Supervisors Meeting

 

Supervisors of Catholic Schools gathered today at the SPI conference room for their regular meeting. On the agenda today was the discussion on the  common purpose and goals of Catholic Education; growing towards becoming a family of Catholic Schools.

Present at the meeting were Bro. Emmanuel SG, Fr Frederick Quek, Sr Maria Ng FMM, Christina Kheng, Fr Henry Siew, Sr Delphine Kang RGS, Sr Cecily Pavri FDCC, ACCS Executive Director Wendy Louis and ACCS Executive Secretary Ursula Quah.

Evaluating a Catholic School

Fr Norbert Menezes continued his series of discussions at the Church of the Risen Christ last night. A group of Catholic School leaders, which included Chairmen of SMCs, Supervisors and ACCS Commisioners,  as well as Msgr Eugene Vaz, gathered to discuss the evaluation of Catholic Ethos within a Catholic school.
The sub topics covered included:

1. A Vision, Mision and Culture
2. Civics and Moral Education/ Religious Education
3. Partnerships/ Communitarian Involvement
4. Holistic Education
5. Spirituality
6. Gospel Witness

Leading a Catholic School

Principals from Catholic schools gathered on the 28th of February at the Church of Christ the king for a discussion on Leading a Catholic School. Facilitating the discussion was Fr Norbert Menezes.
Amongst the topics discussed was the challenges principals faced such as shifting priorities, over-emphasis on the externals, inadequate time for religious education, respect to diverse philosophies and ideologies and lack of Catholic Teachers and students.
The principals also deliberated on the identity and distinctiveness of a Catholic School and covered topics like the inspiration of a supernatural vision, being rooted in Sacramentality and being directed by faith and reason.
The principals represented the Catholic kindergartens, primary, secondary and junior college. Also present were Msgr Eugene Vaz, the vicar general and Ms Wendy Louis, executive director of ACCS.

Integral Pedagogy - Fr Norbert Menezes SJ

Jesuit Father and educator Norbert Menezes returned to Singapore to conduct another series of Integral Pedagogy centred talks aimed at Catholic school teachers, principals, religious education teachers and members of SMCs and Supervisors. The talks and workshops started on the 22nd of February and will continue till the 5th of March. In all, he will meet with groups of educators on nine occasions.
Amongst his topics are: The Core Aspects of Catholic Education, Reflection Skills in Teaching, Leading a Catholic School and How do you evaluate Catholic Ethos.
Fr Menezes is currently the secretary for Jesuit Education for South Asia. He holds 2 Masters degrees - in education as well as Science (Mathematics). He has also authored a total of seven books on education.

Walking with Jesus Workshops

ACCS organised 2 workshops, on the 26th of January and the 9th of February for teachers of the "Walking with Jesus" biblical based programme for Primary School Catholic students. The programme compliments the CCC based "Call to Faith" programme taught in the parishes.
The session was divided up into three parts; A Biblical overview by Msgr. Eugene Vaz, Music and the programme structure by ACCS Executive Director, Ms Wendy Louis.
The sessions were attended by forty one teachers over the two days.
The video below is the first of two videos of the Biblical Overview.