PARENT TEACHER

NIGHT
Welcome back to LA 11 and Term 3!
Prayer
Loving God,
You are the giver of all we possess, the source of all of our blessings.
We thank and praise you.
Thank you for the gift of our children.
Help us to set boundaries for them, and yet encourage them to explore.
Give us the strength and courage to treat each day as a fresh start.
May our children come to know you, the one true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
May your Holy Spirit help them to grow in faith, hope, and love, so they may know peace, truth,
and goodness.
May their ears hear your voice.
May their eyes see your presence in all things.
May their lips proclaim your word.
May their hearts be your dwelling place.
May their hands do works of charity.
May their feet walk in the way of Jesus Christ, your Son and our Lord.
Amen
Why is Religion Important?
■ Religious Education helps the school to fulfil its mission to educate the whole
person in discerning the meaning of their existence.

Religious Education is concerned not only with intellectual

knowledge but also includes emotional and affective learning.

■ Helps parents, priests and teachers to hand on the Deposit of Faith in its
fullness to a new generation of young people.
Term 3: “We Make Choices”
■ Develop children’s ability to make choices.
■ Wondering at the human experience of making choices.
■ Students will begin to wonder at God who created people with the ability
to choose. This ability to wonder will enable the students to reveal the God
Loves us.
■ Religious Education helps children discover that Jesus wants his followers
to use the ability to choose to show love and kindness to others.
■ The understanding that some people make choices that deliberately or
unnecessarily hurt others. Times like these, it is vital that people say
“sorry”.
How can you help at home?
■ Discuss with your children why particular choices are made when shopping, why one
product may be chosen in preference to another.
■ Sharing ways in which the choices people make change as they grow older.
■ Sharing with them stories of Jesus making choices, for example Jesus choosing the
first four disciples from Mark 1:16-20.
■ Sitting with your children when events happen for which they or other family member
need to say sorry and discussing with them why this is so.
■ Praying with them for God’s help to make loving choices.
Key Information:

■ Class Mass: Friday Week 5

■ Term 3 School Virtue: COMPASSION

■ Project Compassion Boxes: will be given out this week and are due back in Week 9

■ Parent-Teacher Conferences: will be held during Week 2 & Week 3,

if you wish to see me, please see me after this.
ANY QUESTIONS?
THANKYOU FOR
JOINING ME!
Let’s have an awesome Term 3 J