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.”

Mental Health Awareness Week – Anxiety

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme for this year is anxiety.

Hazel class have been exploring what anxiety is and how it might feel, using real life experiences to guide our discussions.

We then took put in scenarios thinking about what is causing anxiety and what we could do to help.

Next, we discussed strategies about how we can tackle anxiety when it happens and how we can do that in school.

Finally we did an anxiety visualisation exercise, where the children imagined themselves on a beach to help create a relaxed and stress free environment, it worked so well we almost fell asleep!

I’m very proud of how well the children listened and took part in the activities and hopefully they have learnt some very important life skills along the way.

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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.