APRE news
This year, Catholic Education is celebrating 200 years in Australia, marking the bicentenary of the first Catholic school established in Parramatta, NSW in October 1820. Since then, Catholic schools have grown to become the largest provider of schooling in Australia (outside government) with one in five school age students attending a Catholic school. This represents 777,000 students in 1,755 schools across the country and employing over 100,000 teachers and staff.
St Joseph’s was founded in 2016. The name of the school was taken from the Weipa Parish - St Joseph’s which has been established in the community since the first Priest’s mass in the mid-1960s and the construction of St Joseph’s Church in 1977.
While our school is considered young, we are proud to be a part of and continue Catholic Education in Australia for 200 years by ‘bringing faith and learning to life’.
Religious Education Curriculum
Religion is a learning area with a formal curriculum for the classroom learning and teaching of religion. The content of the Religion Curriculum P-12 is organised into four interrelated strands: Sacred Texts, Beliefs, Church and Christian Life. Each strand has its own distinctive content
- Sacred Texts
Old Testament, New Testament, and Christian Spiritual Writings and Wisdom
- Beliefs
Trinity: God, Jesus the Christ, Spirit; Human Existence; and World Religions.
- Church
Liturgy and Sacraments, People of God, and Church History.
- Christian Life
Moral Formation; Mission and Justice; and Prayer and Spirituality.
This year the teachers have been working alongside the Identity and Outreach Team from Cairns Catholic Education to develop unit shapes around these four content areas. The unit shapes are centred around the following
- Focus on the learner
- Moving from surface to deep learning
- Learning intentions and success criteria’s
- Formative assessment to move learning forward.
Do It for Dolly Day
On Wednesday, the school was filled with the colour blue to show our support of Dolly's Dream and show that we choose kindness over bullying. The Year 5 and 6 students have been participating in workshops around ways to respond to bullying and the importance of having a voice. We also had a Parent Information Evening on Tuesday night led by Hannah Chapman on bullying and the support network needed for our young people.
