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Please find attached the assessment calendars for Term 3.
If unforseen incidents occur which prevent your child from meeting the deadlines, please esnure an application for extension is made through the relevant Head of Department.
What is ICAS?
ICAS Assessments are online assessments, designed to recognise and reward academic excellence. The assessments provide students an opportunity to have their achievements recognised. The assessments are based on the curricula for the relevant year. Students are asked to demonstrate a deeper, integrated, and thorough level of learning. To ensure an engaging and beneficial experience for all students, new ICAS assessments are developed annually for each subject in every year level.
What are the benefits of participating in ICAS testing?
• Provide objective ranking of performance
• Encourage students to attain greater academic success
• Require students to think beyond the classroom
• Recognise student success through medals and certificates
When will ICAS testing occur?
Students participating in the ALP or G-Stem Excellence Programs, will be funded to participate in ONE ICAS test and the cost will be deducted from the program fees.
Subject Official Sitting Dates
Digital Technologies - 9th August – 13th August (specific date TBA)
English 16th August – 20th August (specific date TBA)
Science 23rd August – 27th August (specific date TBA)
Mathematics 30th August – 3rd September (specific date TBA)
Who can participate?
At Foxwell SSC, students in the Excellence Programs of G-STEM and our Advanced Learning Program [ALP] are expected to participate in ONE ICAS test, as above. The cost of a single test for these students is accounted for within the Excellence Program fee structure, no additional payment required. Should parents of Excellence Program students wish their child to participate in more than one test, it will be at their own expense.
Should students outside the Excellence Programs wish to participate in ICAS testing, the cost is $17.05 per test. Please pay this at our Admin office. Further information and permission forms are also attached to this newsletter for your convenience.
ICAS_Parent_Letter_and_permission_form.pdf
If you have any further questions, please contact our Head of Department, Teaching and Learning – Danielle Goddaer dgodd2@eq.edu.au.
ICAS_and_Reach_Parent_instructions_for_locked_down_browser.pdf
Coming soon the Foxwell Fun Run Colour Explosion.
Registrations open on the 8th of August and closes on the 13th of September.
Details on how to register and the great prizes to be won will be sent home with students soon.
Students participating in this event need to be registered before the 14th of September, with $10 minimum raised.
For any enquiries or extensions to payments / payment plans, please contact the P&C on pandc@foxwellssc.eq.edu.au.
Parents and carers if you would like to help with this fun event please email us on pandc@foxwellssc.eq.edu.au , we would love for you to come and have fun with our students. A sub-committee will be formed shortly to plan for this.
Our next P&C meeting will be held in the learning hub on the 10th of August at 6.30 PM, everyone welcome.