“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
Psalm 133.1
It was World Environment Day on Sunday 5th June 2022, this day marks the challenges our world faces and celebrates inventions that provide a solution to these problems. The 2022
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,
Over the last five weeks, leading up to the celebration of Easter, we have been taking inspiration from Pope Francis’ encyclical ‘Laudato Si’ and spent time time looking after ourselves,
Between 23rd – 25th March 2022, St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School in Mill Hill welcomed our EU partners as part of the Erasmus+ KA2 Utopia project. During the meeting we
Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 took place from 7-13 February and we celebrated it over two weeks. This year’s theme was Growing Together. We encouraged children (and adults) to consider how
Today, during our lunch break, children from KS1 and LKS2 competed in a school cross country race. Over 90 children competed in a series of laps around our wonderful field!
As part of LKS2’s project, we have been reading James and the Giant Peach. James becomes friends with different insects who are part of the invertebrate family. We have been
UKS2 have been reading ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. In one of the early chapters, the children build a raft using materials they find in the Rainforest to help them
Lower Key Stage 2 started their projects last week: “What do we need to help us grow?” The children began by reading the first chapter of James and the Giant
To kick-off their Autumn Term Project, the children in UKS2 paid a visit to the forest last weekend with Mr McKaye. They talked about what they thought was needed in
On 6th February this year, Her Majesty The Queen became
By Miriam Ridge, St Vincent’s Catholic Primary School, Barnet Utopia
The Girls’ football team pulled off an amazing victory against
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.