Congratulations to all the staff and pupils of Holy Family Primary and Nursery School on the attainment of the prestigious ICT Mark which highlights the school's commitment to, and quality of work in, the field of ICT.

The award is just recognition for the excellent use made of ICT within the school and the broad ICT experiences that our pupils encounter.

Special recognition goes to Mr Mc Laughlin, our ICT co-ordinator, who led our ICT Mark application and all associated ICT developments.

Welcome to the Family

Welcome to the website of Holy Family Primary and Nursery School, Derry. Holy Family was opened in 1987 to cater for the pupils of the parish of Holy Family and through the excellence of the educational provision at the school, the school grew to cater for pupils from many other parishes in Derry City and beyond.

The work of the school is focused on providing a broad, engaging education for all our pupils in a caring, warm setting. This focus ensures that our pupils are happy, secure, engaged and provided with a broad range of learning experiences.

Holy Family is a school with a wide range of strengths and to the forefront of these are high academic standards, quality pastoral care, extensive after school provision, excellent musical opportunities, foreign language provision, as well as a child - centred and highly professional staff.

Enjoy your visit to our website and if you wish to find out more about the school please contact us either in person or by email.

Red Star Award

Congratulations to the following pupils who attained the top accolade at Holy Family this year - the Red Star Award:

Caitlin Canavan, Rachel Gallagher, Shona Harkin, Mark Kivelehan,

Eoin Matthewson, Bronagh Morton, Thomas O' Hagan,

Adam Stephenson, Odhran Stewart and Serena Wilson

Navan National Choral Festival Success

Congratulations to our school choir on their fanatstic performances and outstanding success at the Navan National Choral Festival. The choir under the leadership of Mrs Doherty produced a magical perfoamnce of "You raise me up" and "Macavity" to win this prestigious event.

The choir travelled south for over three hours to compete in this national event against excellent choirs from Dublin, Dundalk, Galway, Co. Down, Navan and further afield. The journey was worth it as the choir produced a magical performance to overcome the challenge of thirteen other choirs and return to the banks of the Foyle with first place for the second year running.

Well done to Mrs Doherty and the choir and thank you to all parents and staff for their support which made the pupils' participation possible.

Accelerated Reading

We encourage all P2 - P7 pupils to take part in our highly successful accelerated reading programme. The quizzes can be taken each morning from 8.45am and prize giving takes place every third week at assembly. at the moment our P2 pupils are the most prolific readers in the school, we hope to see the other year groups challenging the P2 dominance. 

Good luck to all our Accelerated readers and thanks to Mr. Mc Dermott  and his team of helpers for organising the programme.

Reconstituted Board of Governors

The newly reconstituted Board of Governors who will serve a four year term of office are:

Mr Mc Colgan  Chairperson                                                        Dr. Mallett

Mrs Doherty    Vice - Chairperson                                           Mrs O' Hagan

Sr. Doherty                                                                             Mrs Mahon

Mrs Durkan                                                                                Mr Parke

Mrs Mc Crory                                                                      Mr Matthewson

We wish the governors every success in their very important work on behalf of our school community.

Student Council

Congratulations to all the pupils who have been elected to our new student council after the recent elections. The new councillors are:

Kate Barr, Seamus Coyle, Brianna Wilson and Jack Bogan

David Barr, Ruari O' Hagan, Kerri O' Kane and Aine Higgins

Maeve Mallon, Michael Millar, Bronagh Morton and Thomas O' Hagan

We wish the councillors every success in their important role.

Holy Family at the heart of the community

Holy Family Primary and Nursery School continues to play a key role in the community beyond its core function of providing high quality education for our pupils. After the school day is ended a host of clubs and other activities take place in the school.

The after school clubs for our pupils which run during the 3 - 4.15pm slot includes homework club, P2 fun club, P3 fun club, indoor football club, netball club, choir,cross country club, Spanish club,accelerated reading club, reading club, drama club and art club.

The evening clubs held in the school include slimming world, boxing club and ICT club.

Information regarding all clubs is available from the school office on 71267798.

RE programme

Important dates and meetings associated with our religious education programme this year will appear on the school calendar very soon.Those parents who have a child due to receive the sacrament of First Communion or Confirmation are advised to look through the school calendar so that they have good notifcation of all the various dates.

thanks to Miss Mc Carron, our RE co-ordinator, for organising all the times.