We interviewed two important members of staff to get their thoughts on ICAS, and why they think it benefits both schools and students. Enjoy!
Every living thing on our planet, from the tiniest bacteria to the bluest whale, needs to solve problems to thrive. Finding food, averting danger, and maintaining complex relationships are just a handful of important ongoing tasks that animals and humans …
Would you like to know how your child compares against their the rest of the nation? ICAS allows you to do that very thing, providing you with two clear data points that give you an overview of their performance. When …
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 …
Mistakes are a fundamental part of learning. Your children will regularly make them as they learn something new, and it’s important to teach them that they haven’t failed, but are instead pushing themselves to learn bigger and better things and …
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 …
Every teacher knows that when students are engaged in class, fully focused on the ideas, tasks or problems in front of them, they are much more likely to succeed.1 Intrinsic motivation is one of their biggest allies for academic success, …
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 …
Lesson planning is one of the most important regular tasks you’ll complete as a teacher, and it’s incredibly time-consuming. We asked our former teachers (with decades of collective experience) for their biggest lesson planning tips – the things that helped …
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 …
