Year 10 - 12 Religious Education

Year 10 – 12 Religious Education

Overview

Through an Inquiry-based learning model, students across the senior Religious Education program will explore the Gospel of the year. Using the lens of scripture, students will examine the author’s meaning and hopes for their community, and how this meaning and hope inspires a call to action in the modern world.

The structure of this program remains consistent across all senior years, to consolidate the capacity for students to interpret and apply religious thought in the modern world. Opportunities to enact key learnings from these modules will be provided through the College’s Liturgical, community building, Retreats, sport activities, fund raising, advocacy and other events.

Modules

Across the Senior Religious Education program, each class will study a certain number of modules based on the themes of the Gospel. The modules will represent a diversity of content and contexts but remain consistent in the skills each seeks to develop. Additionally, as the structure remains consistent, skills can be built upon each year.

Assessment

Across the modules students engage with, there will be a variety of assessment tasks including:

• Written assessment
• Presentations and reflections
• Creative responses
• Audio/visual media
• Liturgical engagement
• Community engagement

Skills and Content

Across the senior Religious Education program, modules will aim to develop the following skills:

Year 10

• Analyse and interpret scripture to understand the cultural and historical setting it was written in.
• Evaluate the author’s intended message across scripture in a contemporary context.
• Discuss how scriptural themes are preserved in Catholic Tradition across a variety of contexts.

Year 11

• Explore scriptural themes to offer and ask questions of meaning and purpose and how Catholic Tradition gives scriptural themes a modern meaning and application in a contemporary context.
• Reflect on how scripture calls individuals to challenge cultural norms in having a positive impact.

Year 12

• Analyse and interpret scripture, recontextualising the author’s intent with the modern world.
• Use scriptural themes to learn how Catholic Traditions, and other religions offer an answer to questions of meaning.
• Discuss how Catholic Tradition, founded on scripture, has changed over time to respond to the modern world.
• Reflect on how scripture allows communities to form an identity; to have a positive impact in the world.

Future Directions

Completion of this course will give a strong foundation for students to study VCE Religion and Society at Years 11 and 12 if they choose to do so. Religion and Society offers learning and skills which are humanities based and can lead to improvements in communication, planning and organising and self-management skills.