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AcadeCoders 2024
ACADECODERS SUMMER 2024 This summer, AcadeCODERS is a coding and robotics camp and are excited to offer: circuits, bloxels, lego spike robotics, scratch game creation, circuits & audio synths, python & sonic pi. Campers will also enjoy the Athletik programme, focusing on various independent and group sports skills each week.
AcadeCamp 2024
ACADECAMP SUMMER 2024 This summer, AcadCamp is excited to offer “Traveling around the world in 38 days’! AcadeCampers will explore traveling around the world this summer in STEAM! Campers will also enjoy the Athletik programme, focusing on various independent and group sports skills each week. Activities will be delivered in
ACADECAP HIVE AND PYP BUZZ MARCH NEWSLETTER
Keep informed about what students are doing at AcadeCap through our amazing monthly newsletters; The Hive and The PYP Buzz. Click each link below to read about our amazing students.
Open House By Appointment – Saturday, April 9, 2022
Established in 1998, Académie de la Capitale, aka Acadecap International School, invites you to our by appointment open house from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. AcadeCap is proud to be Ottawa’s first IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) authorized school! For children in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6, the IB PYP
AcadeCap Hive and PYP Buzz February Newsletter
Keep informed about what students are doing at AcadeCap through our amazing monthly newsletters;The Hive and ThePYP Buzz. Click each link below to read about our amazing students.
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff 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
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
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.
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
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
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