Taunton Catholic North Faith Formation. One of the goals of the collaborative Pastoral Plan was to develop a single Faith Formation program for Taunton Catholic North. It was not possible to do this last year, but it will be fulfilled this year. This means that we will no longer have a St. Mary’s Faith Formation Program, a St. Anthony Faith Formation Program, or St. Jude Faith Formation Program. Instead we will have a single program for Taunton Catholic North.
We have a phone number for the Collaborative Faith Formation Office which is 508-824-4545. This was the Faith Formation number for St Jude. Ideally, it would be better to get a new number, but this is too good of a number not to use. The St. Anthony Faith Formation number will be forwarded to this number.
We also have a new email address for collaborative Faith Formation program which is FF@cntaunton.org. The three Directors also have email addresses at our domain name: Jane@cntaunton.ort, Beth@cntaunton.org, annalee@cntaunton.org
We have a phone number for the Collaborative Faith Formation Office which is 508-824-4545. This was the Faith Formation number for St Jude. Ideally, it would be better to get a new number, but this is too good of a number not to use. The St. Anthony Faith Formation number will be forwarded to this number.
We also have a new email address for collaborative Faith Formation program which is FF@cntaunton.org. The three Directors also have email addresses at our domain name: Jane@cntaunton.ort, Beth@cntaunton.org, annalee@cntaunton.org
Overview of Faith Formation this Year. No doubt many are wondering about the format of Faith Formation in the coming year with the pandemic. We are going to use a combination of at-home learning, remote learning, and limited in-class learning.
Grade 2 will be a hybrid model. Some at home and most in class.
Grades 1, 3-5 will use an at-home learning only with the parents as the teachers. We will use Pflaum gospel weeklies as our text. These will be available on-line, or packets of printed weeklies for those who do not have the internet. They are also available in Spanish.
Since parents are going to be the primary teachers in these grades we want to provide training and support for them in this ministry. We will have a series of 4 training sessions through the year to review with them Church doctrine so that they can better teach it to their children. We are planning to have a support team of resource people to stay in contact with the parents, and answer any questions they may have about Church doctrine. Finally, we hope to put together a parent advisor board to guide the development of this at-home learning.
Grades 6-8 will involve remote learning with the development of a virtual Edge program. Edge is the Middle School version of Life-teen. Our plan is to live stream presentations and videos, and use google meet for small group discussion. This virtual Edge will be held on Sunday night before the 7pm Mass, and participants would be encourage to attend the 7pm Mass. This year the three middle school grades will focus upon Jesus and sacraments to simplify the program. Class will be held from 5:25-6:30pm.
We are hoping that grade 9 will involve classroom learning, not remote learning. This decision will be determined by the parents in the survey. Since we are using Edge in middle school, which is a Life Teen program, we will use the Life Teen Confirmation program: Purpose.
Grade 2 will be a hybrid model. Some at home and most in class.
Grades 1, 3-5 will use an at-home learning only with the parents as the teachers. We will use Pflaum gospel weeklies as our text. These will be available on-line, or packets of printed weeklies for those who do not have the internet. They are also available in Spanish.
Since parents are going to be the primary teachers in these grades we want to provide training and support for them in this ministry. We will have a series of 4 training sessions through the year to review with them Church doctrine so that they can better teach it to their children. We are planning to have a support team of resource people to stay in contact with the parents, and answer any questions they may have about Church doctrine. Finally, we hope to put together a parent advisor board to guide the development of this at-home learning.
Grades 6-8 will involve remote learning with the development of a virtual Edge program. Edge is the Middle School version of Life-teen. Our plan is to live stream presentations and videos, and use google meet for small group discussion. This virtual Edge will be held on Sunday night before the 7pm Mass, and participants would be encourage to attend the 7pm Mass. This year the three middle school grades will focus upon Jesus and sacraments to simplify the program. Class will be held from 5:25-6:30pm.
We are hoping that grade 9 will involve classroom learning, not remote learning. This decision will be determined by the parents in the survey. Since we are using Edge in middle school, which is a Life Teen program, we will use the Life Teen Confirmation program: Purpose.
Who will coordinate the program? The directors from the three Parishes were offered a position to coordinate a different aspect of the collaborative program. Jane Santos, Annalee Nystrom, and Beth Hoye have chosen to stay involved in the new program, but Rosana Rosado-Ruiz has chosen to resign. We thank her for her years of service to the St. Mary’s Faith Formation Program.
Registration. You can register for Faith formation in two ways: printed registration form or on Line. During this pandemic we encourage families to register and pay on-line during the pandemic. There is less contact this way. Click here to register on-line.
The payment for 1 child is $30.00, 2 children $50.00, 3 or more $60.00. We are now using WeShare for on-line payment which is the on-line payment system for all three Parishes. Click on the appropriate Parish link below.
To download and print the registration form click here. The complete form can be brought to any of the Parish offices during business hours, or brought to the St. Anthony Faith Formation Office on Tuesdays or Thursdays from 9am to noon. On-line registration is not yet finished.
The payment for 1 child is $30.00, 2 children $50.00, 3 or more $60.00. We are now using WeShare for on-line payment which is the on-line payment system for all three Parishes. Click on the appropriate Parish link below.
To download and print the registration form click here. The complete form can be brought to any of the Parish offices during business hours, or brought to the St. Anthony Faith Formation Office on Tuesdays or Thursdays from 9am to noon. On-line registration is not yet finished.
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Remind
Remind is a free texting service used by many schools and sports leagues because it is free and easy to use. St. Jude used Remind last year to communicate with parents and the entire program will use it this year. Last year’s groups from St Jude have already been transferred to this year’s files. To sign-up for Remind please follow the instructions below Registration for Remind is done by texting. Once you do so, you will receive reminders by text message. You can also choose to have the messages delivered to your computer via the app. Each class has its own Remind group. You must send a text message for each class group that you want to join.
The number that you text to is the same for all of the groups: 81010 (or 508-401-7999). The message that you send varies by group.
For grade 9 text @21tcn9
For grade 8 text @21tcn8
For grade 7 text @21tcn7
For grade 6 text @21tcn6
For grade 5 text @21tcn5
For grade 4 text @21tcn4
For grade 3 text @21tcn3
For grade 2 text @21tcn2
For grade 1 text @21tcn1
Remind is a free texting service used by many schools and sports leagues because it is free and easy to use. St. Jude used Remind last year to communicate with parents and the entire program will use it this year. Last year’s groups from St Jude have already been transferred to this year’s files. To sign-up for Remind please follow the instructions below Registration for Remind is done by texting. Once you do so, you will receive reminders by text message. You can also choose to have the messages delivered to your computer via the app. Each class has its own Remind group. You must send a text message for each class group that you want to join.
The number that you text to is the same for all of the groups: 81010 (or 508-401-7999). The message that you send varies by group.
For grade 9 text @21tcn9
For grade 8 text @21tcn8
For grade 7 text @21tcn7
For grade 6 text @21tcn6
For grade 5 text @21tcn5
For grade 4 text @21tcn4
For grade 3 text @21tcn3
For grade 2 text @21tcn2
For grade 1 text @21tcn1