INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHOOLS

To Parents and Caregivers of Children in Year 4, 5 and 6

We have decided once again to offer the children the opportunity to participate in the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHOOLS IN 2025. In this newsletter I have included a basic outline of the competitions, important dates and costs.  We hope some children will pick up on this opportunity to have a go at some of these but we do understand that these competitions/assessments are not for everybody.  All we are doing is offering your child the opportunity to have a go if they wish.  These competitions do have some cost associated with them.

2025 International Competitions and Assessment for Schools – https://www.icasassessments.com/

These competitions attract over 2 million entries per year from 20 countries.

We will be offering the following assessments for 2025:-

Digital Technologies – Year 4/5 30 minutes for 30 multi choice questions; Year 6 35 minutes for 35 multi choice questions

Sitting Date Week of 4 August

Science – Year 4/5 45 minutes for 30 multi choice questions; Year 6 55 minutes for 40 multi choice questions

Sitting Date Week of 18 August

Spelling Bee– Year 4 40 minutes for 40 questions; Year 5/6 430 minutes for 45 questions

Sitting Date Week of 18 August

English – Year 4/5 45 minutes for 45 questions; Year 6 50 minutes for 50 questions

Sitting Date Week of 11 August

Maths – Year 4/5/6 45 minutes for 40 questions

Sitting Date Week of 25 August

All students receive a certificate and an individual student report indicating which questions they answered correctly and their score compared with the rest of the students tested. ICAS are an excellent preparation for national tests and the student report is useful for highlighting your child’s strengths and weaknesses.

Certificates are awarded for each year level as follows:

  • High Distinction to the top 1% of entrants
  • Distinction to the next 10% of entrants
  • Credit to the next 25% of entrants
  • Merit to the next 10% of students
  • Participation to all other participating students.

2025 Costs

All assessments cost NZ$22.50 each. 

There are some practice tools available at  – https://www.icasassessments.com/icas-preparation-tools/

All entries and fees need to be in by 900am Friday 18 July 2025

Nga mihi

Dave Robinson, Principal/ Tumuaki/Punong-guro

ENTRY FORM click here