Roman Catholic Separate School Boards were
originally created to allow Catholic parents the choice of providing an
education for their children that would fit into their vision of life as
revealed by the Gospel. By entering into a partnership with the parish
and the school, parents could ensure that their child would experience
education permeated with religious values which would prepare them for
their journey of Faith through life.
Catholic schools are to be
authentic communities of the Catholic Faith where teachers share their
Faith through daily prayer and witness to the Gospel values. The school
is a caring community of the Church where the dignity of each person is
recognized, where social justice is encouraged within and by the Church,
and where students are challenged to become "fully alive". It is often
the primary place where young people experience the Church as a
community shaped by faith, hope and love.
Over the years, the
principles of the Catholic Faith were taught with the support of
Catechisms and a variety of textbook series. Presently, we have a Family
Life program entitled Fully Alive, produced by the Ontario Conference
of Catholic Bishops, and a Religious Education series entitled Born of
the Spirit, produced by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.
These are both superb Catholic educational programs that help the
student to see the human person as having a physical, intellectual and
spiritual nature. These programs help our teachers and parents, through
use of the family booklet, to provide a Catholic education for our
children based on the authorized teachings of the Church.
Programs
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The
Canadian catechetical series used throughout our school board is Born
of the Spirit, for grades K-8. The Canadian Conference of Catholic
Bishops have endorsed this program and are indeed the publishers of it.
Its contents were developed by a resource team associated with the
National Office of Religious Education (NORE) in Ottawa.
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Parents
and guardians are the first and most important teachers of their
children. Nowhere is this more true than in the areas that are explored
in Fully Alive - what it means to be a person, to live in a family, to
have friends, to grow up as a boy or girl, indeed, as a child of God.
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