Grade 12 CAS Goals

To get a really firm grasp on our CAS project this year, Bharat and myself, the CAS leaders for Cleft lip and palette will work hard to:

• Raise money by creating fun and working activities that include the children and our group of hard working CAS students
• Our main goals are to organize and facilitate a Concert where many bands will be performing, while selling t-shirts and small items that will help raise money
• T-shirts will have a print on them, with the name of the event and the CAS group to show what they have bought the shirt for.
• Arm-bands, as an addiction to the ticket in to the concert, for a slight extra cost, to raise additional funds to help the children in the hospital
• The second goal is to organize a dinner for Diplomats and Expats which would help to organize a group activity that will raise significant funds, from the dinner as well as selling small items that the children have made (paintings, jewellery etc.)
• We will also make sure that our whole group of students will be visiting the hospital to play/communicate with the kids at least once a month
• We will also bring some paper and maybe some coloring pencils so that the children can make their own drawings to sell at the dinner

We will concentrate on reaching all 8 Goals of the Learners Outcomes:

Increased their awareness of their own strengths and areas for growth: They are able to see themselves as individuals with various skills and abilities, some more developed than others, and understand they can make choices about how they wish to move forward.

Undertaken new challenges: A new challenge may be an unfamiliar activity, or an extension to an existing one.

Planned and initiated activities: Planning and initiation will often be in collaboration with others. It can be shown in activities that are part of larger projects, for example, ongoing school activities in the local community, as well as in small student-led activities.

Worked collaboratively with others: Collaboration can be shown in many different activities, such as team sports, playing music in a band, or helping in a kindergarten. At least one project involving collaboration and the integration of at least two of creativity, action and service, is required.

Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities: At a minimum, this implies attending regularly and accepting a share of the responsibility for dealing with problems that arise in the course of activities.

Engaged with issues of global importance: Students may be involved in international projects but there are many global issues that can be acted upon locally or nationally (for example, environmental concerns, caring for the elderly).

Considered the ethical implications of their actions: Ethical decisions arise in almost any CAS activity (for example, on the sports field, in musical composition, in relationships with others involved in service activities). Evidence of thinking about ethical issues can be shown in various ways, including journal entries and conversations with CAS advisers.

Develop new skills: As with new challenges, new skills may be shown in activities that the student has not previously undertaken, or in increased expertise in an established area.

There has been some problems with my old email. Someone though it would be fun to hack it and use my email for prank emails, so this is the new CAS blog. The link to the old one is
http://therasmus-cas.blogspot.com/

If anyone needs to look at the older one, just check that blog.