I know that you have all been very busy over the past few weeks. It is easy to let CAS sit on a back burner when you have a lot of other deadlines to meets. Now that it is starting to settle down again (before starting up again!) take the time to update your CAS portfolio. Remember that you must show continuous participation in CAS over 18 months. If you take a long break, you will find yourself having to do CAS right up to the 1st of May - with your final interview in the middle of exams. If you keep on track - you can finish CAS in March or April.What you should do now
- Go through each of your current open experiences and add a reflection and some evidence (yes for every single one!)
- If you have experiences that are ended - finish them off - update reflections, evidence and do the CAS questions, before asking for a supervisor request
- Check that your project has a green tick - there should not be any open projects now - if yours is still open, you have probably heard from me.
- Check that you have all the 7 learning outcomes covered. Even if you have all of them ticked doesn't mean that you have actually reached them - make sure that you can show evidence of how you met each and every one.
- Check that you have round about equal amounts of Creativity, Activity and Service.
What happens now?
Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I will be absent from school until February. I will come back just before the sport break and then you have your mock exams. After the mock exams, I will have the 3rd and final interview with each of you. At the interview you need to be able to show how you met each one of the 7 learning outcomes. In the past students have had posters, mind-maps, written documents etc. You will need to bring this to the interview and discuss it with me. In order to get COMPLETE for CAS you must be able to demonstrate each of the learning outcomes.
