The Learn Together Curriculum is divided into four strands:
1. Equality and Justice
2. Belief Systems
3. Ethics and the Environment
4. Moral and Spiritual
Every Educate Together school creates a school plan of work on these strands based on the curriculum developed by Educate Together. The original curriculum documents can be purchased from the educate together website at www.educatetogether.ie/ or downloaded from http://learning.educatetogether.ie/ if you register (for free).
At Belmayne Educate Together we study two of the strands in detail as a whole school each term. We study 3 faith systems a year plus belief systems that are non religious, i.e aetheism, humanism. For term 1 we are covering the Moral and Spiritual strand and the Belief Systems strand on the topic of Islam.
Our school plan for the Moral and Spiritual plan of work looks like this:
Our school plan for the Moral and Spiritual plan of work looks like this:
Term 1: Moral and Spiritual
Our school plan of work for the Belief Systems strand for this term 1 looks like this:
Term 1 2017: Belief Systems (Islam )
Term 2- Equality and Justice
As a whole school we will focus on the following rights in the UN convention:
- Week 1 –article 2 all children have the same rights no matter who they are, where they live, what their parents do, what language they speak, what their religion is whether they are a boy or a girl, what their culture is, whether or not they have a disability, whether they are rich or poor. No child should be treated unfairly on any basis. https://www.oco.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/OCO_Primary_School_English.pdf
- Article 26 and 27 children have the right to help from the government if they are poor or are in need. They have the right to food clothing, a safe place to live, and to have their basic needs met. They should not be disadvantaged so that they cannot do some of the things many other children do.
- Children have the right to the best health care possible, clean water, nutritious food, a clean and safe environment and information article 24
- Children have a right to say about that things that affect them Article 12
Term 2 Belief Systems: Christianity
Term 3 Belief Systems: Sikkism
Ethics and The Environment
