Religious Education
The Religious Education curriculum aims to:
- Develop
appropriate knowledge, skills, attitudes and values through the effective
delivery of the learning Strands and supplementary Resources provided with the
Religious Education curriculum.( This curriculum document is set by the New
Zealand Bishops conference,)
- To teach
material that is theologically sound, using the resources of various cultures
while allowing for each persons free faith response
- To enable young
people to develop ways of integrating faith, life and culture.
- To integrate
aspects of Religious Education Te Whakaakoranga Whakapono with other learning
areas.
Religious Education at Liston College
encompasses
- Teaching and learning what the Catholic Church believes and teaches through our charism and the Edmund Rice tradition.
- Understanding and appreciating the ways the Catholic Church celebrates, lives and prays.
- Teaching
students how to respond freely to God according to their gift of faith.