When a creation doesn’t work, just call it modern art
Welcome to the Spring Exhibition (which I always thought was held in summer but after a quick google search, found out that it takes place a few days before summer actually starts. So even though it happens no where close to spring break, it’s still technically an accurate name even if it still annoys me…
Welcome to my first film. This is the final entree in our quest to become film making masters. Our job was to create a short documentary about a topic of our choosing. Our driving question was “How can I engage and entertain an audience using my video and storytelling skills?” With the only requirements for the…
How do you make really cool and fantastic films, well that’s what we set out to learn at the start of our latest maker project all about making our own videos. To start off, however we first needed to ‘meet the movies’, where we learned about the history of filmmaking and got an introduction to…
Being an effective person is really hard. I think we all probably know that, so how do we become more effective in life? Well let’s try to find out shall we? Believe in Good was our latest project in PLP focused not on history, science concepts, or writing, but on how you can be a…
Yep… it’s that time of year again. Destination Imagination! The one stop shop for all your stress related needs. Do you have too much time? Need a little bit of stress in your life. Look no further, with Destination Imagination you won’t have another free day… what’s that? You’re saying that DI went pretty smoothly…
Recently, the grade 8 and 9 classes went on their first ever overnight field trip The Loon Lake Learning Advance! For this trip, all 80+ students from both grade 8 and 9 went to the loon lake lodge and retreat center in Maple Ridge to have a fun (and exhausting) week of learning and team…
Have you ever wondered if atoms had lives. What would happen if they could speak. What stories would they tell. Well in this project, that’s up to me to decide. Chemistry Stories, The project where we animate atoms while they try to make as many friends as possible. But why do atoms pair up with…
Destination Imagination! Destination Imagination, also know as DI, is an international tournament in which groups of students try to solve challenges using communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative skills. This was my very first year doing DI, but because of the Covid 19 pandemic, it looked a lot different then what it was in previous…
Ahoy matey We have finished another project! This project is called Argh Matey. It was a fairly short project that lasted only around two weeks, and I’m here to tell you all about it. Argh Matey was all about the Age of Exploration, and of course pirates. We started off the project by watching the…