RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PLANNING OVERVIEW – TERM

Year Level Unit Title Salvation Topic Aspect of Human Development

5 – Weeks 6 -10 The Spirit Frees Confirmation
Key Understandings and Learning Points
Week 1) People are free to do good. Week 3) Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit to Week 5) The Sacrament of Confirmation guides
Focus questions: guide his followers. people to live as God wants.
 What is freedom? Focus questions: Focus questions:
 Why is freedom important?  What is the Holy Spirit?  How are followers of Jesus filled with the Holy
 What is free will?  How can followers of Jesus live as Jesus Spirit?
 Why had God given people free will? taught?  How do followers of Jesus strengthen and
 How can people develop their freedom to do  How does the Holy Spirit give people the grow the fruits of the Holy Spirit?
good? strength to live as Jesus taught?
Week 2) Jesus teaches people to freely love and follow Week 4) The fruits of the Holy Spirit guide people to
God. live as Jesus taught.
Focus questions: Focus questions:
 What does Jesus teach people about loving and  What are the fruits of the Holy Spirit?
following God?  How are followers of Jesus guided by the fruits
 How can people experience true freedom? of the Holy Spirit?
 What difficulties do people face when trying to Christians recall stories of people guided by the Holy
love and follow God as Jesus taught? Spirit.
Focus questions:
 How was Mary/St Stephen the Martyr/St
Oscar Romero guided by the Holy Spirit?
Links to General Capabilities
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Creative Ethical behaviour Personal Competency Intercultural
Thinking Understanding
LEARNING AND TEACHING PROGRAM
Week Content Focus Questions
What is freedom?
Why is freedom important?
What is free will?
People are free to do
1. Why has God given people
good.
free will?
How can people develop their
freedom to do good?
What does Jesus teach people
about loving and following
God?
Jesus teachers’ people to
How can people experience
2. freely love and follow
true freedom?
God.
What difficulties do people
face when trying to love and
follow God as Jesus taught?
Skills Suggested Learning Activities
Lesson 1)
Students explore the concept of freedom by creating a question wall sing post-
it notes.
Encourage students to ask questions relating to the concept of freedom i.e.
Why is freedom important? What would life be like without freedom? Are there
different types of freedom?
Have a class discussion about the concept to freedom.
Lesson 2)
Construct a class definition for ‘free will’.
Students work in partners to complete a Y Chart identifying what free will looks
like, sounds like, and feels like, in order to do what is good.
Lesson 3)
Students work individually to create a flow chart using Popplet, or bubble-us to
explore the idea of how free will and freedom affect people’s decision making.
Students also add the different outcomes for making decisions with free will.
Use the below questions as a stimulus for the flow chart:
 What does it mean to have free will?
 Are there restrictions on people’s freedom?
 What do people need to consider when they make choices about how
to live their lives?
 How can people develop their freedom to do good?
 Why is being free to do good important?
Lesson 4)
Read the story ‘The Rich Young Man’ (Matthew 19:16-22) as a class.
Students work in partners to make a ‘for and against’ chart to consider the
advantages and disadvantages of following Jesus’ advice. What is
gained/compromised with each option? Hold a simple class debate.
Lesson 2)
Revisit the story of The Rich Young Man. Brainstorm with student’s modern-day
examples of situations where people are presented with choices of freely loving
and following God. In groups of 3-4 students create a role play acting out one of
these situations.

Jesus promised to send
3. the Holy Spirit to guide his
followers.
The fruits of the Holy
4. Spirit guide people to live
as Jesus taught.
What is the Holy Spirit?
How can followers of Jesus
live as Jesus taught?
How does the Holy Spirit give
people the strength to live as
Jesus taught?
What are the fruits of the
Holy Spirit?
How are followers of Jesus
guided by the fruits of the
Holy Spirit?
Lesson 1)
Read the Pentecost story.
Create a class concept map using Padlet about the Holy Spirit. Students
consider/answer the following questions:
 What is the Holy Spirit?
 What do you know about the Holy Spirit?
 What are the symbols of the Holy Spirit?
 What are some of the Gospel stories that feature the Holy Spirit?
 Think of some synonyms for, or words to describe the Holy Spirit.
Lesson 2)
Revise how to locate a Scripture passage – John 14:23-26 and read and discuss
the Gospel story as a class.
Show image of paraclete – put on display within classroom.
Students answer the questions below via Seesaw notes:
 How did Jesus promise to continue to care for his disciples after his
death?
 How do you think the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, will help people to
remember Christ’s teachings?
 In what ways can we use the Holy Spirit to guide us to live as Jesus
taught?
Lesson 3)
Brainstorm as a class, the ways that the Holy Spirit was sent ot guide Jesus’
followers. Students create a Canva poster about the Holy Spirit and include:
 The role of the Holy Spirit as a guide to followers of Christ
 A description of how followers of Jesus used the Holy Spirit to freely
love God.
Lesson 1)
Introduce the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Discuss ways that people are guided by
the Holy Spirit in their daily lives. Each student is assigned a fruit (in the shape
of a fruit) and must identify information about their fruit of the Holy Spirit,
define the fruit, give practical examples of how this fruit guides people to live as
Jesus taught. – Coloured in and put on display.
Lesson 2)
Split students up into small groups – assign each group a story of Mary freely
saying yes to God. Students work together to complete the Fruits of the Holy
 Spirit WS and explain how Mary was guided by each of the fruits of the Holy
Spirit when choosing to do good.
Groups share their ideas.
Lesson 3)
Provide students with resources about both Saint Stephen and Saint Oscar
Romero (Seesaw). They are to investigate 1 of these figures and create a profile
for them on Canva.
Lesson 1)
Read as a class stories about how the Apostles handed on the experience of
being filled with the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to others through the Sacrament of
Confirmation.
Complete the Six Thinking Hats activity as a class. Separate students into 6
groups.
How are followers of Jesus Each group shares their thoughts.
The Sacrament of Lesson 2)
filled with the Holy Spirit?
Confirmation guides Construct a whole class brainstorm reviewing the unit + making connections to
5. How do followers of Jesus
people to live as God the first week’s lessons on free will.
strengthen and grow the
wants.
fruits of the Holy Spirit?  Free will: Class definition, what is it?
 Fruits of the Holy Spirit?
 How did Mary show free will?
 How did Saint Stephen and Saint Oscar show free will?
 How did the Apostles emphasis the importance of being filled with the
Holy Spirit?
 How does the Holy Spirit guides the choices people make?
PLANNED ASSESSMENT - 1 formal assessment that links to a key understanding or learning point, develops higher order thinking skills and comprehensively assesses student
learning.
An example of an assessment rubric that shows achievement of key understandings and learning points.