Community Service

 

Creativity, Action, Service (CAS)

CAS is a compulsory component of the IB diploma and aims to give students the opportunity for experiential learning beyond the curriculum. Students are required to complete activities for each of the three components of CAS. There is also a significant amount of recording, planning and reflecting that our students need to undertake for each activity. The three components are;

 

Creativity – arts and other experiences that involve creative thinking.
Action – physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle.
Service – an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student.

 

For student development to occur, CAS should involve:
  • - Real, purposeful activities, with significant outcomes

- Personal challenge (tasks must extend the student and be achievable in scope)
- Thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress and reporting outcomes
- Reflection on outcomes and personal learning

 

The guideline for minimum amount of CAS activity is approximately the equivalent of half a day per school week (three to four hours per week), although there is no specific time requirement.
Other requirements include;
•    They CAS activities do not replicate other parts of the student’s Diploma Programme work.
•    CAS activities should continue on a regular basis for as long as possible throughout the programme, and certainly for at least 18 months.
•    All students should be involved in CAS activities that they have initiated themselves.
•    Students should be participating in at least one project outside of school.
•    Students should be involved in at least one project involving teamwork that integrates two or more of creativity, action and service, and is of significant duration.
•    Creative activities should have a definite goal or outcome.
•    It is essential that service activities have learning benefits for the student.

 

 

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