Latest News

• Making log piles

  Thu 07 Dec 2017
  Today the School Council braved the icy wind to make some log piles from the logs and branches that were kindly donated to us from the builders who are working near our school. As part of our RSPB Wild Challenge we decided to make some more places for minibeasts to live around our school. We created log piles in many different places around school - can you guess where they are in our pictures?

  

• Football Tournament

  Wed 06 Dec 2017
  Today two teams travelled to Millington PS to take part in a 7 aside tournament. The boys played very well and some great goals were scored. 

  

• Cross-Country Results Race 2

  Wed 06 Dec 2017

  Well done once again to our girls and boys cross-country teams who performed so brilliantly in the second race of the season. With one race to go in the new year Bocombra Boys are in joint first place with King's Park PS with 53 points each. It promises to be a 'nail biter' of a finish to the season!   See below for the results after Race 2.

   

  	Girls Team - Race 2
  Pos	School Name	Points
  1	Moira Primary School	134
  2	Bocombra Primary School	140
  3	Fairhill Primary School	162
  4	Roan St Patricks Primary School	166
  5	St Francis Primary School	197
  6	Christian Brothers Primary School	199
  7	Orchard County Primary School	230
  8	St Mary's Primary School Banbridge	271
  9	Saints and Scholars Primary School	285
  10	Millington Primary School	354
  11	Clare Primary School	392
  12	Rowandale Integrated Primary School	3 Runners
  13	St Malachy's Primary School Camlough	1 Runner

   

   

  Pos	Boys Team- Race 2
  1	Bocombra Primary	53
  2	Roan St Patrick's Primary School	136
  3	Fairhill PS	146
  4	St Francis PS, Lurgan	155
  5	Tannaghmore PS	181
  6	Clare PS	203
  7	Orchard County PS	264
  8	Saints & Scholars Integrated Primary School	332
  9	St Colman's PS, Banbridge	5 Runners
  10	Rowandale IPS	4 Runners
  11	Foley Primary School	3 Runners
  12	St Malachy's Primary, Camlough	1 Runner

• Santa's Workshop has appeared in Bocombra!

  Sat 02 Dec 2017
  The Foundation Stage playground has a new workshop - Santa's Workshop appeared on Friday! Year One will be able to use this new workshop to help in their preparations for Christmas. It has a Christmas tree, chalkboard and pages for making lists and toys ready to be packed up for Santa to deliver. It even has a postbox for Santa lists. The Year One Christmas helpers will be very busy in this workshop!

  

• Palace Stables Cross Country (MUDDY)

  Fri 01 Dec 2017

  On a cold and icy morning, the cross country team set out for Palace Stable, Armagh. They were hoping to build on the success already achieved in previous races. On arrival it was clear that this was not going to be an easy race. The track was more mud than grass which they knew would make things very tricky. 

  The girls were up first, they all ran as hard as they could with Allana even losing her shoe to the mud! They all finished and were happy with their performance on an incredible tough course. 

  Next up, the boys. All warmed up and ready to go the boys were confident, especially after previous races. Away they went, the course made even more difficult after the four previous races. All the boys braved the conditions and like the girls ran their hardest! The boys finished with a first place (Oscar Eakin), second place (Josh Osborne) and fifth place (Danny Guy)! 

  Well done to all the runners who ran their hearts out for the school! Photos will follow soon!! 

  

• Aladdin Awards

  Fri 01 Dec 2017
  

• Aladdin photographs

  Fri 01 Dec 2017
  The Aladdin photographs can be ordered by completing an order slip and sending it with payment next week. Each photo costs £1. An order slip for the photographs and DVD will be sent home next week.

  

• Evie Thompson from P5D wins Road Safety Calendar competition!

  Wed 29 Nov 2017

  Well done to our competition winner Evie Thompson!

  Over 600 entries from 31 schools across the ABC Borough were submitted to the competition, which was organised by the local branch of Road Safe NI with support from the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Police and Community Safety Partnership and sponsored by Rushmere Shopping Centre.

  Judges voted for the best 12 entries to be included in the calendar which covered key road safety themes; the importance of ‘Stop, Look and Listen’ and being visible when walking, wearing a seatbelt when in the car and encouraging drivers never to use a mobile phone.

  We are delighted to have our school represented in this calendar and as a special thank you all Year 5 pupils will receive a copy of the calendar.

  

• Set and scenery club

  Thu 23 Nov 2017
  Primary 5 pupils have been busy every Thursday afternoon after school drawing, sticking, making and painting lots of different posters and props for our KS2 production of Aladdin Trouble. To finish our club, each pupil made a miniature version of Aladdin's lamp to take home as a memento.

  

• Visit from West Midlands Theatre Group

  Mon 20 Nov 2017
  On Monday 20th November P3-P7 enjoyed 'Dick Whittington' presented by the West Midlands Theatre Group.  Thank you for visiting our school, we loved it!