Senior School Religion

A Catholic school is an educating community which gives students opportunities, both formal and informal, to grow in faith and wisdom. At St. Mary’s College, a Christ centred orientation permeates all aspects of school life including relationships, structures, liturgies, celebrations and routines, as well as the formal curriculum. The Good News For Living Tasmanian curriculum provides the framework and resources used at St. Mary’s College to provide a systematic and comprehensive form of religious education. This is what makes up the instructional element of religious and faith education in the school. The classroom based programs have their own learning and teaching framework, in which are incorporated the various learning and teaching processes that characterise other contemporary classrooms. As religious educators, teachers use a range of strategies to engage the learner in higher order thinking skills in order to reflect on self, the world and God in the light of personal experience, sacred scripture and tradition. In so doing they seek to cultivate reflection, discernment, decision making and action, and to nurture the development of an informed conscience.

Through their studies in religion students will:

• Learn about the story, discipleship and charism of Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters
• Encounter the person of Jesus Christ and discern, know and live the message of the Gospels
• Become young people who act explicitly, morally and ethically, out of a perspective of Christian social justice for the good of human society
• Participate in and understand the nature and meaning of liturgical and sacramental ceremonies within the school and the wider Church
• Understand and participate in Biblical and Religious enquiry and literacy
• Have a multi dimensional view of learning and teaching in religious education
• Grow in the fullness of life, as people of hope and resilience

	For information about enrolling in our Senior School, please contact the Enrolments Officer by email, telephone (03) 6234 3381, or view or download the Senior School brochure.