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  • About
    • Welcome To VVS
    • Overview
    • Guiding Principles
    • Founders’ Vision
    • Faculty & Staff
    • VVS Board
    • VVS Foundation Board
    • Employment
  • Admissions
    • Why VVS?
    • Virtual Tour
    • How to Apply
    • Tuition & Financial Aid
    • International Students
    • Semester Programs
    • Forms, Handbooks & Schedules
    • Pay Student Fees
  • Learning
    • IB + Dirt
    • Underclassman Collaboration
    • Academics
    • The Arts
    • College Counseling
    • Field Trips
    • Project Period
    • Decembermester
  • Living
    • Community
    • Athletics
    • Outdoors
    • Equestrian
    • Sustainability
    • Service
    • Global Goals
    • Dorm LIfe
    • Day Students
    • Weekends
  • Events
    • Calendar
  • News
  • Galleries
  • Alumni
  • Giving
    • Annual Fund
    • Ways to Give
    • Donations
  • Contact

CREATIVE, ACTION & SERVICE (CAS)

The CAS requirement is a fundamental part of the IB Diploma Programme and takes seriously the importance of life outside the world of scholarship, providing a refreshing counterbalance to academic studies.

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The CAS program encourages each student to become involved in artistic pursuits, sports, and community service work. This program fosters in each student an awareness and appreciation of life outside the academic arena.

  • Creativity is interpreted broadly to include a wide range of arts activities as well as the creativity students demonstrate in designing and implementing service projects.
  • Action can include not only participation in individual and team sports but also taking part in expeditions and in local or international projects.
  • Service encompasses a host of community and social service activities. Some examples include helping children with special needs, visiting hospitals and working with refugees or homeless people.

Students are expected to be involved in CAS activities for the equivalent of at least three hours each week during the two years of the programme.

Each school appoints a CAS supervisor who is responsible for providing a varied choice of activities for students. Programmes are monitored by IB regional offices.

A system of self-evaluation encourages students to reflect on the benefits of CAS participation to themselves and to others, and to evaluate the understanding and insights acquired.

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