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Bridget Harding
Religious Education
Learning Area Leader
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Guest speakers ranged from Caritas Australia,
This year has been a busy one in the Religious
who were able to link the work they do with the
Education department. We have had a variety
principles, Catholic Care, who focussed
of activities ranging from retreats, class masses,
on female empowerment, and many more to link
guest speakers, and the class favourite, singing
in with the curriculum.
with Sister Rochelle.
In the RE classroom, our students learn to connect
This year a focus was placed on the ways in which
we can strengthen and continue to implement with the social justice teachings of our Church
that can be lived and communicated through their
social justice teachings from Year 7 through to
Year 12 in the Religious Education curriculum. everyday actions.
Within the classroom, students learnt to identify I am constantly impressed by the hard work of our
local, national, and global issues of justice in the Religious Education teachers and the hard work
21st Century and ways in which they can become that Mr Stephen Connelly, our Director of Faith
forces of change based on the Gospel values. and Mission, has put in to the Department in 2018.
RELIGIOUS
In Term Three our Year 8 Religious Education
classes each experienced a retreat day dedicated
EDUCATION
to understanding the relationships they have with
each other and what they want in a meaningful
relationship. This allowed students to focus on
the values they bring to their friendships and
encourage relationships which reflect Gospel
and Salesian values. This also led students into
personal reflection on their own relationship
with God.
In the senior year levels, students in Year 12
Religious Education lessons heard from an array
of guest speakers to incorporate advocacy,
awareness-raising, and action for social justice.
Again this linked in with the teachings of Catholic
Social Principles taught in RE since their junior
studies.

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