KWL Digital Primary: Year 5

Overview:

This chapter is about God’s amazing creation of the world and human life. Human beings are co-workers with God and have a responsibility to care for creation.

What’s inside:

• God and divine providence
• Adam and Eve
• Partakers in creation

Overview:

This chapter tells us that the gift of God’s grace helps us live the virtues of faith, hope and love.

What’s inside:

• Called to live like Christ
• Habits of the moral life
• The theological virtues

Overview:

This chapter explores the virtue of faith, a gift from God that enables us to grow stronger with God’s grace.

What’s inside:

• A gift of God
• Trusting in the power of Jesus
• The Creed and the Church’s faith

Overview:

This chapter is about the virtue of hope, which enables us to face the future.

What’s inside:

• Trusting in God’s presence
• The faith of Abraham
• A mantra of hope

Overview:

This chapter explores the virtue of love, which enables us to love God and our neighbour.

What’s inside:

• God is love
• The greatest of all virtues
• Jesus taught a new commandment

Overview:

This chapter is about Lent, the season of forty days when we prepare to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus during Holy Week and Easter. Lent is a time of prayer, fasting and giving to those in need.

What’s inside:

• Preparing for Easter
• Jesus is tempted in the desert
• Becoming more like Jesus

Overview:

This chapter is about the sacraments, the visible actions of the Church through which God is at work and God’s grace is given.

What’s inside:

• Signs of God’s love
• Channels of God’s grace
• A gift to the Church

Overview:

This chapter tells us that the Sacrament of Penance gives us the grace to overcome our sins. God’s healing love and care for those who are sick, frail or dying are given in the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick.

What’s inside:

• The gift of healing
• God wants to help us
• Learning from Jesus’ example

Overview:

This chapter is about the great events of Holy Week, which celebrate the final days of Jesus leading up to his death and resurrection.

What’s inside:

• Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem
• The Institution of the Eucharist
• Passion and death of Christ

Overview:

This chapter addresses the wonderful event of Jesus being raised from the dead on Easter Sunday. This is the high point of our Christian year.

What’s inside:

• A new life
• Jesus appears to the disciples
• The promise of the Holy Spirit

Overview:

This chapter tells us about the Holy Spirit and the grace that is given to help us grow in faith. The Holy Spirit, who strengthens us in the Sacrament of Confirmation, also plays an important role in other liturgical celebrations.

What’s inside:

• A gift of God
• Fruits of the Holy Spirit
• The Sacraments of Initiation

Overview:

This chapter is about the central mystery of our faith: the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. God the Father is our Creator, God the Son is our Redeemer and God the Holy Spirit is our Sanctifier.

What’s inside:

• A sign of faith
• God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit
• The great mystery

Overview:

This chapter is about God’s love for us, seen in the person of Jesus. Just as the human heart is a symbol of love, the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a sign of God’s love for us.

What’s inside:

• Sign of God’s love
• A model of compassion and mercy
• Showing love for one another

Overview:

This chapter is about the Church, the People of God, in which we find different vocations and specialised missions. The different tasks within the Church have the same goal: proclaiming the Gospel of Christ.

What’s inside:

• A community in Christ
• Our Church mission
• Called to be followers of Jesus

Overview:

This chapter is about the many men and women who have served the Catholic Church in Australia. The story of this land is very much the story of Catholics and their contribution to our lives.

What’s inside:

• Spreading the Good News
• The origins of Australia
• Steadfast in faith

Overview:

This chapter tells us about the different tasks that bishops, priests and deacons carry out in the Church. The sacrament that confers the grace to carry out these roles is called Holy Orders.

What’s inside:

• Serving in the name of Jesus
• Celebrating the life-giving sacraments
• The early Church

Overview:

This chapter explores the different elements of the Mass. The Eucharist strengthens the Church, increases our union with Christ and forgives venial sins.

What’s inside:

• Jesus is present
• The Liturgy of the Eucharist
• How can we receive the Eucharist?

Overview:

This chapter tells us that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. A visit to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle is a time for quiet prayer with him.

What’s inside:

• A sacrament of thanksgiving
• Jesus is among us
• The importance of the tabernacle

Overview:

This chapter is about death and everlasting life. When a person dies in friendship with Christ, they live forever with God. We are called to pray for those who have died, as our prayers can assist them.

What’s inside:

• The promise of heaven
• Purgatory and the mystery of eternal life
• In relationship with Christ

Overview:

This chapter tells us that we have a responsibility to care for the bodies we have been given. We are called to live good lives and respect the lives of others at every stage.

What’s inside:

• Made in the image of God
• The Fifth Commandment
• What does it mean to care for our body?

Overview:

This chapter is about Mary, our Mother in heaven, and the special role she played in Jesus’ life. She is greatly honoured by Christians on her feast days, and she prays to God for us.

What’s inside:

• Chosen by God
• Mary leads us to Jesus
• The Churches teachings

Overview:

This chapter tells us about the season of Advent and the expectation we have for the birth of the Christ Child. There are many elements to this rich time of waiting.

What’s inside:

• Beginning the liturgical year
• Jesus is the Promised One
• God is with us