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We made it! Last week was Week 10 of our Eco Schools Home Challenge as we approach the end to this school year. I am so very grateful to every single one of you who has taken the time to incorporate so many brilliant Eco activities into your time at home and participated with such enthusiasm. I have loved reading your emails and seeing your photos arrive into my inbox each week. I am so inspired by all your wonderful ideas and I am amazed at some of the fantastic activities that you have been taking part in. Every one of you deserves a huge pat on the back!
For the Green House, Elsie, Penny, Lottie, Jack and Zara have been looking after their plants, taking time to explore outside, planting, turning off switches and making some excellent posters. For the Red House, Rebekah and John made a really lovely message from glass and shells and Jonno was hard at work connecting a water butt to the guttering on his garden shed. Sarah earned points for the Blue House as she was so incredibly busy during the last week of term making a house out of a tree stump, reading her Eco managzine when she couldn’t get outside due to the rain and painting shells – fabulous work Sarah!
Week 10 totals:
Green = 50 Yellow = 0 Red = 30 Blue = 10
End of Eco Schools Home Competition totals:
Green = 430 Yellow = 340 Red = 290 Blue = 350
AND THE WINNERS ARE…… The Green House!!!! Well done to all the Greens for faithfully sending in emails and photos each week – it was a very close for a while there but the Greens stepped up in the last 2 weeks.
A very sincere thanks to all the parents and pupils for taking part in this Challenge over the last 10 weeks – your hard work has been very much appreciated. Have a wonderful summer break and I hope we get plenty of sunshine so you can continue with all your Eco activities outside over the next few weeks!
Dear Parents,
Information is now available for the new school year (subject to change!)
Nursery and Year 1 packs are available to collect on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th June from the front of school 9.00am-12.00 noon
Year 2-7 Blended Learning information also available at these times.
Any packs or letters not collected will be posted.
Kind regards,
Mrs Taylor
The last week of term is upon us and the beginning of the final week of our Eco Schools Challenge – Week 10! A huge thank you to everyone who got involved this week and sent in photos of some amazing Eco activities.
We have only one week left and it’s still close at the top with only 40 points between the top three. You have 7 days to get some more Eco activities completed in your houses and back gardens – I wonder which house will be crowned overall winners next Monday?
For the Red House, Jonno, Rebekah and John were reading outside (even in the rain showers!), being very creative with junk materials and taking excellent care of lots of different vegetable plants – some have already been shared with their neighbours! The Green House were showing off some very impressive gardening skills by growing radishes and sowing grass seed as well as making sure the plugs were being turned off – all thanks to Jack, Zara Jan, Alistair and Ailsa. The Blue House and the Yellow House were both involved in construction this week: making two fabulous bird houses – one from wood and one from a milk carton – and a wonderful solar powered water feature, as well as finding minibeasts and turning off light switches. Well done to everyone!
Week 9 totals:
Green = 50 Yellow = 20 Red = 30 Blue = 20
End of Week 9 totals:
Green = 380 Yellow = 340 Red = 260 Blue = 340
Children who received upper strings, lower strings, brass or woodwind tuition should keep their instrument at home during the summer break and keep practising. The Music Service are working hard to establish how tuition will be delivered when we return to school. Please be advised that the Music Service will issue refunds to schools for any shortfall of Music Service delivery for the academic year 2019 -20.
Any Year 7 pupil wishing to continue their instrument in their post primary school should keep their instrument and any Year 7 pupil who does not want to continue tuition should return their instrument to Bann House.
Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge 2020
Libraries NI is delighted to announce details of Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020 produced by The Reading Agency and delivered by libraries which will take place from Monday 15 June. The Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge, is a free, exciting way to keep young people aged 4 - 11 years reading during the summer months.
Silly Squad is a celebration of funny books, happiness and laughter. This year the Challenge will be delivered through a fun, immersive and safe online platform. The aim is to encourage children to challenge themselves to read any number of books which makes them happy, in digital or print format, an eBook borrowed from the Libraries NI online catalogue or books they already have at home.
Throughout the summer there will be online activities, videos, quizzes, games and rewards to unlock along the way. Every child who completes their own Challenge will receive a downloadable certificate.
Well done to everyone who took part in lots of excellent Eco activities this week. We only have 2 weeks left of our Home Challenge and I am excited to see what else you will get up to as we come to the end of this very strange school year - you can repeat some of the activities you have already done if you want to.
The Yellow and Blue house are sneaking up on the Green House and it’s all very close with only 10 points separating the top three houses!
Thank you to the adults at home for taking photos and encouraging your children to take part.
For the Green House, Jack and Zara went on a nature hunt. For the Red House, Rebekah, John and Jonno were busy putting up bird feeders in their garden and painting stones and shells that they collected on their holidays to take pride of place in their garden. Sarah, Sophie, Leah, Jacob, Olivia and Lucas earned lots of points for the Blue House by hanging out washing, reading a fabulous Eco book called ‘Be Green’, catching minibeasts under their oil tank, growing caterpillars and recycling topsoil. If you look closely you'll be able to see frog in one of Sarah's photos! For the Yellow House Ben and Ryan were being very helpful around the house by sorting the recycling and turning off plugs.
Week 8 totals:
Green = 20 Yellow = 20 Red = 30 Blue = 60
End of Week 8 totals………
Green = 330 Yellow = 320 Red = 230 Blue = 320
Although we can't all be together in school we thought it would be good fun to have a 'virtual' Sports Day at some point next week. You can choose the day that suits you best during the week, hopefully the sun will shine! You can try all of the activities or just choose some that you like. Everyone in your house can take part, if they want to, or you can take part with a couple of friends as long as you remember to stay socially distanced.
For the Sports Day information please go to our Letters page. We hope you enjoy your 'virtual' Sports Day, please send your teacher photos so they can be added to your class page on the school website. A big thank you to Mr Hamilton for planning our Sports Day activities. Have fun!
Click on the link to access the journal
https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/bocombra-primary-school/UploadedDocument/adc335bc15964624a821b5bb818f9740/gratitude-journal.pdf
What is this for?
The world is full of many wonderful things, people and experiences but we can forget to focus on these when times are hard. This is a place for you to think about, and be grateful for, the good things! What are you thankful for? Family and friends, petting a puppy, a favourite meal, bike rides, a sunny day?
Keeping a journal has been proven to help increase happiness and lower stress.
It really doesn’t matter if an event is something as simple as eating your favourite sweets, playing a game with your friends or hearing your favourite song on a playlist. If it made you feel happy – then it’s important. Write it down or draw it and try and explain what it was about the event that made you happy!
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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