St Joseph's Nudgee College

June 29, 2011

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Several Year 10 St Joseph’s Nudgee College students visited a local primary school recently and helped them roll Street Swags as part of their SOR Understanding Morality unit.

“During Term 2, all Year 10 students worked in small groups to develop a multimodal presentation using a variety of mediums to examine a contemporary issue such as bioethics, poverty or stewardship in their Study of Religion (SOR) classes,” said teacher Mr Brian O’Reilly.

“Some students chose to focus on Street Swags for their assignment and visited St Dympna’s where they made a presentation to the Year 7 students before helping them roll swags. The Nudgee College students and the St Dympna’s students both took a lot out of the visit which will hopefully be the first of many,” he said.

The SOR unit is based on the Brisbane Archdiocese Level 5/6 Morality Strand module “moral issues” and provides students with opportunities to demonstrate core learning outcomes by investigating and analysing interactions between Church teachings, human wisdom and social codes in moral issues that affect all humankind across four broad contexts: peace and justice, stewardship, the environment, and bioethics.

The unit also encouraged students to go beyond the text book by considering what they can do to make a difference through service learning activities. These lessons will continue in Term 3 when students participate in the Year 10 Immersion Week program which allows students to experience first-hand many of the opportunities and learning experiences promoted in the Edmund Rice Charter.

Activities and experiences the students can choose to participate in include a visit to ministries in the Philippines as part of the Pag-Inupdanay with Spirit program, an Indigenous immersion, Edmund Rice camps and working with the Starlight Foundation.