Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS)
Below is a brief overview of the CAS programme, for a full explanation of student's expectations, please click here to access the student handbook.
​Creativity, action, service is at the heart of the Diploma programme, involving students in a range of activities that take place alongside their academic studies throughout the IB Diploma Programme. The component's three strands, often interwoven with particular activities, are characterized as follows:
Creativity, activity, service (CAS) encourages students to be involved in activities as individuals and as part of a team that take place in local, national and international contexts. Creativity, activity, service enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal development as well as their social and civic development, through experiential learning, lending an important counterbalance to the academic pressures of the rest of the IB Diploma Programme. It should be both challenging and enjoyable - a personal journey of self-discovery that recognizes each student's individual starting point.
The CAS programme aims to develop students who:
As students engage in various activities, reflection plays a key component and is the ultimate indication that students have undertaken and completed their CAS requirements as part of the Diploma Programme. Student CAS goals and reflection must be directly connected to the following seven CAS learning outcomes: