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Rationale
God is the central focus of the Christian life. “In Him we live and move and have our being”. Developing students’ awareness, knowledge and relationship with God is the primary task of the school programme, that they may know Him, who is eternal life. Developing student understanding of the beliefs, lifestyles and practices of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and exploring how to integrate faith into everyday life is an essential part of the school's task in growing a faith experience in the students.
Curriculum Content and Coverage
The Curriculum delivered will be the Encounter Adventist Curriculum which is a collaborative initiative produced and published by the Education Departments of Australia Union Conference and the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference.
Coverage of Encounter Years/Units are outlined in this Curriculum Delivery Statement.
Teachers will teach the specified Encounter Units and Special Character focus from Encounter schedule.
Special Character (Encounter) is recognised as an eighth Essential Learning Area and will be given priority time in teaching as outlined in the school's annual Curriculum Plan.
Programme Emphasis
Students will be encouraged to develop a vibrant, meaningful and saving relationship with Jesus.
Lessons should focus on development of personal faith and Seventh-day Adventist Christian practice.
Students will be encouraged to actively express their faith in God.
Teaching Methodology
Planning to include understandings, knowledge, practice and attitudes through student learning styles based around the Encounter Adventist Curriculum.
Teachers to use the Encounter Units as the basis of all Bible lessons taught at the start of the day.
Teachers will integrate the schools Special Character into ALL key learning areas and the New Zealand Curriculum.
Characteristics of an Encounter Lesson
Christ-centred and content will glorify God.
Encounter units taught will follow the cycle within the unit – Learner Bait, Learning Context, Animated Learning, Engaged Learning, Heart Learning, Soul Learning, Life Learning and Kaizen Learning.
Assessment
Encounter Units have Assessment options and guidelines within them. Teachers will use these Assessment options as appropriate to feedback to parents in a narrative form in the mid year and end of year student reports.
School Organisation for Encounter Adventist Curriculum Delivery Plan
Encounter is preferably taught at the start of each day in each classroom for 30 minutes.
We will revisit the Encounter Schedule at the beginning of each year to ensure that we are all teaching the right units.
Integrating Special Character into our Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Integrating Special Character into our Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Aim: To embed the Adventist Christian special character into the life of our school.
This is being achieved through the following means:
Our Curriculum Schema contains our school values on a biannual cycle, fitting with the local curriculum overarching concept.
Each Curriculum Learning Area in our local curriculum contains a breakdown of how the value can be integrated.
Every Term, staff and students will unpack the value and how it can be shown in various contexts.
The value of the Term is also the focus of our Chapel each week.
Staff use the growth token system to encourage students to actively display the value of the Term.
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