What is Canada to you? This is a question that means something different to every Canadian, and is probably harder to answer then you think. Before spring break, my class was visited by an organization known as Heritage Canada, who are running a contest where you can make a video that answers the question “What […]

So far, grade 8 has been a year like no other for me. Less than 12 months ago I was signing up for PLP and thinking about what high school might be like, and now I’m almost in grade 9! I’m quite proud of all of the work I’ve done this year, and how much […]

It was a calm week after winter break. The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, and all the students of PLP were working happily. Then, out of the blue, came our biggest project yet, Destination Imagination. Destination Imagination (or D.I. for short) is a worldwide competition where schools and other organizations create performances based […]

Up until now, I have only blogged about Humanities, Socials, and Maker classes (with a mention of math in my winter exhibition post), but now with student led conferences approaching, I am going to start blogging about Scimathics class as well. My Adventures in Skimatics (yes, you can spell it that way) The Scimathics course […]

In October, my grade 8 PLP class went to Oregon for a week to learn about Oregon’s coastal life and the environment. This may sound like just a school trip, but we did some pretty cool things like going to the Great Wolf Lodge for thanks giving dinner. I definitely enjoyed myself, even though I had a […]

A Midwinter Day’s Project  Our advertising unit is over, and now it’s time to start something new: Shakespeare. Our first assignment for this unit was to make a paper representation of a main character from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. We had to represent important things about the person only by using pictures, symbols, and colors, […]

Alot of people say to be successful, you need to be born smart or with innate skills, but the real key to success lies within your mindset. If you believe that failures are defeats, that if you don’t succeed at first you shouldn’t try at all, then you won’t make it very far in life. […]

Today is class, we watched Google’s year in review of the top searched topics in 2016. It’s a video like YouTube Rewind that shows clips from important trends and events that occurred this year. Some of these included the election in the U.S , the France terrorist attacks, and of course, bottle flipping. The review included many […]

Ah, the last week of school before winter break. A time to unwind before the holidayes, as well as to work on the term’s final projects. Every year PLP has a winter exhibition to display projects based on a theme, and this years theme was the environment and Minecraft. Yep, you heard me right, Minecraft. […]