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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

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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Teachers' Blogs

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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