It was wonderful to have the opportunity to work with Bernadette Scott from Catholic Education today. Bernadette is the Religious Education and Faith Formation Officer assigned to work with schools in our area.

A new Religion Curriculum is being phased into all Catholic Schools in the Canberra-Goulburn Diocese. This will be an Inquiry based program and teachers will be able to integrate Religious Education into a range of other curriculum areas such as History, Creative Arts and Literacy.

The new curriculum is being gradually phased in, with some Canberra schools currently running pilot programs. Staff from St Joseph’s will receive further training in term 3 to support us to write, develop and integrate units into our programs.

Collaboratively we created an Action Plan to determine the focus for the Religious Life of the school and the steps I can take as the RE Leader to further develop the teachers’ knowledge and skills. Bernadette also shared a range of resources that will be wonderful to use in Sacramental Programs.

- Liz Murray

Religious Education Co-ordinator