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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

30th May 2025
Dear Parents/Guardians,   Please find attached the June newsletter. ...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
Today seen the completion of our Musical Pathways to Learning Programme for our...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
Mrs Grant’s Primary 6 class participated in emergency first aid training today...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
Primary 5 Mrs Mitchell’s class were busy today creating their own frobscottle...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
See attached images for what is on this week... 🌟non uniform for the remainder...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
What an end to the most fantastic year for our nursery boys and girls. 👏  ...
 
 
 
 
20th Jun 2025
A brilliant week of celebrating achievements and personal goals.  Well done...
 
 
 
 
19th Jun 2025
🌞Primary 1 and 2 had the best time in the sunshine today at the playtrail.  They...
 
 
 
 
18th Jun 2025
🤩Congratulations to our boys' soccer team - Winners of the Derry Primary schools'...
 
 
 
 
18th Jun 2025
Featured are our Primary 7’s who planted and cared for their own onions in...
 
 
 
 
17th Jun 2025
A lovely treat today for everyone after a wonderful sports day! #happiness #memories 
 
 
 
 
 

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