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Creativity, Action and Service (CAS)Description

Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) is a fundamental part of the International Baccalaureate Diploma. The emphasis in CAS is on experiential learning. Over the two years of the Diploma, students are expected to be involved in a balanced range of projects and activities across the three domains of Creativity, Action and Service.

It is through involvement in these projects and activities that students must demonstrate through reflection, the attainment of the following learning outcomes:

• Increasing of awareness of strengths and areas for growth
• Undertaking of new challenges
• Planning and initiating of new challenges
• Collaborative work with others
• Perseverance and commitment to activities
• Engagement with issues of global importance
• Consideration of ethical implications of actions
• Development of new skills

The bacPoint application is used for students to plan and to reflect on their projects and activities.

Each activity or project is monitored for appropriateness. A CAS advisor will act as a mentor to each student, and meet with students several times each year.

• Creativity is interpreted as imaginatively as possible to cover a wide range of arts and other activities and to include creativity by the individual student in designing and carrying out service projects.
   
• Action can include participation in expeditions, individual and team sports and physical training. It can also include carrying out creative and service projects as well as training for service.
   
• Service can be community or social service; it can include environmental and international projects. Some service activities must be outside the 'Carey community'.

The Diploma requirement

Each student must meet the CAS requirement in addition to the other mandatory components for the award of the Diploma. The students' ongoing self-reflections, along with the schools' final CAS completion records, must clearly demonstrate quality, balanced content and commitment to meeting the CAS learning outcomes.

Task	Description
Planning	Students are required to compile a CAS plan at the start of the Diploma Program. The plan can be added to at any time during the two years of the course.
Self-assessment	Student self-assessment through reflective practice is the key to demonstrating the attainment of CAS learning outcomes. Reflections are managed online in the bacPoint application in journal format. CAS advisors and activity supervisors monitor and comment on these journal entries.
Final completion	Students are expected to be engaged in CAS activities until Term 4 of Year 12. At this stage, there will be a final meeting between the student and the CAS advisor to authenticate the achievement of the CAS learning outcomes. IBO inspection of students' bacPoint journals precedes the awarding of Diplomas and Certificates