St Vincent's Catholic Primary School

“Caritas Christi Urget Nos –

The love of Christ urges us to care for each other and strive for excellence in everything we do.”

Author: Michael Burson

Parent Mental Health Day

The theme for this year’s Parent Mental Health Day is #BuildFamilyResilience, focusing on how parents and carers can successfully adapt to challenging life situations, and deal with their own stress

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Our School Nativity Scene

Over the last few weeks children across the school have visited the school Nativity scene in the library. Today Oak class were together to say a prayer and sang a

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Forest School

This week Oak Class enjoyed our Forest School outdoor learning experience – we had so much fun! We joined Mr McKaye, Miss Anna and Miss Regan on our adventures in

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Anti-bullying week

Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event which aims to raise awareness of bullying and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it. This year the theme is ‘Reach

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Bikeability

Year 3 and 4 completed their level 1 and level 2 of Bikeability. The Bikeability website informed us that, ‘Bikeability cycle training equips children with vital life skills. Pupils not

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Global Scholars in UKS2

Global Scholars is a programme children in year 5 and 6 complete (we have been doing this for the last 7 years!). They communicate directly in e-classrooms with peers across

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UKS2 Memorial Walk to the Cenotaph

As part of UKS2’s project ‘How can we show compassion, care and love to others?’, the children have been learning about conflict, which can result in war if we do

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Curriculum Intent

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:

Curriculum Context

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.