Living Our Faith
Ontario Catholic Elementary Curriculum Policy Document, Grades 1–8: Religious Education, 2012 identifies the expectations for each grade and describes the knowledge and skills that students are expected to demonstrate for assessment and evaluation of student achievement. Two sets of expectations are listed for each grade in each strand – overall expectations and specific expectations. The overall expectations describe in general terms the knowledge and skills that students are expected to demonstrate by the end of each grade. The specific expectations break the overall expectations down into subsections that are contained within the overall expectations. They describe the required knowledge and skills of the overall expectation in greater detail. Taken together, the overall and specific expectations represent the mandated curriculum – the content standards.
The family life education curriculum is based on the vision that the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values acquired in the program will benefit students throughout their lives and help them to thrive in an ever-changing world by enabling them to acquire a Christian vision of personhood, relationships, and sexuality and to develop the comprehension, capacity, and commitment needed to lead fully human lives.
Guided by the 2016 Religious Education Policy Document , the Secondary Religious Education program builds on the learning in the grades 1-8 Religious Education and Family Life programs. Each course reflects five themes: Profession of Faith, Sacred Scripture, Prayer and Sacramental Life, Christian Moral Development, and Family Life. In addition, students are expected to build their Research and Inquiry skills by focusing on one area of the course content in greater detail.