Guardian Angels' school shares and promotes the Vision for Religious Education articulated by Brisbane Catholic Education and the wider church. This vision includes the two dimensions of religious education namely, of students' religious literacy and their personal faith:
The schools and colleges of the Archdiocese of Brisbane aspire to educate and form students who are challenged to live the gospel of Jesus Christ and who are literate in the Catholic and broader Christian tradition so that they might participate critically and authentically in faith contexts and wider society.
The Vision for Religious Education also appropriately aligns with the goal for learning and teaching as articulated in the Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) Learning and Teaching Framework (2012):
As a Catholic Christian community, we educate all to live the gospel of Jesus Christ as successful, creative and confident, active and informed learners empowered to shape and enrich our world.
The Vision for Religious Education challenges students to be a religious voice in the world. The Vision gives greater prominence and a renewed orientation to the critical interpretation and evaluation of culture. Through vibrant and engaging Religious Education, students become active constructors of culture rather than passive consumers. Religious Education at Guardian Angels' seeks to develop the religious literacy of students considering the Catholic Christian tradition, so that they might participate critically and authentically in contemporary culture.
In this school, religious literacy includes ways of talking, acting, creating, communicating, critiquing, evaluating, participating, ritualising, theologising, worshipping, reading, reflecting, and writing with others in a variety of religious and secular contexts. Units of work reveal how teachers and students seek to integrate the two dimensions of religious education, so that religious literacy and faith formation can complement each other as students seek to find meaning in their place and time. The integration of both dimensions in the daily life of the school includes prayer in every classroom to start the day and the timetabling of the mandatory hours of classroom‑based engagement with the religion curriculum at the school.
Jesus Christ is always the centre of this Vision. Through engagement with both dimensions of Religious Education, students are challenged to be cultural agents in light of the Gospel; authentic witnesses to the mission of Jesus Christ in the world today.
As an exemplary Catholic learning community, we believe that the education of students at Guardian Angels' School is a partnership between teachers, parents and students. As such, we all make a commitment to desiring the best possible learning outcomes for students. We believe that every learner can, and will, succeed. We have high expectations and encourage all learners to “Aim High and Fly". This belief is espoused in our school song.
School Song
CHORUS:
Life Love Learning
At Guardian Angels' School
Reaching out together
We're following Jesus' way
We're following Jesus' way
Verse 1
Respect for everyone
We welcome all who come
Valuing our differences
Achieving life!
Verse 2
Faith in what the future brings
Courage to play our part
Valuing the gifts we share
Achieving life!
Verse 3
Striving to do our best
Together we are one
Valuing our unity
Achieving life!
Aim high and fly! Oo oo oo
Wings to the sky! Oo oo oo
To achieve life!
Image: © BCE, Guardian Angels' School, 2023
School Song: © BCE, Guardian Angels' School, 2023