Please refer to our Revised Academic Calendar following the school's Emergency closure. 

We have jumped right back into the swing of thighs here in the Lower School!  

We have wrapped up MAP testing (parent info coming soon) and have begun Fountas & Pinnell literacy assessments.  Both of these assessments are critical to gauge where your child is at in their learning, the progress they are making, and informs teachers to make instructional decisions to best educate our young scholars.

Wednesday was the second event hosted by the Family Outreach Committee.  Navigating Our Online World was a very relevant and necessary session with information for parents of children of all ages.  Please see my email (sent October 15) for the session recording, pdf of the presentation, Warning Signs handout, and the post-event survey. We had over 75 in attendance and hope to see more in upcoming events.

As the parent email says, the committee will be hosting many more events to support you as a parent and our partnership!

Elizabeth Phillips

IB DP Evaluation update: We are towards the end of an intense journey, completing the self-study for our school evaluation of the Diploma Programme. We submit all the required documents by mid-October, and following this, an IB report will inform us how aligned we are with the IB Procedures and Rules.

May 2022 IB Exams update: 

• No change applies to the IB Deadlines calendar shared with you back in May 2021. We continue to follow it strictly. 

• We will hold the IB Exams in May 2022, in person, in school. The May 2022 IB Exams Schedule is now published, and you can access it by clicking the link added here. Please be advised that the IB doesn't consider National and Religious celebrations; this is a world calendar applicable to all countries. Please make sure you check the calendar before making any not-related school plans from the end of April till the end of May 2022. 

In this document, May 2022 examination components and weights, you can see all the changes decided for the examination components, all subjects, for the May 2022 session.

More updates on the IB programme at CAS are available here.

For any questions related to the IB programms, contact the IB Coordinator, Ms. Alina Zamfirescu, at azamfirescu@cas.ac.ma.

Ms. Alina Zamfirescu

The IB has invited its schools to display their work, creativity, and talent by showcasing students' or schools' projects and performances at the IB Virtual Conference that will be held from October 18th-22nd, 2021.  The IB received more than 40 applications and only 18 schools were selected. We are proud to announce that our students' Blood Drive Project from last year was selected! Congratulations to our current seniors Dany Kanaan, Neyl Chaoui and Samy Guessous for leading such a well organized project and even more so during the pandemic. That goes a long way in showing our student's level ! Way to go Cobras!

For those less familiar with the project, the 2021 C.A.S Blood Drive aimed to help increase blood reserves at the National Blood Transfusion Center (CRTS), which in non-COVID-19 times, is very limited. Moreover, due to the three-month lockdown in Morocco and the continued state of emergency imposed by the government, the blood banks reached an unprecedented low supply level. Therefore, the leading team worked closely with CRTS to define the needs and regulations to transform the school gym into a donor center while respecting covid sanitary mitigation measures; filed for special authorizations with the Moroccan authorities to overcome all the restrictions imposed by the government during such sanitary crisis; created a digital sign up form to ensure we would meet the minimum quota required by CRTS; raised awareness through a digital campaign on the school's social media platforms aimed to encourage community members to sign up for donation, emphasizing the urgency of the situation all while warranting a covid friendly environment. COVID-19 has ravaged many people's lives in various ways, and knowing how vital it was for the medical teams to increase blood supplies, we had to take action. Despite the current pandemic, restrictions, and general fear from the population to gather, we were proud to have been able to lead a successful campaign that raised awareness, inspiring more fellow community members to serve their civic duty and providing CRTS with the blood supply that would save more than 180 individuals throughout the nation.

The Cas Libraries would like to announce that in addition to the newly printed books that we received this year, we have the online database TumbleBooks subscription. You can access it from HERE .

Should you have any questions or difficulties login in , kindly contact Ms Daifi , E-mail :  bdaifi@cas.ac.ma

TumbleBooks  

eBooks for eKids

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books that teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. They are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sounds, music, and narration to produce an electronic picture book (and some classics) which you can read, or have read to you. The language drop-down menu allows you to view the site in French and Spanish, instead of English.

TumbleBooks has a lot in store for you this month! We start off with music and with the joy of balloons, but we end the month with some of our spooky Halloween favorites, and one sassy kitty!

October is also a time to appreciate teachers (on the 5th), overcome your fears (the 8th), and celebrate what makes you special (every day! - but specifically the 10th).

Bouchra Daifi

LS Librarian 

What a delight your short story is Yahya! Please delight us with more! 

So proud to have a young writer among us! 

Please follow the link to enjoy Yahya's short story

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hZpSunMimGojNc_taEe3uiP-4utUHfwbk-Byi2wY-ro/edit?usp=sharing 

Congratulations again to Rayane Oudghiri (Grade 11) for ranking second place among the 34 horse riders during the FEI competition in Temara. 

We wish our young knight all the best in the next competitions to come! 

Dear Community members, 

We would like to thank all of our community members who have been actively participating in the PTC by managing to bring support and fun into our school in spite of the challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  The PTC elections were postponed due to the school's emergency closure in September. We are happy to announce that these will be held on Wednesday November 3rd at drop off at the Moroccan Salon. 

As indicated in its mission statement, the PTC is “committed to enhancing, enriching, promoting and supporting the education of our children and fostering a sense of community within our school". In order to achieve this mission, a strong collaboration between parents, teachers, and the school administration is needed.  

In the past, the PTC has been in charge of creating multiple events such as: the New Parents Welcome Breakfast, the annual Back to School Barbecue, the Halloween Celebration, the various Christmas events for students and teachers alike, the teachers appreciation events, the Spring Fair, the end of the year Music Fun Day and so forth.  

We hope to see many more volunteers ....to continue creating uplifting and building fun events for our community! 

Parent volunteers of the PTC cannot function effectively without the assistance of teachers and admin staff as key members of the committee so we encourage them to join too!

If you are interested in joining and giving a helping hand, it is important that you attend this meeting! Please email (ptc@cas.ac.ma) us  to indicate your attendance so we can plan a Covid friendly space accordingly.

Thank you for your time, interest and support, 

PTC Team

Over the past two years, the world has been adjusting to Covid and the PTC has continuously thought of safe alternative ways for organizing events for our community members. Halloween is around the corner and the team is working on putting together a small celebration that will happen during the school day on Friday October 29th. Classes will not be disrupted however the PTC aims to bring some fun and thrill to the community on that day!

Students will be expected to wear costumes and a school wide competition (PF-Gr 12) will be organized. The costume competition theme: Who can create a Halloween costume out of their OLD CAS UNIFORM? The PTC is calling all of your creativity and can't wait to see what you come up with! For those who do NOT have OLD CAS uniforms, we invite you to check out the lost and found:) 

More details will be communicated soon so please stay TUNED!

Dear Community,

That time of the year for taking our class pictures has come! Yearbook pictures will be held from Monday November 1st to Thursday November 4th, 2021. Your child's foto day will be communicated to you once the schedule is published. 

Please Note that ALL students are expected to wear their WHITE CAS DRESS SHIRT and cardigan. So we ask all parents to make sure that they have picked up their orders from the uniform supplier. 

We count on your support. 

The Yearbook Committee Team

Over the past two years, CAS goes pink during the month of October in support of the worldwide breast cancer movement: Pinktober. Our students have continued to show support through various initiatives from fundraising to raising awareness-but more importantly being active supporters in the wellbeing of current cancer fighters and survivors. It has warmed our hears to see that Sabrine Benzakour and Hiba El Hansali (Class of 2021), who have led the project for the past two years, not only continue to show support to les Amis du Ruban Rose after they have finished their CAS IB project AND graduated but also encourage current juniors to join the action! Some of students are currently working on a few initiatives that will be communicated VERY SOON

More is yet to come during this month of October, so STAY TUNED!!

“Just because I cannot see it now does not mean I cannot taste it on Friday, October 29th.”Spookily delicious! Dreadfully appetizing! Wait and see! For those students, who are not on Art Cantine plan, tickets cost only 50 dhs each and will be available on Monday, October 18th, at Art Cantine booth at the front gate.

Have a killer Halloween!!

Please follow the links to view Art Cantine Prices, October Menu and access the different registration forms. Should you wish to have more information or access all of these forms you may do so directly on our website.  

Art Cantine Prices

Naps Card Form

Pre-School Form

Lower School Form

Upper School Form

Faculty Form

Snack Menu Options

We seek to share information on our Alumni to our community and it is also an opportunity for the Alumni to stay in touch! Please email us pictures and updates and we would be happy to share them!

We are eager to hear from you! Email us at the following email address: alumni@cas.ac.ma