Academic Enrichment Opportunities

We are offering a variety of academic enrichment activities for the students at Good Shepherd to support further development of their academic skills and passions.

This year, the programs will include ICAS English and Mathematics and opportunities through The Australian Mathematics Trust. These challenging tasks will offer students the opportunity to be assessed on their ability to apply classroom learning through a new and different context using higher order thinking and problem solving skills.

These are optional extracurricular activities for students to participate in and the families of the participants will incur the enrolment costs of the provider.

Outline below is an outline of the academic enrichment activities which includes pricing and dates. Specific notification and reminders will be sent out through hard copies via students, nForma and the school newsletter. Registration cut off dates will occur prior to each activity.

If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Name	Institution	Summary	Cost	Date
ICAS - English	ICAS	Yr 2 to Yr 6 An online International Competitions and Assessments for Schools	$20.95	11th - 15th August
ICAS - Mathematics	ICAS	Yr 2 to Yr 6 An online International Competitions and Assessments for Schools	$20.95	25th - 29th August
Coding Challenge	Australian Math Trust	Yr 5 and Yr 6 only Coding skills	free	17th - 19th June
Computational and Algorithmic Thinking	Australian Math Trust	Yr 5 and Yr 6 only Problem solving through algorithmic thinking and aligns with computer programming	$9.00	20th -22nd May
Australian Mathematics Competition	Australian Math Trust	Yr 3 to Yr 6 Mathematical problem solving	$9.00	5th - 7th August
You may bundle the Australian Math Competition and the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Competition. Student competing in both competitions for Yr 5 and Year 6 students incurs a fee of $14.00

Kellie Cumming

kcumming@gswheelershill.catholic.edu.au
Learning and Teaching Leader