This Is Our Faith, – the new guidance which governs the teaching of religious education in Scotland’s Catholic schools – having received detailed consideration by the Holy See’s Congregation for the Clergy, has been acclaimed as being “well planned, accessible and clear”.  It is intended that, once the Holy See has granted its final approval of the document, a final version will be published in school session 2011-12.

Other resources are being provided to support teachers, including the Liturgical Calendar wallchart and a new document – Having Faith in the Curriculum – which provides guidance on the key principles which should underpin curriculum planning in Catholic primary and secondary schools.  It also provides case studies and exemplar planning tools for providing religious education at school and classroom level.