Religious Education Years 7 to 10

Year 7

The Year 7 Religious Education course is based on the Catholic Education “To Know, Worship and Love” RE curriculum. We invite the students to search for God in the world and to live their lives framed by the life and words of Jesus Christ.

Three areas of school life: the formal classroom curriculum, the prayer, sacramental and liturgical experiences and the living culture of the Catholic school, in the Ignatian tradition combine to create an atmosphere that nourishes and supports the Faith obtained in the home.

For students who may be from a different religious tradition or may have no religious background there is the invitation to explore, understand and come to know the essential elements of the Catholic Christian tradition in a spirit of openness and respect.

Year 8

Religious Education offers students a knowledge and understanding of Catholic traditions and teachings. Students are informed of the importance of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and as a teacher for Christians. Students are taught the skill of reading and interpreting Biblical scripture. They learn to reason and respond to Christian teachings and question how these teachings are relevant to them and the greater world today.

Year 9

The Year 9 Religious Education course is based on the Religious Education Framework for Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Melbourne “To Know, Worship and Love”. The topics include: Key Catholic Church Teachings, Good and Evil, The Catholic Church in Australia, Spirit Led People, Jesuit Social Services and Mary the first disciple.

Year 10

All Year 10 students will undertake one VCE unit of Religion as part of their core R.E. program at Year 10. Religious Education is based on the Catholic Education Office guidelines ‘To Know, Worship and Love’, and incorporated within the program is VCE Unit 2 Texts in Society. In this unit texts both religious and secular are studied as a means of investigating themes such as justice, racism and gender roles, including consideration of the social context within which the texts were produced and the ways in which they are shaped, and are shaped by the content of their message.