“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” –Henry Ford Two months of blood, sweat, and tears have led up to this day where I can finally say that  we have finished our metaphor machines…. Continue Reading →

  A few days ago (from when this blog was published) grade 9 students from all around Canada got to take a break from school to get the opportunity learn about what their parents do all day. This year, it… Continue Reading →

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you”. Over the last few weeks, the  PLP 9 class have been building a machine.  The assignment is for the students to build a working machine that metaphorically relates to a specific… Continue Reading →

I have just finished making the house of my dreams. 4800 square feet of pure awesomeness. Recently in scimatics (math and science) we have been learning about blueprints and scale diagrams. As a final assignment our task was to make… Continue Reading →

This blog post will be all about the process of creating a video for an assignment. First I’ll explain the project. During the last few weeks, the PLP nine class has been studying cause and consequence. Then we were assigned… Continue Reading →

At Seycove in grade 9, PLP we’ve been asked to write a blog post about steampunk. First I need to ask the question, what is steampunk? Well, of the top of my head I can’t really think of an exact… Continue Reading →

Right now the gap between people with average or below incomes and the super-rich is widening, which makes me wonder if our society could ever reach stage one of Crane Brinton’s theory of revolution. I’m Michael Van Laethem and this… Continue Reading →