IBDP CAS

What does CAS stand for?

• Creativity: exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance.
• Activity: physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle.
• Service: collaborative and reciprocal engagement with the community in response to an authentic need.

What should I expect?

• It involves personal challenge.
• It happens regularly, weekly, and over 18 months.
• You will keep a CAS portfolio on ManageBac.
• There are seven CAS learning outcomes.
• You will engage in CAS experiences.
• A CAS project must show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• There are multiple CAS stages.
• You will be involved with CAS interviews.
• You will develop your reflective skills (workshop to follow).

CAS should involve:

• Real, purposeful activities, which meet one or more of the 7 learning outcomes;
• Personal challenge (tasks must extend the student and be achievable in scope);
• Students using the CAS stages (investigation, preparation, action, re flection, and demonstration) to guide CAS experiences and projects;
• Thoughtful consideration, such as planning, reviewing progress, and reporting (done on ManageBac); and
• Evidence and reflection on outcomes and personal learning.

Why Is CAS necessary?

• CAS provides an important counterbalance to the academic pressures of the rest of the Diploma Programme.
• It assists students with being more willing to accept new challenges and new roles.
• CAS enables the student to be a more reflective thinker.
• Students become more aware of themselves as members of communities with responsibilities towards each other and the environment.
• Students become active participants in sustained, collaborative projects.
• Students are more than just a GPA!

BBQ with our friends from Spark 15

Anti-trafficking students meeting H.E The President of Malta

Hiking Club

Community Charity Christmas Fun Run

Peace Lab Football

Student-run Coffee Cart in aid of Reaching Cambodia

Training for a 21km in aid of the VIS Refugee Scholarship Fund

Peace Lab Fundraiser Carwash