Religious Education Reporting

Student reports were sent out this week on PAM. For Religious Education, teachers use a curriculum called To Live in Christ Jesus. This curriculum has four Strands and four Lenses.

The strands are the four areas through which content is learned and Religious Education is shared and understood.

The Strands are:

• Triune God 
• The Life and Mission of Jesus
• Sacramental Church
• Christian Life and Catholic Social Teaching

The Lenses are the perspectives through which we view the Strands. The Lenses are also bodies of knowledge divided into four learning areas:

The Lenses are:

• Scripture
• Tradition
• Christian Prayer and Liturgy
• Religion and Society (Year 5 and 6 only)

Students cover the content of the curriculum To Live in Christ Jesus through an Inquiry. During the Inquiry, they are presented with a question and then over the course of 8-10 weeks they show what they know and the skills they have gained through conversation (dialogue), work samples and research (mini projects or investigations).

Reporting on Religious Education is now the same as reporting for English or Mathematics. Teachers are required to assess students on their knowledge of the content and their skills in Religious Education - they are not assessing a student’s faith. For this reason, at the end of this Semester students will be marked below standard, working towards the standard, at standard or above standard for Religious Education.