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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
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
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
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
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,
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
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