At Shimna we offer an integrated, academically excellent, all-ability education, and are very proud to have been designated as one of Northern Ireland’s first twelve Specialist Schools.  We are particularly proud that our specialism in languages and the international dimension has been recognised by the Department of Education.  We believe that language is central to the processes of integration and also to academic success.  We believe that the international dimension injects high expectations and wider horizons into everything we do.

At Shimna we offer an integrated, academically excellent, all-ability education, and are very proud to have been designated as one of Northern Ireland’s first twelve Specialist Schools.  We are particularly proud that our specialism in languages and the international dimension has been recognised by the Department of Education.  We believe that language is central to the processes of integration and also to academic success.  We believe that the international dimension injects high expectations and wider horizons into everything we do.