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This is a fascinating resource for engaging students on world social justice issues.

The Secondary Religious Education Bridging Document was released to Aotearoa NZ Catholic secondary schools in November 2018. It is designed to a useful and effective document for focusing on RE today and for reflection on a new year 1 – 13 RE curriculum.

The NZ Catholic Bishops Committee for Interfaith Relations has released a revised booklet to support promoting interfaith relations. 30 booklets have been sent to all Catholic secondary Schools to support the Year 12 World Religions unit and copies will also be available in dioceses and parishes after Easter in 2019.

Check out the “Gender Complexity” guidance resource for schools from NCRS.

NCRS in association with NZCEO have created a bank of over 50 small video clips for use in Catholic Schools with staff and students. The best place to view them is in the NCRS YouTube channel – Aotearoa Catholic – where they’re stored in playlists. Here’s an example:

Children consider the Paschal Mystery.

In line with the newly developed teachers’ course on teaching human sexuality in Catholic schools – Having Life to the Full. Jn 10:10 – Check out the bank of resources created to support teachers in your delivery of sexuality education in our Catholic Secondary Schools.

Check out a range of resources on the Reformation in the open “Classroom > Thematic Resources” section of this site.

This is a powerful Pasifika reflection on encountering grief. (It won the 2017 PBS On-Line Film Festival – Most Popular award.)

A simple response to secular understandings of Death from a general Catholic perspective. Certainly not an attack on any humanist friends just a tongue-in-cheek response to some of their understandings using their cartoon clip. (What should we think about death?)