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Open House November 22 2023

Join us at our Open House event and explore the opportunities for your child’s education.  We are thrilled to introduce our new waitlist for the highly sought-after English IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) – the pathway to future success! The English PYP will join our current programmes:  Bilingual IB PYP

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Students participating in Hour of Code programming activities
AcadeCoders

AcadeCode Your Way to a Creative Summer

Registration for AcadeCoders 2023 Summer Camps are now open! Register here.  Calling all young creators and builders, join us this summer and become coding thrillers, with stop-motion, Lego Spike, and Bloxels too, Your imagination will come alive, it’s true.   Create your own characters, worlds and games, with 3-D printing,

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Primary Years Programme students in technology learning session
AcadeCamp

Bug Adventures: A STEM Summer Camp for Inquisitive Minds

Registration for AcadeCamp and AcadeKinder 2023 Summer Camps are now open!  AcadeCamp register here. AcadeKinder register here.   Come one, come all, to our summer camp of bugs, A world full of wonder and maybe some slugs, Where you’ll dine with the ants, and learn all their ways, And see

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News and Events

OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY APRIL 15

Come and discover the AcadeCap difference! On Saturday, April 15, 2023 we invite you to come visit AcadeCap, tour our space and meet our teachers. Our Open House is from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, please RSVP here: RSVP – Open House on April 15, 2023 Did you know that

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Teachers' Blogs

Music In Our Kindergarten Class

Our kindergarten class has been learning a variety of new skills during our music classes. Violin helps to develop our confidence, creativity and self regulation skills.​We are sounding excellent! Source:: Kinder Blog

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Teachers' Blogs

Would you like a piece of pie?

SMILE is our special programme for students who are struggling with reading and writing. During a SMILE class, students work 1:1 or in small groups to review and consolidate reading strategies and spelling rules in an integrated reading-writing format. SMILE teachers support the students using an explicit approach based on

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Teachers' Blogs

Edgar Allen Poe

With the full moon upon us, and Halloween in the not too distant future, we are exploring Atmospheric stories and poetry by Edgar Allen Poe. To kick off our unit, students delved into the life of Poe and created a body biography. After reading a few of his poems, students

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Teachers' Blogs

Science

​Our Science 9 students are starting the school year with a hands-on investigation as they begin a unit exploring the nature of matter. By the end of the unit, they will each demonstrate an understanding of the nature of matter, including the structure of the atom, physical and chemical properties

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Teachers' Blogs

Mapping

During Outdoor Education, the Grade 5/6s labelled a map. After creating their own map of the area around the school with symbols, words and drawings, the students went out and explored, filling in the blanks on a map of the surrounding area. They used their spatial awareness skills, communication skills

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Teachers' Blogs

Caterpillars, Chrysalises and Butterflies!

Throughout our unit of inquiry, our Kinder class has been learning all about life cycles. We had the awesome opportunity to experience the life cycle of the butterfly firsthand, and loved it!When all of the butterflies had transformed, we let them go, to live their life freely in nature.What a

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