RE Curriculum at St Thomas Aquinas

At a system-wide level, Catholic Education is investing in redeveloping exciting and engaging units of work in Religious Education. We continue to use the Brisbane Archdiocese Curriculum as the basis for our teaching and learning in RE but are committed to ensuring delivery of this curriculum is with an intentional explicit, direct instruction approach that aligns with all of our other teaching and learning. As such teachers across our school have been involved in a special program, Communities of Collaboration, working with staff at the same grade levels across our archdiocese. In recent weeks teachers in Kindergarten, Year 4, 5 and 6, along with Ms Younger as the REC, joined online meetings to develop units of work for the beginning of next term. Communities of Collaboration is an ongoing commitment of two years curriculum development from our staff and I thank them for their dedication to excellence in teaching and learning.

Religious Life of St Thomas Aquinas

St Thomas Aquinas’ Feast Day is January 28th. As this falls before we return to school each year we celebrate his Feast on the last day of Term 2. This year this will be Friday 5th July. We will begin with Mass with the parish at 9:30am where all families and friends are warmly invited to celebrate with us. Students will be engaged in special activities after Mass, exploring their knowledge of St Thomas Aquinas and joining in some fun games. The day will conclude with our usual Week 10 Assembly in the Hall.

Parish Life - Sacramental Programs

Confirmation

What a beautiful evening it was last Thursday for Confirmation. Father Richard Thompson led a prayerful and yet entertaining Mass that engaged all participants. We thank him and Father Gerard for their time and support of our young people. Special congratulations to our Confirmation candidates who were confident in all their responses, demonstrating a mature understanding of this special sacrament. We celebrate with: