Li Po Chun United World College - Quan Cai

Quan Cai

The CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service) program is a part of the requirements for an International Baccalaureate diploma. It requires a set number of hours in each of the 3 areas. Li Po Chun's adaptation of this system is called the "Quan Cai" program(meaning "all-round development" in Chinese). The program has 5 components, community service, creativity, action, campus support and global concerns. The services are unique in that students sign up for a service for an entire year, while the other 4 activities are generally only 1 term (half a year) activities. A student is required to officially participate in 4 terms of service, 3 of campus support, 3 of global concerns, 2 of action and 1 term of creativity in their 2 years at LPC. Therefore a first year student in the first term has 5 activities (one of each) then in the 2nd term only 3 (not required to have a Creativity), and so on and so on. It is designed in this way so that as work load increases from the beginning of the 1st year to the end of the 2nd, other commitments such as Quan Cai activities will decrease.

All areas of the Quan Cai program are to be taken seriously, but generally the most emphasis is placed on the community service aspect. Community services include a variety of projects ranging from helping asylum seekers, to visiting nursing homes and aiding the elderly, helping underprivileged children with schooling and the lending of facilities to services outside of Hong Kong such as Initiative for Peace. The school also competes in most of the sports available as Quan Cais. This includes soccer, basketball, athletics, volleyball and badminton. Occasionally there will be exceptionally talented athletes who may compete individually for the school in sports such as squash. These requirements add to a student's complete, well-rounded development. The flexibility of the Quan Cai program allows students to start new activities (called an "initiative") at any time, and if successful the school adopts the activity, making it official.