St Joseph’s Religious Education Vision
St Joseph's shares and promotes the Vision for Religious Education articulated by Brisbane Catholic Education and the wider church. This vision includes the two dimensions of formation- namely, of students' religious literacy and their personal faith:
The schools and colleges of the Archdiocese of Brisbane aspire to educate and form students who are challenged to live the gospel of Jesus Christ and who are literate in the Catholic and broader Christian tradition so that they might participate critically and authentically in faith contexts and wider society.
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School is delivering transformational experiences that inspire joy for learning where excellence and equity enable all to grow and thrive. This transformation also happens through the gospel messages, our values of Nurture, Respect, Faith and the commitment to delivering high quality learning and teaching. We achieve this through:
Nurture: Nurturing our students to be successful, creative, confident, informed learners empowered to shape our world.
Respect: Supporting students to show respect for self, others and God’s world.
Faith: Providing opportunities for students to witness to and live out the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Vision for Religious Education challenges students to be a religious voice in the world. The Vision gives greater prominence and a renewed orientation to the critical interpretation and evaluation of culture. Through vibrant and engaging Religious Education, students become active constructors of culture rather than passive consumers.
Religious Education at St Joseph's seeks to develop the religious literacy of students in light of the Catholic Christian tradition, so that they might participate critically and authentically in contemporary culture.
In this school, religious literacy includes ways of talking, acting, creating, communicating, critiquing, evaluating, participating, ritualising, theologising, worshipping, reading, reflecting, and writing with others in a variety of religious and secular contexts.
The Vision for Religious Education appropriately aligns with the Brisbane Catholic Education - Education Strategy and Catholic Identity Framework.
St Joseph’s Religious Education & Faith Formation
St Joseph’s Murgon is a co-educational parish primary school with classes from Prep to Year Six. While being faithful to its Catholic ethos and traditions, the school accepts enrolments from families from who support Catholic Christian values. This includes a number of families who are not Catholic, and others who have no religious affiliation. At St Joseph’s, we are committed to the holistic education of our students and offer regular formation experiences for students. These are centred around our school values, our core Marist values and Brisbane Catholic Education's formation framework.
Formation in the Catholic tradition strives to meet the needs for a contemporary response that honours both the rich tradition and ecclesial responsibilities: as well as the individual’s need in the contemporary context for authentic meaning making. It is closely aligned with BCE Leadership Capability Framework, with a particular focus on Encounter Me.
Formation in the Catholic Christian tradition is a dynamic process of growth, with authentic staff and student formation as the critical factor in the continuing mission of Catholic Education. With Jesus at the centre, formation opportunities, which include prayer, theological reflection and spiritual wisdom, will continue to support staff, students and parents to increase their knowledge of the Catholic tradition and enhance their own identity.
This work is based on an approach to learning that understands Catholic formation as holistic and enlivened by interaction with multiple learning strategies with priority given to scripture, prayer, liturgical life and the Catholic Tradition.
St Joseph's Formation Plan 2026.pdf
St Joseph's Religious Education Program
The St Joseph’s Religious Education Program aligns with the Brisbane Archdiocesan Catholic Identity and Learning and Teaching Framework and embraces the Religious Life of the school, through our values of Nurture, Respect and Faith. We strive for religious literacy for all our students and we foster their faith by following in the footsteps of Jesus and respecting Indigenous Spirituality. These values are built upon and infused by the charisms of the Presentation Sisters, Marist Brothers and the Christian Brothers, providing a solid foundation for faith development.
The St Joseph's Religious Education Program is also responsive to the needs and religious backgrounds of students and the contemporary contexts for learning in the Religion classroom. It articulates a Catholic view of learning and teaching and is structured around the Model for Religious Education. Our Religious Education Program is consistent with whole school approaches to learning and teaching across the curriculum. It identifies how these approaches are developed, communicated, supported and reviewed. It also outlines how student engagement, progress and achievement are monitored to ensure high expectations for each student. It identifies how data is used to evaluate current practice and inform decision making and action related to the classroom teaching of Religion and the Religious Life of the School.
St Joseph's RE Program 2026 revision.pdf