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Our Platinum Sponsors
A special thank you to Mann Lawyers and Clinique Neuro-Outaouais for their platinum sponsorship of our annual fundraiser, AcadeQuiz. We are honoured to be able to feature you on our school website and to share a link to your webpages! Thank you for your continued support. Please click the images
A Successful Fundraiser, Thank you!
The AcadeCap Community would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who contributed to the success of our annual fundraising event, AcadeQuiz. It was an evening full of fun and excitement and we are incredibly grateful for all the support. It was with the help of our sponsors, local businesses,
Feb. 15 Open House / Portes Ouvertes: Focus on the PYP
Académie de la Capitale is a bilingual IB World School for Pre-K to Grade 12, offering the IB PYP & MYP, and OSSD. Schedule your visit today!
Super Saturdays to begin February 4th
Super Saturdays (SuperSats) will not be held this coming Saturday, January 28th. The first SuperSats session will be on February 4th, featuring Jiu Jitsu (ages 5-7) and Robotics Square (ages 8-11).
AcadeQuiz Annual Fundraiser
WHAT IS ACADEQUIZ? The main attraction is a clever and often humorous trivia game. Enthusiastic participants are placed on teams for some healthy competition! From Pop Culture to All About Canada, there is something for all to enjoy!After each trivia category, participants have the opportunity to mingle and peruse the Silent
Dec. 5-11 Computer Science Education Week: Hour of Code
Académie de la Capitale is celebrating Computer Science Education Week from December 5-11. Every day will feature an Hour of Code, which are hour long courses designed for ages 4 and over. Courses will be available for the following age groups: Pre-readers, Ages 6-8, and Ages 9-99. Maximum of 12 participants per
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