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.”

Rights Respecting

Rights Respecting

UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA) provides a framework to help schools to use CRC as the basis for their ethos. In a rights respecting school, children learn about their rights and the responsibilities that are implied. … They learn that if they have rights, they need to respect the rights of others.

Click below to find out what rights respecting  school is:

https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/the-rrsa/what-is-a-rights-respecting-school/ 

Here is a link to the rights:

https://www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/uncrcchilldfriendlylanguage.pdf 

This is a link to videos created by schools who have become a rights respecting​ school:

https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/resources/ideas-from-schools/videos-created-schools/ 

Here are our current Rights Respecting Ambassadors:

Please look below to find out the latest news in this area:

Exploring the RAF Museum

We are excited to share the wonderful experience our Year 5 and 6 students had during their recent trip to the RAF Museum in Colindale. It was a day packed...

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Amazing work from UKS2

Children in Upper Key Stage Two have been exploring the second account of creation and what it means to be ‘made in Yahweh’s image’. The children have also been exploring...

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Poplar Class in the Forest

This week, Poplar class once again enjoyed an adventurous morning in the forest, where they engaged in a variety of exciting activities. children eagerly built huts from branches and leaves,...

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Dr Bike is back

Due to the success of the Dr Bikes in Barnet, particularly among parents/carers and children, these will be running again from July, at the following locations/dates/times on a rotating basis...

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Children’s Mental Health Week

Highlights from Children’s Mental Health Week  5-11th February 2024 ‘My Voice Matters’  We are thrilled to share with you the fantastic activities and initiatives that took place during Mental Health...

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Litter Picking

Our Mini Vinnies have been busy again this afternoon, keeping our school grounds tidy. Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, regularly forms part of our discussion during our meetings and today,...

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DR BIKE – Free Sessions

Barnet Council’s Parking team has arranged free Dr Bike sessions, run by qualified bicycle mechanics in December. Cyclists can take along their bicycles to have a free safety check, including...

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Liturgical Calendar in Key Stage One

This week the children have been preparing for the season of Advent by learning about the Liturgical Calendar, the different events, colours and symbols associated with each season. They produced...

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ITV and DfE

Well done to the children and Miss Scelsi who appeared on ITV’s ‘Britain get talking’ mental health campaign. The Department for Education also asked Miss Scelsi to share a blog...

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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:

  • Live their lives by the Gospel and Vincentian values instilled in them at school.
  • Understand that everyone has the right and responsibility to live in our world constructively and ensure that we leave it in a better state than when we entered it by living and working through the principles of Catholic Social Teaching in line with the UNCRC (United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child)
  • Experience creativity across the curriculum through specialist art and dance lessons and opportunities to take part in art, music, dance and creative writing competitions.
  • Know the joy of outdoor learning, the rich biodiversity within our school grounds and locality and develop a responsibility for the environment we share as stewards.
  • Understand their place in the world, globally and locally, knowing the history of our school, Mill Hill and the Daughters of Charity and knowing where our diverse community members have their roots across the world.
  • Be ready and well-prepared for their next steps in life, having high aspirations for themselves and for others because they have experienced success and a belief in learning from mistakes.
  • Have a life-long curiosity, stimulated by the driving questions of Project Based Learning approach to the curriculum fostering inquiry and independent learning skills, which give confidence to ask big questions about the world.
  • Be literate and numerate having experienced a rich variety of texts to stimulate and excite the mind while developing skills in investigating and problem solving to enable them to excel in their future passions.
  • Be confident and happy young people that have a broad understanding and tolerance of the world and others around them with excellent communication skills honed by their experience of Restorative Justice and respect of the dignity and wishes of the individual.

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.