Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) ...
is intended to be a collection of
enjoyable and challenging experiences determined by you to extend your abilities.
Creativity is exploring and extending ideas, leading to an original or interpretive product or performance. Music, theatre, film, design technology, visual arts, dance, fashion and other experiences that involve creative thinking fall under creativity.
Activity is physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Taking on a new sport or extending your ability, counts as activity.
Service is collaborative and reciprocal community engagement in response to an authentic need. By investigating and identifying a community need, then determining a plan of action that respects the rights, dignity and autonomy of all, you are performing service.
CAS complements a challenging academic programme in a holistic way, providing opportunities for self-determination, collaboration, accomplishment and enjoyment.
Completion of CAS is based on student achievement of the seven Learning Outcomes:
• Identify your own strengths and develop areas for personal growth
• Demonstrate that you have undertaken challenges and developed new skills in the process
• Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
• Show commitment to and perseverance in your CAS experiences
• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
• Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance
• Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions
• Identify your own strengths and develop areas for personal growth
• Demonstrate that you have undertaken challenges and developed new skills in the process
• Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience
• Show commitment to and perseverance in your CAS experiences
• Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively
• Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance
• Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions
Students engage in CAS experiences involving one or more of the three CAS stands. A CAS experience can be a single event or may be an extended series of events.
Students undertake a CAS project which challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as collaboration, problem solving, and decision making.
Students undertake a CAS project which challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as collaboration, problem solving, and decision making.
Students use the CAS stages (investigation, preparation, action, reflection and demonstration) as a framework for CAS experiences and the CAS project.
All students are expected to maintain and complete a CAS portfolio as evidence of their engagement with CAS.
The CAS portfolio is meant to be a collection of evidence that showcase the overall experience and be a source of pride for the student.
All students are expected to maintain and complete a CAS portfolio as evidence of their engagement with CAS.
The CAS portfolio is meant to be a collection of evidence that showcase the overall experience and be a source of pride for the student.
Students should include reflections in their CAS portfolio that give
evidence that they achieved each of the seven CAS Learning Outcomes. The CAS portfolio will be in the form of a blog. To know
more check: www.howtocas.blogspot.pt. Students need to ensure
that the CAS portfolio is up to date, relevant, reflective and
comprehensive.
The aim is for students to engage in reflection, with a sense of purpose and a frequency that allows
them to better understand and recognise personal development and accomplishment. Reflection is used
to demonstrate achievement of the learner profile.
CAS emphasizes reflection which is central to building a deep and rich experience in CAS.
CAS emphasizes reflection which is central to building a deep and rich experience in CAS.
Student responsibilities towards the completion of the CAS programme:
• Approach CAS with a proactive attitude.
• Thoroughly familiarize yourself with your school’s CAS rules and timelines.
• Meet with your CAS coordinators at least three times over the duration of your 18 month CAS programme. Be sure to come prepared.
• Base your choices on your interests, skills, talents and areas for growth to stay motivated. Challenge yourself!
• Balance your experiences between creativity, activity and service.
• Initiate or engage in at least one CAS project in collaboration with others that extends over time.
• Use the CAS stages when considering, planning and undertaking your CAS experiences. Be sure to apply these to service and to the CAS project.
• Ask questions along the way when you need assistance or clarification.
• Participate in meaningful reflection as a way to capture your experiences and summarize your evidence linked to the learning outcomes.
• Enjoy CAS! That is most important—to participate in experiences that assists your personal growth and offers you a world of possibilities.
Note: Experiences completed as part of the requirements of the DP subjects, including theory of knowledge and the extended essay, cannot be counted as part of your CAS portfolio.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact CAS coordinators:
Maxine Small: msmall@stjulians.com and Maria Pinto: mpinto@stjulians.com .
• Approach CAS with a proactive attitude.
• Thoroughly familiarize yourself with your school’s CAS rules and timelines.
• Meet with your CAS coordinators at least three times over the duration of your 18 month CAS programme. Be sure to come prepared.
• Base your choices on your interests, skills, talents and areas for growth to stay motivated. Challenge yourself!
• Balance your experiences between creativity, activity and service.
• Initiate or engage in at least one CAS project in collaboration with others that extends over time.
• Use the CAS stages when considering, planning and undertaking your CAS experiences. Be sure to apply these to service and to the CAS project.
• Ask questions along the way when you need assistance or clarification.
• Participate in meaningful reflection as a way to capture your experiences and summarize your evidence linked to the learning outcomes.
• Enjoy CAS! That is most important—to participate in experiences that assists your personal growth and offers you a world of possibilities.
Note: Experiences completed as part of the requirements of the DP subjects, including theory of knowledge and the extended essay, cannot be counted as part of your CAS portfolio.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact CAS coordinators:
Maxine Small: msmall@stjulians.com and Maria Pinto: mpinto@stjulians.com .
