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• Parent Pay Update - Friday 13th May 2022

  Fri 13 May 2022

  Parent Pay Update - Thank you to everyone who has registered and are successfully booking school meals through Parent Pay. We now have 88% of our families registered. If you have not yet had a chance to register, we would encourage you to do so in preparation for next term, where we hope to extend the payments scheme to other areas such as tuition fees and school trips. Please note that all meal selections need to be made by mid-night on Sunday for the following week. After this, the meals are locked for the following week. If you have any difficulties please contact our school office from 8.00am on Monday morning. Also note that when making bookings, please ensure that when you have made you meal selection, you scroll down to the bottom of the page to the CONFIRM button to secure your meal booking. Thank you all for your cooperation and patience as we implemented this new payments system. MD Vallelly

• Parent Pay Update - Sunday 8th May 2022

  Sun 08 May 2022

  Parent Pay Update- Apologies for another notification regarding meal selection for the week commencing 9th May. It would appear that the on-line menu is one week behind our actual paper menu. To ensure all children receive a meal tomorrow please make a booking for Monday only, irrespective of meal choice. Pick either either Steak burger or Pasta Chicken for Monday 9th as published in the online menu (this will give us the number of meals required for Monday) the actual choices will Bolognaise or Fish Fingers. Parent Pay have assured us that the menu will be corrected in time for choosing from Tuesday onwards. Please de-select any other bookings after Monday 9th. These can be re-booked after the menu is fixed tomorrow. Once again please accept our apologies. It will be worth it when we iron out all of the bugs!

• Parent Pay Update

  Fri 06 May 2022

   CASHLESS SYSTEM UPDATE

  Today (9^th May), we have launched our new cashless payment system, initially to pay for school meals but ultimately in 2022/23 to provide a flexible and cashless system to pay for other items such as school trips and tuition fees. Please follow the steps in the activation letters to register with Parent Pay as soon as possible, even if you do not regularly purchase school meals. This will speed up our transition to a ‘cashless’ school in August/September 2022. If you have any difficulties creating an account and making meal selections for your child(ren), please contact the school this week and we will endeavour to assist you. Please note that if you are currently in receipt of Free School Meals your family still need to register with Parent Pay and make meal selections in the same manner as other families. Meal selections can be made at any point before a Monday morning. We hope that you will find this new system helpful in making payments. No cash or cheques will be received on or after today, if you have any difficulty registering or booking, please contact the school office immediately and arrangements can be made for manual booking until retrospective payments can be made. Your cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated.

  See link for FAQs: https://www.parentpay.com/parent-faqs/ 

• Zara's Royal correspondence!

  Fri 29 Apr 2022

  Zara got some very exciting post in the last few weeks – from some very important people! Zara wrote to the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Charles to tell them all about her Eco activities at home and how she took part in our ‘Litter Less at Home’ campaign during lockdown. The Duke and the Prince were too busy to reply personally but their secretaries wrote a lovely reply thanking Zara for her letters.

  Zara has also planted a tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy – it is brilliant to see her continuing her environmental activities at home.

  Zara is such an example to all of us of how to look after her environment and it was so inspiring to see all the activities that her and her younger sister Ava carried out when they were at home – they did lots of litter picking, planting and poster making. They were the only pupils who took part in every single one of the 6 weeks of the Litter Less campaign which was fantastic.

  We are very proud of Zara and her royal correspondence – we hope her enthusiasm and care for the environment will continue for many more years!

  

• Tuckshop success

  Fri 08 Apr 2022

  Our first School Council tuckshop was a huge success today. School Council enjoyed getting to serve lots of pupils from all our classes, from Nursery up to Primary 7. It was a hectic morning!

  They made an impressive profit of £300 and they have still plenty of stock which they would like to sell in Term 3 at another tuckshop event.

  Thank you to everyone who supported us.

  

• School Council Tuckshop on Friday

  Tue 05 Apr 2022

  School Council are raising money for a brand new outside seating area near the adventure playground with wheelchair access by running a tuckshop on Friday 8^th April in the Assembly Hall. There will be lots of different treats and also some healthy options for you to choose from.

  Nursery, P1 and P2 pupils need to bring in £1 and they will get to choose 3 items. P3 to P7 are allowed to bring in £2 or £3 to spend at the tuckshop and prices will range from 20p to 50p. Healthy options will be breadsticks, Frubes, Peperami and fruit. Treat options will be small chocolate bars, mini donuts and Haribo.

  A price list has been sent out as a notification and it has also been saved in the Letters section of the website. We have already raised £500 with our Cash for Clobber but we need over £2000 for the outdoor area so we are going to be having more fundraising events in Term 3.

  Thank you for your support and we are looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday!

• Sustrans Walk and Wheel winners

  Mon 04 Apr 2022

  Congratulations to P1 Mrs Freeburn, P3/4 Mrs Reilly, P6/7 Mr Speers and P7 Mrs Dunne for winning our Walk and Wheel competition. We had some very impressive percentages of pupils walking, cycling and scooting to school so thank you to parents and helpers for encouraging as much active travel as possible over the last 2 weeks. It was a very close competition for some classes so we had to have joint winners for P5 - P7 classes as there was only 0.5% between them!

  The winning classes will have a movie afternoon with hot chocolate and treats some day this week. Well done everyone!

• Boys' Hockey Team play in the NI Primary Schools Finals

  Fri 01 Apr 2022

  On Friday our Boys' Hockey Team travelled to Stormont to take part in the NI Primary Schools Finals. The team played seven matches in the group stages. They won 2 games, lost 2 games and drew 3 games which placed them in the quarter finals of the cup play offs. They played Donaghey PS in the quarter finals and despite excellent play by the boys they were narrowly defeated by 1 goal. Well done to the boys who gave it their all and represented Bocombra so well. Thanks to all of the parents who supported the boys at the tournament.

  

• Girls' hockey team play in the NI Primary Schools Finals

  Fri 01 Apr 2022

  On Wednesday the Bocombra Girls' Hockey Team travelled to Stormont to take part in the NI Primary Schools Finals. The team played eight matches in the group stages. They won 5 games, lost 2 and drew 1 and this placed them in the quarter finals of the cup play offs. They played Portrush PS in the quarter final and although it was a very exciting and close game they lost by 1 goal. The team scored some super goals throughout the day and everyone played very well. The standard was very high and the girls did themselves proud. Thanks to all of the parents who supported us at the tournament and congratulations to all of the girls for representing Bocombra so well. 

  

• Covid Update

  Mon 28 Mar 2022

  Positive Covid-19 Case(s) Notification- Year 3M, 5D, 5C, 2A/N and 6/7H Parent/Guardian: Please be advised that a positive Covid-19 case(s) has been reported in your child’s class. In best practice we would advise parents/guardians to give their children a one-off LFD test before returning to school. If this test is positive, then the child should stay at home as a confirmed case and isolate for the requisite number of days. The new rule of 5 days applies from 21/1/22 and children should be demonstrating a negative LFD test on both the 5th and 6th morning before returning to school. If you have any queries or concerns do not hesitate to contact our school office. Thank you for your continued cooperation and understanding.