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Good Shepherd Primary School and Nursery School, Derry

Welcome to Good Shepherd Primary and Nursery School

Our Vision

Our Vision at Good Shepherd Primary & Nursery School, is for the outstanding provision for each and every child and their family in order for them to reach their full potential.  This is delivered through an inclusive, child-centred Catholic ethos.  Our vision is to utilise the strengths of our staff and wider local community to ensure the holistic needs of our children are catered for. The happiness, safety and wellbeing of our school community is at the heart of all we do.

School Aims

Good Shepherd Primary & Nursery School, promotes high achievement and learning for life by working with children to:

Learn:

  • Promote life long learning amongst our school community
  • Meeting the individual learning needs of all pupils
  • Inclusion at the heart of all we do
  • Promotion of continuous staff development and wellbeing

Believe:

  • To provide a caring, sharing environment based on Christian values
  • To become an extension of the Catholic home
  • To celebrate their self-worth and realise their abilities, achievements, strengths, and personal preferences in order to have a high level of self-esteem
  • To promote each child’s awareness of his/her identity and heritage and have respect for other traditions

Respect:

  • To promote equality and inclusion
  • To develop a sense of fairness, tolerance, respect and responsibility towards ourselves and others
  • To promote an awareness of the need for rules and regulations within the school environment and to encourage respect for them
  • To take ownership of their environment both locally and globally

     Achieve:

  • To provide each child with a broad, balance curriculum allowing each child to achieve his/her potential
  • To develop the academic, physical, social, moral and emotional abilities of each child
  • To always strive for better
  • To develop enquiring minds and a sense of curiosity

We ensure that each child will achieve success through experiencing:

  • A broad, balanced and challenging curriculum
  • A safe, welcoming and stimulating learning environment
  • A varied programme of extra-curricular activities and school visits
  • An ethos that is supportive, encouraging and friendly
  • An effective partnership between school, home and the wider community
  • A variety of teaching approaches and strategies to meet the needs and learning styles of pupils
  • Access to a range of varied and up-to-date resources

We demonstrate our commitment to working as a learning community by:

  • Ongoing self-evaluation to ensure our vision is achieved
  • Working collaborately with all our stakeholders

 We are a rights respecting school and this is central to all that we do.  Child centred provision is paramount.

Our Mission Statement is Learn, Believe, Respect, Achieve.

Mrs Suzann McCafferty (Principal)

Latest News

18th Dec 2024
Dear Parents/Guardians   Please see attached January's newsletter. ...
 
 
 
 
17th Jan 2025
Today our nursery classes were treated to a wellness spa experience day.  They...
 
 
 
 
17th Jan 2025
Well done to our girls gaelic team who today qualified for the indoor finals day....
 
 
 
 
17th Jan 2025
🌟Mrs Grant’s Primary 6 class led our school assembly today as they shared...
 
 
 
 
17th Jan 2025
Today our Primary 1 classes had their puddle suits on and had a wonderful morning...
 
 
 
 
16th Jan 2025
Today accompanied by Mrs McCafferty; two Primary 7 pupils attended St. Eugene’s...
 
 
 
 
15th Jan 2025
Plenty of future golfing stars at Good Shepherd Primary & Nursery School as...
 
 
 
 
15th Jan 2025
The application portal for Nursery and Primary 1 is now open and closes on Friday...
 
 
 
 
14th Jan 2025
The Verbal Arts Centre based in Bishops Street will be providing Beginner English...
 
 
 
 
13th Jan 2025
There are still places left for our new afterschool golf lessons which will commence...
 
 
 
 
13th Jan 2025
Dear Parents/Guardians, Please find attached a copy of The Education Training Inspectorate's...
 
 
 
 
 

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