wright (Cuthbert)
Abigail Valentine Rawlins (Bradman)
Harriet Hudson (Cuthbert)
Lennon Gangoso (Bradman)
Tasos Kontogeorgis (Bradman)
Agnel Joseph (Cuthbert)

Every other student who participated gained a point for their house. This week the the points go to:

Cuthbert (36)
Bradman (33)
Elliot (26)
Fraser (19)

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

A Wrinkle in Time - Now in cinemas

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. 

"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract".
Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space? [Goodreads.com]

Google like a pro #4

Using site: to search within specific websites

You can use Google to search within a particular website using the site: function.

Let's say last week you saw a news article about Tasmanian devils on news.com, and now you want to find it again. You can search Google like this:

Tasmanian devils site:news.com



e.g.

This trick also works really well when you are watching a movie and want to know what other films one of the actors has been in search for the actors name, or film name and add site:imdb.com

Movie taglines - Quiz

Don't forget 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 you will have your knowledge of movie taglines tested. How much attention to you pay?

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 March.

An Irish read for St Patrick's Day

The Call by Peadar O'Guilin

We know that Ireland is full of fairies. But what if the fairies aren't the kind magical creatures we want them to be? What if they are cruel and evil?

3 minutes and 4 seconds. The length of time every teenager is 'Called', from the moment they vanish to the moment they reappear. 9 out of 10 children return dead. Even the survivors are changed. The nation must survive. Nessa, Megan and Anto are at a training school - to give them some chance to fight back. Their enemy is brutal and unforgiving. But Nessa is determined to come back alive. Determined to prove that her polio-twisted legs won't get her killed. But her enemies don't just live in the Grey Land. There are people closer to home who will go to any length to see her, and the nation, fail...

Google like a pro #3

Using minus to exclude words

Sometimes when you search Google you will be flooded with results that you are not interested in because they used the word in a different way to you.

Let's say you were looking for information on jaguars - the big cat, not the car. But the results seemed to be all about the car. You can re-do the search using -cars (no spaces between the minus and the word you want to exclude), so Google knows to leave those pages out.

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Disney 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 Disney cartoons quiz. You have each earned 5 points for your house.

Caine Gale (Fraser)

Eva Kilpatrick (Cuthbert)

Hannah Mawson (Fraser)

Janelle Nichols (Cuthbert)

Jazmyn Galea (Elliot)

Joshua Abbott (Fraser)

Lilie Jones (Bradman)

Lindsay Musella (Fraser)

Makaelah Naus (Bradman)

Mia Kelly (Fraser)

Millie Maheras (Cuthbert)

Olivia Ball (Bradman)

Paddy Gleeson (Fraser)

Every other student who participated gained a point for their house. This week the the points go to:

Fraser (60)
Bradman (43)
Cuthbert (42)
Elliot (29)

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

Now in the Cinema - Love, Simon

Simon vs. the Homo sapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.
With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.

Short-listed for the Silver Inky Awards 2016

Disney - Quiz!

Don't forget 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 you will have your Disney knowledge tested. How many movies have you watch? Can you remember the lyrics to all the songs? What about the characters? can you remember all their names?

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 Tuesday 13th of March.

Inky Awards Longlists announced

Every year readers between 12 and 20 years of age vote on the best books published last year. If you are looking for something to read, and you don't trust what the adults think you will like, try something recommended by a teen!

On Wednesday the longlists were announced:

Gold Inky award (books by Australian authors)

• Begin, end, begin: a #LoveOzYA anthology, edited by Danielle Binks
• In the dark spaces by Cally Black
• Take three girls by Cath Crowley, Simmone Howell & Fiona Wood
• Beautiful mess by Claire Christian
• Ida by Alison Evans
• Wreck by Fleur Ferris
• A shadow’s breath by Nicole Hayes
• Remind me how this ends by Gabrielle Tozer
• Paper cranes don’t fly by Peter Vu
• Ballad for a mad girl by Vikki Wakefield

Silver Inky award (books by international authors)

• The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
• Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
• Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
• Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
• Warcross by Marie Lu
• One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
• Release by Patrick Ness
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas