Latest News

• Congratulations on Premier League Opportunity

  Fri 17 Nov 2023

  Everyone at Bocombra PS are delighted to hear about one of our Year 7 boys Ben who was successfully selected after a recent English Premier League soccer trial. As the youngest of the panel from Northern Ireland, it makes his achievement even greater.  Ben will now travel to join Manchester City to continue his Premier League dream.  We wish Ben all the best for the next stage in the selection process. 

  

• PTA tuckshop

  Fri 27 Oct 2023

  Today our PTA ran their first tuckshop of the year and the pupils enjoyed many sweet treats! We are looking forward the the next one on the last day of term before Christmas. Many thanks to our PTA volunteers for buying the stock and running the tuckshop today.

  

• Ditch the Dark Day winners

  Fri 27 Oct 2023

  Congratulations to our Ditch the Dark Day winners - the best dressed person from each class received a certificate and a prize. Well done to everyone for making such a fabulous effort in dressing up in their brightest clothes!

  

• Money Week poster winners

  Thu 26 Oct 2023

  Congratulations to the winners from last week's Money Week poster competition. The standard of entries was very high and it was a very difficult job to try and choose only one winner from each class. Well done to everyone who entered. The winning posters can be seen at the front of school.

  

• A muddy start to the Cross Country season at Portadown Rugby Club!

  Fri 20 Oct 2023

  Today was the first day of the Primary School Cross Country season and it kicked off in style at Portadown Rugby Club and it was a great success. We had quite a few runners who finished in the top 10, which was very impressive as there were nearly 30 schools competing.  All runners ran incredibly well in very tough conditions. Well done to everyone who took part and special congratulations to those pupils who ran their first race today. 

  If you would like to look at the results, check out www.athleticsni.org/Results, results should be posted later this evening.

  

• Walktober Walking Bus

  Thu 19 Oct 2023

  As part of our Walktober month, we organised a Walking Bus from Tiplers on Wednesday morning. Despite the storm warnings, we were joined by lots of parents and pupils who were able to park their cars and walk safely along the road to school. Thank you to those who supported us on the walk to school and special thanks to Tiplers for the use of their car park. We hope that this will encourage some more parents to try to implement the idea of parking close to school and walking the remainder of the way to school.

  

• New House Captains appointed

  Thu 05 Oct 2023

  Today in assembly Mr Vallelly appointed new House Captains for the year. We are hoping to rejuvenate our house system this year with the chance to earn more house points and a termly house treat to the house that is in the lead at the end of each term.

   

  Congratulations to those who were chosen to represent their house! 

  Red House: Logan Marrs and Savanna Brown, Hannah Neilly and John Forbes

  Blue House: Bethany Hamilton and Matthew Rogers, Sarah Frazer and Alfie Dunn

  Green House: Carter Boyle and Sophie Evans, Jorgie Patton and Alfie McCoo

  Yellow House: Violet Dunlop and Max Whiteman, Lucy Gilpin and Noah Winter

   

   

  

• MacMillan Coffee Morning

  Fri 29 Sep 2023

  A huge thanks to everyone who helped this morning by wearing green, baking buns, setting tables and making tea and coffee.  Our annual Macmillan coffee morning was a huge success and we raised an amazing £1184. Special thanks to our PTA volunteers and our new School Council members who helped out this morning.

   

  

• Cycle to School Week

  Fri 15 Sep 2023

  Bocombra PS were invited to take part in some promotional work with Sustrans and Public Health Agency to help launch the annual Cycle to School Week, which runs from Monday 25th to Friday 29th September. You can have a read all about Sustrans and what Cycle to School week is all about on the Sustrans website by clicking on the link below.

  https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/news/2023/september/ast_cycletoschool/ 

  

• School Council Election Day!

  Fri 15 Sep 2023

  Today was a very exciting day in our school calendar - School Council Speeches and Election Day!

  We had 50 candidates from Year 5, 6 and 7 who had made a poster to put themselves forward to be on School Council. Then today they had to deliver a speech to their Year Group, after which the whole year group completed a ballot paper to anonymously declare their 3 votes.

  The speeches were of an exceptionally high standard and each and every pupil who stood up should be very proud of their efforts. 

  The votes were counted and verified and the results are as follows:

  Year 5 representatives: Sam Jennett, Lottie Knipe, Tom Robertson and Anna Nesbitt

  Year 6 representatives: Daniel Thompson, Lily McCrory, Eden Baxter and Max Robertson

  Year 7 representatives: Ava Patton, Ryan Finlay, Harry Jennett and Ella Lauchlan

   

  Congratulations to the elected pupils and Mrs Craig is looking forward to a new school year and putting into practice all their fantastic ideas.