Limavady Grammar School is a school with a long and proud history for academic and extra-curricular success, as well as being noted for its integrated approach to education.

In focusing on our vision for the next decade, we are committed to three areas of development:

Learning. A school is judged by the effectiveness of its learning that goes on. It is the reason for its existence and the main criterion on which it is judged.

Caring for self and others. We have a strong pastoral system which is constantly under review.

Preparing for life, for success and happiness in school and beyond. Our emphasis on Career Planning ensures that the great majority of our students go on to achieve success.

Success in these areas will be achieved by careful planning in school, but also by the development and maintenance of links with the home. To this end we send out a monthly news-sheet titled, 'Headlines' which gives news of school and asks for views of parents and students. We have parents' evenings to which all parents are invited, and these are very well attended. Parents are invited to contact the school should there be any problem, and all staff will be pleased to assist.

Parents are welcome at school functions and sporting fixtures and have the opportunity to join the very active Parents' Association or to participate in its activities.

Our Mission Statement is 'Learning, Caring, Preparing For Life'

Ethos

It is the aim of Limavady Grammar School:

To develop the full potential of each pupil by stimulating curiosity, by encouraging clear an logical thought processes, and by promoting a sense of personal achievement and enjoyment in the pursuit of academic excellence through the challenge of problems of a practical and intellectual nature.

To help pupils to acquire self-discipline in a wide range of knowledge and skills, enabling them to gain qualifications relevant to further education, employment and adult life in a rapidly changing world.

To help pupils communicate by the imaginative and effective use of language, written and spoken, and of information in numerical and graphical form; to inculcate a discriminating and critical approach to the printed word and the output of the communication media.

To create a caring society within the school community in which staff and pupils learn to live and work together in mutual respect; and in which the personal problems of individual pupils will receive a sympathetic and understanding hearing.

To create awareness, and to actively develop an understanding, of the different cultures in our society, and to encourage tolerance of other races, religions and ways of life.

To help pupils understand world political, social and economic affairs, to take an objective view of local and world issues and to encourage a respect for the total environment in which they live.

To help pupils, through their studies, to achieve aesthetic appreciation of human achievements in the arts and sciences, and to encourage exploration of their own personal creativity.

To help pupils to appreciate the importance of planned physical and intellectual pursuits outside the classroom, and thus to prepare them for adult life in which there will be increased leisure time.

In summary...

The school aims to enable pupils:

to develop their full potential in acquiring, skills and qualifications relevant to the adult world

to learn respect for others and for the religious and moral values of different cultures; to take an objective view of local and world issues

to respect the environment

to appreciate human achievements in the arts and sciences

to explore their own personal creativity

and to recognise the importance of planned physical and intellectual pursuits outside the formal curriculum.