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.”

Reception’s time in the forest.

From wet, cold mornings; to dry, bright, beautiful ones – the children in EYFS have made the most of every moment in our amazing forest. This weekly adventure has helped develop the children’s skills in various areas of the early year curriculum; from Personal Social Emotional Development (being confident to try new activities and explore new environments as well as managing their own personal needs by changing into their forest clothes), Understanding The World (exploring the natural world surrounding them). The children have too been able to witness and understand important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including seasons and changes in the weather.

The children have proved to be excellent stewards of the environment particularly on these visits and took great pride when planting our very own trees. They have shown amazing care and attention to the vast wildlife surrounding us, along with the plants and trees too.

This year, the parent’s of our children have been extremely generous with their time and efforts as they helped Mr Mckaye develop the new area of the forest school. This took a lot of time, energy and hard work and we would like to thank you for your support in doing this. This term, we have thoroughly enjoyed parents accompanying us down to the forest and joining in with their children’s learning and development – thank you!

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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.