School Ministries
Purpose
To provide students from Year 7 through to Year 13 an opportunity to come together once every term and collaborate on meaningful tasks that will benefit the school community across a number of important areas.
The Ministries
There are four ministries:
- The Ministry of Mental Health & Wellbeing
- The Ministry of Literacy & Learning
- The Ministry of Environment & Sustainability
- The Ministry of Community & Inclusivity
Summer Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of the Community & Inclusivity
This academic year the Ministry of Community and Inclusivity has worked to promote student involvement and and a greater understanding of global issues. We led an insightful assembly for Human Rights Day, raising awareness about global human rights issues and helping to promote the reverse advent calendar. For World Refugee Day, we organised a house challenge Kahoot, to share and build understanding about refugees in a fun and competitive way. Our ministry has launched the first of what we hope become regular Student Voice Surveys so that the ministry focuses on the things wanted most by the school community in the terms to come.
Summer Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of the Environment and Sustainability
This term our ministry has made significant progress towards making our school a leader in sustainability. In March, we hosted Green Day to raise awareness of the actions individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprints, helping to combat global warming. As part of the event, we held a non-uniform day, which raised significant funds for the development of our well-being garden – a project that is now underway. This space aims to support social sustainability in the school by providing students with a safe, calming area to connect with nature, whilst acting as an outdoor teaching space. Currently, we are working on addressing school food waste – an issue which has been raised by our student body – which offers benefits for both the environment and school community.
Winter Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of Learning & Literacy
Our aim as the Learning and Literacy Ministry is to empower our fellow students to excel academically and to realise the value of learning within our school community. During our first few meetings, we have decided on actions we can implement within our school to achieve our aims. This includes setting up various extracurricular clubs led by both older and younger students, particularly focusing on the importance of revision. We have also been reaching out to authors and lecturers to inspire and promote interest in chosen topics through talks or workshops. Currently, we are working on creating revision guides for KS3 (who often miss out on these useful resources) on the core subjects, Maths, English, and Science. We feel that to become academically invested in a subject students need to go further outside the curriculum and we hope to allow all students to do this.
Winter Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of Community & Inclusivity
As the Ministry of Community and Inclusivity, we aim to support our school community and promote inclusivity across our already welcoming school. We believe that the shared values we have are an essential part of being a CCS student. Our first few meetings have seen ideas of how we could bring the wider school community together, with possibilities of more events, house competitions and charity work. The Diana Award has done a lot of work on anti-bullying and ensuring the school is a safe and inclusive space for everyone, and we are keen to support initiatives like this that promote community and inclusion. This term, we also delivered an assembly on human rights to each year group, bringing to light its importance on a global and local scale. Next term, we are going to try a new feedback system to improve student voice, taking on the advice and ideas of our own community to make our school the best it can be with the input from the rest of the school.
Winter Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of Mental Health & Wellbeing
This term, the Ministry of Mental Health & Wellbeing has discussed the changes that we want to see around the school in both our own year groups and the school as a whole, which will create an action plan for our following term together. Currently, we are working on our ministries official display board, so that we can advertise our members and our ethos.
Winter Term 24/25 Update – Ministry of Environment & Sustainability
On the week commencing the 14th of October, the committee worked together to advertise National Recycling Week – spreading awareness about the damage that pollutants and single-use materials can cause to the natural world. To promote conscious recycling both inside and outside the school, in January, we are hosting a House Recycling Challenge for all year groups – a week of single-use plastic collection to instigate positive habits to reduce pollution. Later on in the year, we are planning to construct a well-being garden on the school grounds, making a safe space for students to relax in nature, socialise and escape from the sometimes overwhelming school environment.