Latest News

• Cross Country Success at Flahavans Round 1 race

  Wed 01 Dec 2021

  Today our Cross Country team walked down to Portadown Rugby Club to particpate in the Southern Area race of Flahavan's Primary School Cross Country League. We all ran particularly well and came home with a grand total of 9 medals!

  Our fun runners only had one other school competing against them so it was 1, 2, 3 win for Bocombra for both girls and boys.

  Our girls main team did very well with Poppy Hannath coming in 1st and the rest of the team finishing in strong positions also.

  Our boys main team ran a fantastic race with Ethan Jennett coming 1st, Charlie Alderdice coming 3rd and the other boys finishing very strongly. 

  Poppy, Ethan and Charlie are now through to the Northern Ireland final in Mallusk in January, but we are waiting for confirmation of the boys' and girls' teams getting through - Mrs Craig will send an app notification this evening once she is notified of today's results.

  A huge well done to everyone who participated - the running was exceptional and they all should be very proud of themselves.

  A massive thank you to parents who took time to come and cheer the runners on.

  

• 2022/23 Application for admissions for Bocombra PS and Nursery Unit

  Wed 01 Dec 2021

  Please find a link below to our new prospectus for 2022/23 admissions to Nursery and Year 1.  If you, or anyone you know of is considering applying for a place in either our Nursery Unit or in Year 1 please refer to the link below.

   

  Online applications can be made via the Education Authority Admission's Portal:

   

  https://www.eani.org.uk/parents/admissions

   

  The application procedure will open on 10 January 2022 at 12 noon and close at 12 noon on 28 January 2022.

   

  Link to new Prospectus for 2022/23:

   

  https://we.tl/t-wQFhqh7xtO

   

   

• Congratulations to our Journey to Santa Art competition winners!

  Tue 30 Nov 2021

  Last week the School Council had a very tough job of choosing winners for their art competition - pupils from P5, P6 and P7 were invited to design a front cover for the Journey cards that are used during the Active Travel competition 'Journey to Santa'. 

  They had planned to only choose 3 winners but the standard was so high they ended up having to choose 10 winners! Well done to everyone who entered the competition and special congratulations to the winners!

  

• Cross Country Competition at Portadown College

  Thu 25 Nov 2021

  Today our cross country team took part in their first team race this season (and our first cross country race since 2019!). Portadown College organised a fantastic morning of races and Bocombra team took part with great enthusiasm. Ethan (P7) came a very close second in the boys' competitive race - hampered only by a last minute fall at the finish line. Special mention to Poppy (P6) who came 4th in the girls' competitive race. Well done to all the competitors - you did Bocombra proud as you raced your hearts out around a very tough course!

  A huge thankyou to the parents, grandparents and relatives who came out to cheer us on - it was wonderful to see some many excited faces watching us.

  We are now very excited for our next event which is the NI Athletics Southern area race next Wednesday at Portadown Rugby Club.

  

• Odd Socks Day

  Fri 19 Nov 2021

  We had an Odd Socks Day to celebrate the end of Anti-bullying week.  Check out our class pages for photographs.

• Cancer Fund for Children

  Wed 06 Oct 2021

  Last week each class in school completed their 180 challenge to support Rory Best in his Miles2Mayo walk. We had great fun completing the different challenges and at the same time, we raised £690 for the Cancer Fund for Children which is fantastic. A huge thanks to all who donated via our Just Giving page. Rebecca called into our assembly this morning and she told how the money raised would be used to fund a new centre in Mayo for families who have been affected by cancer. 

  

• Our new School Council!

  Tue 28 Sep 2021

  On Monday morning the results of our School Council elections were announced in each classroom at the same time.

  The elected candidates are:

  Year 5: Shane Wortley, Ellie McClure, Samuel Winter and Phoebe Cordner

  Year 6: Evan Nesbitt, Jonah King, Poppy Hannath and Arthur Taylor

  Year 7: Ollie Major, Beth Breheny and Jonno Johnston

   

  A huge well done to everyone who put themselves forward for the election - the standard of speeches and posters was exceptionally high.

   

  The School Council are already hard at work - today they are recording a video to promote our first Active Travel competition! 

  

• A Big Thank You From Romania

  Fri 24 Sep 2021

  The shoes that you gave us at the end of June arrived in the orphanage in Romania just this week.  Have a look at the photos - the children are really delighted with their new shoes.  Thank you all very much!

  

• Macmillan Green Day Success

  Fri 24 Sep 2021

  A BIG thank you to all of our pupils, parents and staff who donated so generously to our Green Day fund raiser today in aid of Macmillan Cancer Fund.

   

  To date we have raised £968.60 which is the largest total for Macmillan we have ever had at Bocombra in recent years.

   

  We are absolutley thrilled with this amount and thank everyone for your amazing support.

  

• School Council Elections

  Fri 24 Sep 2021

  There was much excitement this morning as our School Council Elections took place - for the first time in 3 years! We had candidates from Years 5, 6 and 7 who had to do a 1 minute speech to their year gropu about why they would make a good School Council member. Each pupil from that year group then voted for 3 different people. 

  Mr Vallelly and Mrs Craig were amazed at the standard of the speeches and the number of fantastic new ideas put forward. Every single candidate should be very proud of their efforts.

  Votes will be counted and verified over the weekend and the results will be announced in each classroom on Monday morning at 9am!