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.”

Other People’s Shoes

We enjoyed our Spring term Project Based Learning journey and finding out the answer to our driving question ‘Can you put yourself in somebody elses shoes?

Throughout the project we focused on judgement and how it is wrong to make unfair assumptions based on first impressions. We understand how judgements can affect ourselves and others and how empathy is important to understand how others are feeling.

We enjoyed looking at stories where characters were judged or showed judgement to others. We analysed these stories and produced some great creative writing pieces! We studied Martin Luther King and how he and other historical figures fought for justice against judgement.

We know that society has become more inclusive over the years and how equality and tolerance has changed. We really enjoyed putting ourselves in the shoes of a Paralympian, creating posters, and making mind maps showing our learning journey and using our DT skills to make an inclusive toy at the end of our project.!

Here is an example of a physcial mind map showing our learning journey.

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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.