God’s Loving Plan
The main aims of God’s Loving Plan are:
- To develop learners’ knowledge and understanding of the Catholic Christian faith, particularly relating to the moral life.
- To develop skills in moral decision-making, vocational discernment and critical thinking, leading to a maturing ability to apply moral principles to their own lives and to major issues in the moral sphere
- To exemplify and foster those beliefs, values and practices relevant to the moral sphere
The detailed planning framework in God’s Loving Plan connects learning in Religious Education (RERC) to aspects of Health & Wellbeing (HWB) taught from Primary 1 to Primary 7. This learning is organised under four THEMES, dealing with God as the source of all life who is delighted when we use our unique talents and our bodies for good, who calls us to be loving people and who guides us to make choices that are good and responsible.
This programme does not rely on purely religious content, but draws in other aspects of learning for life, personal decision-making and health. We seek to enable the children to:
- Make informed decisions in order to improve their mental, emotional, social and physical well-being
- Experience challenge and enjoyment
- Experience positive aspects of healthy living and activity for themselves
- Apply their mental, emotional, social and physical skills to pursue a healthy lifestyle
- Make a successful move to the next stage of education
- Establish a pattern of health and well-being which will be sustained into adult life, and which will help to promote the health and well-being of the next generation of Scottish children.(Curriculum for Excellence)
Catholic schools aim to help all students to develop their fullest potential, preparing them for life, informing their minds and forming their characters so that they can contribute with others, and above all with God, to the transformation of the world. (This is our Faith)
