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Terry Fox Fundraising on September 28 2021
AcadeCap is proud to be participating in this year’s Terry Fox event. We aim to raise $1,000 in support of the Terry Fox Foundation. The fundraising event will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 2021, at Morrison Park (near the school). Students will be running with their cohort, following COVID-19
The Student Vote
Acadecap has registered the school to The Student Vote program. This project provides our students with an opportunity to experience the democratic process firsthand, and practice the habits of informed and engaged citizenship. The Student Vote program applies the concept of the ‘teachable moment’ using the official election as a
Indigenous Culture: Orange Shirt Day
Orange shirt day is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation for Indigenous peoples. We at AcadeCap take part by wearing orange shirts to support the first peoples’ rights. We also take Indigenous studies at our school seriously with curriculum based on indigenous mythology and world view, residential schools, and
Dial-a-Chef Lunch Programme
At AcadeCap we pride ourselves in excellence in education across the world including unique cultural experiences through cuisine by Chef Erick of Dial-a-Chef. Dial-a-Chef has been in the Ottawa community since 1992. Chef Erick provides unique cuisine from France, Canada and around the world in our catered lunch programme at
AcadeCap Safe Return in September 2021
Once again due to the on-going pandemic, the AcadeCap Summer Team prepared for a safe return September, 2021. We continue to put in place numerous procedures and practices to ensure that students and team members are safe during their learning at school. Consequently, what can students and parents expect? Each
Virtual AcadeCamp: Summer at the Art Gallery
This week, students at AcadeCamp have been busy learning about Pat Lipsky. Inspired by her paintings, campers learned about arrays and multiplication, along with number patterns and sequences. Below is a picture of an “Array City.” Each building has windows using different arrays to express a multiplication number sentence. Using
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
The Royal Disease
Biology 11 students are learning about the x-linkage type of genetic inheritance pattern. They are exploring a case study focused on the pedigree of Queen Victoria. Hemophilia was the result of a trait from one gene located on the X chromosome. The students use a problem based learning approach to
PYP Debate Club
PYP students are honing their debating skills in an engaging lunch time club. Each session starts with a skill building activity to warm up our brains and then moves into a more formal debating activity. Students learn the art of argumentation and reasoning while having fun! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT
Advanced SMILE
In the advanced SMILE class, students are working on paragraph writing and elements of writing style. Here is an example of a recent paragraph by one of our students. How the Mighty Empire of Rome Began Rome’s beginnings can be traced to small settlements of shepherds near the banks of
100th Day Collections
Today is our 100th day of school! We celebrated by bringing in a collection of 100 objects, making groups of 10, skip counting to 100, and playing a game! We brought in 100 stickers, 100 noodles, 100 Legos (x2), a list of 100 words, and 100 counters! Take a look
Tens and Ones
We were learning about 10s and 1s in our Kindergarten math class.When students are able to compose and decompose numbers into tens, they can better manipulate numbers mentally. Source:: Kinder Blog
Do you wanna build a snowman?
Students in Grade 1/2 have been working on procedural writing leading up to the iSTEAM Fair later this March. To practice writing procedures, we studied how to build a snowman. To begin, students first identified the important steps and vocabulary. Once we had a list, we then looked at transition