What Is NOT CAS? CAS is not a points-scoring exercise. It should be an interesting variety of activities that you find intrinsically worthwhile and rewarding, and which is mutually beneficial to you and to your community. Generally, CAS is not taking place when you are in a passive rather than an active role. There should be interaction. If you are passive, nothing of real value, either for you or for other people, results from what you are doing, and no real reflection is possible. Examples of activities, which at first sight would appear to be inappropriate, are listed below. • Any class, activity or project that is already part of the Diploma Programme • An activity for personal reward, financial or benefit-in-kind • Simple, tedious and repetitive work • A passive pursuit, e.g. museum, theatre, exhibition, concert visits • Part of family or religious duty • work experience that only benefits the student • fundraising with no clearly defined end in sight • An activity where there is no responsible adult on site to evaluate your performance • Activities that cause division amongst different groups in the community • Working in an old people’s or children’s home when you:
ohave no idea of how the home operates
oare just making sandwiches
ohave no contact at all with the old people or children
oactually do no service for other people
(The above example can be applied to many other activities purporting to be CAS)
CAS is not a points-scoring exercise. It should be an interesting variety of activities that you find intrinsically worthwhile and rewarding, and which is mutually beneficial to you and to your community. Generally, CAS is not taking place when you are in a passive rather than an active role. There should be interaction. If you are passive, nothing of real value, either for you or for other people, results from what you are doing, and no real reflection is possible. Examples of activities, which at first sight would appear to be inappropriate, are listed below.
• Any class, activity or project that is already part of the Diploma Programme
• An activity for personal reward, financial or benefit-in-kind
• Simple, tedious and repetitive work
• A passive pursuit, e.g. museum, theatre, exhibition, concert visits
• Part of family or religious duty
• work experience that only benefits the student
• fundraising with no clearly defined end in sight
• An activity where there is no responsible adult on site to evaluate your performance
• Activities that cause division amongst different groups in the community
• Working in an old people’s or children’s home when you:
- o have no idea of how the home operates
- o are just making sandwiches
- o have no contact at all with the old people or children
- o actually do no service for other people
(The above example can be applied to many other activities purporting to be CAS)