Learning and Teaching
Curriculum at St John Vianney's
At St John Vianney's our students engage in an inquiry each term based on a rich concept. This term's concept is 'IDENTITY'.
Each concept has its own conceptual statement which guides the levels in their inquiry for the term.
The term 1 concept statement reads:
Students will have a deeper understanding of self and recognise the importance of connecting to and accepting others in a multi-faith community.
Our faith based inquiry curriculum is influenced by our Catholic faith with the formation of the whole child. Learning is designed to help learners develop their knowledge, skills and understandings in all other learning areas.
A key aspect of our curriculum is to challenge our learners to explore and consider deep questions, and big ideas. These questions centre around key issues, enabling our learners to interpret and make meaning about their lives, their world and their religious traditions. This integration of life, culture and faith, helps the students make meaning about themselves,their faith and their world.
The focus and key understandings for each level are as follows:
Preps will come to understand
- who Jesus is and who is in his family
- there are similarities about your family and Jesus’ family
- they are unique.
- their emotions have names
- how being part of a school helps them belong
- everybody is an individual but it is important to belong
Year 1 and 2 will come to understand
- we should celebrate and respect differences and similarities
- we have different cultural backgrounds
- our individual identities are influenced by our family and community identity
- everyone has their own identity
- our identity is shaped by many factors
- we have family traditions that shape our identity
- the importance of belonging to a faith community
- there were significant people in Jesus life who shaped his identity
Year 3 and 4 will come to understand
- how they are unique (heritage, family, religion, qualities, personality and groups)
- how individual identities are formed
- uniqueness is something to be accepted, respected and celebrated
- that our identity can change (through growth and different contexts
- healing our relationships helps us to feel better about ourselves and others
- what identity actually is
Year 5 and 6 will come to understand
- you are free to have your own identity and need to be respectful of others
- Many factors help shape our identity
- Culture and religions, customs and beliefs shape our identity
- how important it is to be accepting and understanding of different identities, cultures and beliefs within and outside their community.
Julie Cooke
Learning and Teaching Leader