Built in 1936, lawrence park collegiate institute has been serving the lawrence park community for 90 years. home to over 1,200 current staff and students, the school has become well known for its strong focus on academic rigor alongside a broad spectrum of co-curricular achievements.
Lawrence park collegiate is a non-semester school with a strong french immersion program, and we constantly strive to embody our school motto "amor doctrinae floreat" (let the love of learning flourish).
We offer over 70 clubs, teams, and councils where students excel at the highest level while proudly wearing the panther colours, blue and gold. our diverse programs foster exceptional talent across all disciplines, highlighted by annual tradition showcases and student-led initiatives that bring our entire school community together.
Land Acknowledgement for Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute
Developed by LPCI staff and students in collaboration with the Urban Indigenous Education Centre, 2024
We, the students, staff and community members of Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, acknowledge we are on the lands of the Mississaugas of the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Wendat. We also recognize the enduring presence of all First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.
Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute was built on Treaty 13 Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, negotiated in 1805. We are grateful for the opportunity to meet and learn here, and we honour the generations of Indigenous Peoples for taking care of the land since time immemorial.
We are committed to working on healing our relationship with First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples and want to better understand Indigenous perspectives and relationships with the environment. We are committed to unlearning the ideologies of colonialism, centering Indigenous voices, and engaging in meaningful actions towards reconciliation.
Nous, les étudiants et le personnel de l’institut collégial Lawrence Park, reconnaissons que nous sommes sur les terres des Mississaugas des Anishinaabe, de la Confédération des Haudenosaunee et des Wendat. Nous reconnaissons également la présence durable de tous les peuples des Premières Nations, des Métis et des Inuits.
L’institut collégial Lawrence Park a été construit sur les terres du Traité 13 de la Première Nation des Mississaugas de Crédit, négocié en 1805. Nous sommes reconnaissants d’avoir l’occasion de nous rencontrer et d’apprendre ici, et nous honorons les générations de peuples autochtones qui prennent actuellement soin de la terre, et d’en avoir pris soin depuis des temps immémoriaux.
Nous sommes déterminés à travailler à guérir nos relations avec les peuples des Premières Nations, les Métis et les Inuits et nous souhaitons mieux comprendre les perspectives et les relations des Autochtones avec l’environnement. Nous sommes déterminés à désapprendre les idéologies du colonialisme, à centrer les voix autochtones et à nous engager dans des actions significatives en faveur de la réconciliation.
LPCI School Song
Give a cheer for the good old gold and blue!
Let's keep our colors strong and true!
We'll keep on trying
With hope undying.
Our spirit will shine through.
RAH! RAH!
Our motto: "Let love of learning thrive."
To work for our goals we'll always strive.
Give a cheer for our talent and our teamwork, too,
And make that cheer a vict'ry cry.
Let's go! We won't stop until it’s victory
For the gang at L.P.C.I
LPCI School Motto, Colours, Crest
"Credo" means "I believe" and was initiated as a School Manifesto.
Lawrence Park's motto is Amor Doctrinae Floreat, "Let the Love of Learning Flourish."
LPCI’s School colours are blue and gold.
Robur
1939 was the first year for the Robur (yearbook). It was so named by the head of Classics, David Breslove, from Latin, meaning a very hard kind of wood, or oak; hence Robur stands for strength, firmness, rigour, and power. More importantly, it means the best part of anything.