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Students participating in mathematics challenge competition
News and Events

Défi Mathématique Day

Défi Mathématique Day: On February 25, 2015, Michel Lyons, developer and author of the Défi Mathématique series, will be working alongside students and teachers.

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Students performing during Acadecap Christmas concert event
News and Events

Festive Season Extravaganza

Académie de la Capitale offered a photoshoot to parents during the end-of-the-year 2014 presentation. What a great way to end a great year!

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Students practicing jiu jitsu as part of extracurricular programs
News and Events

Jiu-Jitsu Demonstration in April

Mark your calendars for Monday, April 27th, for AcadeCap Portfolio student-led conferences and Jiu-jitsu demonstrations. On that day, our balanced learners will present you their eportfolio and their amazing Jiu Jitsu skills.

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Students participating in charity run for pancreatic cancer awareness
Scoops

Swimming the 10k against Pancreatic Cancer

François Jacques, Chairman of the Board of Acadecap Intl School and Carleton Masters teammates swim 10 K for Pancreatic Cancer! By swimming the 10 K, François Jacques also took up the Jack Matthews Challenge, put forth by David Hawley, Headmaster Lester B. Pearson United World College. What a feat! Félicitations!

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Students enjoying Fraser River educational field trip
News and Events

Paddling For Biodiversity with the UN

World School senior students (grades 9-11)in June 2013. It will consist of a 3 1/2 day Fraser River voyageur canoe trip, as well as a stay at Lester B. Pearson United World College in a marine environment on the southern coast of Vancouver Island. Read the full article here.

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Teachers' 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

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Teachers' Blogs

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

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Teachers' Blogs

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

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Teachers' Blogs

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,

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Teachers' Blogs

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

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Teachers' Blogs

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

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