Christmas Appeal

Our St. Vincent De Paul Christmas Appeal will be held on Friday 3^rd December. The children are invited to wear Christmas Clothes (with joggers please) and bring a cash donation or Woolies/Coles gift card. Cash donations will be used to purchase gift cards for the St. Vincent De Paul to distribute as necessary.

The SVDP were beyond grateful for our gift card donations for the Winter Appeal. We helped many struggling families in our community. Let’s band together one last time in 2021 to help those in need whilst having a lot of fun in our Christmas gear!

Year 6 Religious Literacy Test

Today the year 6 children participated in a modified version of the Religious Literacy Test. The Religious Literacy test is a standardised assessment given to students across the diocese to ascertain their level of ‘Religious Literacy,’ meaning their knowledge and application of skill in Religion. During another year full of quick and creative adaptions to curriculum delivery and assessment strategies, the Religious Education and Spirituality Team were also busily at work developing new ways to deliver the annual Religious Literacy Test. Usually, the Religious Literacy test has a multiple-choice section and a short answer question section. This year there is no short answer section and the multiple choice questions are all online.

New Religious Education Curriculum

I am very excited to announce that the new Religious Education Curriculum for Early Stage One (Kindergarten) will be rolled out next year and training will begin for Mrs Albury later this month in readiness for next year. In 2023, the new Stage One (Year One and two) will be implemented.

The new curriculum is based on the Pedagogy of Encounter and is following the direction being taken by other Key Learning Areas through NESA that is focused on Big Ideas and Inquiry-based Learning. The new Early Stage One curriculum has been piloted in several schools across the diocese this year and has been met with tremendous success. It is closely aligned with the ideology behind Successful Foundations; learning through play, provocations, dialogue and investigation.  Mrs Albury and I look forward to sharing more curriculum news and beautiful photos of how the children are learning under this new model with you throughout 2022.

May God’s Spirit be with you all each day,   

Mrs Jasmina Boudan  

Religious Education Coordinator