If your child has participated in ICAS this year, we know how eager you must be to access their results. In this blog, we explore what needs to happen for ICAS results to reach you each year, including average wait …
ACG Parnell College is a private school located in Auckland’s central-eastern suburb of Parnell – considered the city’s “oldest suburb,” originally settled in 1841. The College participates in the globally-recognised Cambridge International curriculum, which covers the full breadth of the …
Every teacher knows how stressful exams can be for students. You’ve no doubt noticed the wide-eyes, pale faces, or be-nubbed fingernails of certain children who sit down for exams, especially those with big consequences. Aside from being upsetting to witness, …
Oakleigh South Primary is a 1000-student school nestled between two golf clubs in Melbourne’s south-east. It’s the second-highest performing school in Victoria, and for good reason – their staff are constantly looking for ways to improve their students’ education. As …
According to a survey by TeacherVision in 2021, 70% of teachers are worried that their students are behind.5 That’s a big percentage, and there’s a good chance you may be one of them. As a teacher, what else can you …
We interviewed two important members of staff to get their thoughts on ICAS, and why they think it benefits both schools and students. Enjoy!
If you’ve already decided to participate in ICAS this year, what can you do to ensure test day goes smoothly? To help answer this important question, we interviewed ICAS coordinators from a handful of schools and distilled their expertise into …
Ever wondered when ICAS actually started? How long it takes to create an ICAS paper? Or how many students have participated in the competition over the years? Ponder no longer – we’ve taken some of the most interesting things about …
If you’ve spent precious hours working out your school’s assessment schedule for the year, with every test carefully considered and added to the proper date, the last thing you want to do is jam in a surprise assessment and shuffle …
Every fundamental skill and area of knowledge included in a curriculum should help to prepare children for the adult world, and the difficult job of getting those abstract concepts into their heads is down to you, the teacher. Thankfully, ICAS …