CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service)

1.DESCRIPTION AND STRANDS: Creativity, activity, service (CAS) is essential for DP. It has a holistic approach and it helps to strengthen and extend students’ personal and interpersonal learning.

CAS has 3 strands:

A. Creativity: experiences involving imagination, creative thinking, expression and arts.
B. Activity: physical effort, activities in which students use their initiative and contribute to their healthy life,
C. Service: unpaid, voluntary and collaborative serving for an authentic need.

2.AIMS OF CAS: CAS provides students with various opportunities to develop the traits described in the IB Learner profile. Therefore, we aim to have students who are:

reflective thinkers-they understand their own strengths and limitations, identify goals and devise startegies for personal growth
willing to accept new challenges and new roles
aware of themselves as members of communties with responsibilities towards each other and the environment
active participants in sustained, collaborative projects
balanced- they enjoy and find significance in a range of activities involving intellectual, physcial, creative and emotional experience.

A CAS experince: an event marking participation in one or more of the CAS strands.

A CAS Project: your involvement in a CAS experience lasting at least one month, addressing any single CAS strand or a combination of strands, and involving the student in planning and implementing the project. It requires collaboration between students or a with wider community.

3.LEARNING OUTCOMES: Completion of CAS is based on student achievement of the seven learning outcomes. Through their CAS portfolio students present evidence demonstrating achievement of each learning outcome.

4.PROGRAM OVERVIEW: The CAS programme officially begins at the start of the DP and continuse for at least18 months . There needs to be a reasonable balance between creativity, activity and service. Each CAS experience must follow Investigation, preparation,action and reflection stages.

CAS activities must involve:

Meaningful, real activities with remarkable outcomes
Challenge for students
Attentive analysis of the stages
Reflection on the process, outcomes and personal development

CAS students have guidance at the school level through a variety of resources including the school’s CAS handbook, information sessions and meetings. In addition, students have three formal interviews with the school’s CAS coordinator/advisor.

All CAS students are expected to maintain and complete a CAS portfolio as evidence of their engagement with CAS. CAS portfolio means a collection of evidence and reflections. It is not formally assessed.

5.SAMPLE PROJECTS

Creativity Ideas: