Creativity Service Activity CAS Week CAS Week 2016 2016 Welcome to CAS Week 2016 CAS Week 2016 The Schedule Dear Students and Parents, You only have to pick up a copy of the Explorer Yearbook to see how important and Date Action valued CAS Week is at Sha Tin College. The pages shine with the enjoyment and CAS Week 2016 achievements of our students. Whether it’s standing on the summit of Kilimanjaro or Tuesday 15th December choosing to face a fear of performing by taking part in the Drama workshop, CAS Brochure Launch Week encapsulates everything that we believe in as a school. The week is built on partnership between students and all staff; provides exciting learning opportunities; MUSE opens for student encourages everyone to develop the spirit to meet great challenge head on and Friday 18th December students gain a wonderful sense of personal achievement from their endeavours. All sign up this from an education experience that develops the whole person through creative, th active and empathetic engagement with the World around us. 16:00 Tuesday 5 January Student sign‐up closes Preparations for CAS Week 2016 are moving forward in the school calendar this year. Student allocation This helps us to get the best deals on flights and accommodation. It helps us to secure Friday 8th January places on activities overseas and in Hong Kong. announced Students in the current Years 8, 9, 10 and 11 have 58 activities available to them ‐ a All activities record number of options. The sad thing is each student can still choose only three Friday 22nd January and participate in just one of these amazing experiences. First deposit payment In response to feedback from students, the PTSA and colleagues, the average cost of Overseas trips overseas trips has dropped; there are more local options than ever before and more May / June service options too. We also include five CAS Weeks designed by students themselves. Final deposit payment The conversation about how to improve the CAS Week experience for all students is always ongoing and I welcome your ideas and feedback. Ideally, this time next year, I Local trips would love to include some Parent Designed CAS Week ideas too… August Final deposit payment Year 13 students will continue to look to their future in a Group 4 Project and Higher Education Week. Year 7 will immerse themselves in activity at Camp, which is an 21:00 Wednesday First groups meet to important bonding experience as they form new relationships as part of our community. Year 8 will work with the company, Scottish Opera, to create a truly 28th September check‐in at HKG magical performance. Monday 3rd October I invite you now to look at the proposed activities for 2016 and make your options. I’m CAS WEEK 2016 sure we are all looking forward to another year of personal success for all concerned. Friday 7th October Yours faithfully, Sunday 9th October Last overseas trip returns Mr G. Morgan, Senior Leader [email protected] CAS Week 2016 MUSE The small print How to make your choices • CAS stands for Creativity, Activity and Service. It is an important part of the non‐ academic life of the school and we value contributions in each of these three areas highly. During CAS Week, lessons are suspended for five days and students have the 1 Log into MUSE using your opportunity to take part in a broad range of activities that are not normally available through the usual timetable. CAS Week is a compulsory part of our broader Gateway Login ID and the curriculum and attendance is therefore mandatory. default password Abcd1234 • The online CAS Week brochure contains all of the activities that are on offer to those of you who will be in Years 9, 10, 11 and 12 during CAS Week in October 2016 (this year’s Years 8, 9, 10 and 11). You should look at the range of opportunities which are available and plan to attempt to participate in each of the areas of creativity, action and service, over the four years that you are in Years 9, 10, 11 and 12. • Options and costs should be discussed as a family then students will need to register their choices online. This must be completed by 16:00 Tuesday 5th January at the very latest. Some courses will be oversubscribed and others may be withdrawn if not 2 Select CAS Week on the enough people sign up. For this reason you are asked to give three choices and you must be prepared to accept any one of them. Please note that it is not possible to right hand side of the screen change your mind once you have made your choices. • Students will be allocated to activities by Friday 8th January. Although we will attempt to allocate the majority of requests there may be, inevitably, a few students who will be disappointed in not getting their choice. Once the groups have been sorted, you will be contacted with details of your allocation. • Those who are assigned an overseas activity MUST return a parental permission slip along with a photocopy of your passport and ID card, and a non‐refundable deposit 3 Select Activity Selection on by Friday 22nd January at the latest. Failure to return a deposit by this date may mean your place will be lost as we move to secure flights and hotel accommodation. the right hand side of the • Those who are assigned to a local activity will be asked to pay a flat fee deposit of screen $425, which will enable us to pay deposits and secure the services of local activity providers. This will not be the case for those activities which are free of charge! • Please note that all costs, especially for overseas trips, are provisional at this stage and may go up or down, depending on the number of students who finally sign up for an activity or trip. The actual number of students determines the number of discounted seats available on flights, and over the next eight months there are also likely to be changes in fuel surcharges and currency fluctuations which are out of our control. 4 You are now ready to select • If you would like further information, please approach the teachers who are 3 choices. Press Select when organising the activity. • Out of the varied activities listed in the brochure, I hope there is something to finished challenge and engage everyone during CAS Week 2016. • Full details of the activities available are shown in this brochure. Registration will begin on Friday 18th December. The closing date for registration is 16:00 Tuesday 5th January. Details of how to register online are on the previous page. 01 Appjamming Years 9 & 10 11 Chengdu Giant Panda Conservation Project 02 App Entrepreneur Bootcamp Years 11 & 12 21 HK Service: David Exodus Kindergarten 15 Drama Fun 22 HK Service: Jockey Club Sarah Roe 17 Global Feast 23 HK Service: Sha Tin Junior School 24 HK Service: SPCA 27 Jewellery Making Service 46 Teaching English 35 New York 47 Thailand Medical Service Creativity 38 Photography 57 Y12 Student Leaders: Year 7 Camp 39 Pottery 58 Y12 Student Leaders: Year 8 Scottish Opera 42 Rock School 05 Bhutan 49 Tokyo 10 Cape Town 51 Ukulele Making 12 Chiang Rai 52 Venice Creativity 14 Dance Around The World Creativity 02 App Entrepreneur Bootcamp Years 11 & 12 Activity 16 Fiji 09 Cambodia 20 Hokkaido & Service & Service 37 North Korea & Beijing 04 Berlin 44 Seattle Creativity 13 Croatia 48 The Amazing Race 30 London 03 Austria Glacier Skiing & Activity 54 Wellness 06 BMX 18 Golf 07 Boxing 29 Laos School Building Project 08 California 32 Madrid: Real Madrid Soccer School 19 Hike The Wilson Trail 33 Morocco 20 Hokkaido Activity 36 New Zealand Activity 25 Horse Riding 40 Puerto Galera: Adventure 26 Ice Skating & Ice Hockey & Service 41 Puerto Galera: SCUBA Diving 28 Krabi Climbing 45 Sri Lanka 31 Mad About Sport 50 Tree Planting & Team Building 34 Mountain Biking 53 Vietnam: Cycling and Service 43 Sailing 55 Wet & Wild Watersports in Sai Kung 56 咏春拳 ‐ Wing Chun Kuen (Chinese Kung Fu) 01 Appjamming Y9 & 10 02 App Entrepreneur First code creators Design & development Coding tomorrow’s entrepreneurs Year 11 & 12 Design thinking bootcamp Monday 3rd ‐ Friday 7th October Monday 3rd ‐ Friday 7th October $6,210 Who? This year’s Year 8 & 9s $8,250 Who? This year’s Year 10 & 11 B. Mintjens Number of students: 8 ‐ 16 B. Mintjens Number of students: 6 ‐ 10 Creativity Develop your own mobile apps! Creativity Develop your own mobile apps! All Mostly C Learn Python and Java coding C Learn Python and Java coding Make your ideas a technological reality! Make your ideas a technological reality! A Service Use app technology to solve problems for local NGOs A Some Transport Make your way to and from First Code Academy, Wan Chai S Transport Make your way to and from First Code Academy, Wan Chai S How does technology solve We are looking for passionate, driven students who aspire to become entrepreneurs in the technology world. problems in daily lives? If you would like to bring your ideas to reality, read on! Students will not only learn app‐ Module A: Mobile Apps Development development hands‐on, but also engage With an emphasis on fundamental computer science concepts and hands‐on development, AppJamming is First Code Academy’s flagship in the design thinking process and solve program for beginner programmers. Build a solid foundation of problems for local non‐profit concepts and theories through technically challenging app organizations.