Ethos Team

Our Ethos Team play a huge role at St Matthew's and they contribute towards the upholding of our Christian Vision, making sure our school continues to be a very special place. The young leaders in our Ethos Team live out our Christian Values of Love, Friendship, Creativity and Respect. 

 

Our Ethos Team work alongside our school leaders and school practitioners. They place an incredibly valuable role as the pupil voice of our Christian distinctiveness and they meet weekly to discuss more ways that we can serve each other within our school family and our communities. They also:

Take a look below at our Ethos Team galleries to see some of the work we get up to around school. 

 

Ethos Team opened and closed our Harvest Service at St Thomas's Church on 5th October. We opened with prayers and guided everyone to think about the reasons we were gathered together in church. 

   

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Operation Christmas Child - November 2022

Ethos Team raised money for Samaritan's Purse - Operation Christmas Child 2022 by having a non-uniform day in October. Children were invited to wear red and green for a £1 donation. We raised a huge £253! Ethos Team met to decide what we would purchase for our shoeboxes and we made shopping lists, making sure that any items we planned to purchase adhered to the Samaritan's Purse guidelines. We then visited B&M Bargains in Bolton Town Centre after school to buy our chosen items. The week after, we met back at school to pack and wrap our shoeboxes. It was a very busy couple of meetings, but we are really proud of the jam packed shoeboxes we put together, and we hope they bring joy and happiness to those in need.

 

Ethos Team arranged for every class to create beautiful Christmas cards for Bolton at Home this year. The cards will be put into winter activity packs for the elderly across Bolton. We hope our Christmas cards bring a smile to the faces of those who receive them. 

       

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Advent Service - November 2022

Our Advent Service on Wednesday 30th November was beautiful and got us feeling very Christmassy! Ethos Team opened and closed our service and every class contributed towards it. We had signing to music, songs, drama, art work, reflections and prayer. We joined together in song and shared moments of peace as we reflected on how the birth of Jesus brought light into our lives.

 

On Friday 9th December, Ethos Team delivered worship to the whole school, launching our new Christian Vision 'Let all that you do be done in love' 1 Corinthians 16:14. We had met before to prepare our worship, choose the songs, write prayers and talk about how we would share our new school vision with the whole school. We talked about Paul's letter to the Corinthians, and how we would use this teaching to inform how we were going to live out our new vision at school. 

Here are some of our reflections on our new vision.