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ICAS

Vermont Secondary College

We know our students are amazing, so we’re giving them the opportunity to showcase and celebrate their talents in the world-renowned ICAS competition this year.

 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:

SubjectYear levels availableSitting window
Digital TechnologiesYear 7 only4th - 8th August
Writing7-124th - 8th August
English7-1211th - 15th August
Spelling BeeYear 7 only18th - 22nd August
Science7-1218th - 22nd August
Mathematics7-1225th - 29th August

PLEASE NOTE: The closing date for ALL competitions is the 30th of June to enable us to organise the arrangements with school.

 

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:  

  1. Read about ICAS subjects and prices here: icasassessments.com/products-icas/

  2. Read the Privacy Collection Statement below.

  3. Read the terms and conditions here: 

    icasassessments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-ICAS-Assessments-Schools-TsCs_S2023.V6-1.pdf

  4. Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas here: shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps  

  5. Enter our school’s access code – RMA716

  6. Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.  

PLEASE NOTE AGAIN THAT ENTRIES WILL CLOSE ON THE 30th of JUNE

 

Also note that the ICAS subject areas shown for selection are at the school’s discretion.  

 

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

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 the school office if you have any questions.