Link to student CAS Manager 

The Diploma CAS program here at Concordian should challenge and hopefully excite your child by learning more about themselves and the community they live in. As we are more than our subjects and our careers, it’s our personal experiences which gives our life meaning and nurtures learning. 

CAS stands for “Creativity”, “Action” and “Service”.  These are the three major components of experiential learning which enables our children to become healthy, creative, and compassionate human beings. Creativity is where imagination is used to solve problems or design solutions. Action teaches students the need to be physically fit and to teach sportsmanship in the face of competition.  Service shows students how truly lucky they are by helping those less fortunate.  DP CAS syllabus.

CAS allows students to create their own unique program so they can explore what ever interests them.  Activities chosen should not be mundane or meaningless to themselves or to the people they serve or interact with.  The activities should be rich enough to create meaningful goals and then to reflect upon them.  If CAS is done correctly, your child at times should feel discomfort as their new experiences often question their understanding of themselves and the world around them.

To this end Concordian’s CAS program strives to:

• Promote mutual respect between participants in all our activities.
• Allow opportunities for students to share common experiences and individual differences to promote cultural understanding.
• Create meaningful, rich activities which will be sustainable over time.
• Create opportunities for students to take ownership and leadership of activities; fostering commitment and perseverance. 
• Guide students to wisely choose activities rich enough to reflect upon and challenging enough to question basic beliefs.
• Expose students to the greater community where appreciation can be fostered along with empathy, integrity and compassion.

Updates: