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Acadecap PSSP/OSSD Newsletter

Calling all AcadeCap communities!  Keep informed about what we are doing at AcadeCap through our amazing monthly newsletters.  Students are active in a combination of current events and curriculum that celebrates diversity in learning activities.  

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News and Events

Happy Lunar New Year!

We wish all students, parents and our community a Happy Lunar New Year!  We hope you all have happy and safe festivities with lots of food, family, and friends! We will be celebrating Lunar New Year with a host of activities in our curriculum.  Be sure to check out our

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Virtual Open House February 9 2022

Established in 1998, Académie de la Capitale, aka Acadecap International School, invites you to our virtual open house with focused  presentations on our Primary Years Programme, as well as our PSSP and OSSD programmes.   AcadeCap is proud to be Ottawa’s first IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) authorized school in

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AC Village Meeting and International Potluck (Virtual) January 27, 2022

Once a  year, pre-COVID-19, AcadeCap families and staff would gather at the school  for our international potluck dinner attended by our AcadeCap community. The AC Village Meeting followed the potluck.  This is the time of year when we introduce new families and staff, inform about the next school year fees,

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Happy Kwanzaa from Acadecap

Heri Za Kwanzaa!  We wish all students, parents and our community a Happy Kwanzaa celebration!  We hope you all have a happy and safe harvest festival with lots of light, specialty foods and good times within our community!

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Happy Humanlight celebrations!

We wish everyone a joyful Humanlight celebration during the holiday season!  We join you in celebrating humanity, reason and hope!  Cheers, to celebrating the life you have with all of your loved ones during the winter solstice!

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AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs

Teachers' Blogs

Tell me what you love about your friend…

All the little statements written around each student are some of the reasons their friends said they love them. We’ll do this once again, at the end of our unit, to see if we could add more. I am certain there are more reasons, and during the unit, we will

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Students participating in Acadecap educational activities
Teachers' Blogs

Robert Munsch wrote back!

We are very excited to announce that Robert Munsch wrote back to Ruben! “​Hi Ruben: Thanks for writing and for reading my books. You asked if I like to do other things besides writing. I used to love to go hiking and cycling but now my health does not allow

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Students participating in educational workshops and activities
Teachers' Blogs

Conflict Resolution

Last week, in English class, the students talked about conflict among friends. They thought about the types of problems that could come up and possible solutions to the problems. Thanks, Mme Katie! Often times, students will repeat some of this in French with me. Having talked about it in English

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Teachers' Blogs

Science Fair

Really proud of my students and the wonderful job they did for their science fair project. When Lucie, the judge, visited their project, they were able to answer all her questions and share what they had done and what they had learned. I’m very impressed with their ability to recall

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Reflections in our Journal

We are just about to wrap up our unit about living things and at the end of each unit (as well as throughout), we reflect on our learning. Today, we used our journals to document our reflections. The students were asked to take a few moments to think about what

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What Do I See? (and hear, and feel!)

I am always telling the students to “show me” their stories when they write not “tell me.” This was put to the test today when students had to use their senses to write down what they observed around the school. They used their jot note skills to record all the

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