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Home learning and Home Exercise

School is now closed to everybody except the children of keyworkers. Still, every day is a learning day; home learning packs have been sent home…

Good Shepherd Remains Open

Good Shepherd remains open and functioning as normal at this time, including after school clubs and will continue to do so whilst we have enough…

Secrets to success

Well done to our Secrets to Success children.

Year 5 – Alton Castle

Year 5 had a fantastic retreat to Alton Castle with St Gregorys.

Newly decorated hall

We have a fresh new look in the hall!

Year 1’s trip to Warwick Castle

Year 1 enjoyed their trip today.

Values and Virtues

Well done to this week’s values and virtues children.  

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s secrets to success children.  

World Book Day 2020

We’ve had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day! Amazing posters (by children, staff and parents), brilliant costumes and superb work on our chosen books….

Welly Wednesday

This week Early Years have been searching for sticks on Welly Wednesday. Nursery are making brooms from their story ‘ Room on a Broom’ and…

New books

Our latest batch of brand new books to boost reading at Good Shepherd. You can see how happy to of our future librarians are about…

Good Shepherd Appeal

Today we were visited by Margo from Father Hudson’s who came to talk to us about the Good Shepherd Appeal. We are all now working…

Librarian Team

Our librarian team is growing!

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s secrets to success children.    

Year 4’s rainforest song

Year 4’s topic is Rainforests and they have composed a song with the help of their teacher Miss Jacobs.

Year 5’s Lion King dance

Year 5 have been working hard with Kirsty from Step Onto Stage to learn a new dance for their Africa topic.

Welly Wednesday

Nursery went on a phonic walk this Welly Wednesday. We were looking for things beginning with ‘t’. Can you see what we found?

Girl’s football

Well done to our girl’s football team, they played well and had good fun.

Values and virtues

Well done to this week’s Values and Virtues children.

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success children!

Swimming Gala

5th place out of the 9 schools in the East Coventry group! Everybody put in a massive amount of effort. Well done children.

Safer Internet day

Mr Hunt kicked off our #saferinternetday with assemblies for KS1 & KS2.

Year 2 Gymnastics competition

10 of our Year 2 children attended a gymnastics competition today at Tribe Gymnastics. They worked really hard and came a fantastic fourth place!

Secrets to Success winners

Well done to this week’s Secrets to Success winners!

Coventry schools indoor football tournament

Tuesday night our boys competed in the Coventry schools indoor football tournament! They all had a great time.

Welly Wednesday

We looked at bulbs today. We planted the bulbs and are waiting for Spring for them to grow.

Dance club

A quick snippet from dance club.

Secrets to success winners

Well done to this week’s secrets to success winners!

French day

Yesterday we  took part in French day to link in with our topic of Europe. Children were talking in French when answering the register and…

Film club

Film club enjoying their popcorn🍿🎥.  

Welly Wednesday

Nursery went on a phonics welly walk today. We were looking for things beginning with the sound ‘s’.

Young Voices 2020

Our Year 5 choir members are having a great time at Young voices 2020!

Tea fit for a Queen

Unfortunately, there was a terrible tea disaster at Buckingham Palace. The Queen was devastated! Year 1 wanted to make this better, so we followed a…

Eco club bird watch

Our Eco club has been very this RSPB bird watching season! Some of the activities have included: Spotting, completing tally charts, making graphs and pie…

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success winners!

Rhyme Time

We have had another fun session of rhyme time in Nursery this week. Parents and carers joined us as we sang traditional rhymes and listened…

Year 1 – making sandwiches

Year 1 have been making sandwiches, ready for their Royal tea party this afternoon! 👑

Welly Wednesday!

We have been looking and finding shapes in our environment this Welly Wednesday. We were looking for rectangles around the school. Look what we found!…

Running club

Running club enjoying a game of scarecrow tig before some fartlek laps of the field. 🏃‍♂️ 38 children attended yesterday!  

Nursery’s Rhyme Time session

We had a fabulous rhyme time session on yesterday afternoon in Nursery. Lots of parents and carers joined us to share action songs, traditional rhymes…

Coventry Smashes Sport!

Every Romero child will be completing 5 minutes of exercise today – that’s over 3,000 children! We decided to use a video of the Body…

Secret’s to success

Well done to this week’s secrets to success winners!

Golden Ticket Winners!

7 Golden ticket winners! Thank you to every child who opted for a school meal today.

Welly Walk

Nursery had a fun Welly Wednesday this week. We have listened to the story One Snowy Night by Nick Butterworth. We made the character of…

Year 6 – Binary

Year 6 have been working hard in computing, learning about binary – a KS3 topic! Can you translate Josh’s message into English?

Secrets to success winners

Well done to this week’s Secrets to Success winners!

Year 5’s new topic

Year 5’s introduction to their new topic – Africa, using the Lion King as inspiration to write a setting description. 🦁 🐘 🌍 Click the sound icon for…

Silver award!

It may be the school holidays …. but that does not stop us from winning awards! We have moved from bronze to silver level.

Happy Christmas!

From everybody at Good Shepherd, Happy Christmas!

Secrets to success winners!

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success winners!

Year 3 making cakes!

Year 3 have enjoyed making Christmas cupcakes this morning!

We are hiring!

Office Manager (£21,589 – £26,999)

Our new trophy cabinet

Our new trophy cabinet #prideofplace

Christmas lunch! 🎄

Today we enjoyed a tasty Christmas lunch, cooked by our talented kitchen staff.

Recycling appeal

The Eco Council are on a mission to collect as many pairs of unused glasses as they can from their friends and families, we will…

Good Shepherd’s tree planting

Today we planted 130 saplings to create a forest area, part of our Eco-Schools initiative. Helping to fight climate change and create a safe and…

Year 1 & Year 2 Nativity dress rehersal

Year 1 & Year 2 have been busy practising their Nativity!  

Secrets to success winners

Well done to this week’s Secrets to Success winners!

Year 2’s Great Fire Of London Paintings

Year 2 are creating Great Fire Of London paintings focusing on their new skill – creating tints and shades with paint.

Year 1’s Winter facts

Year 1 have been working hard, learning their winter facts!

Mine Exploration

Memories that will last a lifetime!

Seaside!

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside 🌊

An exciting day ahead!

Two out of three of our groups are ready for a day of adventures! Unaccompanied walk and then a trip to the beach! More updates…

Good morning from Plas Dol-y-Moch

A very good night’s sleep for our Year Sixes. We’ve had breakfast, made our sandwiches for the day and our readying ourselves for the first…

Year 6 have arrived

Year 6 have safely arrived at Plas Dol-y-Moch and are tucking into fish and chips 🐟🍟

Thank you – Winter fete

Thank you to everybody who came to our Winter fete. Together, we raised just under £900!

Secret’s to success winners

Well done to this week’s secrets to success winners!

Digital Leaders – Sphero

Our Digital Leaders have had an exciting lunch time coding Sphero robots!

PE in Year 3

We are working on 1,2,3 and 4 point balances and then we have worked in our groups to put them together to showcase. Have a…

Secrets to success winners

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success winners!

Receptions Wedding

Today we celebrated a wedding in Reception. The happy couple would like to thank everybody who came.

School Library

Our library’s popularity is growing and so is our librarian team!  

Year 2’s trip to London!

Year 2 have had an amazing day in London! We’ve seen so many wonderful sights that has really brought our learning about the Great Fire…

Secrets to success winners

Well done to this week’s winners!  

Sports hall athletics

Well done to our Sports hall athletics team who came second overall today! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️👟

Year 5’s Masquerade Mask Capulet ball

Welcome to Year 5’s Masquerade Mask Capulet ball #romeoandjuliet 🎭  

Year 4’s Ancient Greek Day!

Year 4 have had a very busy day today! They have created pottery, tasted Ancient Greek cuisine, composed a piece of Ancient Greek music and…

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s Secrets to Success winners!

Our choir will be on the radio!

WE WILL BE ON THE RADIO! Yesterday, our choir visited the radio plus studio to record some carols for the station’s advent celebrations. They had…

Welly Wednesday – Counting

EYFS have been using the beautiful Autumnal natural objects to help us with our counting this week.

Book Fair coming soon!

The Book Fair is coming to Good Shepherd! 20th – 27th of November. Give the gift of reading this Christmas.

Duke Of York Idea award!

5 of our schools have come together to launch the Duke of York Idea award! We have had a cracking start to the day. We…

English/Reading Workshops

Thank you to everybody who came to our English/reading parent workshops today!

Remembrance Service

This afternoon, our worship team joined students from Cardinal Wiseman for a mass remembering the ex Good Shepherd and Cardinal Wiseman pupils – Guy Mellor,…

Romero Day!

Yesterday, 500 staff from all 8 schools joined together to celebrate the past 5 years as a MAC. Two members of Good Shepherd staff received…

Tudor Homework

Some fantastic Tutor homework produced by Year 5!

Netball – GS VS CC

Afterschool, our netballers played at home against Corpus Christi. Both sides played a good game, the final result was 6-3 to Good Shepherd.

Year 5 visit Selly Manor!

Year 5 have had a fantastic day at Selly Manor, learning more about the Tudors!  

EYFS Welly Walk

EYFS have been on our weekly Wednesday Welly Walk! We used natural objects 🌿🍂 to create characters from our Diwali reading book.

Digital Leaders – Stop Motion

Our Digital Leaders have been busy creating stop motion animations 📼🎥

Coventry Cathedral – Year 6

Year 6 took their learning outside the classroom again today, with their trip to Coventry Cathedral. The morning focused on our current topic- WW2- and…

Maths Workshop

Thank you to all our parents who have attended the maths workshops yesterday. We hope you have found it useful ✏️📐➕➖➗✖️✅

Year 6’s visit to St Chad’s Cathedral

Year 6 really enjoyed their visit to St. Chad’s Cathedral. They had a fact-filled tour and took part in a service as part of their…

Improving our school

A select group of children have been taking a hands-on approach to learning. They have cleared dilapidated areas, planted poppies and will be growing their…

Nursery’s Leaf storm

Nursery created a leaf storm during last week’s welly Wednesday walk! We created a circle of leaves and looked for other circles in our environment.

Well done – success winners

Well done to this week’s secrets to success winners!

Poppy Appeal

Thank you to Sgt Benson from Holyhead Road Platoon – Army Cadet Force for supplying our #poppies!  

Great Fire of London

Year 2 – piecing together a significant person in their Great Fire of London topic. Can you work out who it is?  

New Books

Over 150 brand new books will be added into our Early Years set-up next half-term as we continue our whole school push on Reading. There…

Wear it Pink for breast cancer research

Thank you to everybody who brought in £1 for the #wearitpinkday for breast cancer research. Our GS choir pictured sporting their pink attire.

Secrets to success

Well done to this week’s secrets to success winners!

Year 6’s Lindy Hop dance!

Year 6 have been working very hard every Wednesday to learn the Lindy Hop dance with Kirsty.

Year 1’s Mr McConville portraits

Year 1 have produced some fantastic portraits of Mr McConville! 🎨🖌

EYFS Welly Walk

Last week, Early Years enjoyed their first Welly Wednesday. We were challenged to find interesting leaves; we will be making Autumn jelly with our them!

Year 1’s Autumn Facts

Year 1 have started their year-round investigation of seasons. This half-term autumn is the focus; the video below showcases a few facts they have learned….

Pudding Lane

Year 2 visited Pudding Lane today to make some King’s biscuits!    

Scytale Encryption

Year 4 have been learning about Scytale in computing, a type of encryption used by the Ancient Greeks.

Values and Virtues

Well done to this week’s Values and Virtues children.  

Macbeth Play

Last Friday, Year 5 enjoyed watching a Macbeth production by the Young Royal Shakespeare company!

The Wave Coventry

Year 6 have had a very exciting day at The Wave – the UK’s newest waterpark. Thank you to CV life Coventry for inviting us! …

Secrets To Success

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success winners!

Tag Rugby Event

A very exciting morning of tag rugby organised by Mr Parry, our sports and wellbeing coordinator.    

Year 5’s Macbeth Speeches

Some excellent Macbeth speeches performed by Y5.    

Girl’s Football Tournament

Our Girl’s football team played superbly today at the Coventry girls football tournament. Julia C displayed some excellent keeper skills, and Nevaeh sported some fantastic…

Secrets to success winners!

Well done to this weeks Secrets to success winners!

Year 5 Computing – Cargo bot

Some fantastic problem solving and logical skills on show from Year 5 today!  

Playmakers Training!

Yesterday our playmakers received some expert training from our resident Romero sports lead – Mr Parry!

First Digital Leaders session of the year!

First Digital Leaders session of the year! #greenscreening  

Competition time!

We have two prizes up for grabs; all you have to do to enter is choose a school meal rather than a packed lunch this…

Secrets to success winners!

Well done to this week’s Secrets to success winners!  

Year 1’s Teddybears Picnic!

Year 1 have had a very exciting day; starting with a nature walk, followed by a Teddybears Picnic! Topped off by a reading of the Tiger…

Year 1 inviting their teddy bears to the teddy bears picnic!

Year 1 walked down to their local shop and purchased stamps. Every child added their stamp and posted their letters to their teddy bears; inviting…

New additions to Y1

We have 4 new additions to Year 1….. Quinn, Francis, Romero & Patrick 🐟 🐠

Year 2’s visit to the 4D room.

Year 2 spent this afternoon learning about the Great Fire of London using Corpus Christi’s 4D room.  

This weeks Secrets to success stars!

Well done to this week’s stars. Keep up the good work!

Meet our school librarians

Our new school house captains!

Meet our new 2019 – 2020 house captains!

Over 50 runners at running club!

What a fantastic start to this years running club! 51 runners, that’s over 40% of KS2 in attendance! Remember any KS2 child is welcome, all…

This weeks Secrets to success stars!

Well done to this week’s stars. Keep up the good work!

Romero Coventry Curriculum

All of our primary schools are following a week-long mini curriculum based on Coventry. It looks like Good Shepherd’s Year 2 class had a fantastic…

Welcome Back

Welcome back to school! We hope you have had an amazing fun-packed Summer break!

Parent Survey

Parent / carer survey June 3rd – July 5th At Good Shepherd, we want to provide a high-quality of education. We need to know what you…

Paddys Plea

    Thank you to everybody who attended our Paddy’s Plea coffee morning last week. Thanks to the amazing support of our community, we managed…

Stations of the cross

Today we commemorated Jesus Christ’s last day on earth with a special assembly.            

Tokyo Ambassadors

On Tuesday we visited Broadgate to take part in a discovery trail. The children followed clues to find landmarks or items within the Herbert art…

Óscar Romero Celebrations

Today as a school, we have been celebrating St-Óscar Romero’s feast day! Each class has been learning about the life of this great Saint and…

KS1 Mousike Ensamble

Today Year 1 took part in Mousike Ensamble at Sacred Heart School. We had a fantastic morning singing songs, playing instruments and doing some fabulous…

Birmingham Children’s Hospital

As a collection of schools, we have raised £2,949 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital!

Rags 2 Riches

Thank you to everybody who donated old clothes to our Rags 2 Riches campaign! The benefits are two-fold, the school receives a small monetary sum,…

Today is Ash Wednesday!

We have buried the word Allelulia

Today we met as a school during the last day of ordinary time to bury the Alleluia.

Welcome Back to school!

We welcome children back to school tomorrow!

E-Safety

We want to make sure that our parents are fully informed about how to deal with internet related safety matters. At any time during the…

Sponsored Athlete

Today we had a Sponsored Athlete in school. All children took part in short exercise circuits, building up their athletic ability! Video 1 Video 2

Romero

Sunday 14th October On behalf of the Archdiocese of Birmingham,  Romero would like to invite you to the first Diocesan Celebration day on October 14th…

Merry Christmas

From everybody at Good Shepherd, we wish you a Happy and Merry Christmas; as we celebrate the birth of Jesus. As always please be safe, have…

Romero Fundraising Project

Romero has launched a campaign to raise funds to purchase some computing kits. These kits will dramatically improve the computing education for children at all Romero…

Catholic Retreat Day!

We are having a retreat day today! All our children are involved in collective worship with Dan Callow.  

Our footballers won their first game!

Well done to our Football team who won their first game of the season.  

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

The children are taking part in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, via web link!  

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school! We hope you have had a brilliant 6 weeks off, enjoying the summer sun! Good Shepherd re-opens again tomorrow; ready to…

Sports Day

Today was our sports day, every year group had their own standard and novelty race to complete. The children had a great time out in…

Football Fever!

Today the Reception children have been getting ready for tonight’s big game! They have been making predictions about who will win and what the score…

School Fete

Today we had our annual school fete! We had plenty on offer, including …..   Face Painting Glitter Tattoos Army Cadets BBQ Food Karaoke Lucky…

Year 5 – Investigating shadows

Year 5 have been making the most of the beautiful sunshine by investigating their shadow sizes over the day.

Year 2’s Trip to Ryton Pools

Year 2 had a great time at Ryton Pools, learning about wildlife and habitats through pond dipping and den building!  

Catholic Athletics Event

Good Shepherd took part in the Catholic sports athletics event today at Warwick university sports track! All children put in an immense amount of effort in their…

Receptions trip to Ash End Farm

Reception really enjoyed their trip to Ash End Farm.

Romero Holiday Provision

The Romero Catholic Academy is offering a Holiday Club provision for children during the Whitsun Break. The Romero MAC has partnered with Evolve to deliver…

Wasp’s Wiggle

Last weekend Good Shepherd took part in the Wasp’s Wiggle, a performance to the fans at their latest game; that involved multiple schools from the…

Romero Ofsted Report

Please click below to see the letter Romero Catholic Multi-Academy Company final PDF

Upcoming Mass – Vocations

Vocations Mass Thursday 24th Of May – 6:30PM

Football Success

Well done to our Football Team who recently won the league football competition.  

Easter Bonnets

KS1 Have had a brilliant time creating and showing off their Easter Bonnets!

Parents Survey Results

We conducted a parents survey during our latest Parents evening, here are the results.    

New School Mini-bus

The minibus will be a great asset for our pupils and will allow us to access many more opportunities to enhance their learning. All staff…

Collection for our local food bank

Good Shepherd has been collecting for our local food bank during the Lenten period.

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday which signals the start of Lent a season of fasting and prayer. Ash Wednesday comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance…

Wasps Rugby Ticket Offer

Six Nations at the Ricoh Arena on Friday 16th March. An amazing ticket offer to share with you,Wasps & Ricoh Arena are hosting the England V Ireland double…

Safer Internet Day 2018 Report

Safer Internet Day was celebrated by schools up and down the UK yesterday, the day has a big impact on the children and the ways…

Raising Money for the Jesus Army

As a joint venture with all the Romero schools, we chose to help the homeless in whatever way we could.  Our school council and chaplaincy…

New RE Inspection Report

Good Shepherd have received our latest RE Inspection report, which can be viewed here

Staying Safe Online During Black Friday

Black Friday sales week is a great time of the year to buy presents! But if you’re not careful you could end up handing your…

Christmas Bazaar Coming Soon!

Join Us on the 15th of December for our Annual Christmas Bazaar.

Parents E-Safety Survey 2017

During our last parents evening we conducted a parents E-safety survey. To see if parents were checking their child’s internet history and had turned on parental…

Year 2 & The Great Fire Of London

Year 2 have been working very hard on their current topic; The Great Fire Of London. With a special focus on Samuel Pepys and his Diary;…

Composing our Romero Hymn

This is our new Romero hymn being composed by children and students across the MAC. We look forward to hearing it sung for the first…

Cardinal Wiseman

If you are a parent of a Year 6 pupil, hopefully you have had the opportunity to visit our Aquinas building (along with the rest…

Welcome Back to School

Welcome back to another fun action packed learning year at Good Shepherd!