For my race team, called D.A.R.T, or Deepcove Advanced Race Team, it is a tradition to spend at least a weekend in Tofino during march break. We take a break from racing and we surf during this time. This year was the first year that the whole team couldn’t go at one time, so this year […]

This last weekend my team lost in final four, and we are not going to provincials, thus, ending our season. It was a good season though, we had some big wins and some amazing team experiences with all of my old friends from hockey, that I’ve known since I was 6. Our year started with […]

This student led conference is to show my teachers and parents 3 examples of my work. One that I am most proud of, one that shows a growth mindset and one that is an example of learning. I want to start with my example of learning as it is the most recent, and in my […]

This year in the Frankenstuffy unit the science and math side has been incorporated into it. We have made a villain, and it will disturb or destroy an ecosystem, which is the science part. We also have calculated the surface area and volume of our monsters. Mine is made of Lego. The odd and seemingly […]

We have recently come to the end of our fantasy untit, and a big part of said unit was an in class essay about fantasy. We researched, were lectured on and learned about essay structure, technique and the genre of fantasy. Not just fantasy though, we read and watched Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland. For […]

This year in PLP 9, our extended field school was traveling to Florida for 9 days. We were there to answer the question What Draws us To Imaginary Worlds? To answer that we spent 4 days at Disney; one day for each park. And also we spent a day at N.A.S.A and Universal Studios. The […]

So like last year, this year in PLP we did Destination Imagination. I’m short D.I is a multi age program challenging students in multiple ways to call upon their skills, imaginations, and most importantly each other               This year my group of Spencer, Lucas, Sam and Michael took on the engineering challenge; In It Together. […]

Last class in science we did a lab, the goal was to create copper by taking Copper Chloride and by adding Aluminum we separated the Copper from the Chlorine by adding the aluminum to the Chlorine. So we were left with Aluminum Chloride and Copper. When we put the copper in a flame it turned […]

In class today with Mr. Featherstone we talked all about winder and we are handing it in though our blogs. First we made mind maps about everything to do with wonder. Then we answered the following questions about This essay. 1- How was Prinz’s experience with the “ Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus” different from his […]

So, a whole project based on Harry Potter. To some people this sounds like the best project because they have grown up reading and watching the Harry Potter books and movies. For me though I was coming in with a completely blank mind, which turned out to be more useful than I thought. My question […]