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  • Our curriculum
  • A PASTORAL COLLEGE WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BLESSED EDMUND RICE

    The College’s pastoral curriculum follows the guidelines suggested by the Archdiocese of Montevideo. It centres on Jesus’ Announcement of the Kingdom and it leads us to discover the living God who shares the history of His people. We want to be Jesus’ disciples, witnesses of his Gospel and missionaries, bearing the Good News. We derive our inspiration from Edmund Rice’s vocation and charisma; the founder of the Christian Brothers calls us to lead a life of solidarity, compassion for, presence and liberation of the less privileged.

    Thinking of our students as unique young people, our methodology takes their life experiences into consideration, respecting their individuality.

    The Catechesis at our College goes hand in hand with the service of others, aiming to transform the faith into real life commitments which will strengthen the faith, the hope and the love.

    We base our curriculum on the Word, the Tradition and the Magisterium, and more specifically, on our School Charter, Edmund’s tradition and the documents produced in the Chapters of the Congregation of Christian Brothers (Munar, Nairobi, etc.), which are our sources of Christian faith.

    We strive to live what we believe in, and we celebrate it. Thus, we value and promote prayer and liturgy to accompany the development of the faith in each of us.

    Our aims:

    We aim for the Faith, born from the Word and sown by the Holy Ghost, to grow in our hearts and live.

    We aim to foster our students’ personal acquaintance with Jesus reborn, which promotes the adherence to His lifestyle, compassion and solidarity, commitment and liberation among men.

    We aim to initiate our students in the celebration of the Faith so they can fully comprehend what they believe in.

  • Early Years
  • Explorers:

    The aim of this course level is to discover God, our friend, who is present in our families, our friends and our educational community. 

    Our starting point is always the Word of God, which allows us to know him as Father Creator. His Word is also meant to illuminate all liturgical celebrations as well as prayer. Children are thus introduced to Edmund Rice and to Virgin Mary, role models of Christian values. 

    Recreational days, Edmund Rice’s month and several social justice campaigns are essential components to the development of our School’s project, which seeks to celebrate God’s love.

    Kinder:

    God speaks to me: God speaks to me; He reaches out for me. Everything is God’s word for man (for me), but in a unique way. Where, how and when does He speak to me? Discovering God as someone close to us.

    A simple biography of Edmund Rice. An account with emphasis on emotional aspects: we long to know him because He is good to us: he is caring, sensitive and willing to help.

    Focus: God speaking to us in a way that we can understand Him as humans.

    Methodology: (Symbols as means of educating children). The central symbol is the BIBLE: what God intends to convey to us. Learning to cherish the Bible.

    Prep:

    God speaks and commits Himself to us through Jesus: God, who speaks to me, is committed to all of us. God says everything to us through Jesus – who sacrificed his life for us. Moving from ‘God Creator’ to ‘Jesus’ as a close friend.

    Edmund Rice’s story as an exemplary life that illuminates us and brings us closer to Jesus.

    Focus: the best Word God has given us is Jesus.

    Methodology: standing in awe before God’s creation - through Jesus’ teachings. Contemplation: looking around ourselves and allowing ourselves to be amazed. Action: transforming, molding reality as a potter, taking care of the others, cultivating relationships with God’s Creation and with the environment.

  • Primary
  • WE ARE CALLED TO BECOME DISCIPLES OF JESUS

    In accordance to the general objectives of the Catholic Church’s Pastoral Care, our curriculum in Primary school is as follows:

    Nursery School and Reception:

    • Working in our group, we discover the presence of a God who is close to us and generous with the gifts He bestows upon us. Our family, the others, Nature, are all signs of God’s kindness, who invites us to respond.

    First year (Year 1):

    • We meet the Child Jesus who is born, grows up and lives like we do, and invites us to know and love His Father and the others.

    Second year (Year 2):

    • We further explore Jesus as a person together with His message, and we perceive Creation as a gift from God.

    Third year (Year 3):

    • We accept Jesus as our Teacher who invites us to be His disciples and become part of a community.

    • We recognise the Sacraments as meetings with God; we value the Sacrament of Baptism and renew our baptismal vows.

    Fourth year (Year 4)

    • We discover Jesus in the different faces of poverty and we receive His Commandments as guidelines to follow on the path of our life. We celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time.

    Fifth year (Year 5)

    • We affirm that Jesus is the true God and true man. We celebrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist as a sign of Christ’s presence which demands our commitment to live in the Kingdom of God on Earth.

    Sixth year (Year 6)

    • We proclaim that God, present in our history, makes it a History of Salvation. The disciple adopts a Christian life, inspired in the values of the Gospel, celebrates the Sacraments and bears witness, with gestures and words, of the new life among men.

  • Secondary
  • A DISCIPLE OF JESUS BEARS WITNESS TO HIS LIFE BEFORE ALL MEN AND IS SENT TO PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS

    Our curriculum

     Religious Education at Stella Maris (Secondary)

    Junior Secondary

    At this level our focus is the theoretical and practical development of the Christian Faith in a non-catechetical style. Such development involves a comprehensive education of the individual, his or her attitudes and social skills, their perception of the future, their capacity to commit themselves and enjoy their freedom responsibly, and the discovery of their vocation as a vital condition and as a concrete way of serving the community. Since this is a non-catechetical approach, certain topics might be treated not by the regular pastoral staff, but instead by teachers trained on the subject and specially hired for the occasion.

     Outline of the syllabus:

     YEAR 1

     • God speaks to us through Jesus Christ - He makes us his disciples: men and women of truth.

    o God created man in His own image and likeness (OT). In Jesus we understand what it is like to be truly humans.

    o The Good News of the Kingdom (NT) calls upon us to discover and develop the infinite value and vocation of our humanity.

    o Being humans is to experience Easter every day. The Holy Spirit and the Church are the gift of Easter.

     

    YEAR 2

     • To live like Jesus’ disciples is to celebrate life. – God upholds and nurtures his People (the Church) so that they contribute to a more humane world.

    o The sense of celebration in the Christian faith and in other religions.

    o The Church as a community, as a people, as Christ’s body, laymen, hierarchy and clergymen.

    o The symbolic language and the sacraments of initiation, healing and service.

    o Equality and inequality: the world’s wounds (structural sin), our commitment to others, the dialogue with other religions, the utopy of a new world.

     YEAR 3

     

    • Witnessing God in our everyday life

    o We, human beings, seek happiness, long to know ourselves and others, yearn to discover the meaning of life.

    o The Christian God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and God’s false images.

    o God acting in the history of humanity (OT). We witness His love and fidelity through history. Jesus Christ is God intervening in our history, calling upon us to be men and women like Him (NT), i.e. religious, caring, bearing witness to hope, and called upon to build a new world.

    o The many faces of our society: the inalienable value of human beings.

    o A Collaborative with others for the common well being as the basis of a new, humane, Christian society.

    Baccalaureate

     YEAR 1

     • A Christian life raises individuals capable of transforming the world from the inside

    o A human being is someone who makes questions. Someone who calls life into question. Someone who builds, who lives his or her faith in a world dominated by technology and who opens himself or herself up to the action of the Spirit.

    o Human beings are cultural beings, open to transcendence. World cultures. Overview of world religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, other religions, sects. The possibility of interfaith and ecumenical dialogue.

    o God has irrevocably spoken through Jesus who was resurrected and speaks to us today. Faith is experienced, nurtured and celebrated, and it grows ripe. It turns into service and outreach.

    o The Church’s social responsibility: to encaurage sensitivity for commitment and Reflection upon social outreach programmes.

    o Being Christians in today’s changing society. How to live our Faith in this society

     

    YEAR 2

     • The decision to follow Jesus is a fundamental decision that concerns a whole lifestyle. – The question of a Christian’s morality. The value of sexuality in one’s life. The dignity and nobility of our body and corporality.

     

    o The discovery of Christian values as a consequence of the love of God.

    o Experiencing the importance of the dignity of human beings and the sacred nature of their consciousness.

    o The discovery of the importance of building ourselves in freedom and committed to a fairer society.

    o Integrating all dimensions of life into a personal life project, facing the challenges and the great ethical dilemmas of our time with maturity.

     

    1. The need for an ethical dimension in the development of each individual. Key decisions when making a life project. Freedom and responsibility. How to move towards meaningful ethics. Living in the image and likeness of God. Personal sin and social sin.

    2. The value of sexuality in a Christian’s life. Dignity and nobility of our body and corporality. Sexuality as a means of interpersonal encounter. The development of affectivity. Sexuality as a source of interpersonal, responsible commitment. Different ways of living one’s sexuality and appraisal of such ways.

    3. Justice as a challenge for social life. Biblical basis. Human rights. Choosing to serve the destitute. Private property and the common good. Solidarity and outreach as opposed to structures of sin. Social outreach and the upward mobility of the poor: critical reflection.

    4. Drawn to sow seeds and promote life from conception until its end. Addictions, lack of commitment, instability of relationships. Current problems of nowadays ethics: assisted reproductive technology, cloning, genetic engineering.

     YEAR 3

     • We celebrate the worthiness and dignity of every individual and we encourage his/her comprehensive development.

    o From our faith-based view and from the perspective of Christian anthropology, worthiness and dignity are bestowed upon each person by God’s love, which makes us His children, and through Christ, who redeems us so that we can live in freedom of spirit.

    o We aim at strengthening the worthiness of each individual and the respect for the diversity of all. Students will be encouraged to assess their personal life project against the Christian anthropological vision, which announces that God is inviting us to take part in His love plan.

    o Lessons will be held preferably in a workshop format, with an engagement in critical reflection on the issues treated. Workshops are meant to encourage critical thinking among the students by analysing and calling reality into question and shedding the light of the Gospel on it. We promote openness, dialogue, and the exchange of points of view so that students can develop freely, responsibly and evangelically.

    o The workshop is conceived as both a collective and individual learning process, where everyone is a protagonist in the tasks set and in the group interaction. Personal experiences of the participants are valued as a starting point into the process of critical reflection, duly enriched by the theoretical contributions of the teacher. Knowledge thus built by group interaction is particularly rich and creative, and it caters for the group’s specific requirements. Critical thinking, doing and feeling are therefore integrated.

    o Students are incentivated to conceive themselves as God’s creation, filled with potential. The workshop sessions can therefore accompany our students when answering the questions of: what do I want to be? What do I want to be like?

    o Given the diversity of the workshops, students will be able to discover several content areas and methodological approaches that will allow them to continue with their personal development towards the construction of a life project that responds to the Father’s call to build the Kingdom.

  • Alumni
  • EDMUND RICE VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME

    The volunteers’ project is aimed at Stella Maris College alumni and it brings together those who have embraced Edmund Rice’s charisma and want to live a life of solidarity, presence, compassion and liberation.

    The aim is to see the world around us through Edmund’s eyes and respond efficiently through actions that promote people’s welfare and dignity.

    It’s a development Project which proposes two areas of participation: 1) Education and reflection to foster personal growth and action, and 2) Specific voluntary work actions. Both areas complement each other and allow a balanced development.

    Alumni can join the activities organised by the Edmund Rice Network institutions or other activities of Social Action and Service.

    VER caters for the missionary vocation in every Christian, who has been sent to the others, to society, and the world, where the announcement of the Good News takes place and where they will be realised.

    To support and promote the development of this project, Stella Maris College has offered their house in 7381 Italia Ave. (Av. Italia 7381) in Montevideo, as its headquarters.

  • Ecojustice
  • In 2013 the College started working in ERN’s Eco-Justice project tackling the protection and conservation of the environment from all subject areas and with all age groups.

    WHAT IS ECO-JUSTICE?

    It is the search of the shared welfare of Nature and human beings; it recognises that we exist within and with Creation; there isn’t a real divide between us and Nature no matter how big a distance we wish to create with our indifference or carelessness.

    Establishing connexions between environmental issues and social justice, EcoJustice’s focus revolves around the causes and consequences of the destruction and abuse of the environment; it is not just about our ecological footprint, but also how our indifference can have a negative effect on our neighbours.

    EcoJustice shakes the foundations of our faith and has a direct impact on the way we lead our lives; it demands that we change our attitudes; it implies a deep analysis of how we live.

    Let’s seek the Light with God’s eyes so we can rediscover Creation.

     

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  • Diego Cardozo - Pastoral and RE General Coordinator

    E-mail: dcardozo@stellamaris.edu.uy

    Ext.: 1621

    Nadia Umpiérrez – Pastoral Recreation Manager

    E-mail: numpierrez@stellamaris.edu.uy

    Ext.: 1623

    Claudio Grisi – Pastoral and RE Coordinator – Secondary School

    E-mail: cgrisi@stellamaris.edu.uy

    Ext.: 1609

    Mariela Blust – Pastoral and RE Secretary – Primary School

    E-mail: mblust@stellamaris.edu.uy

    Ext.: 1460

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