1. CAS – Expectations
•Enjoy CAS!
•Make the most out of the
opportunity
•Participate in activities you may not
normally do – challenge yourself
and reap the rewards
•Your place in your community
•Minimum involvement ….

2. Outcomes

3. Minimum involvement
 Year 8
 Emerging in at least four, and Developing in at
least four Learning Outcomes
 A minimum of one Creativity activity, one
Service activity, and one Action activity and an
additional activity in any area.
 Tennis lessons (A)
 DB Green Beach Clean up (A, S)
 Journalism Club (C,S)
OR
 Rugby team (A)
 C&S Committee (C,S)
 Assistant Coach – DB Pirates under 7s team
(S)

4. Outcomes

5. Minimum involvement
 Year 9
 Developing in at least four, and Proficient in at least four
Learning Outcomes
 A minimum of two Creativity activities, two Service activity,
and two Action activities. Personal fitness programme (A)
 Rugby team (A)
 Ceramics course (C)
 Reducing my family’s carbon footprint project (C, S)
 Active Art Club (C,S)
OR
 Guitar lessons (C)
 Dance lessons (A)
 C&S Committee (C,S)
 Community Mural Project (C,S)
 Table tennis tournament (A)

6. Outcomes

7. CAS – Possible Activities
Interested in basketball?
•Join the school basketball team
•Plan and follow a fitness for basketball training program
•Organise a lunch time 3v3 basketball tournament for
your year level
•Organise a lunch time 3v3 tournament open to all year
levels
•Organise a ‘shooting hoops’ marathon, where students
obtain sponsorship to shoot as many hoops as possible
in a given time; event aims to increase awareness of a
selected NGO and an issue that they focus on
•Volunteer at an orphanage teaching basketball
•Organise a 3v3 charity tournament open to the public
that aims to increase awareness of a selected NGO and
an issue that they focus on

8. CAS – Possible Activities
sports, dance, self-defense classes, environmental
restoration, squash, aerobics, refereeing, trekking,
clean-up activities, manual labour, cycling...
peer tutoring, educational or environmental projects, a
structured series of visits to assist at an orphanage,
physical assistance to the disabled, teaching basic
literacy, Creating and sustaining a community group,
service related initiatives, participating in student
council, teaching the use of computers, organising
competitions/tournaments for the school or local
community, running a website for a non-profit
organisation...
project development, organising competitions, learning
a musical instrument, musical productions, drama,
choir, dance, newspaper, yearbook, debates,
organising an event, arts courses, learning languages,
developing a neighbourhood recycling program,

9. Reflections
We do not learn from our experience, we
learn from processing our experience
John Dewey
 thinking about your experiences
 foster your understanding of yourself and the
world around you
 Aim for higher-order thinking (choose,
criticize, defend, estimate, evaluate, judge,
recommend rather than define, identify, label,
list, name, what, when, who)
 Ongoing – before starting, during and after
finishing a project / activity
 More scope in service activities

10. Reflections
 Many ways to reflect –
 Written (may be point form, Twitter style comments)
 Oral (During interviews with your activity supervisor;
Record your own podcast and upload in
Managebac)
 Visual (Murals, Collage)
 A comic strip
 A drama performance
 Poetry
 A letter to the editor / an editorial
 A word cloud (wordle)
 A video / short film

11. Reflections
 Piano Lessons it's really frustrating when
even after many practices i still can't play a
piece well enough or even smoothly
enough, i feel like even though i practice a
lot i still can't play the piece right. But
everyone interprets music differently, i feel
that it's unfair how only one person judges
my piece and can consider it good or bad;
what if i think that my pieces are good but
he/she thinks it's bad or vice versa? who
has the right to judge my piece really?

12. Reflections
 Basketball Team
 one of the most difficult aspects of joining
the basketball team is probably
commitment, i think the people who are
most important in making a successful
basketball team are the committed
members; the team would be nothing
without the people who devote their time to
continue to improve their skills and work
with the others to make a 'good' team.
People can slack off and not go to
practices but then they won't have as much
game time as the others who do come to
practice. I think this is quite fair.

13. Reflections
 Habitat For Humanity
I think this was the first time I really helped out
people who needed help; not just meaningless
tasks but actually helping people in property get
something that I usually take for granted like a
house. I never had to deal with not having a
house so when I imagine how happy these
people would be to get a house they can live in, it
makes me feel really good about myself. Even
though the planning stages were quote boring
and some parts of the building were repetitive, I
thought it was all worth it to do something nice to
someone and be able to really help them.

14. Reflections
 Imagine you visited the cage home venue
What? Gut? So What? Now what?
What?
 What happened? What do you recall most? What images
are still in your mind? Objectively report the event.
Gut?
 What is your gut feeling about what you saw/smelt/heard?
What did you think about the people you saw / met? Was
there anything you didn't feel good about? Why?
So What?
 What is the problem? What are the consequences? What
is important about what you have learned? What do you
understand differently?
Now What?
 What does this make you want to do? Has this experience
changed you? Will you act differently as a result of this
activity?