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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

The Royal Disease

​Biology 11 students are learning about the x-linkage type of genetic inheritance pattern. They are exploring a case study focused on the pedigree of Queen Victoria. Hemophilia was the result of a trait from one gene located on the X chromosome. The students use a problem based learning approach to

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Teachers' Blogs

PYP Debate Club

​PYP students are honing their debating skills in an engaging lunch time club. Each session starts with a skill building activity to warm up our brains and then moves into a more formal debating activity. Students learn the art of argumentation and reasoning while having fun! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT

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Advanced SMILE

​​In the advanced SMILE class, students are working on paragraph writing and elements of writing style. Here is an example of a recent paragraph by one of our students. How the Mighty Empire of Rome Began Rome’s beginnings can be traced to small settlements of shepherds near the banks of

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Teachers' Blogs

100th Day Collections

Today is our 100th day of school! We celebrated by bringing in a collection of 100 objects, making groups of 10, skip counting to 100, and playing a game! We brought in 100 stickers, 100 noodles, 100 Legos (x2), a list of 100 words, and 100 counters! Take a look

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Teachers' Blogs

Tens and Ones

​We were learning about 10s and 1s in our Kindergarten math class.When students are able to compose and decompose numbers into tens, they can better manipulate numbers mentally. Source:: Kinder Blog

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Teachers' Blogs

Do you wanna build a snowman?

Students in Grade 1/2 have been working on procedural writing leading up to the iSTEAM Fair later this March. To practice writing procedures, we studied how to build a snowman. To begin, students first identified the important steps and vocabulary. Once we had a list, we then looked at transition

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