Established in 1998, Académie de la Capitale is Ottawa's one and only International Baccalaureate(IB) World Private School offering French As A Second Language and English programmes. Académie de la Capitale is a private bilingual IB World School in the Ottawa/Outaouais region. For the young learner, we offer an education for the 21st Century learner, beyond classroom learning, through the inquiry
-based International Baccalaureate ® Primary Years Programme (PYP) Next, designed for students aged 3 to 12. The curriculum is intended to engage and challenge young learners as they learn about their world, and the wider world around them. The IB PYP Next embraces a transdisciplinary approach, ensuring that learners make connections between, across, and beyond subjects. It encourages its students to become inter-culturally and internationally-minded citizen. Within the PYP Next, the AcadeCap Early Years Programme (JK-SK) is specifically designed to meet the needs of the 3.8 months old to 5 year old child. The flexibility of the PYP Next curriculum for the early years, allows teachers to support the development of children’s interests, self-esteem and confidence, and to respond to spontaneous events that occur in the classroom. The children are encouraged to question, explore, experiment, manipulate and discover. In a secure and comfortable environment, the children become confident learners and the immersion in the French language is natural and spontaneous. Our Pre-Secondary School Programme (PSSP), for Grade 7 and 8 students, emphasizes intellectual challenges, guiding them to make connections between their studies in traditional subjects and the real world, to question and to reflect upon the implications of action, to see themselves as a positive contribution to their surroundings. It provides academic challenges and approches to learning to complement the subject disciplines of the Ontario curriculum: English, French, Mandarin, Spanish, German, Mathematics, Sciences, Humanities, Technology, the Arts, and Physical and Health Education. Students coming to the PSSP from the PYP Next find a natural continuation in their learning process, while students coming from traditional approaches experience an unlocking of their learning abilities and a new enthusiasm towards learning and school life. Secondary school students studying at Académie de la Capitale obtain an English language Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD). A student may choose to obtain a French Immersion Certificate by way of criteria established by the Ontario Ministry of Education. From Grade 7 to Grade 12, AcadeCap students engage in an overarching three-tiered 21st Century Core Competencies Curriculum by which studying academic content is the means of developing these competencies. AcadeCap has strengthened the development and acquisition of the French language competencies for our all our students by offering certification levels of the DELF. We focus on the certification levels, DELF Prim and DELF Junior, targeting students grade 3 to grade 12. Académie de la Capitale offre à votre enfant un apprentissage qui transcende les frontières! L’Académie de la Capitale est une école du Baccalauréat International (IB) unique et bilingue dans la région d'Ottawa et de l'Outaouais. Le Programme primaire (PP) , allant de la maternelle à la 6e année, emploie l’approche du questionnement qui nous permet d’offrir un enseignement allant au-delà de la salle de classe et s’appliquant directement à la vie. A l'AcadéCap, le programme préscolaire, intégrant la démarche de la recherche du PP, s'offre sur une période de 10 mois ou de 12 mois. La souplesse de ce dernier permet aux éducateurs d'encourager le développement des intérêts du jeune enfant, l'estime et la confiance en soi, et de répondre aux évènements spontanés qui se produisent dans son environnement scolaire. Enfin, notre programme du niveau présecondaire, lui, se distingue par son étude approfondie du curriculum de l'Ontario, tout en élargissant les perspectives des apprenants qui établissent des liens entre les sujets et qui abordent ces derniers par le biais de différentes lentilles conceptuelles telles que l'innovation, l'environnement, les sciences sociales et le processus d'apprentissage. L'AcadéCap offre les certifications DELF. De la 1re à la 6e année, nos élèves commencent à se préparer au niveau A2 du DELF Prim, qui se déroule en 5e/6e année. En 7e-8e année, nos élèves se préparent à la certification du niveau B1 et à partir de la 10e année et plus, les élèves se préparent à la certification B2. De par son approche interactive et expérientielle, une éducation à l'Académie de la Capitale permet à votre enfant d’être engagé et de transcender les frontières!
