St Vincent's Catholic Primary School

“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
Psalm 133.1

Category: International

Utopia adventures in Athens

By Miriam Ridge, St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School, Barnet Utopia in Athens Following our visits to partner schools in Europe and our successful hosting of partner representatives from: Belgium, Bulgaria,

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Thank you from CAFOD!

Thank you for reaching out with love My name is Christine, and I am the Director at CAFOD. I wanted to say a big thank you to you, for your

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Global Scholars

Community Action Project This term, UKS2 classes have been brainstorming and discussing issues affecting our local area. The children have been passionately researching what the problems are, what probable solutions

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Global Scholars

Global Scholars have kicked off in UKS2! The Year 5s and Year 6s have begun their correspondence with their international peers. Some of their peers are from Spain, Kazakhstan, Poland,

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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.