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This term, the sixth grade students of Akiva School worked on a unit on Government, Democracy, and Civic Literacy. This year, we chose to participate in the Student Vote program (studentvote.ca), a program aimed at building the habits of informed and engaged...

Akiva School was featured this week in the Westmount Independent and Free Press papers in an article focusing on Akiva's life-worthy learning and innovative programming. Read all about it...

Read all about the new Akiva Jewish Studies Program in the Canadian Jewish News.

Akiva School wraps up another great year.  Read all about it in the End of Year Report 2014-15. Akiva School End of Year Report 2014-15  - download the pdf.  

Mazel Tov to all Akiva students who participated in the GMAA Halo Race on Thursday, May 15th. The Halo Road Race is an annual event that has been taking place for over 25 years and allows students from elementary schools across Montreal to interact and race in a...

On May 11th Akiva School held our second annual Anti-Bullying Day. This year we decided to highlight one of Akiva five promises; “treat others with kindness”.  At Akiva, we always emphasize the idea that kindness is contagious: do a random act of kindness for someone...

Mazal Tov to our Akiva School Math team who placed 3rd in all of Quebec elementary schools in the recent Canadian National Mathematics League Contest.  Great job to all of our grade 6 students who participated and their coach Drew Rothman.  

Akiva students celebrated Israel Day with a day full of school-wide activities.  In honour of the holiday, our Kindergarten students went on a virtual airplane ride to Israel.  Chag Yom Ha'atzmaut Sameach!

Grades 5 and 6 participated in a powerful assembly for Yom HaShoah with guest speaker Ross Paperman who spoke about his experiences on the March of the Living and Jewish Identity.