Guest thoughts13 Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 The CAS supervisor at my school had blatantly said that anything can be counted as CASas long as we can convince her.Our school also has a 30 hour limitmeaning that only 30 hours of school related extracurricular activities can count for CASthis is for both years, and for all categories.What I want to do is to convince my CAS supervisorthat watching movies in schooldoes not fall under school related activitiesNo we're not going to critique the movies, but I suppose that I could do that for journal entriesI'm just looking for suggestions, and arguments that will convince my CAS supervisorto exempt this activity from those 30 hours.If it helps at all, I am also the person who started this clubAny and all help is appreciated Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
byethanj30 Posted October 28, 2008 Report Share Posted October 28, 2008 If you look at the official CAS forms for IB, I'm not sure you could justify watching a movie for all of the questions or get a supervisor to sign off for it. We do watch movies for TOK though. It's a lovely way to start the day. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cokesandcokes Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 My English teacher offered to discuss and critique V for Vendetta with us for creativity hours, and my CAS coordinator approved. I'm not sure, however, that just watching the movie should/will count. I know this isn't exactly a suggestion, but I thought I'd give you a heads up... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thoughts13 Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 thank you both, my cas supervisor is actually going to make up new formsbecause of thisand I think she'll let it happenbut there is an issue of copyrightT_T Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepdog9 Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Watching movies as CAS could be a problem, but if you are the one who started the group and organises everything then it counts as CAS.Setting up a club or social groups is considered to be both Creativity and Service.Good luck! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Watching films counts as Creativity??Why did nobody tell me this before?!?! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBdoc Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 There's a club called "cine club" in my school, they watch movies and discuss them. 'Maybe you can start a similar thing and it is definitely counted as CAS hours. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepower1030 Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Yeah, I highly doubt that you can convince of her of this idea, but good effort lol. To give you some ideas for easy hours, try tutoring siblings or peers. At my school, I tutor some of the students that are in the Preparatory Program for IB. I get at least 2-3 hours a week doing that. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiFruit Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Your school sounds pretty strict, I know some girls that got CAS for their EE because they said it was creative. They got like 50hours. But thats a one off. Try volunterring etc. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindieeluieee Posted December 17, 2008 Report Share Posted December 17, 2008 Yes, write critiques of the movies and send them to be posted in your student newspaper or something similar. Or you could follow the advice of the people above and form a club where you can discuss the values of films (esp. old ones) and you can have that as Creative and Service... Service because it's a club, you are organising it for the student body and it's free of charge. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Pattinson Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 This is totally unheard of in my school Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindieeluieee Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Well, it is made up. Not supposed to be heard of. Originality also counts in the IB Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mersad Posted February 23, 2009 Report Share Posted February 23, 2009 The CAS supervisor at my school had blatantly said that anything can be counted as CASas long as we can convince her.Our school also has a 30 hour limitmeaning that only 30 hours of school related extracurricular activities can count for CASthis is for both years, and for all categories.What I want to do is to convince my CAS supervisorthat watching movies in schooldoes not fall under school related activitiesNo we're not going to critique the movies, but I suppose that I could do that for journal entriesI'm just looking for suggestions, and arguments that will convince my CAS supervisorto exempt this activity from those 30 hours.If it helps at all, I am also the person who started this clubAny and all help is appreciated we are dong the same thing in our school... cinema appreciation. which is like u watch a movie and then talk about it and write a review.. however you are lucky cause we only get 20 hours max.. we cant do more for the same thing Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
m20 Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 at our school, we watch "movies of life and meaning" sounds lame but it gets us some hours. so you could say that you are watching movies that have meanings and lessons. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-2-3 Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 (edited) Personally, I do not think that watching movies should count for CAS.I mean, I really think you guys should do something actually creative for your creativity hours.Go take part in your school's art club or teach little kids to draw.'Easy ways' of getting CAS hours you don't really deserve is not cool No matter how nice your supervisor is. Edited April 19, 2009 by 1-2-3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
herong2x Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 well by you starting the club, you have shown leadership. maybe you can raise money out of it and donate itthat will count for service Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flippy Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 Maybe you can host a movie night, open to both adults, students, teachers, and charge them money for it. They could pay for popcorn as well, or maybe they could pay money to dress up as a movie character and the best costume wins a small prize? You could donate all the money you make to charity and get Service hours. Because honestly, just watching movies doesn't sound like it has a lot of potential for CAS entries. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flippy Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 (Add to my last post) Oh yeah, and that way it wouldn't be a school event too, because you'd be donating the money to charity, which would not be affiliated with the school. Also, those who are not classmates would attend as well. You're only using the school as a venue. Therefore, not an extra curricular activity. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 On a bit of a different idea, but what about watching a films that are in your B language? I'm not in IB yet, but would that be a plausible activity for creativity? You're putting in hours towards learning a foreign language, and I thought I read someone somewhere write that learning language can count for CAS. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
godofib Posted July 15, 2009 Report Share Posted July 15, 2009 I do not think you can pass watching a movie as a CAS activity, unless of course you are going to do something else with the movie such maybe an activity of some sort or maybe organizating an event related to the movie. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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