LO3 – Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience. Students can articulate the stages from conceiving an idea to executing a plan for a CAS experience or series of CAS experiences. This may be accomplished in collaboration with other participants. Students may show their knowledge and awareness by building on a previous experience, or by launching a new idea or process.

• be able to develop a coherent action plan taking into account the aim or purpose, activities and resources.

Over the last month of the activity, I genuinely learned something from it, that planning is really an effective method and is really important. Without the planning process, we would not have gotten this far, with this detailed understanding and knowledge on the target and the aim of the project. It was really a valuable outcome that I think I will keep in mind for the future.

During the last session, we, in smaller groups, discussed ideas and planned for our activities for the lighthouse students. I believe that this really taught much to me. I came to realising that this “planning” of activities got us really think about the conditions of our customers, our aim and purpose and limitations and led us to understand the circumstances better. It is really obvious that without first planning our activities with discussions, we might have faced problems with out project. I believe this discussion really led us to plan with considering multiple options and circumstances of the project.