Latest News

• Prize Day

  Thu 24 Jun 2021

  Mr Vallelly was our special guest at out socially distanced Prize Day today. We were very pleased to have him join us on this special occasion. Well done to all of the prize winners.

  

• Bocombra's Green Flag Success for the 3rd time!

  Wed 23 Jun 2021

  Today we were awarded our THIRD Green Flag by Eco Schools! We are truly delighted with our achievement, especially with all the challenges of the last year.  The Eco-Schools Programme is the world’s largest Environmental Education programme and aims to make environmental awareness and action an intrinsic part of the life and ethos of a school.  The internationally recognised Green Flag is this highest award given to Eco-Schools and symbolises excellence in the field of environmental activity.

   

  This year our application was of such a high standard that we didn't have to have a practical assessment. A lot of our success is due to the fantastic level of involvement of our pupils and their families at home during the 2 periods of school closure - with our Eco Schools at Home Challenge in May and June 2020 and our Litter Less at Home Challenge in March 2021. Thank you so much for all your support and help in getting such a prestigious award for the 3rd time! We are looking forward to putting up our brand new Green Flag!

  

• Summer Concert

  Fri 11 Jun 2021

  Unfortunately we were unable to hold our Summer Concert in the hall as we usually would, instead we have recorded our musicians playing and put the concert video on our website so everyone can enjoy watching it. The video can be found in the video resource section on our website. Well done to all of our musicians who performed very well. 

• National Numeracy Day

  Wed 19 May 2021

  Today we celebrated National Numeracy Day in Bocombra with lots of different fun Numeracy activities taking place all around the school. We all came to school dressed in our own clothes with numbers on them.  There was a wide variety of fantastic home made number outfits in each classroom and some pupils (and parents) made such a massive effort with their outfits, so thank you for taking so much time and energy! We were sad that we couldn't all come together in the Assembly Hall like we usually do and show off all our outfits but there were lots of different prizes given out for different competitions within classrooms. 

  Well done to everyone for getting involved and making Numeracy Day a big success!

  

• Irish FA Summer Camps

  Thu 13 May 2021

  The Irish Football Association are running camps for boys and girls this summer in a variety of venues. For further information check out the link below. 

   

   

  https://www.irishfa.com/irish-fa-foundation/grassroots-and-youth-football/irish-fa-summer-football-camps

• Wildflower seeds given to school council to plant in school

  Tue 20 Apr 2021

  Today we were delighted to receive some wildflower seeds from Ellis Ellison from Joseph Poots and Son - just in time for Earth Day on 22nd April. The School Council are looking forward to planting these outside in one of our raised beds.

  

• Special Litter Less prizes for Zara and Ava

  Wed 14 Apr 2021

  Zara (P5) and Ava (P1F) received a special bag of prizes for being the only ones who faithfully entered the Litter Less at Home competition every single week during the 6 weeks of the competition.  They earned the Green House an impressive 120 points with all their hard work as well as some special prizes. Well done girls!

  

• Final week of Litter Less at Home

  Fri 26 Mar 2021

  Well done to all our entrants to the final week of our Litter Less Challenge at home – thank you to everyone who has taken part over the last 6 weeks. It has been brilliant to see all the different Eco activities happening at home.

  A very special well done to Zara and Ava who have entered our challenge every single week – they will be getting a very special prize when they get back to school after the Easter break.

  This week we had 3 entries from the Green House: Hannah was busy out picking up litter on the road near her house and our Litter Less superstars Zara and Ava used plastic bottles to plant some strawberries and flowers. Well done girls!

  Adam made a fabulous poster about recycling for the Yellow house – well done for making your first entry Adam!

  So the final totals are:

  Green House = 210 points – very worthy winners with a massive lead! Well done Greens!!

  Blue House = 50 points

  Red House = 100 points  

  Yellow House = 90 points

  Well done everyone! Enjoy your Easter break.

  

• Litter Less at Home: Week 5

  Mon 22 Mar 2021

  Well done to all our entrants to Week 5 of our Litter Less Challenge at home – a special well done to Zara and Ava who have been sending in entries every single week and a very warm welcome to Elsie, Lottie and John who are entering for the first time!

  For the Green House, we had Zara and Ava being litter heroes and picking up litter around Craigavon Lakes, as well as Elsie, Penny and Lottie who were busy upcycling old bottles to make bird feeders. Brilliant work girls J

  For the Blue House, we had Sarah who was very busy upcycling and making a fantastic dog rescue shelter and kennel.

  Finally for the Red House, we had John who put some old milk cartons to excellent use by planting some sunflowers, geraniums and poppies – all beautiful flowers that the birds will love.

  Current totals are:

  Green House = 180 points

  Blue House = 50 points

  Red House = 100 points  

  Yellow House = 80 points   

  So the Green House are definitely running away with the lead but there is still one week left – make sure you email your entries to Mrs Craig before Friday 26^th March to earn some last minute house points. Your entries could make a huge difference to the totals!

  

• Litter Less at Home: Week 4

  Mon 15 Mar 2021

  Thank you to everyone who is continuing to take part in our Litter Less Challenge at home – well done for keeping up the great work!

  The Green House are pulling out in the lead with all 3 entries this week coming from the Greens! Well done to Alistair, Zara and Ava for the fabulous posters and to Penny and Alistair for collecting litter around where they live. 40 points to the Greens!

  Current totals are:

  Green House = 130 points.                Blue House = 40 points

  Red House = 90 points                      Yellow House = 80 points    

  So the Green and House are now well out in front – will they be the overall winners? Remember, there are still 2 weeks left of our challenge and you can enter as many times as you would like!