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Nov. 23 Open House / Portes Ouvertes: Focus on the MYP
The next open house is on November 23, 2016 from 4:30 – 8:00 pm.
After school clubs for Fall 2016
The list of after school clubs for the 2016 fall term are now available in the After School Clubs section (under Camps/Clubs). We will be offering the following: Mondays: AC Flipped Math Enrichment Tuesdays: Junior Maker Inventor Workshop Wednesdays: AcadeCoders Web Design alternating with Minecraft EDU Thursdays: Ottawa Robotics Academy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016: OPEN HOUSE / PORTES OUVERTES
Looking for a one-stop-education in the West of Ottawa? Académie de la Capitale IB World School is hosting its next Open House on Thursday, September 1st, 2016 from 4:30 – 8:00 pm. Come and discover more about our programmes: PYP, MYP, and OSSD. Learn about our extra-curriculars: Crédits à la Carte, Tutoring, Coding
AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Ruby
Ruby Welcome to the eighth week of the AcadeCoders session: Ruby. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. Ruby is a prominent back-end object-oriented coding language used for web applications and scaling. Companies such as Shopify, Airbnb, and Twitter. Day 1:
AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Robotics and AI
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Welcome to the seventh week of the AcadeCoders session: Robotics and AI. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. Robotics and AI are an integral part in the field of technology and this significance will be taught through concepts
AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Building Applications with JavaScript
Building Applications with JavaScript Welcome to the sixth week of the AcadeCoders session: Building Applications with JavaScript. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. JavaScript is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Trees in the seasons
What do trees look like in each season. After talking about this and reading a few books about seasons, we got ready for an art activity to depict the trees! The students used q-tips and paint and dotted the trees in each season with the appropriate colours. They were careful
The Cooperation Counsel
Conseil de Coopération – Cooperative Counsel Définition : Le conseil de coopération est un lieu de gestion de la classe, de mise en commun des réussites, des difficultés et des échecs, un lieu de réflexion pour trouver consensus et solutions. Ce n’est pas une causerie, ni un comité élu par
Political Inquiry in a Digital Age
We live in an age of digital information. How do we navigate the huge amount information available to us from social media, video, and other digital sources? As consumers of information, how do we sift through the misinformation and disinformation to determine what is true? These questions have great significance
Orange Shirt Day
This week, Acadecap participated in Orange Shirt Day, honouring First Nations’ children. After watching videos and discussing the significance of the day, we looked at First Nations’ art. The students either drew different First Nations drawings, paintings, or sculptures, or created their own interpretations based off the art. They seemed
Outdoor classroom
No matter the weather, we will be taking advantage of our outdoor learning space. Yesterday was so beautiful that it would have been wrong to not go out! We did our afternoon journal entry outside and then had a few minutes to run around before going back in to our
Cultural Self-Portraits
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring what culture means and how it impacts who we are. We’ve interviewed family members about traditions and celebrations, and learned about how they’ve changed over the years in our family. Students were tasked with creating a self-portrait to represent their culture. Then,