Religious Education

Year 8 - Digital Magazines

As part of their ‘Challenges and Changes’ unit, Year 8 RE students completed a digital magazine (refer attachments) to demonstrate their learning on the history of the Catholic Church. 

The following reflections were written by three Year 8 Students:

During Weeks 3-5, we, the Year 8s, were working on our RE group assessment to create a digital magazine about the challenges and changes in the Catholic Church. We divided the period of the history of the church within our team and researched on our topic. We compiled our articles into a magazine, which involved thorough online discussion and communication. The research involved in this project has not only taught the challenges and changes the church faced, but also the prevalent social and political conditions, traditions and beliefs of people. It also helped us to understand different Popes, eminent personalities and their teachings.  Tania Binu, Year 8

As we began our online learning, the Year 8s were given the task of creating a digital magazine discussing the challenges and changes that occurred in the Catholic Church. We were split into groups of seven and our group leader assigned each member a historical period on which to write their article. Everyone then had to research about their chosen topic, finding the challenges and changes the Church experienced during that time. In our articles we also had to include a timeline, profiles on key individuals and a 500 word summary of the challenges and changes that occurred. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed working in my group and creating the digital magazine. Jessica Ingleby, Year 8

A few weeks ago, we were introduced to a group religion assessment about the challenges and changes within the Catholic Church during various time periods such as; The Early Church, The Great Schism, Catholicism in the Middle Ages, and so on. This was a very exciting and stimulating project but also seemed elaborate and difficult. Funnily enough, the concept of working as a group from home sounded much more complex as a  proposition than it was in reality. We all worked incredibly well as a group and the final product we produced as a group showed the effort we put into productive zoom calls, follow up emails, and reading over the criteria various times. Subsequently, we not only learnt and revised the content about the topic which incorporated timelines, key profiles, quotes, and our 500-word article but also how to work and compromise as a team making our accomplishment much more successful. Lia Vrondou, Year 8