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

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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Utopia – Erasmus+ KA2 Project findings.

Developing skills for cross-curricular teaching in a community-based and outdoor environment. St Vincent’s participation in a KA201 Erasmus+ Utopia project has come to an end after two years! The main

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Oak Class – Mass of Remembrance

Oak Class joined morning Mass with Sacred Heart parish. We celebrated the feast of St Martin de Porres and Armistice Day of Remembrance. We held 2 minutes silence to honour

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UKS2 psalms and evacuees

This week in UKS2 we have been looking at what it was like to be an evacuee during World War 2. We’ve listened to primary sources of information such as

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Utopia in Wales!

By Miriam Ridge Our final partner visit, the culmination and highlight of the Utopia Outdoor Learning Project, was hosted between 18th – 23rd September 2022 by Carmarthenshire Council in Wales

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Poetry Performances

Today during assembly all classes performed our chosen poems to the school. Oak class performed the poem “If All the Seas were One Sea”. It is a classic poem that,

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UKS2 Marching into PBL

Upper Key Stage 2 began their new project last week based on the Vincentian Value, ‘We are compassionate, caring and loving’ and their driving question, ‘How can we be more

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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.