Category Archives: iCentre
2019 Inky Awards
The Inky judges award the best YA books as voted for by teens for teens. Two prizes are awarded annually – the Gold Inky to an Australian book and the Silver Inky to an international book. Congratulations go to Lynette
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Book of the Week
Detention is a new middle-grade novel by Tristan Bancks, author of Two Wolves and The Fall and the guest author for our recent Read Like a Girl With Your Dad event. It’s fast-paced and suspenseful and packs a punch as it
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Read Like a Girl Literacy Week Festival
Our Literacy Week celebrations in the iCentre were a huge success and enjoyed by both students and teachers alike. Photos of the student and staff party are now available in the Photo Gallery on the website. Student and staff party
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2019 Mount A: Book in a Day
The inaugural Mount A: Book in a Day in 2018 was such a success, that we ran the same activity in Literacy Week this year. We asked year 8 and 9 English teachers to nominate students; these girls were then
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Principal’s Home Room Reading Challenge Winners
The Principal’s Home Room Reading Challenge took place over 5 weeks, and we have our winners! Winning Home Room: P1 have won the pizza party with a total of 15,202 minutes of reading! Winning House: Perugia Best Reader in the
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Read Like a Girl Literacy Week Festival
This week we are celebrating our Literacy Week and the iCentre has been decorated with a Peter Pan theme. We have lots of activities planned for the week including: A student and staff party on Wednesday A full day writing
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Moving toward the final week of the challenge, statistics are now focused on our leading homerooms for the pizza party reward during Literacy Week. Currently in third place is BP6, only slightly ahead and currently in second place is R4
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Romeo and Juliet Resources
Our Year 10 students are studying Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this term. If students are looking for additional resources to help them understand the themes in the play, there are good quality literary criticism articles available through the OPAC. Specifically,
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New Facebook Group for our BookChatters
We love presenting at our Breakfast Book Chats! Meeting once a term, members from our parent community join us for tea, coffee, reading recommendations and lively discussions on what we’ve been reading, viewing and listening to since we last met.
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By the end of the second week of the Principal’s Reading Challenge, the leaderboard has changed! With a huge effort particularly from VS7, with 4080 reading minutes in their homeroom, Villa Spada has moved into first place, only just ahead
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