An EducareM programme
Building the Kingdom
Distinctive Catholic curriculum design for the transformation of society.
Faith • Learning • Action
A curriculum rooted in mission
Building the Kingdom supports schools to develop a radical twenty-first-century Catholic curriculum: contextualising national curriculum learning within the Gospel and the beliefs and values of the Catholic tradition.
Through the National School of Formation, EducareM has developed a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning which incorporates Catholic Social Teaching, strengthens the Catholic life and mission of the school and maintains the highest aspirations for learning.
Programme impact
From curriculum content to faithful action
Schools use Building the Kingdom to make the Catholic character of their curriculum coherent, authentic and transformative.
Distinctive curriculum
Review curriculum mapping through the beliefs and values of the Gospel and Catholic tradition.
Big questions
Explore questions of purpose and meaning arising through learning and the liturgical year.
Thinking deeply
Promote critical and higher-order thinking across subjects and phases.
Faith in action
Develop pupils’ advocacy and capacity to become agents of Spirit-filled social transformation.
Progressive professional formation
Three programme levels
Each level explores a different dimension of curriculum design. Delegates may progress through all three, whether new to Building the Kingdom or returning to develop their practice.
Purpose and meaning
Use themes from the liturgical year and big questions to contextualise learning across the curriculum, strengthening existing mapping, Catholic Social Teaching and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
Curriculum connections
Identify wider opportunities across subject areas to embed Catholic Social Teaching and SMSC, ensuring that learning is meaningfully connected with the mission of a Catholic school.
Advocacy and action
Move into greater depth by developing each child’s gifts for the transformation of society, including purposeful oracy projects and Building the Kingdom Talks.
A collaborative programme
What delegates experience
Cross-phase participants work with experienced curriculum developers, including Sr Judith Russi SSMN and members of the National School of Formation.
Develop your curriculum
- Review your school’s bespoke curriculum mapping
- Explore creative approaches across subjects and phases
- Strengthen the relationship between learning and mission
- Plan strategies that move learning into faithful action
Learn with others
- Share developing practice at each event
- Learn from schools at different stages of the journey
- Build a supportive professional network
- Return to deepen practice through further levels
Practical information
Bring Building the Kingdom to your area
Programmes run at venues across the country and can bring together colleagues from different phases and schools.
Please confirm current dates, availability and costs with EducareM before booking. Programme fees are payable in advance.
“Schools are a precious means for making a contribution to the progress of the Church and of society as a whole.”Pope Francis, speaking to students of Jesuit schools in Italy and Albania, 7 June 2013
Build a curriculum that changes lives
Contact EducareM to explore the right Building the Kingdom starting point for your school or local network.
A good disciple is one who stays close enough to be covered in the dust kicked up by the feet of the Rabbi they follow…
Building the Kingdom brick by brick at St Bernadette’s, Kenton, North London…
