BOYS' SCHOOL STUDENTS ACHIEVE TOP SCORES IN NZ!

Congratulations to Anthony Gu and Oliver Mitchell who have achieved the top score for Year 7 students across New Zealand in the ICAS Computer Skills assessment! Later in the year both Anthony and Oliver will attend a medal ceremony where they will receive a University of NSW medal and certificate. Well done!

ICAS (International Competitions and Assessments for Schools) are independent skills-based assessments with a competitive element, conducted annually in Australia and over 20 countries globally. These are independent skills-based assessments and tests for primary and secondary school students in English, Mathematics, Science, Computer Skills, Spelling and Writing. We have recently received the results for Computer Skills and Science and here we congratulate those students who were awarded High Distinction; an award for being placed in the top 1% of New Zealand entrants, and Distinction, given to those in the top 10% nationally for Computer Skills and Science.

ICAS COMPUTER SKILLS AWARDS

High Distinction

Year 5: Jonathan Benjamin, Asher Matheson, William Tisdall

Year 6: Marcus Findlow

Year 7: Anthony Gu, Oliver Mitchell (Top Scores in NZ and Pacific)

Year 8: Steven Cho

Distinction

Year 4: Gabriel Lee

Year 5: Casey Carrington, Cormac Hodson, Ivan Ivanov

Year 6: Alex Facer, Ethan Ivanier, Leo Lindsay-Smail, James Stanfield

Year 7: Matthew Ball, George Barry, Hayden Joyce, Xavier Yin

Year 8: George Barton, David Bates, Gibson Nevill, Sawyer Tang, Thomas Woodfield

ICAS SCIENCE AWARDS
In the competition, the boys’ skills were assessed in key areas of Observing/Measuring, Interpreting, Predicting/Concluding, Investigating and Reasoning/Problem Solving.

High Distinction

Year 4: Leo Fan

Year 6: Nathan Bailey

Year 7: Hugo du Temple, Fintan Wong

Year 8: Steven Cho, Joshua Wong

Distinction

Year 5: Cameron Adams, Campbell Joyce

Year 6: David Allan, Marcus Findlow, Thomas King, William King, Akash Mudaliar

Year 7: William Hadfield, James Harnett, Michael Hiddleston, Hayden Joyce,
          Lachlan Marshall, Oliver Mitchell, Xavier Yin

Year 8: David Bates, Samuel Cook, Hunter Deavoll, Jack Dufaur, Joshua Hawkesby-Lyne,               Samuel Looker, Gibson Nevill, Jacob Raines, Sawyer Tang, Jordan Warren