“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
Psalm 133.1
The children had a fabulous day, dressing up for digits to raise money for the NSPCC. All classes enjoyed applying their maths skills to solve fun challenges and had a
Silver Birch have enjoyed using a range of resources and strategies to solve place value problems this week!
Lower Key Stage 2 enjoyed our forest learning experience. We completed our project entry event, exploring sound and how sound travels over distance. We were able to talk about how
In Silver Birch we enjoyed making Roman Shields to support our study of The Romans.
We enjoyed our Spring term Project Based Learning journey and finding out the answer to our driving question ‘Can you put yourself in somebody elses shoes? Throughout the project we
Key Stage One really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. We dressed up as our favourite characters and enjoyed a fun day filled with book orientated activities!
In Key Stage One we have enjoyed the introduction to our project this term. We are beginning to understand what judgement is and how this affects others. We know that
We have enjoyed finding the answer to our driving question for our Autumn term project ‘How do our mistakes help us to learn?’ We enjoyed exploring a range of texts
Last week, our Vincentian Value of the week was ‘we
From September 2024, St Vincent’s Nursery Class will replace Langdale
At St Vincent’s it is our INTENT is to enable ALL children to thrive through the opportunities we provide them with, in order to:
St Vincent’s is a 1.5 form entry school with 285 children ranging from 4 -11. Children come predominantly from the parishes of Sacred Heart in Mill Hill and St Anthony’s in Edgware.
Children come from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds, speak 17 different languages and hail from 26 different ethnic groups. The curriculum we present, and promote, to the children is an endeavour to reflect these differences by providing opportunities to explore the different countries, languages and customs our children are part of through the projects they investigate. We have looked closely at the context of our school, the backgrounds of the children and how life is for a child growing up in North London today. We have used the underlying principles of our Catholic Faith and the example of our namesake St Vincent to create a set of values which lie at the heart of our curriculum.
We are aware of the changing nature of society and the pressures faced by young children as they enter the next stage of their education. The rise in Mental Health related issues has been widely documented across the media. Therefore, issues such as internet safety and the enormous impact across society of social media are at the forefront of our minds when planning our curriculum. With the current worldwide concerns relating to Covid 19, racial justice, equality and diversity, as well as gender and economic background, we feel it is our duty to prepare the children through a concerted focus on building independence, resilience and communication skills linked to our Vincentian Values.