GSDS is open and operating on normal school hours.
Monday-Friday 7:30 am - 5:30 pm
  
* GSDS follows Lexington Catholic delays and closings for inclement weather. Please check our website, Facebook, or WKYT for an update on our school delays and closings.
​If Lexington Catholic has a 1 or 2 hour delay, GSDS will operate on a 1 hour delay with no Dawn Patrol.
​If you'd like to schedule a tour, please contact the school at (859) 255-9734 or our director, Ms. Rhonda, at director@goodshepherddayschool.org.
for the 2023-2024 school year!
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MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Good Shepherd Day School, an educational ministry of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, is to nurture the development of the whole child, Intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually. We provide excellent early childhood education and early Christian formation in a safe, healthy, and joyful environment. We are grounded in and guided by the love ethic of Jesus.

GOALS FOR CHILDREN
The Day School, with the help of parents and the community, strives to foster a positive self-concept and intellectual competence in the children in its care through the encouragement of:
  1. trusting relationships
  2. natural curiosity and creative potential
  3. intellectual growth based upon individual levels of understanding
  4. positive opportunity for independence and self-expression
  5. competence in dealing with emotional feelings and situations
  6. communication skills
  7. skills involved in physical coordination and body mastery
  8. tolerance for diversity and
  9. skills involved in abstract thinking.

GOALS FOR PARENTS
The Day School strives to work with parents to
  1. provide opportunity to meet and work with other parents and teachers who have as their common concern the interests and needs of the pre-school and kindergarten child.
  2. Provide quality, appropriate childcare while parents pursue work or other interests.
  3. Provide quality, appropriate childcare while parents pursue work or other interests.
  4. Develop opportunities for families of Day School children to come together in a fun/play environment to increase their Day School community spirit.
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​GOOD SHEPHERD DAY SCHOOL IS A CHILDREN FIRST FACILITY.
Above all else, regardless of what else, the needs of the Day School children come first.