CAS

2. What is CAS?
• Learning through experience
• Personal development
• Understanding your capacity to make a
difference to others
• Trying new things

3. How CAS is related to my studies in the Diploma?
CAS is at the center of the Diploma
Programme and represents part of the
Diploma Programme’s ongoing
commitment to the IB learner profile.
From the IB CAS guide (2017)

4. What do you actually
have to do?
• Be involved in CAS experiences for 18 months
• Minimum two experiences in each CAS strand
(Creativity, Activity, Service)
• CAS Project (a one-month group project)
• Community service
• Balance (between C/A/S; in/out of school)
• Reflect on your experiences

5. What sort of
experiences
count for CAS?

6. Creativity‘Exploring and extending ideas leading to an original
or interpretive product or performance’
 Art, drama, dance, music
 Developing a website
 Teaching
 Photography
 Learning a new language
 Developing a project
 Model United Nations
 Writing short stories

7. Activity‘Physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle’
 Football
 Netball
 Yoga
 Kayaking
 Trampolining
 Golf
 Dance
 Jungle trekking / expeditions

8. Service‘Collaborative and reciprocal community
engagement in response to an authentic need ’
 Primary Homework Club
 Deaf School Art Project
 Volunteering at 4Paws
 Environmental work at REACH
 Art sessions for refugee children
 Teaching English to local children
 Running computer classes at the Down
Syndrome Association

9. Deaf School Art
project
Football Tournament &
Marathon
Random Acts of Kindness
Teaching English at
Laura’s School
Primary Homework Club
Peer Mediation Team

10. Show evidence that you have achieved these 7 Learning
Outcomes:
1. Identify strengths & develop areas for growth
2. Undertake new challenges, develop new skills
3. Plan and initiate CAS experience
4. Work collaboratively with others
5. Show perseverance and commitment
6. Engage with issues of global significance
7. Consider the ethics of choices and actions
How do you pass?
You should achieve at least one learning outcome in each experience…
and all learning outcomes at the end of the programme
You need to provide evidence of the achievement in your reflections and
portfolio.

11. What is a CAS project?
A CAS project is a collaborative, well-considered series of
sequential CAS experiences, engaging students in one or
more of the CAS strands of creativity, activity and service
Please remember that a CAS project has to:
 have a clear purpose
 be a collaborative experience
 have all CAS stages
 involve at least two out of the three CAS strands (Creativity, Activity, Service)
 be executed for the period of at least one month
 Include elements of international mindedness and global engagement.
 be present at least once in your CAS portfolio
From the Platon School CAS handbook

12. What is a CAS portfolio?
The CAS portfolio is your evidence of achieving your CAS
engagement; it is completed through ManageBac.
A regular student portfolio should include the following:
 Student profile stating student’s interests, strengths, aspirations, weaknesses,
goals and anything else the students wants to include
 Personal and school CAS plan and timeline
 Evidence of Weekly Involvement in CAS
 CAS reflections
 Evidence of the three CAS interviews with the CAS Coordinator (one at the
beginning of CAS, one at the end of Year 12 and one at the end of CAS)
 Evidence of completing a CAS experience: i.e. Supervisor’s reports, certificates,
letters, planning documents, tickets, messages etc.
 Photos, Videos, any other MediaFrom the Platon School CAS handbook

13. Using ManageBac to built your CAS portfolio
Screenshot from Platon School ManageBac site

14. CAS stages! Steps towards an effective CAS experience
Investigation: When you identify your
interests, skills and talents to be used in
considering opportunities for CAS
experiences.
Preparation: When you clarify roles and
responsibilities, develop a plan of actions
to be taken, identify specified resources
and timelines, and acquire any skills as
needed to engage in the CAS experience.
Action: When you implement your idea or
plan.
Reflection: When you describe what
happened, express feelings, generate
ideas, and raise questions
Demonstration: When you make explicit
what and how you learned and what you
accomplished.From the IB CAS guide (2017)

15. Why is CAS
important?

16. Harvard University recognises that:
“Students with good CAS performance have
qualities and skills that other students don’t
possess”.
• University
applications
• Balance
• Self development