"Love God, love yourself love your neighbour."
LUKE 10:27
Ethos Leadership Team
ELT
Meet our Ethos Leadership Team
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ELT Presentation to Local Governing Board July 2024
ELT wrote and delivered a presentation to Bishop Bridgeman LGB outlining the children's leadership structure, the work they have carried out and their ideas and plans for next academic year. You can download their powerpoint below.
Dear God, thank you for bringing us together today. We pray for Bishop Bridgeman, celebrating and giving thanks for a wonderful year. We pray for our different Ethos groups and as Ethos Leadership Team that we carry out our role with responsibility as servant leaders. We pray for the Governors meeting today, that the needs of our children and families are always at the heart of decision making.
Amen
Welcome to our Ethos Leadership Team Progress Report. We meet as many lunchtimes as we can every week and attend our ELT club after school on Thursdays. This year at Bishop Bridgeman we have changed our structure to accommodate our leadership team.We have turned the library into our Ethos Headquarters, where we work and meet the other Ethos groups. Here are our Ethos Leadership Team and together with Canon Pilling manage and support the Ethos work of our school. We have Ethos leaders, prayer space leaders, shades ambassadors, children’s chaplains and spirit blazers. As you can see as an ELT, we are the umbrella group to support all the others. ELT members support each group so when we come together, we can see how all the groups fit together.Our school vision is adapted from Luke 12 Love God, Love Yourself and Love Your Neighbour. Our Christian Vision is rooted through Luke 10:27 “Jesus said; Love God, Love yourself, Love your neighbour.” The Parable of the Good Samaritan underpins that vision and symbolises what we stand for as a school. We use this vision to develop our school community into a place of love; where people put kindness and others first. The vision is broken down into five key components that help our school community understand how they can live and breathe the vision through daily life at school and at home.As a leadership group we have looked at where the vision is in action in our school. We worked as a group writing our ideas on post it notes as you can see. We have a typed-up document for you.
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Doing simple things that mean the most like “Good Morning”, a smile or even “Hello”
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To not copy someone’s bad behaviour and set an example for them.
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Holding the door for others
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Helping people even if you don’t know them
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If someone were to fall help them up.
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Challenge sexism and racism
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If someone is sad try to cheer them up by doing something good.
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We use kind words
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Children’s Leadership – children’s voice matters
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Caring for children and teachers
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Fundraising money for charities
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Making others aware of injustice in the world
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We use our manners
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If people have lots of things and they drop something we help them
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The golden rule is to love others and help them no matter what
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Always be kind and helpful to each other
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We hold anti-bullying weeks in school
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Don’t be a bystander
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We study all religions because we care for all religions
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We speak up for people even if you don’t know them
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We have Children’s Chaplain and Shades Ambassadors to help others if they are worried
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We look after everyone’s mental health
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We have internet safety day/ week. We learn about online safety every year.
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We have ELT to manage all the other groups and support them doing their job.
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We have worry monsters and worry boxes in our classrooms.
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Junior Leadership Team is another way for children to express their ideas and feelings.
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We take action to anything that’s wrong or unacceptable and unconscious bias.
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We hold Speak Up and Speak Out Days and have a school pledge we sign
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Every week we have picture news to debate issues like injustice and inequality
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We don’t judge others who don’t have a religion but encourage them to reflect
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We don’t have a right way to pray because there is no right way to pray
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We pray at lunch time and home time
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In every class we have a reflection area with Windows Doors and Mirrors where we can reflect or pray
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Children’s Chaplains support prayer and reflection on the yard and in the classrooms
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We have training for Children’s Chaplains and Prayer space Leaders
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Wiggle Worship helps children to pray
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Every day we have worship where we pray together and have the opportunity to pray privately
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Trust month of prayer
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We are brave and stand up for each other even people you don’t know.
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Help one and other
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Never give up when you make a mistake
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We are a team of courageous advocates encouraging all our children and staff to become agents of change
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Do not judge anyone but judge fairly
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We talk about injustice and challenge it
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Help others in need and be kind to all
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Be brave and volunteer to help the environment
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We challenge racism and stereotypes
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We challenge unconscious bias – racial justice project by Spirit Blazers
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Be passionate about your dreams
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Encourage people to believe in themselves
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Give up time to help others
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We do Little People Big Dreams
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Bishop Bridgeman three R’s
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We have many children’s leadership groups
- Ethos Leadership Team
- Shades Ambassadors
- Ethos Leaders
- Prayer Space Leaders
- Children’s Chaplains
- Spirit Blazers
- Junior Leadership Team
- Online Safety team
- Eco warriors
- School ambassadors
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Children’s voice matters
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Recycling
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Helping everyone even though it is hard work
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Ethos Explorers 2 year research project with Liverpool Hope university
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Fundraising for charity
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Praying not only at school but everywhere
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Be a Good Samaritan
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Put the needs of others before yourself
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Teachers teach us because of their passion
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Our parents go to work to earn money for us
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Setting a good example even if it is hard work and is a big responsibility
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Teachers give up their time to help us
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Litter picking on the field and in the local area
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It looks easy being a monitor but it is very hard work
Ethos Leadership Ground Rules
As a group we have decided as a team our ground rules for when we work together.
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Listen to one another
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No idea is a silly idea
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Stand up for each other
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Show respect to everyone
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Be positive
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Follow the three R’s
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Have the right to reflect and pass
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Demonstrate servant leadership
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Treat other how you want to be treated – The Golden Rule
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HAVE FUN!
Wiggle Worship
We support Canon Pilling to deliver Wiggle Worship. Next academic year we will take over and lead some of the Wiggle Worships and plan them with canon Pilling.
We have revisited our missional approach.
We spent an afternoon with Canon Pilling looking at the amazing research project that the Ethos Explorers did with Fr Matt and Liverpool Hope University. We looked at the recommendations that the group left with you as an LGB.
We decided to put recommendation 1 and 2 together and design and publish a monthly Ethos Newsletter to promote the vision, values and key massages of our Ethos work and continue to build on the work of our former Ethos Leaders. We have brought you a copy of our first edition and we are now working on July’s newspaper that will go out at the end of term.
We have planned 5 super learning days and now need the opportunity to speak to Mr Lonsdale about when we can do them next academic year.
1. Passport to faith
2. The 5 elements of our vision
3.Shades/ anti-racism day
4. Environment- God’s Creation/ global warning
5. Christian Values
We are working on an Ethos policy for school but now want to involve Mr Lonsdale and Mr McKean.
We would like to ask you at the end of our presentation what as an LGB have you done/ continue to do as guardian to ensure that the missional approach of Ethos lives on. We will give you a little thinking time and ask you at the end.
We have decided as a group and with the other groups to have a month of prayer in September and we spoke to Canon Pilling about all the schools in our Trust doing it
September 2024 will be holding
a Trust month of prayer lead by Ethos
Leaders/ teams across our Trust.
Week 1- Global
Week 2 – United Kingdom
Week 3- Bolton
Week 4 – Our individual schools,
school communities’ families and friends.
We have a badge for yo
What is happening in 2024-2025?
1. Children’s Chaplains Training Day with 6 schools
2. ELT + CC will train Prayer Space Leaders
3. Presenting at Christian Leadership Course
4. September 2024 Trust Month of Prayer
5. Write and publish a monthly Ethos Newspaper
6. Leading Worship every half term
7. Designing and making activities for school, events, super learning days and for children at home.
8. 5 Super Learning Days
9. Monitoring the impact of our groups and the work they do.
10. Reporting to SLT, LGB and Trust Board
11. Eco fashion show highlighting the injustice of plastic waste and climate change
Much more that we haven't thought of yet!!
Ethos Leadership Team presenting at Local Governing Board in July 2024
Ethos Leadership Team looked closely at the recommendations left by the research carried out by the Ethos Explorers group. In response to two of the recommendations from the research ELT now publish a monthly Ethos Newspaper.
To see the full research project click the button below.
