St Vincent's Catholic Primary School

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

First Mental Health Hub Forum at St Vincent’s!

St Vincent’s hosted the first forum of their mental health hub on 26.1.23 which was very positive and supported by Barnet Integrated Clinical Team (BICS) and the Resilient Schools Programme. Thank you to BICS, resilient schools and the senior mental health leads across Barnet who attended.

We discussed:

  • The role of senior mental health leads
  • What free provision we can use in schools
  • How to use the DfE training in school 

          -Support with whole school mental health approach (from the DfE training).

  • Support with tools to measure children and staff’s wellbeing 
  • Understand what additional support is needed for senior mental health leads

The next meeting will be in March, check our blog or the school circular for the next confirmed date. We hope to see you there!

*Please note: Primary and Secondary schools are welcome to attend and we encourage external agencies that support mental health and wellbeing in schools to email emma.scelsi@stvincents.barnet.sch.uk to attend the next one and/or find out more information.

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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.