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.”

Feast of Sts Peter and Paul – 29th June 2023.

Today we have been celebrating the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul- a Holy day of Obligation.

LKS2 celebrated this feast with parishioners at 10am mass this morning at Sacred Heart Church, Mill Hill. Oak Class did not walk to Mass at Sacred Heart today due to inclemental weather and a large number of children without coats. They did celebrate with 9am Mass at St Anthony’s in Edgware via video link. KS1 and UKS2 classes also took part in mass online.

Help me, O Lord, to increase in faith and trust.

Where Your presence is but a spark in me,

fan it into a flame that brightens other people’s lives.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for me.

Amen

This morning’s tweet from Catholic Education Service @CathEdService reminds us: “St Peter holds a key to mirror Jesus’ words that Peter was given the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. He was the first Pope. St Paul holds a book to show how important his writings in the Bible are. Both made mistakes in their lives, but both turned their lives around. We can too!”

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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.