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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

Learning Outside

​The weather this week has been beautiful, and we decided to take advantage of it. We brought our learning outside. The students worked on their short stories and really enjoyed the change of scenery and fresh air. At the end of class, they asked me if we could go outside

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Teachers' Blogs

Biographies and Timeline

Students have been exploring biographies of famous Canadians and Americans. They have been looking at how biographies are formatted and why they are important for learning about the past. We are now looking at writing biographies about family members. First we looked at the important information we need to construct

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Teachers' Blogs

Together, but six feet apart

Over the first couple of weeks of school, building a strong classroom community is an important aspect to create a safe learning environment for the students. This year, more than any other year, students have been working extra hard to build a sense of community as they are sitting apart

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Teachers' Blogs

What will biology labs look like this year?

The biology teachers are facing an interesting dilemma during the COVID-19 pandemic: how can we maintain a hands-on lab experience when the majority of our students are learning remotely from home online? Some lab procedures, such as DNA extraction, can be designed as kitchen safe experiments that do not involve

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Teachers' Blogs

Inspiration From the World Around Us

To start the school year, students are warming up their creative writing skills by composing their own short story. We started this project by looking for inspiration from the world around us, and created a list of where good ideas come from. Our list included books, memories, news, history, movies,

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Teachers' Blogs

First Weeks of School

Coming back to school has been filled with lots of new routines, but also lots of fun activities. The students have adapted quickly and have managed to do some great work. The students created math equations to showcase different facts about themselves. They used creativity to complete this activity, as

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