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February 15: Open House / Portes ouvertes
Académie de la Capitale (AcadeCap) is hosting an Open House on Thursday, February 15th, from 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm. Learn more about all of AcadeCap’s programs: the bilingual IB PYP and IB MYP, and the OSSD, as well as our extra-curriculars: OSSD Credit Courses, Tutoring, Multi-Sensory Teaching for reading

ICYMI: Festive Season Extravaganza 2017
Photos from our annual Festive Season Extravaganza are available on our Facebook page. Please click on the Facebook button to access the album. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10155169829747688.1073741921.175529857687&type=1&l=9ff8117fb4

AcadeQuiz: Académie de la Capitale’s Annual School Fundraiser
Académie de la Capitale’s annual school fundraiser, AcadeQuiz, is coming up! It will be held on February 24, in AcadeCap’s newly renovated space. Learn about how you can support AcadeQuiz!

Beaver Computing Contest
The students of Académie de la Capitale recently competed in the annual Beaver Computing Contest developed by the Center for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) of the University of Waterloo. The contest is intended to get students excited about computer science and focuses on computation and logic. Over 15,000 students wrote the Beaver Computing

Information Sessions: Dec. 13 & 14, 2017
Information sessions for 2017-2018 mid-year admission: (Wednesday) December 13 at 10 am and (Thursday) December 14 at 7 pm.

Hour of Code 2017: Free sessions December 4 & 7
The Hour of Code is back at Académie de la Capitale. Join us on December 4 and December 7 from 4:15 to 5:45 pm for free coding sessions.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy Lunar New Year! We listened to a story that taught us about the sinister Nian who wasn’t nice to the villagers at the beginning of each new year, so the villagers learned to scare him off with loud noises, bright lights, and the colour red.
Clash of the Ideologies
The HIVE students, in a fun collaboration between their Civics and History courses, participated in the ‘Clash of the Ideologies’ activity, which involved each student completing research on a specific political ideology and creating a short audio-visual presentation. For the presentation, we had some special guests in the audience, the
The Hour of Code
The kinders teamed up with their older school friends during The Hour of Code. They worked together to explore different coding tutorials. The younger children benefited from the knowledge and experience of their older buddies and enjoyed being able to help them solve awesome coding challenges. What is The Hour
Metabolic Processes
For the Metabolic Processes Unit, the Biology 12 students conducted investigations to determine the rates of cellular respiration and photosynthesis. They made predictions, explored direct and indirect methods of measurement, and investigated a variety of factors that influence metabolic rates in various organisms. Students practiced using their lab observations to
Thinking Critically about Bioplastics
In Science 9, the students have become inventors of bioplastic and other plastic alternatives. They are exploring the chemistry of bioplastic, reading the recent research on the use of waste materials from agriculture to make bioplastics, and thinking critically about the societal, technological, and environmental challenges still associated with bioplastic
Illuminated Letters
Students experienced the detailed-oriented work that comprised illuminated letters and manuscripts. A respected art-form of the 7th century, performed by a team of monks (the parchmenter, the scribe, the illuminator), under a vow of silence. A vow which the students found troubling! 😁 As students drafted and created their final