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Class Teacher: Mr Hajigeorgiou
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We provide an exciting curriculum that prepares children to become active members of society. We aim to inspire all of our pupils, to rise to the challenges that will enable them to develop the skills and personal qualities they need, in order to embrace the future with confidence. St Vincent’s has consistently high standards of achievement. This high achievement is a result of outstanding teaching and learning, hard work from the pupils and support from parents.
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IN YEAR 1 OUR CATHOLIC KEY FIGURE IS MOTHER TERESA
“Peace begins with a smile” – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa is the patron saint of World Youth Day, and the Missionaries of Charity. Her feast day is the 5th September.
Mother Teresa was born in North Macedonia on 26th August 1910. When she was born, she was named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her family were part of the Roman Catholic Church and enjoyed working with the church to help the poor people in their community.
Just like her family, Agnes was very religious and she wanted to help people. When Agnes was only 18, she travelled to Ireland to live in a convent and become a nun. When Agnes arrived at the convent, they gave her the name Sister Teresa.
The convent sent Sister Teresa to India. She was to work there as a missionary to teach everyone about God. Sister Teresa wanted to be a teacher. She hoped that by helping girls to learn to read and write, she could help stop them being so poor. There were some very poor people in India. The convent wanted to make sure girls from these poor families were able to go to school.
In 1973, Sister Teresa made a promise to God and the Church. She promised that she would spend her life trying to help poor people and doing God’s work. After she made this promise, she was given the title ‘Mother’. From then on, she was known as Mother Teresa.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was given the Nobel Peace Prize for all her years of helping, caring and hard work. In the 1980s, Mother Teresa travelled all around the world teaching other people how to help the poor people in their communities. On 5th September 1997, Mother Teresa died. People all around the world were sad to hear about her death.
In 2016, Pope Francis said that Mother Teresa was to become a saint.