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Computer Science Education Week
Académie de la Capitale will be holding introduction to coding classes. The classes are free of charge and open to children ages of 6 and up! Pick a session, register and join us in celebration of CS Education week and Hour of Code! CS Edu Week Registration Form
AcadeQuiz Annual Fundraising Event
What is AcadeQuiz? The main attraction is a clever and often humorous trivia game of 8 categories. Fabulous door prizes, games, a cash bar and pizza donated by Mr. Mozzarella. Opportunity to mingle and peruse the silent action at the end of each trivia category. 2015 funds raised will further
AcadeCap Family Pumpkin Carving Contest
The AcadeCap community is invited to participate in our Family Pumpkin Carving Contest Contest details: One entry per family Once you have carved your masterpiece, take a picture and email it to [email protected] or reply to this email All entries must be submitted by October 28th Voting will take place
Ottawa Private School Expo 2015
Interested in private school in Ottawa? Come and find us at the Ottawa Private School Expo! Talk to our director, find out information from our program coordinators and learn about our tutoring and camps.
Super Saturdays: Coding and Minecraft EDU
The weekend is for learning! Our coding Super Saturdays start on October 17, while our next Advanced Minecraft EDU is on November 7. For more information, including dates and registration forms, please visit: https://www.acadecap.org/camps/
Next Open House/ La Prochaine Portes Ouvertes
Looking for a one-stop-education in the West of Ottawa? Académie de la Capitale is hosting its next Open House on Wednesday, November 25th, 2015 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, All-Year Camp, and Summer Camps. You
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
AcadeCap Career Fair 2023
The AcadeCap Career Fair on May 24th provided an excellent opportunity for students in Grades 5 through 12 to practice their interviewing and networking skills and to learn about possible career fields. Our Career Studies class planned, organized, and hosted the event, which involved students completing research and preparing a
Do Words Matter?
Do words matter? During a discussion about living things and their needs, the dialogue turned into an interesting question being posed. Are plants affected by our words and the tone in which we speak to them? ( They are living things after all. ) We have decided to do an
Inquiry-Driven Labs
In a problem-based learning challenge, the Science 9 students used their knowledge of electrostatics and the scientific method to determine how the amount of charge on the rod and the mass of foil in an electroscope affect how far apart the pieces of foil will separate from each other. In
Congratulations for a job well done!
AcadeCap School has won the Safe Drinking Water Foundation’s 2022-2023 Student Action on Canadian Water Attitudes Competition and one of the two $3000 grand prize packages consisting of several water quality testing kits and a water bottle filling station! Congratulations to all the PSSP and OSSD students, the Science classes,
The Wonderful Earthworm
As part of our unit of inquiry this week, we are investigating all about earthworms and how they are beneficial to the growing process of plants. We constructed our own class worm habitat so we can observe and document everything that we notice about our fascinating worms. Did you know
Results of the Recycling Incentive Pilot Programme
This Term, a civic action project has been underway, with the Civics students engaging the whole school in a recycling incentive pilot programme to reduce the amount of food waste and recyclables that enter our garbage cans at the school. During the 3 weeks of the programme, parents packed litterless