St Vincent's Catholic Primary School

“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
Psalm 133.1

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:

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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KS1 Update

Children in KS1 have been learning all about the Church, the features of a church and how we can learn from our mistakes through coding.

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Parent Mental Health Day

The theme for this year’s Parent Mental Health Day is #BuildFamilyResilience, focusing on how parents and carers can successfully adapt to challenging life situations, and deal with their own stress...

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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.