Category Archives: iCentre
Christmas Holiday Reading
Reading a few books over the summer holidays helps ensure you keep the reading and other learning gains you’ve made during the school year. The iCentre have some great recommendations for you to check out from your local library or
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Holiday Writing Workshop
School holidays are a great time to spend time enjoying your hobbies and improving your skills. For those keen writers out there, international award-winning author and writing coach Brian Falkner has developed a writing course that may interest you! The course
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Book of the Week
Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter follows High School Senior Liz Buxbaum as she attempts to secure her happily-ever-after. But will her lovelorn imagination get in the way of Liz finding her happy ending? Full of pop culture references,
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Year 10 Literature Book Club
What? An opportunity for each student to recommend a book to the class When? At the start of each double lesson – once per fortnight How? In each Book Club session, three students (plus me usually!) recommend a book to
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Collect(ed) GLAM edition
Welcome to the October edition of Collect(ed). This edition focuses on the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) Sector and how these vital organisations can provide you with resources to help with your research, well as providing new ideas to
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Protecting Yourself Online
Cat memes, fail videos, face filters – the internet is awesome! Unfortunately, not all internet users are as great. Some go online just to cause trouble and steal from others. There has been a lot of talk about cyber safety
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APA 7 Guide to Referencing for Secondary School Students – Digital Version
The Queensland School Library Association has produced an up-to-date APA booklet which closely aligns with the 7th and latest edition of the popular APA referencing style. Using the APA 7th edition manual as its base, the booklet outlines in extensive
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Visiting Author – Jane Godwin
On Wednesday popular Australian author, Jane Godwin, visited our Year 7 English students, to share her experience and offer valuable advice to help them with their Unit 4 imaginative writing task. This Term the Year 7s are writing and performing
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Year 11 English – Researching Contemporary Issues
To help prepare you for your persuasive speech, the iCentre have put together some tutorials on how to access newspapers on the OPAC and how to find relevant and appropriate videos on ClickView. The purpose of this assessment is to
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Final New Books of the Year
Our last order of new books for the year has arrived in the iCentre and we have some great reads for you! Check out the book covers below: ‘Unnecessary Drama’ by Nina Kenwood We have the new Nina Kenwood novel
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