{"id":8295,"date":"2022-07-21T12:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=8295"},"modified":"2022-07-21T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T01:59:17","slug":"icas-competitions-in-the-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/icas-competitions-in-the-primary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"ICAS Competitions in the Primary School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, girls in Years 3-6 can participate in a range of ICAS competitions. These competitions, developed by UNSW, are designed to target students\u2019 higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics and Science. Girls in Years 3-6 can complete ICAS English and ICAS Mathematics and girls in Years 4-6 can also complete ICAS Science.<\/p>\n<p>This year, participation in ICAS will be optional. These assessments will take place <strong>before school at 7.30am<\/strong> on selected days. Please see below for details of the ICAS Assessment schedule.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p><strong>ICAS Assessment <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p><strong>Assessment Date <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>ICAS English (Years 3-6)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>Tuesday 16 August 2022<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>ICAS Science (Years 4-6)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>Thursday 25 August 2022<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>ICAS Mathematics (Years 3-6)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"301\">\n<p>Wednesday 31 August 2022<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nIf you would like your daughter to participate in any of the ICAS competitions, please visit the online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icasassessments.com\/shop-parents\/\">Parent Payment System<\/a> to make a direct payment to UNSW Global. The ICAS English, Mathematics and Science competitions cost $19.25 each.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to access the Parent Payment System to register your daughter. You will then be asked to enter the school\u2019s access code.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"214\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parent Payment System link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"286\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.icasassessments.com\/pages\/pps\">https:\/\/shop.icasassessments.com\/pages\/pps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"214\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>School Access Code <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"286\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GJF831<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All online <strong>payments close on Monday 1 August 2022<\/strong>. Please ensure you have registered and paid the entry fee by this date. It will not be possible to register past this date.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please feel free <a href=\"mailto:CristiWilsmore@sceggs.nsw.edu.au\">to contact me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cristi Wilsmore<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Deputy Head of Primary (Teaching and Learning)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, girls in Years 3-6 can participate in a range of ICAS competitions. These competitions, developed by UNSW, are designed to target students\u2019 higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics and Science. Girls in Years 3-6 can complete ICAS English and ICAS Mathematics and girls in Years 4-6 can also complete ICAS Science. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[30,64],"class_list":["post-8295","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-student-learning","article_tag-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/8295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}