ICAS Education Newsletter: December 2015
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Welcome to the December Newsletter - Season’s greetings and warm
wishes for a happy new year!
They say “time flies when you are having fun”. Now that we are approaching the end of 2015, we would like to thank you
for yet another productive and successful year with ICAS. We trust that ICAS has aided and enabled you to better
understand and enhance your students’ progress. Congratulations on all your hard work in guiding and striving for the
achievements of your students in different aspects of learning. During this holiday season, we at EAA wish you a
wonderful holiday filled with joy and happiness. Merry Christmas and let’s wave goodbye to 2015. We look forward to
seeing you again in 2016!
2015 ICAS Medal Presentation Ceremonies
To reward and recognise the best and brightest students in the ICAS tests across all 6 subjects– Science, Mathematics,
Digital Technologies, English, Writing and Spelling, the annual ICAS Medal Presentation Ceremonies are held across
different states in Australia and New Zealand for invited students, teachers and parents.
This year 716 (including one triple medal winner and 38 dual medal winners) students from Australia and 115 (including
one quadruple medal winner and two dual medal winners) students from New Zealand out of more than 1.1 million entries
were rewarded for their exceptional results. Congratulations, and we are delighted to know that many medal winners are
also medalists from previous years who continue to attain great results!
Official ICAS Dates for 2016
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HOLD UP! Before you go out with a shopping list to pick out the best holiday gifts for all your loved ones, there is also
something that should not be forgotten – 2016 ICAS entries closing & tests sitting dates. Here are the official dates for
each ICAS subject for 2016:
ICAS Subject
ICAS Sitting Date
Closing Date
Digial Technologies
Tue 17 May
Tue 5 April
Science
Tue 31 May
Tue 3 May
Writing
13 - 17 June*
Mon 16 May
Spelling
Wed 15 June
Wed 18 May
English
Tue 2 August
Tue 21 June
Mathematics
Tue 16 August
Tue 21 June
*Students can sit ICAS Writing anytime in the week beginning Monday 13 June, and still be eligible for UNSW Medals. If
your school is unable to sit on the official date for any subject, please download an alternative sitting date form which can
be found in the School Portal. Please note: students may not be eligible for medals unless they sit prior to the official
sitting date.
2016 will also see the introduction of a Year 2 Spelling paper, this has been developed to fill the need for an introductory
formal assessment of spelling in preparation for NAPLAN in Year 3. More information to follow in the New Year.
For more information, general enquiries or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact our helpful Customer Service team
on +61 2 8344 1010 or at [email protected]. You can also check out the ICAS FAQs for Schools. We value your
comments in helping us to improve.
Until next time,
Neville Walter
Marketing Manager, International and Domestic
UNSW Global
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