Ethos Committee

Meet the Chair and Vice Chair of the Ethos Committee.

 

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With the help of the rest of the committee, the Ethos group plan to organise activities that promote our school vision and values. In their first meeting of the new academic year, they shared their hopes for the future and eagerly all volunteered to take a lead role. They explained to Vicar Liz how the committee is organised and are keen to begin planning worships for the rest of the school. 

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Ethos Committee Meeting Minutes - 28th April 2025

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The first job for our meeting was to thank chair CE for being a wonderful chair of our committee and we said hello and welcome to BP who is taking over as chair for the rest of the year. We also thanked EH for being a fantastic vice-chair and voted in CE as our new deputy. 

As a committee, we decided that we wanted to do something that would remind everyone of our newly decorated prayer garden, so we came up with the idea to hold a Bible story time each day in the prayer garden. In this meeting, we set up a timetable to begin next week.

Mrs Smith asked us if we would like to hold a worship for the rest of the school and we decided to remind the children about how to shine like a star. We are going to hold a worship next week and play charades with the school - can they guess how to shine like a star?

CC then came up with the idea that we could ask the children to decorate stars with the ideas!

We can't wait!

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2025 - a new year with more decisions to make!

The Ethos Committee met on the 29th January and the following points were discussed:
*The PTA have kindly paid for new seating in our prayer garden and we have ordered more interactive acvtivities to encourage others to use the reflection area and pray. The Ethos Committee are going to ask Vicar Liz to open it once completed.

*Instead of pupils nominating each other to be a star, they would like people to write on the worship back pack prayer notes and write a short prayer about the person they are nominating. 

*To encourage the use of our prayer back packs, the committee have planned to ask parents to create a prayer on Friday using the prayer pebbles.

*The committee would like bubbles to be blown after a prayer to spread the prayer around.

*The committee are going to carry the back packs around at play time and encourage pupils to use them.

 

 

 

 

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The Ethos Committee leads our Christmas Celebrations

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To support our learning about Advent and the Christmas Story, the Ethos Committee have created an online Advent Calendar: a post each day throughout Advent providing us all with some pause for thought. The full Advent Calendar can be found on our school Facebook page.

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The Ethos Committee run a stall at our Christmas Fayre

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The children decided it would be lovely to run a stall at our Christmas Fayre. They wanted people to have an opportunity to say a prayer to thank God for everything wonderful in their lives and to pray for others. The children organised a sweet prayer station and also baked cross cookies for children to decorate. Fantastic leadership on display!

 

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Previous Ethos Committee events:

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Christmas 2022

Toy Donation Stall

The Ethos Committee have decided to help our school families by running a well-loved toy donation stall: they would like families to donate second-hand toys they no long want/need on Friday 9th December and then they will run a stall on Monday 12th December at 3pm for parents/children to come and help themselves to a gift for free that they can give to another.

It is so nice to see our pupils thinking of others at this special time.

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January 2023

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In our committee meeting, we have written a special prayer for Celebration Worship:

Celebration Worship Prayer

Father God,

Thank you for our school: the children, the staff, Winc and the parents.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to shine like a star.

Thank you for our friends who make us smile and support us.

We are sorry that there are people who are not as fortunate as us.

We are sorry for the mistakes that we have made.

Please help us learn from our mistakes and please help those around the world who are not as fortunate as us.

Amen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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