Shaftesbury Nursery School, Belfast

Welcome

In Shaftesbury Nursery School we aim to nurture a wide range of skills and dispositions through a variety of high quality learning experiences.  Our desire is to offer an excellent and happy nursery education in a welcoming, safe and enabling environment. 

Each individual child is important to us.  We want all children to meet their full potential and become independent and motivated learners as they grow. We seek to do this in close partnership with home.

The motto of our school is 'Little feet taking giant steps.' This reflects the fact that we believe young children are very competent learners and a high quality play-based, early years experience will enable each child to move forward with confidence.

On our site you will find lots of information about our school. Please browse through the tabs.

We are open from 8.15 - 3.30 each day. (Teaching time 8.45 - 1.15.)

If there is anything else that you would like to know and for more information

on applying for a place for your child please contact us:

23-25 Percy Street
Belfast
BT132HS

email: sgillespie467@c2ken.net

Tel: 028 90 321903

Principal: Mrs S. Gillespie

 
 

Latest News

16th Jan 2026
We were so excited to see the worms in the Wormery, we read the story ‘Yucky...
 
 
 
 
16th Jan 2026
We were very excited to see our friends from Victoria Nursery today, we enjoyed...
 
 
 
 
9th Jan 2026
We had such a fantastic musical morning in nursery. Our friends Ricky and Chris brought...
 
 
 
 
 

Upcoming Events...

Monday, 19th January 2026
Annual reviews - this week
Tuesday, 20th January 2026
Getting Ready To Learn - home learning kits go home this week (Big Bedtime Read continues all year (Wednesdays))
Wednesday, 21st January 2026
Teacher club for Term 2
EA Connect portal closes for Stage 1 September 2026 applications
Thursday, 22nd January 2026
Music & Movement session (With Jo Jingles)
Friday, 23rd January 2026
Teacher club for Term 2
Monday, 26th January 2026
Annual reviews - this week
Wednesday, 28th January 2026
Teacher club for Term 2
Thursday, 29th January 2026
Music and Movement with Jo Jingles
Friday, 30th January 2026
Teacher club for Term 2