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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

1st Sep 2025
Please see newsletter attached.
 
 
 
 
26th Sep 2025
Primary 5 is off to a fantastic start! The children have been showcasing their creativity...
 
 
 
 
26th Sep 2025
Introducing Mrs Warne's Nursery Class of 2025-26! In Mrs Warne's class it is a joyful...
 
 
 
 
26th Sep 2025
Congratulations to our fantastic students who have been recognised for their hard...
 
 
 
 
26th Sep 2025
Mrs Wilson's Primary 5 class had the opportunity to work with a group of mature...
 
 
 
 
24th Sep 2025
Our free fruit breaks are being well received around the classrooms.  Great...
 
 
 
 
22nd Sep 2025
🎉 Huge congratulations to our amazing Primary 2 children for mastering all 100...
 
 
 
 
22nd Sep 2025
Our afterschool clubs start this week. Please see newsletter for timetable. Mondays:...
 
 
 
 
19th Sep 2025
😊Our Primary 1 classes had the most wonderful morning in their puddle suits as...
 
 
 
 
19th Sep 2025
Today both our Primary 6 classes participated in an online zoom information workshop...
 
 
 
 
19th Sep 2025
🤩Featured are our boys and girls in Mrs Kyle’s nursery class.  Well...
 
 
 
 
 

Free Fruit Breaks for P1-P7 Every Day!

 

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