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Creativity: Exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance.
Creativity in CAS provides students with the opportunity to explore their own sense of original thinking and expression. Creativity will come from the student’s talents, interests, passions, emotional responses, and imagination; the form of expression is limitless. This may include visual and performing arts, digital design, writing, film, culinary arts, crafts and composition. Students are encouraged to engage in creative endeavours that move them beyond the familiar, broadening their scope from conventional to unconventional thinking.
Activities may include arts and crafts, choir, band, acting, debate, singing, dance, photography, or any other creative activity. Appropriate ‘creative’ CAS activities should not involve just “more of the same” (ex. more practice, more concerts, etc.) and is not met by the appreciation of the creativity of others (ex. attending a concert or art exhibition)
Activity: Physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle:
The aim of the “Activity” strand is to promote lifelong healthy habits related to physical well-being. Pursuits may include individual and team sports, aerobic exercise, dance, outdoor recreation, fitness training, and any other form of physical exertion that purposefully contributes to a healthy lifestyle. Students are encouraged to participate at an appropriate level and on a regular basis to provide a genuine challenge and benefit. These activities include school or community sports, mountain climbing, skiing, gardening, martial arts classes or competitions, coaching, club participation, or any charitable activity participation such as a march of Dimes Walkathon. Should not involve just “more of the same”----more practice. “Extending” the student may go further (ex. Trying a team sport instead of an individual sport, coaching a youth league team, etc.).
Service: Collaborative and reciprocal engagement with the community in response to an authentic need:
The aim of the “Service” strand is for students to understand their capacity to make a meaningful contribution to their community and society. Through service, students develop and apply personal and social skills in real-life situations involving decision-making, problem-solving, initiative, responsibility, and accountability for their actions. Service is often seen as one of the most transforming elements of CAS by promoting students’ self-awareness, offering diverse occasions for interactions and experiences and opportunities for international-mindedness.
Service within CAS benefits all involved: students learn as they identify and address authentic community needs, and the community benefits through reciprocal collaboration. Service fosters development of abilities, attitudes and values in accordance with the IB mission statement and the IB learner profile. As such, CAS service experiences are unpaid.
It can include environmental and international projects. Service work would include volunteering at a local hospital or nursing home, working on a Habitat for Humanity house, tutoring, participation in student government or service on community organizations or committees, working in a recycling program or organizing your own recycling project. Service can also include participation in a local or international fundraising event, travel to another country for humanitarian purposes. It is essential that the service activity has learning benefits, which rules out mundane, repetitive activities, as well as “service” without real responsibility.
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