Last Friday our class, Year 10 Religion 2 got an amazing opportunity to engage with a Year 7 Religion class and teach them about Pentecost. Our Year 10 class is one of the two classes in our grade that are a part of an infused program called CSYM, which stands for Catholic Schools Youth Ministry. In this program we still engage in the normal content that other classes do, except the additional Ministry element is involved, this extra opportunity allows us to give a helping hand as well as socialise and engage with the general community about our Catholic faith. This is helping us to lead the “New Evangelisation.”

In the CSYM program over the past 2 years, we were planning to attend a primary school and teach them about Catholicism but due to Covid, these plans had to be re-evaluated. As a substitute, we as a class along with Mrs Keith had decided that we had another idea, this idea being that we decided we can teach a Year 7 class. This was a brilliant idea and for a few lessons we planned and created a schedule for what we would teach and the activities that we would do.

On Friday the 17th, we had this lesson, we met with the Year 7 class and Mrs Russo, introduced ourselves and began the lesson. It was a very successful lesson and both us and the Year 7’s had a lot of fun. The lesson was full of engagement and learning about Pentecost and at the end of it, the year 7’s enjoyed it and most importantly learnt a lot.

Overall it was a great experience for us as a class to have, it taught us a lot about teamwork as well as the thought that goes along with planning something like this. It was a fun experience and something we’ll definitely consider to do again.

By Fiorella V