This term the whole school focus in Religious Education has been Signs and Symbols. In the senior classes, the students have been looking at familiar signs and symbols, such as brand logos, and how they provide a representation for the company or enterprise. This has led them into learning about the signs and symbols within the Catholic church e.g. the Cross, the Bible, the Dove, the bread and wine, etc

This week, to finish off our work on signs and symbols, the students have been looking at Aboriginal drawings and the symbols used in storytelling, and have designed their own symbols to represent each member of their family, thinking about things that are special about them. Using an idea from one of the authors we studied recently, Aunty Faye Muir, they have been busy creating a family tree using gum leaves and small sticks. They have drawn the symbol for each family member on the gum leaves and these will be hung up in the classroom to represent how all of our families together at St. Angela of the Cross are like one big community.