Blair International Baccalaureate School

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Service Requirements

Blair Magnet International Baccalaureate ( IB ) School

Community Service Requirements

The Pasadena Unified School district does not have a community service component as part of its graduation requirements. However. Students enrolled in Blair’s IB program ( all 7-10 grade students and select 11-12 grade students) must complete the community service requirements as prescribed by the International Baccalaureate Organization ( IBO).

IB Middle Years Program Community Service Requirements

The following hours need to be completed in each grade level as part of the IB Portfolio requirements. Students need to complete a service log and reflection for each activity.

Grade Level	# of Required Hours
7th	20
8th	25
9th	30
10th	35

Students may complete service activities as school, home, or in the community as long as credit or payment is not received.

IB Diploma Program Creativity Action Service Requirements

Creativity Action Service ( CAS) is required for IB students in pursuit of the IB Diploma. Ibo will not award the diploma to any student not completing the CAS requirement.

A. Creativity: This aspect covers a wide range of arts and other activities outside the normal curriculum which include creative thinking in the design and carrying out of sevce projects. This could involve doing dance, theatre, music and art, for example. Students should be engaged in group activities, and especially in new roles, wherever possible. Individual commitment to learning an art form is allowed, as long as goals are set and the student reflects on the process.

B. Action: This aspect can include participation in expeditions, individual and team sports, and physical activites outside the normal curriculum. It also includes physical activity involved in carrying out dreative and service projects. Action may involve participation in sport or other activities requiring physical exertion- such as expeditions and camping trips, or digging trenches to lay water pipes to bring fresh water to a village.

Both creativity and action can be enhanced by incorporating the service element. Students involved in the arts and in physical activities might consider coaching young children, seniors in residential homes and so on.

C. Service: Service involves interaction, such as the building of links with individuals or groups in the community. The community may be the school, the local district, or it may exist on national and international levels ( such as undertaking projects of assistance in a developing country). Service activities should not only involve doing things for others but also doing things with others and developing a real commitment with them.

IB Diploma candidates are required to complete 150 CAS hours. These hours must be distributed in each of the three areas. Some projects may include 2-3 aspects; these projects are the most beneficial to the students.