ICAS Assessments

What is ICAS? 

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge theirhigher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, and Digital Technologies. ICAS will be offered to students in Levels 3,4,5 and 6 at HEPS.

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for one of the highly coveted ICAS medals.

To learn more about this year’s exciting ICAS competition, visit: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)

How to participate in ICAS 

If you wish for your child to participate in ICAS this year, please: 

Read about ICAS subjects and prices here 
Read the Privacy Collection Statement below.
Read the terms and conditions here
Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas here (shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps)
Enter our school’s access code - VJP382
Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.

After payment is made via the Parent Payment System, you will receive an order confirmation email, please keep this for your records. 

The last date to pay for 2024 ICAS is July 25th, 2024.

ICAS results and certificates

All assessments will be conducted online, at school. We will notify you of the date(s) that we will run ICAS assessments, and when your child’s ICAS results are ready. Your child’s ICAS certificates will be delivered to school. Once we have received them, we will present them to your child to bring home. The back of the certificate will show your child’s ICAS results and the login details, “TAP ID and Pin”. - Use these to enter the Results Portal orti.icasassessments.com/ortiStudent. Privacy collection statement  The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure.ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our).To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam.
transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia.
share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving).
use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes.

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/.

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.

We are excited to be offering ICAS to our students this year and look forward to celebrating their achievements. Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Holmes our High Ability Practice Leader if you have any questions. 

Kind regards,

Kim Holmes

High Ability Practice Leader

Kinder Storytime

Kinder Storytime will begin again in Term 2 at HEPS. If you have a child that is in 3- or 4-year-old kinder and you would like to meet some new people in your community, come along to HEPS Kinder Storytime. These sessions are facilitated by one of our wonderful Foundation teachers.

Discussion Night: Riding the Roller Coaster - supporting your child through the ups and downs Date:(Monday) 23/04/24 7.30-9.00pm

It can be challenging navigating the complexities of making sure your highly able child has access to appropriate schooling and educational provisions. This seminar will give you practical tips and advice for proactively building positive relationships with the staff at your child’s school, as well as effective communication strategies for handling difficult situations. We will also discuss the importance of documenting dialogue with the school in the form of keeping records of important discussions and decisions. The workshop will be interactive, so please bring your questions!

Try Booking Link:https://www.trybooking.com/CPQBW

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