A couple of weeks ago I showcased some of the work being undertaken in our Year 3 classroom around prayer and it was wonderful to see the amazing work the students have been completing. This week I was helping out in the Year 1 classroom and again noticed the students work. They have been working on mobiles based around a piece of Scripture and working with the 3 Worlds of the text through the use of a game.

Within our religion curriculum teachers use a variety of strategies to teach Scripture and in Sacred Scripture, God speaks to the person in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words (Catechism of the Catholic Church n.109)

The study of Scripture in a classroom context takes the reader into the world of Jewish and Christian believers. In order to discover the author’s intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their time and culture, the literary genres in use at that time, and the modes of feeling, speaking and narrating. These texts are explored and interpreted through the use of the Three Worlds of the Text strategy. This inquiry approach guides students into critically interpreting the text within the context it was written.

By exploring the Three Worlds of the Text, students will engage in;

World of the Text – this looks at What is actually in the text? What type of writing is used? Is there a particular structure of the text? Who are the characters in the text and what happens?

World behind the text - What can we learn about the context of this text - the historical world of the human author(s); The cultural world of the time; the geographic considerations of the text; The community for whom the text was written.

World in front of the text - What meaning does the text have for our lives today? What might God want to say to us through this text today? What might God want to say to me through this text today? What does the Church say to us about the meaning of this text?

Thank you, Year 1, for sharing your learning this week and the pictures below are only a small sample of the work the students have been completing. I look forward to sharing more of our curriculum from another class in the next couple of weeks.

Thank you and blessings for a wonderful weekend,

Amanda