Creativity, Activity, Service

What is CAS?

CAS is at the heart of the Diploma Programme and is organized around the three strands of creativity, activity and service.

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.

With its holistic approach, CAS is designed to strengthen and extend students’ personal and interpersonal learning. It allows students to demonstrate attributes of the IB learner profile in real and practical ways, to grow as unique individuals and to recognize their role in relation to others.

Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) is a collection of enjoyable and challenging experiences to extend the students abilities and achieve the following outcomes:

1. Identify your strengths and where the need to develop for personal growth may be.

2. Demonstrate that you have undertaken challenged and developed new skills as a result.

3. Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience.

4. Show commitment and perseverance in your CAS experiences.

5. Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working in a group setting.

6. Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance.

7. Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions.

What is a CAS experience?

In order for an experience to qualify as CAS, the experience should:

1. Involve one or more of the CAS strands - C, A, or S

2. Be a chance for personal growth through a new challenge

3. Give you a chance to demonstrate some of the qualities and attributes of the learner profile

4. Give you a chance to have fun

5. Cannot be an activity that can be interpreted as proselytizing

6. Not be something you do for credits or personal reimbursement

What is a CAS project?

Students must be involved in at least one CAS project during their diploma. The project must cover the following:

Be a collaborative “team” effort with other students or members of the community.
Contain a series of CAS experiences.
Last minimum one month from planning to completion.
Involve one or more of the three strands of CAS.
Use the CAS stages as a framework.
Challenges students to show initiative.
Demonstrate perseverance/commitment.
Develop skills of cooperation, problem solving, and decision making.

For more information about CAS, contact the CAS Coordinator, Loreen Craig at loreen.craig@abbyschools.ca.

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