To ensure a positive environment for learning,  faith development sharing and community building, RE students must commit to --

• attend Mass regularly;

• come to class with a prayerful heart, an open mind and with ear tuned to God's voice;

• make every effort to attend class each week;

• be on time for class, and stay until dismissal; 

• come to class prepared, with assignments completed and ready to participate;

• make up for missed assignments due to absences;

• treat teachers, classmates and parish and program staff with respect;

• behave at all times, observing good manners and right conduct;

• refrain using of or playing with cell phones or devices while in class;

• refrain from eating during class;

• get parents and/or guardians to be involved in religious education by way of sharing  what has been learned in class, and requesting for assistance in school or program projects;

• manage time well for and in consideration of parents and/or guardians.

"Parents [are the] primary educators of their children (166). (226) The witness of Christian life given by parents in the family comes to children with tenderness and parental respect. Children thus perceive and joyously live the closeness of God and of Jesus made manifest by their parents in such a way that this first Christian experience frequently leaves decisive traces which last throughout life. This childhood religious awakening which takes place in the family is irreplaceable."

"(248) The family as a locus of catechesis has a unique privilege: transmitting the Gospel by rooting it in the context of profound human values. (249) On this human base, Christian initiation is more profound: the awakening of the sense of God; the first steps in prayer; education of the moral conscience; formation in the Christian sense of human love, understood as a reflection of the love of God the Father, the Creator. It is, indeed, a Christian education more witnessed to than taught, more occasional than systematic, more on-going and daily than structured into periods." - Excerpts from the General Directory for Catechesis

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We could not stress enough the importance of the roles of parents and guardians in the faith formation of their children.  It is with this that we enjoin them in carefully observing, honoring and give serious consideration of their commitment in the religious awakening of their children. Please read the Covenant Statements on your RE Handbook.