TLI and High Ability @ HEPS

ICAS

What is ICAS?  

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in subjects such as English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee, and Digital Technologies. Once again, we will be offering only English, Mathematics and Digital Technologies.

ICAS results are in-depth and meaningful, and ICAS evaluates student performance against other competition entrants across the state and nation. The data reveals student strengths and weaknesses and can help you recognise and support your child's academic journey.    

Learn more about ICAS here: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/).

ICAS results and certificate

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. Your child’s ICAS certificates will show their results and the login details, “TAP ID and Pin”. - Use these to enter the Results Portal (https://orti.icasassessments.com/ortiStudent).

How to participate in ICAS  

If you wish for your child to participate in ICAS this year, please go to the Parent Portal to register for your chosen subjects.

You can register through:

Log in using the PPS code:

Visit the ICAS shop and use our PPS code to log in: 

Parent Page Link:

https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/parent-payment/VJP382

Parent Code:

VJP382

Registration for all subject areas closes on Monday 27 July at 11:59pm. This year, our students can elect to sit the following assessments: 

Please note, we cannot facilitate refunds or make alterations as all money is paid directly to ICAS Assessments. Once the portal closes, we cannot accept any registrations. 

Read the terms and conditions here: (https://www.icasassessments.com/icasa-terms-and-conditions/#icas-parents). 

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 wishes 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 proud to be offering ICAS to our students this year and encourage you to consider entering your child.  

Maths Olympiad 

This week, some of our Level 4, 5 and 6 students participated in this year's first practice session for Maths Olympiad. Maths Olympiad is one of our High-Ability competitions which is specially for our top mathematicans. This year, we have chosen an extended group, giving more students the opportunity to develop their mathematical thinking and higher-order skills through the explicit teaching of problem solving. 

The Olympiad comprises four separate contests held approximately six weeks apart, starting in early Term 2.

• Students are required to complete all four contests.
• Each contest paper contains 5 questions, worth 1 mark each, and the paper must be completed in a specified time-frame of 30 minutes.
• Contest papers are completed individually by each student with no collaboration during contests.
• Each contest is held under exam conditions in the classroom and marked by the teacher in charge who then submits the results to APSMO via our Members' Portal.
• Following each contest paper, APSMO recommends that the solutions be reviewed and discussed as a group to enhance learning.

Results are usually available Term 4 and are presented at one of our Monday whole-school assemblies.