Catholic Life and Reflection
What Teachers are Learning About
Yesterday I attended an REC network day. An opportunity for all REC leaders across the archdiocese to receive input from our curriculum leaders. Yesterday, we went through the process of registration. Every four years we are required to show that we are meeting the targets for the government on how we teach, what we teach and how long we teach each subject area for. We need to be able to show that there is a clear connection between what is in the curriculum, including Religious Education, and what is happening in each classroom. It is an opportunity for us as a school to ensure we are on track and if not to make the necessary adjustments. Our turn will come next year. Yesterday helped me to plan out what I am going to do support teachers in the coming weeks and months to ensure we are compliant for Religion.
What Students are Learning About
Year 2 have begun a new unit in Religious Education. They have begun by brainstorming what they know about Jesus. I was very impressed with 2M’s responses. I can’t wait to see what they know at the end of the unit!
Catholic Life and Reflection
I have spent a lot of time with family over the past few weeks. What I have loved about this time is seeing people I have not seen for many years and feeling that instant connection. My cousins with whom, I spent endless days at my Oma’s house climbing trees, building cubbies, stealing fruit. This was quite a feat as I lived in Brisbane until I was 14 but we still had a very strong connection.
As we reminisced over those long, lovely days we all come to the conclusion that we are so blessed, even with the complications that a large family brings, to have had this basic understanding of family that we show up. We just show up for each other. Maybe it is because our parents and grandparents had to build a new life in this luckiest of countries and family was all they had.
Speaking to Father Riosa, who joined us for afternoon tea with the family, he said that really all you have to do is be present. Maybe you don’t have the right words but just being there is all people need sometimes. Hard to argue with that.
John 14:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,[a] to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in[b] you.
God bless,
Stephanie Stewart
Religious Education Coordinator