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PSSP and OSSD Curriculum Night

On Tuesday, November 30th, 2021, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, Académie de la Capitale is hosting the annual PSSP/OSSD Curriculum night.  This is an opportunity for parents with children in grades 7-12, as well as interested parents, with children about to enter the PreSecondary School Programme (grade 7) in the

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Happy Hanukkah from AcadeCap!

We wish all students, parents and our community a Happy Chanukah celebration! We look forward to celebrating the festival of lights and feast of dedication with our community. This year we are celebrating through writing activities and reading books in our English classes.

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Remembrance Day: Lest We Forget

AcadeCap would like to thank all of the men and women who serve Canada and to our friends who serve in our global community. We pause and give thanks on the 11 month, 11 day, and 11 hour. We give thanks and remember all the soldiers from wars in history

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Happy Diwali Festival from Acadecap!

We wish all students, parents and our community a Happy Diwali celebration!  We look forward to celebrating the festival of lights with our community at Acadecap.  We enjoyed learning about Diwali last year by creating beautiful artworks.  Thank you to all of our student and parent community members for creating

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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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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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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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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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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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