Community and Service MYP
Community and Service extends beyond the classroom, requiring students to participate in their communities. The emphasis is on developing community awareness and concern, a sense of responsible citizenship in the community through active learning and the skills needed to make an effective contribution in the wider community.
CAS: Creativity, Action, Service IB Diploma
As part of the Diploma Program, In addition to the six academic courses, all students at AISL are required to participate in CAS. This is an experiential learning program involving students in new roles. The emphasis is on learning by doing real tasks that have real consequences and then reflecting on these experiences over time. Students are asked to spend one afternoon or equivalent time each week undertaking activities that come under one or more of these headings. The types of activities this could involve are:
Creativity - All kind of arts including music, art, creative writing, drama, design technology, crafts and photography.
Action - All kinds of team sports such as football and swimming or an individual activity like horse-riding and dance.
Service - Students are encouraged to find a service outside the school community, in Lusaka.
Students record their CAS activities in their CAS Journal. Evaluation is through the activity supervisor and an element of self-evaluation by the student will be performed upon the completion of a project.
Participation is CAS encourages students to share their energies and special talents while developing awareness, concern and the ability to work cooperatively with others.
CAS for 2008 – 2009 Grades 9 - 12
This year AISL began a new series of projects for CAS and Community and Service. In the MYP and Diploma program students have voluntarily divided into three groups: Village in Need, School in Need and Environment in Need.
Each group is student driven and has a committee and a central leader. The groups are then broken down into smaller working parties on projects put forward by the group leaders and committees. Students join these groups in grade 9 and work their way up through the years. Each year the leaving students have to replace themselves with younger students to ensure the pr11 January, 2010 working on four fronts with a local village several kilometers away. The four groups are: vegetable and food gardens, housing, sanitation and potable water, fundraising for all the materials needed.
School in need has three groups working in Chibello Basic School. The groups are working on a painted wall mural, raising funds for paint etc, a book and stationary drive, Soccer club and coaching, tutoring students in English
Environment in Need is working on rubbish collection, fundraising for the Elephant Boma in Luangwa National Park, An Elephant Ball for Marketing and promotion of environmental projects, car wash and other fundraising projects.
Students are able and expected to continue their own CAS projects as well as participate in the school groups.
Click for gallery.Community and Service MYP Grades 6-8
Students are undertaking smaller ongoing projects within the school grounds. Such as AISL school beautification, where students spend time gardening and propagating indigenous plants and flowers. Collecting and recycling used office and classroom paper. collecting and distributing magazines for donation to local medical clinic and hospital waiting rooms.
Community and Service PYP grades 1-5
Students study Community and Service through units of work in class time. Some elements are chosen with cross curriculum studies and present themselves with the students in the form of student led presentations. For example ‘Poverty and Street kids’ was the theme for a recent Grade 5 Exhibition in the Library. Students had to research an idea along the theme and make presentations to parents and teachers during the Exhibition.
Mark Wilson ( C&S and CAS Coordinator)
Page updated 11 January, 2010