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.”

What do we need to help us grow? LKS2 Autumn

As we come towards the end of this autumn term, it’s important that  we reflect on what the children have learnt. Our wonderful children in LKS2 have been investigating the Vincentian value ‘We believe in practical hands-on hard work and we learn from our mistakes.’ They have answered the question ‘what do we need to help us grow?’ We hoped this would give them a better sense of who they are and what they need to do to be the people they want to be.

They began by looking at how our faith helps us to grow. The children investigated the life of St Vincent and how our values encourage our spiritual and personal growth.

The children then also looked at how our rights help our growth and they looked closely at the United Nations convention of the child and how we both have rights and responsibilities which must be respected. The children then compared these rights to James from Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant peach to see how he is treated and they investigated how this may affect him and looked at his emotional and social development across the book.

The children had studied all about the personal and social developments that are needed to help us flourish, how we can support others to grow safely and then investigated what we need to survive and thrive in our own bodies. They investigated the key elements of survival and what we need to survive, they also investigated different animals and their habitats.

The children also went on an invertebrate hunt to find these animals.

Exploring the outdoors further, the children were fascinated by the different parts of plants, how they grow and the different life cycles they experience. They also looked at the water cycle and how this process is an essential part of our survival and the growth of animals and plants alike. This process is an essential part of our survival and the growth of animals and plants alike.

Finally, the children looked at how James has grown over the course of the book, how we grow and they took on his role to gauge how he felt at the beginning and end of the book.

Please look below for the children’s take on what they have learnt about how we grow.

Thank you for you continued support, we wish you a happy and Holy Christmas

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LKS2 Team

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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.