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Religious Education Curriculum DirectoryCelebration• celebrations which mark significant eventsin people’s lives;• the Church’s celebrations of significantevents in the life of Jesus;• Sunday as a significant day in the life of thelocal Church;• elements of sacramental celebrations (e.g.blessing, exchanging greet ings, praise);• community prayer;• signs and symbols and their significance inliturgy;• words and images Jesus used to express communion(e.g. I am the vine and you are thebranches);• some ways people enter into the communionof the Church ;• the rites of Baptism and Confirmation andthe response they invite;• the structure of the Eucharist;• the significance of the Church’s names forthis Sacrament the Mass, Eucharist, theLord’s Supper, the Breaking of Bread;• Jesus’ attitudes to sinners and his teachingabout sorrow and forgiveness;• their freedom to choose and responsibility tochoose the good;• the practice of examination of conscienceand its significance for Christian living;• the rite of Reconciliation and its significance;• the Sacrament of the Sick;• ways in which love and commitment are importantin human life;• and be able to name the Sacraments of HolyOrders and Matrimony and to explain theirsignificance in their own words;• prayer in the life of Jesus;• the prayer Jesus taught his friends (Our Father)and its significance;• a variety of prayers and prayer forms, formaland informal used for personal and communityprayer;• respect for celebrations of the Jewish faithand other religions and appreciation thatprayer has a place for their followers.Life in Christ• the joy and challenge of and the giving andreceiving in relationships;• human gifts and qualities and the physicalworld as gifts and signs of God’s love;• how such gifts may be used, neglected orabused;• the Gospel message that Jesus brings fullnessof life for all people: the Beatitudes;• the joys and challenges that freedom and responsibilitybring;• conscience as a gift to be developed throughthe practice of exami nation of conscience;• accounts in Scripture of God’s invitationsand a variety of responses;• the motives and emotions which influencechoices;• Gospel accounts which show the love andcomplete self-giving of Jesus;• the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesusas a sign of love, sacri fice and the source ofnew life;• sin as a failure of love and the love and mercyof God which calls people to sorrow and forgiveness;• the diversity and richness of creation;• the value and challenge of differences betweenindividuals and peoples;• the values of sharing, showing respect andcare for others;• respect for community values and life ofother cultures and other religious communities;• how love of God is shown in obedience toGod’s commandments;• Sunday as the Lord’s day;• ways love of neighbour can be shown athome, at church, locally and globally;• the Christian values which inform love ofneighbour and oneself;• ways in which care for others is importantfor the Jewish faith and other religions.58
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales — Department of Catholic Education and Formation11-14Teaching and learning strategies which enablepupils to develop knowledge and understanding toidentify, explain, justify and demonstrate insightinto:Revelation• passages from Scripture which speak of God:as Father, the source of all blessing; as Son,the Word through whom all things are made;as Spirit, actively present in the world, theChurch and human hearts and minds;• humanity as created by God;• an awareness of the transcendent, the holyand the Presence of God in self, others andthe world;• the human response to God’s call to acovenant relationship and how this involvesblessing, grace, struggle and weakness (originalsin);• the human vocation to seek communion;• the variety of literary forms in Scripture andthe oral, written and teaching tradition ofthe Church; key biblical concepts in both Oldand New Testament (e.g. cre ation, covenant,kingdom, exile, discipleship);• the Church’s use of scripture in worship,teaching and prayer;• the concept of Messiah in the Old and NewTestament;• the life and ministry of Jesus, his teaching,parables and miracles;• the role of the Holy Spirit in Old and NewTestament;• the role of the prophets - their call to faithfulness,repentance, justice and compassionfor all especially the poor and weak;• expressions of belief in the value of life, inthe divine and in the value of relationshipswhich are to be found in the oral and writ tentraditions.The Church• continuity in God’s formation of a Peoplefrom the Old to New Testament;• Jesus’ imagery of ‘the kingdom of God’;• the development of the Church’s faith thatJesus Christ is the Son of God: in the Gospelsand New Testament writings;• the Church’s understanding of vocation: exemplifiedin Mary, lived by local and nationalsaints and communities;• characteristics of the People of God, inScripture, in Tradition and in the world oftoday;• the history and development of the Churchin Britain (e.g. Celtic Christianity, Augustine,Bede, the Reformation, Restoration of the Hierarchy,Second Vatican Council);• the mission of Jesus as revealed in the NewTestament with par ticular reference to hispriestly, prophetic and kingly roles;• leadership and authority in Scripture andTradition and in the life of the Churchtoday;• the Church’s vocation to have special care forthe poor and oppressed;• the Church’s role as witness in society;• the life and practices of the Jewish faithother religious communities;• the Church’s teaching about the Jewish faithand other religions.59
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