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.”

UKS2 – Which people, now and in the past, have shown care, compassion and love.

This week, UKS2 have been looking at how World War 2 started, framing it in a way that care, compassion and love was lacking during this time.

We started by looking at some of the key figures from the war, looking at who they were in charge of and some interesting facts about them. We also looked at what countries were involved in the war and on what side they were on.

While reading our class text ‘Letters from the lighthouse’, we explored what it was like to be an evacuee during the war, creating diary entries based on the events in the book from a characters point of view. The key stage created some really impressive writing, with one of the examples below, well done all!
Hazel class this week have been living the ‘We are stewards of our environment and one anther’ by tiding and enjoying our library time, reading silently and receiving lots of compliments from adults about their excellent behaviour.

We all hope you have enjoyed your week and look forward to showing you more of our amazing work in the future. Thank you for taking the time to read our update.

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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.