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Virtual AcadeCamp: Registration is Open!
It’s a go! Virtual AcadeCamp is ready and open for registrations. This summer, AcadeCamp will look different than past summers. We will be doing our learning over Google Meet, and have a 9:00am to 2:00pm schedule. Campers will have snack breaks, as well as body breaks between activities. Moreso,
L’exposition PP 2020 / PYP Exhibition 2020: VIRTUAL
English version to follow. L’exposition PP 2020, Académie de la Capitale : un projet qui encourage une recherche collective et approfondie. En dernière année du programme primaire, les élèves participent à un projet de fin d’études : l’exposition. C’est à la fois une recherche menée dans l’esprit d’une responsabilité personnelle
Home Learning iSTEAM Challenge: Week 3
On December 17, 1903, in North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. Orville piloted the gasoline-powered, propeller-driven biplane, which stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on its inaugural flight. (Source: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-airplane-flies) This week, the iSTEAM Team challenges you to
Student-Led Conferences from home
Student-Led Conference Day is scheduled on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. On this day, we encourage students to proudly show their parents the work accomplished during the school year. Students always have access to their portfolio. For AcadeCap students, grade 3 and up, they are encouraged to show their growth and
AWARDS CEREMONY / SOIRÉE DES PRIX D’EXCELLENCE
Our first annual Prix d’excellence de l’Académie de la Capitale Awards presentation took place on May 29th, 2015. Since then we have held the gala event every May and this year will be no exception, although the format will be different. The awards were conceived as a celebration across the
Home Learning iSTEAM Challenge: Week 2
Did you know that the catapult was invented in about 400 BC? The catapult has many variations, but mainly it uses the sudden release of stored potential energy to propel an object. This week, the iSTEAM team challenges you to build a catapult and see how far you can launch a
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Géographie – habiletés cartographiques, direction et distance.
Et oui, la géographie c’est aussi des maths et surtout de la géométrie! Au PSSP, en classe de géographie, nous abordons de manière très concrète les problématiques de la géométrie spatiale : distance, points cardinaux, projection, … dans le cadre de notre unité sur les habiletés cartographiques, direction et distance,
Fall Celebrations
This year, the Grade 1/2 students have a year-long unit that focuses on “Societies celebrate significant events.” Each season, students will explore what celebrations and significant events their families, and our school community celebrate. To start off this unit of inquiry, students explored a sensory bin filled with a variety
Volunteer Opportunities for OSSD Students
As part of the requirement to graduate with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma, all high school students must participate in COVID safe volunteering to collect 40 hours of volunteer experience prior to their graduation. AcadeCap has made volunteering easy this year with some volunteer roles that can be done by
Extra! Extra! Read all About it!
The AcadeCap Chronicles is the AcadeCap school newspaper, published monthly. Our News Team researches and documents activities and events at AcadeCap. Our issues consist of feature articles, club news, comics and jokes, cartoons, photos and art, an advice column, trend watch, the game of the month, interviews, and editorials that
Discovering Procedural Writing
Students were given the challenge of organizing a series of sentences into the proper order. After much discussion, the groups managed to complete the instructions on how to make pancakes. The groups were then tasked with making it easier for another person to complete the puzzle in a more efficient
JK/SK PSPE
Hop, skip, jump, and roll! Hula hoops have a way of putting fun in motion. Young students interact in a variety of games involving large hula hoops. During these activities students are developing their motor skills and eye-hand coordination while playing variations of red light/green light, Simon says, and relay