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It worked!
Dear Parents, Teachers, and Students, Yes, it did work! This first week of Telelearning has been reassuring in regards to our choice of approaches to online teaching and learning. Can you imagine, we even had TéléADLC and TED ED club running! In hindsight, I should have recorded the conversation between
Tele-learning at Acadecap and AcadeKIDZ
Dear Parents, Students, and Teachers, Tele-Learning at Acadecap International School and AcadeKIDZ started on Monday, March 30, 2020, at 9 am. Platforms The educators have chosen to use Padlet, Google Classroom and Meet as the online platforms. According to the group’s age, they may have chosen to use only one
COVID-19 Update: Learning Continues Online
Dear AcadeCap/KIDZ Parents, Team and Students, I hope that your loved ones are healthy and safe at home, wherever in the world they live. To keep everyone in the loop, AcadeKIDZ closed as of Tuesday, March 17, 2020, until Friday, April 3, inclusively. AcadeCap International School closed on Thursday afternoon,
COVID-19 Information & Preparedness
March 12, 2020 Good Afternoon Parents, Teachers and OSSD Students, We take the evolution of the COVID-19 transmission and prevention around the world, in Canada, in Ontario, and now in Ottawa, seriously. For the last two weeks, AcadeCap and KIDZ staff have been proactive in teaching and overseeing proper handwashing,
AcadeQUIZ is on March 7, 2020 at Kichesippi Beer Co.
Acadecap’s annual school fundraiser, AcadeQuiz, is around the corner! Join us on March 7th, 2020 for a fun evening of trivia, drinks and more! To reserve your tickets online, click here or simply reply to this email with the number of tickets you would like. Don’t forget to invite your family and friends,
AcadeCoders 2020
AcadeCoders is a coding and robotics camp focused on introducing campers to various technological disciplines while also ensuring they enjoy physical activities outdoors and through jiu-jitsu classes. There will be a total of 8 weeks, each with its own major focus. The maximum session size is 12 due to the
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
AcadeCap Career Fair 2023
The AcadeCap Career Fair on May 24th provided an excellent opportunity for students in Grades 5 through 12 to practice their interviewing and networking skills and to learn about possible career fields. Our Career Studies class planned, organized, and hosted the event, which involved students completing research and preparing a
Do Words Matter?
Do words matter? During a discussion about living things and their needs, the dialogue turned into an interesting question being posed. Are plants affected by our words and the tone in which we speak to them? ( They are living things after all. ) We have decided to do an
Inquiry-Driven Labs
In a problem-based learning challenge, the Science 9 students used their knowledge of electrostatics and the scientific method to determine how the amount of charge on the rod and the mass of foil in an electroscope affect how far apart the pieces of foil will separate from each other. In
Congratulations for a job well done!
AcadeCap School has won the Safe Drinking Water Foundation’s 2022-2023 Student Action on Canadian Water Attitudes Competition and one of the two $3000 grand prize packages consisting of several water quality testing kits and a water bottle filling station! Congratulations to all the PSSP and OSSD students, the Science classes,
The Wonderful Earthworm
As part of our unit of inquiry this week, we are investigating all about earthworms and how they are beneficial to the growing process of plants. We constructed our own class worm habitat so we can observe and document everything that we notice about our fascinating worms. Did you know
Results of the Recycling Incentive Pilot Programme
This Term, a civic action project has been underway, with the Civics students engaging the whole school in a recycling incentive pilot programme to reduce the amount of food waste and recyclables that enter our garbage cans at the school. During the 3 weeks of the programme, parents packed litterless