International School Kuala Lumpur


CAS
A.	CAS aims to provide individual student challenge in three areas: Creativity, Action and Service.
B.	CAS aims to provide opportunities for service, where a student's talent and time will be developed for the benefit of others as well as to their own development and understanding.
C.	CAS aims to complement the demands of the academic disciplines of the curriculum, and to counterbalance the academic self-absorption of the IB student and the privileged status of many IB students and schools.
D.	CAS aims to challenge and extend the individual student by developing a spirit of discovery and self-reliance and by encouraging individual skills and interests.

Should an IB Diploma student fail to fulfill the CAS requirements, the CAS Supervisor is obliged to report this to IBO. This will normally result in no diploma being given until the requirements have been met. login to ManageBac
REFLECTIONS ON SERVICE "The word 'service' is so immense. Let's return first to a more modest scale: our families, our classmates, our friends, our own community. We must live for them, for if we cannot live for them, whom else do we think we are living for?" ~ (Buddhist monk, /Thich Nhat Hanh) The CAS program is not fixed in terms of activities that can be undertaken. Students are encouraged to be creative and propose their own activities. These must be approved by the CAS coordinator. It is expected that students complete the bulk of their CAS requirement in the first year of their Diploma.
CREATIVITY should be interpreted as imaginatively as possible to cover the widest range of arts and other activities and to include creativity by the individual student in designing and carrying out service projects. Examples from previous ISKL IB students: Art Language Journalism Forensics Debate Musical instrument Theatre production Children's books Ceramics Yearbook Photography Mural Choir Dance M.U.N. International day
ACTION includes physical activities where training is involved, (both team and individual, sport and expedition), and also carrying out creative and service projects: Tennis Golf Dance P.E. Volleyball Tae Kwon do Swimming Rugby Soccer Squash Fitness Softball Track and field Adventure club
SERVICE does not mean exclusively social service, but students are required to complete a minimum of twenty-five hours of service directly to the disadvantaged in our society. Service can also include environmental and international projects and service to the school community can also be appropriate: Tutor Sports coach Library aide Peer helper Orphanage SPCA Student council General Hospital Spoken books Sunday school Earth club Teacher's aide Lifeguard Bazaars Disabled children Coaching International day Habitat for humanity

"It is not enough simply to do our jobs: we need to go out and look for opportunities to help those less fortunate than ourselves, even if that service demands sacrifice. It is this unselfish will to serve that will see us through the difficulties we face." (Queen Elizabeth II)