Happenings at WCA

In science, the Grade 4s are learning about how different machines work. After studying how pulleys are used, the students were tasked to build their own elevator. They used the STEM design process to ask, imagine, plan, test and improve their elevators. Students had...

Over the month of March, the Grade 1A and 1B classes focused on reading! The students participated in a March Madness reading challenge, where they were encouraged to read chapter books in exchange for their names being put into a draw for a $10 Scholastics gift card....

In literacy, the grade 5’s learned different types of writing, with one example being descriptive writing. They learned how to be a descriptive writer using their 5 senses. As a class, we did an example together with popcorn, where we brainstormed a variety of...

In grade 3, we finished our unit on the verb être and school vocabulary by writing comic strips in French!  Students practiced their verb conjugations, wrote sentences about various locations around the school and creatively illustrated their work!  Each class had an...

During the second term, our clever grade eight scientists were hard at work learning all about cells. In this unit, students learned about the parts of animal and plant cells, biotechnology, and how single cells are able to do all the same things that multicellular...

At the end of Term 2, to conclude their Geography curriculum, the grade 7s had four debates to sum up their learning. The four motions were: British Columbia should stop cutting old growth forests for lumber Commercial fishing should be banned in Canada Ontario...