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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
PROGRAM
We understand that the children are taking baby steps in the life long
process of developing their faith and religious knowledge and
understandings. As their early years educators we feel very honoured to
be sharing the beginning of this journey with them too.
Religious Education In ECE
• Provide children with the opportunity to
discover God in people and creation.
• Raise and nurture children’s religious
awareness through learning experiences.
• Religious awareness is fostered through
God-talk, engaging in role-play and
exploring God’s creation.
• Purposely integrated into all learning
areas.
• Delivered in a play based environment
RE Learning Outcomes
Wonder Questions Student have a chance to wonder about God and
creation and ask and answer questions.
Discovering Godin Students understand that people come to discover
People and Creation God through experiences in creation
Drawing on Human Students understand the content of the Christian
Experience of God message and its significance by relating it to
examples drawn from human experience.
Knowing Jesus Students know the person of Jesus, the model for
living out the Christian mission in the world.
Living live Students understand that Catholics are empowered
to live like Jesus the Saviour as they draw on the
power of God on the power of God’s Spirit.
Catholic Practices – Students demonstrate the skills necessary in order to
Prayer Experiences read and apply Scripture to life and to participate
in Catholic ritual and prayer.
Developing Religious Awareness
To develop religious awareness in the early years, the
learning environment needs to provide opportunities
for children to:
• Explore God’s creation
• Engage in human experiences that relate to
religious concepts
• Engage in role play that helps develop their
religious awareness
• Recall and retell scripture stories
• Be encouraged to wonder
• Be introduces to simple ritual
The Early Years Learning
Framework (EYLF)
• The fundamental experiences of belonging, being and becoming are
integrated throughout the ‘Let The Little Children Come To Me’ resource.
Belonging • When raising religious awareness in the early years, children lean that they
belong to God’s family: they develop their understanding of how Jesus
teaches people to live and they learn how to relate others in God’s family.
Being • When raising religious awareness in the early years, children learn of God’s
great love for them and how they are created for a special relationship with
God. They are wonder-filled at God’s creation and explore with awe and
curiosity the world and their place in it.
Becoming • Provides experiences of sacred stories, liturgical rituals, prayer and silence so
that young children increasingly participate in the life of the church.
• Through their learning they will also come to know Jesus and the ways he
called us to live our lives, while being given opportunities to demonstrate this
Children living in their daily lives.
Thank You For You Participation
and God Bless
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