Calgary Arts Academy
640 - 14 Avenue SE T2G 1E8 Calgary, AB, Canada

We are proud to announce that Calgary Arts Academy’s Terry Fox School Run collected $2,745.20 for cancer research. The Terry Fox Foundation extends their heartfelt thanks for your generosity and support in this very challenging year. Terry’s message of hope lives on and remains strong! If you didn’t get a chance to donate, our school donation link is still open: http://terryfox.ca/caaschool. #tryliketerry

One of the best sounds is a student taking a break to play some music!

Ms.Leung’s Year 8 students have started an art auction! Students wish to raise awareness and funds for Avenue 15 Shelter and the effects the pandemic has had on our local community. The theme of the art auction is ‘Light’ to encourage everyone to hope and happiness in our current situation. The Year 8 auction is available here - https://www.32auctions.com/CAALight and is open until January 3, 2021.

CAA Education Centre students pay their respects at today’s online Remembrance Day Assembly.

In Dance class, Year 10 students went on a virtual field trip to the Royal Opera House in London, UK to watch and participate in World Ballet Day.

Year 8/9 students are now settled in their new, physically-distanced space at Stampede’s Agriculture Building. Thank you @calgarystampede for accommodating us. Thank you CAA staff and students for working so hard in preparing this space.

We wish that you have a great weekend and we are excited to see you on Monday. Last day for the grade 4s, 5s, and 9s in the gym. Classes are moving so we can begin indoor PE classes!! Photos taken and edited by our Year 9 photographers and editors. #moving #peclasses #gym #school #cold

Check out our new website at www.caaschool.com!

Terry Fox run and Orange Shirt day 2020!

Have a great summer!

CAA Staff enjoyed seeing students and families during the Farewell Parade. Have a great summer!

To help spread a little joy throughout our school community, wed like to share this video of our staff performing a song based on our Year 4-9 students entry in the 2019 CBC Canadian Music Class Challenge. Check it out here: https://vimeo.com/418069142

Enjoy your break!

Year 3 student, Lauren G, created this 8 Good Things about this time of Covid-19 PowerPoint as a part of her literacy assignments. This will be featured on CBCs Instagram today!

Once again, Calgary Arts Academy Foundation is a participating charity in Shaw Charity Classics Birdies for Kids program. Donations are matched up to 50%. Visit the following link to donate - https://shawcharityclassic.com/donate/caaf/

CAA Adult Choir prepares to go on stage at last nights Year 8/9 showcase CAMP at Vertigo Theatre.

The Global Leadership Club are excited for the arrival of t-shirts and scrunchies that they designed. They will be displayed at a fashion show at the Fairtrade conference next week.

Year 2/3 students are excited to present their showcase Comic Con Adventures. There will be a play about superheroes, a comic inspired museum, singing, dancing and merchandise (including comic books) for sale.

CAA alumni Kate Stevens is competing in the 2020 CBC Searchlight competition. The winner of the Searchlight competition will perform at the Junos. Vote for Kate here: https://ngx.me/3pBXGbi.h

Year 6 students are learning about the phases and surface of the moon through an art project with Mr. Carl and Ms. Leung. The moons are shaped with drywall paste and painted.

Global Leadership Club students are excited to start designing Fairtrade fashion with t-shirts from Green Campus Cotton.

Year 4/5 students have fun creating clay puppet heads.

The Rocktagon is a hit the week at the Education Centre!

CAAs elementary students enjoy some exercise thanks to a visit from Alien In-line this week.

Keeping with CAA tradition, elementary students created bookmarks during their Christmas crafting on Thursday.

Congratulations to CAAs Year 4 to 9 students for placing 2nd in their category in CBC Musics Music Class Challenge! We were the highest ranked performance overall and the only Calgary school to be named as a top 3 finalist in any of the 11 categories. Well done!

Our elementary students are looking forward to Ugly Sweater Day on December 19th.

CAA students impressed a full house with their performance of A Kind of 24K Magic for the finale of Magic Happens When ... - our winter celebration at the Jube on Friday.

This week, Mr Arno presented some animal artifacts to Year 2/3 students to enrich their learning about animals and animal life cycles.

Whos ready for tonight?

December 6 Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

CAA students submit their official entry to CBC Musics Music Class Challenge. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch

Congratulations to CAA Year 7 student Kaplan Doell and his brothers, CAA alumni Tavyn and Auslen Doell, for winning second place at Empowering Minds Live & Unsigned talent show on Saturday!

Education Centre students record their entry to CBC Musics Music Class Challenge. Last year, they won first place in MusiCounts Passion Prize. Good luck, CAA students!

Check out this new music video released by Calgary Musician/CAA parent, Michael Hill: Septembryo and features CAA student, Sydney Armstrong. https://youtu.be/WZygbxMiYls

Year 6 students welcomed Detective Dave Sweet as a guest speaker. They are currently working on the Evidence and Investigation unit in science.

Year 2/3 students studied literacy and math concepts in their learning contract Le Deux Trois. These studies resulted in the presentation of their so named restaurant on October 10. They were thrilled to see over 100 parents attend!

Is it possible to learn the Alberta curriculum while painting a car wash? Yes! Working on their learning contract Mural Mayhem, Year 6/7 students are creating socially-conscious murals on the abandoned Penguin Carwash in Ramsay. The creation of the murals include lessons on scale and budgeting, among many other components of the Alberta Math curriculum. Combined with movement pieces the students created, their completed project will soon be presented to parents.