Keeping up-to-date

It is great looking through the CAS portfolio's and seeing that so many of you are involved in many wonderful experiences.  The issue now for many people is to maintain the commitment and make sure that everything counts.  To be sure that an experience counts it most meet the following guidelines.

Making sure it counts

• You have a description that explains what the experience actually involves
• You have written goals that show how you will achieve the learning outcomes
• You have selected learning outcomes (no more than 3) that you can achieve through that particular experience
• You add evidence of your participation - can be photos, files, links, meeting minutes, audios, films etc,
• You show how you have achieved the learning outcomes as part of the experience (though reflections/evidence or other ways).
• You fill in the CAS questions - which every are appropriate - when the experience is complete
• You request a supervisor report (if you have a supervisor) or let me know that an experience is complete.  

The sooner the better

Don't leave the adding of evidence etc too long.  It is much easier to do as soon as you have completed an experience.  All of you who helped out with the film festival over the last week should make sure to complete that experience in your portfolio as soon as possible as film festival emails close down once the festival is over.

Red Flag?

If you still have a red flag you should see me to book at time to work out how you can avoid that flag being on your December report-

Happening at the moment

The Creativity club is looking at organising participation in a peace quilt to be put together from drawing of school children around the world.  Look out for information about that.

Amnesty is working on the right for writes campaign and will asking people if they would like to draw cartoons in support of a Malaysian cartoonist who is threatened with many years in jail.

Annexe council is working on an anti-cyberbullying project.

Shoe box appeal - bring in any empty shoe boxes you have at home.  More details about this later.

Are you in a group and would like me to report on what you are doing?  Let me know.

Have you read this far?  Congratulations!  Be the first to write the answers to these 3 questions on a piece of paper and give it to me to get a prize.
1. How may learning outcomes should you have per experience?
2. When should you  fill in the CAS questions?
3. What should you do if you have a red flag?