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What is Distinctive about Catholic schools? (Founding Story of Catholic…
What is Distinctive about Catholic schools?
Catholic Schools; Mandate
The Mandate Letter
1. Presence of God
Church and Catholic schools exists to
Evangelise
Do as What Jesus did through witness and word
‘doing as Jesus did’ – ‘proclaiming the Good News’,
To transform from within
Catholic schools strive to be good schools
Biggest fear is forgetting why a Catholic School exists
Teach students to integrate:
Faith
Culture
Life
"A Catholic school cannot be a Catholic school if it is not a good school"
- Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
2. Witness of the Catholic Schools
Do good for others by giving a Christ like love
Christian witness is always "the first act of evangelisation"
"Being a christ like presence to others"
3. Curriculum in the Catholic School
NINE learning areas;
Religious education
is first priority
Students build knowledge and understanding of
Gospel values
Values by which Jesus lived by
Sister Bernadine Daly:
Passionate teacher
Advocated for the Indigenous
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Know and Understand
Value
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Be Able to
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Displays the schools Core Beliefs and Values
4. The Catholic School Community
Three pillars support faith development in young students
Family
Parish Community
Catholic School
Founding Story of Catholic Education in WA
Beginnings (1843+)
Perth Population 1846 : 1148 with
126
Catholics
1843: Two Catholic Priests and an Irish Catechist.. No Training
Given three blocks of bush land
Opened St John's college for boys 1844,
1
Pupil attends
Church Built
Educating young people in faith
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Sisters of Mercy build 4 schools in 7 years
Catholic Schools more respected
Expansion (1868+)
Teachers Paid according to Results
1871, Education compulsory for ages 6-18
Government schools
100%
subsidised
1880-1895 Catholic schools enrolments doubled
Educated Boys
and
Girls
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Struggle (1895+)
1895 Government assistance removed for non government schools
Catholic schools relied on Religious orders.. No funds for teachers
Catholic community isolated and resented
1962: Goulbourn Catholic School strikes
Education system more organised
1902 Claremont Teachers' College established
1911 first government secondary school
Catholic Education Commission established
Four Dioceses:
New Directions (1980+)
Most Catholic schools received
50%
funding from commonwealth
New programs introduced
Special needs
Indigenous students
Adult education
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Accepts all students with all beliefs
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Reemergence of laity Teachers and leaders
Teacher’s in WA 2005:
3981 Lay teachers
Only
26
religious Sisters or Brothers
Current Funding:
Curriculum of Catholic Schools
Part of a Schools tradition
Guided by the Mandate
Gospel values integrated into the content of the nine Learning Areas.
Religious Education promotes knowledge and understanding of the Gospel
“The spirit of the Gospel is that we belong to each other and are responsible to each other, where the welfare of one is the welfare of all”
- Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
All Learning Areas contribute to ‘evangelisation’ through helping students develop as Christian men and women
Freedom
Love
Faith
Humility
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Distinctive through its religious dimensions
Attentiveness to the needs of today’s youth
Christian culture of the school
Curriculum:
the school’s life and work
Religious education and faith-formation
