We are pleased to announce that the Understanding Faith July 2026 release is now available.
This release includes updated Primary and Secondary units, new multimedia, improved search tools and a new curriculum mapping feature designed to help teachers locate relevant resources more easily.
During the first half of 2025, the Understanding Faith team have been working on some new features and updated content.
This update will be completed during the school holidays so there is no disruption to your RE lessons. You can expect the following changes to be live in our 2025 midyear update.
There are many wonderful saints whose Feast Days are celebrated in April. In this blog, we touch on 5 of them. Each of these saints displayed unwavering devotion and dedication to their faith, some ultimately dying for their faith.
Maximilian Kolbe was born Raymond Koble, on January 8th, 1894. He was born in Zdunska Wola in central Poland, and as a young boy had a deep spiritual experience that began to set the course for his life. In 1907, he joined the Conventual Franciscans, taking the name of Maximillian.
This Sunday, we celebrate Pentecost. The Solemnity of Pentecost commemorates the Holy Spirit appearing to the Apostles fifty days after the Resurrection of Jesus.
This year, Advent begins on Sunday the 27th of November. During the time between then and Christmas, we prepare for the coming of Jesus. To assist you help your students prep for the coming of Jesus, we have created this interactive Advent calendar to allow you to engage through personal prayer and reflection. Please see below.
World Youth Day is the largest gathering of youth in the world, seeing thousands each time, and in past years, millions. Australia was fortunate enough to host WYD in Sydney, in 2008. Although its Catholic identity is clearly evident, WYD opens its doors to everyone, no matter how close to or distance from the Church they are.
Archaeologists have been working to reconstruct a site in Mosul, an Iraqi city, that was bulldozed as part of the extremists’ systematic destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State group fighters in 2016. This restoration project intends to turn this damaged site into an educational centre.
On the 16th and 17th of June, Janita, Kim and Chloe from the Understanding Faith team attended the National RE Symposium at the International Conference Centre in Darling Harbour. This conference is organised by BBI-TAITE, The Australian Institute of Theological Education, with this year’s theme of ‘Scripture and RE: Teaching and Transformation’.
At the start of the year, we sent out a survey to our subscribers about our resource. We’ve received all the results and have been going through the feedback, to draw out the most common responses, and to gain some insight where we can continue to improve our product. Here is some feedback developed from the results, from our manager, Jacob.