Competitions

International Competitions and Assessment for Schools (ICAS)

St Michael’s is always encouraging children to take up new challenges across various curriculum areas. Registrations are now open for the 2026 ICAS Competitions. These competitions provide students with the opportunity to test their skills and knowledge in a non-threatening environment. This year all tests will be online. Students will need to have headphones for the spelling test. 

ICAS competitions are available to all students from Year 2 to Year 6 and are not compulsory. As a competition, the tests are set to be difficult and well above curriculum level, students not achieving above grade standard are not likely to benefit from competing.  

Dates for the 2026 Competitions are set out below. 

REGISTRATIONS AND PAYMENT DUE BY MONDAY 27 JULY at 11:59pm - ICAS SHOP CLOSES

If you would like your child to participate in one or all of these competitions you can log onto the ICAS site and pay directly. Access details for parents:

Your school access code is:  JHY535

Your parent page link is:  https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/parent-payment/JHY535

1. Read about ICAS subjects and prices 

2. Read the Privacy Collection Statement below

3. Read the terms and conditions 

4. Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas (link in table above) 

5. Enter our school’s access code (see table above)

6. Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.

After payment is made via the Parent Payment System, you will receive an order confirmation email, please keep this for your records. Please note, we cannot facilitate refunds or make alterations as all money is paid directly to ICAS Assessments.

We will notify you of the dates that we run ICAS at the school and when your child’s ICAS results are ready. You and your child can access the results once released via the Reports Portal using the TAP ID and pin found on the back of the ICAS certificate. 

Privacy Collection Statement  

The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure.
ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our).

To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. 

Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

• collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam.

• transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia.

• share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving).

• use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes.

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/.

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.

Celebrating our ‘Shore Thing Team’ - Sleek Geeks Eureka Prize

We would like to acknowledge a group of students who have dedicated their time and energy throughout Term 1 to create a video highlighting their efforts in saving the endangered White's Seahorses. This project is a result of St Michael's close collaboration with the Sydney Institute of Marine Science over the past 12 months, where our students have actively engaged in learning about and contributing to local marine conservation initiatives.

This video has been submitted to the Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize, and we wish the students the best of luck. Congratulations to Zoe Canning, Indiana Pargeter, Selena Nguyen and Albert Budiharto, for their hard work and commitment to this important cause. We look forward to their ongoing contributions to environmental preservation!

Photography Competition

Congratuations to the Year 6 students who submitted entries in the 'THIRST' Photography Competition. 

We are delighted with the extraordinary talent shown in the submissions and excited to offer participating students the opportunity to learn more about Photography techniques in special lessons.

Check out our special digital gallery below!