Each September, children from EYS - Year 6, of any faith or none, are invited to join the School Mission Team; a group of children who meet to act as prayer leaders across the school. Their role is to inspire and encourage others to live out and respect the school mission and virtues, to live by their words and actions and to learn more about prayer and the virtues of Jesus.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Mission Team
- Lead class prayer daily.
- Being aware of the changing liturgical seasons, visiting classrooms to help with monitoring of the liturgical colours and seasonal prayers for the class prayer tables.
- Learning about and experiencing types of prayer, for example Lectio Divina and the Examen; then going to each class to share the prayer with the other children.
- Planning and leading assemblies.
- Preparing for Mass; e.g. setting up the Mass, reading etc.
- Representing St John Rigby at the annual Diocesan Schools' Mass.
- Discussing ideas about how to further involve the school in ethos activities.
- Learning about current Church activities.
- Helping to organise and lead key initiatives; e.g. Harvest Food Collection.