WBCEA Discovery Curriculum.
All of our schools currently teach from the WBECA Discovery Curriculum, which is approved by the Baptist Union of NSW.
The WBCEA Discovery Curriculum is modelled on the new DEC NESSA format and allows SRE teachers to teach meaningful, relevant, and appropriate programs in their schools. The curriculum aims to give students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the basics of the Christian faith and discover how people apply faith to everyday life. It affords students the opportunity to ask meaningful questions about ways faith impacts peoples’ beliefs, values, and identity.
We believe the Bible and the Christian faith are significant influences on our western culture, influencing our legal system, literature, art, music, language, history, and traditions. A basic understanding of the Christian faith allows students to explore how modern Australia has been, in part, shaped by our Christian cultural heritage.
The Scope and Sequence document gives a good example of the content taught in SRE lessons week to week.
As SRE continues in our Schools in later years, opportunities to learn are given via SRE Seminars. These SRE Seminars cover various topics that align with the approved Discovery Curriculum. This material also draws on aspects of the approved Think Faith Curriculum. Below is the Scope & Sequence for our SRE Seminars.