The CAS Portfolio – A Collection of Meaningful Reflections
It is important to say that there is no one way to reflect in CAS. You can choose a number of methods but it is essential that your reflections show that you have thought and identified what you have actually learned in CAS. You might like to use the following questions to get you started: What successes did you enjoy during the CAS activity? What difficulties did you face, and how did you cope with these? What was the most important thing you learned when carrying out a CAS experience? What might you do differently if you were going to do the CAS experience again? What advice would you give a Year 12 student starting out on their CAS experience? Which of your strengths did this type of CAS experience really play to? What skills might you look to improve in the future? Which aspect of your CAS experiences did you particularly enjoy? What sorts of changes did you make during your CAS experiences as a result of advice? What skills do you feel you have developed through your CAS experiences? How do you intend to use/continue your CAS experiences in the future? It is also very important that you can use your reflections at a later date to draw meaningful conclusions about what you have learned across the whole CAS programme and how you have developed learner profile attributes within yourself and also met the seven CAS learner outcomes. Appendix 2 gives advice to help you with this (book 4 p46). For this reason it is important that you keep all reflections together in tts.managebac.com. The extract below is an example of appropriate reflective blogging within the inner cycle of the five stages of learning. • It is regularly updated with fresh reflections • It details specific learning and the relevance to CAS outcomes are noted in brackets. Genesis School 20 September 2015 I arrived at Genesis with some trepidation as I had not done anything like this before (LO2: Challenge & new skills). As somebody that prepares fully for everything I do, it was strange to go in on the first week as I did not feel very prepared. I had enjoyed the introductory session in school the week before, but this had only been a discussion and was not facing the children face to face. I was allocated a group of four boys who were working on the development of phonics. I was glad I had been placed with my friend Sarah. It gave me someone to support
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