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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 Importance Of Being Active

Even on the stormiest of days, we are cognizant of the importance of physical activity in our daily lives. Gross motor skills like running, jumping and skipping are some of the important developmental skills that children learn during our planned physical activities. There is no better way to release some

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Rube Goldberg Exploration

We have been busy working on designing and building our Rube Goldberg machines throughout the PYP at Acadecap.As a group, they have designed their Rube Goldberg machines and collected the needed materials to begin building their project.This ISTEAM activity helps to develop critical thinking skills that are crucial for each

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Publishing our Research Guides

Students in Grade 1/2 took on the role of researcher and author to create their own research guides about a nocturnal animal of their choice. We worked on research skills such as: finding information, taking notes and summarizing. Then, we took our information and created different sections for our books.

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Teachers' Blogs

First Snowfall of 2022

What an exciting day it was on Wednesday for our Kindergarten class.The first snowfall always brings a lot of joy and wonder to our little ones.Our unit of inquiry is all about night and day cycles (dark and light),how living things cope with seasonal changes and how temperature affects water.This

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Teachers' Blogs

Learning through Play

Students in Grade 1/2 are currently learning about the Earth’s Natural Cycles. In addition to that, they are learning about different types of weather that typically happen during the 4 seasons in Canada. To learn and develop language, students can play at a weather station and practice being meteorologists. They

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AcadeCap City – Council Meeting

​AcadeCap City’s first City Council Meeting occurred on November 8th. The meeting opened with a land acknowledgement led by our AcadeCap City Co-Mayors, followed by a report from each Classroom Ward. Then discussion and debate ensued on the topic of recycling and food waste management. Finally, the councillors voted on

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