Due to the weather today the hockey, P4 & 5 football and P6&7 football clubs are all off. All other clubs are on. If you cannot collect children until later please inform the school.

Matthew Tipton's football for P2 &P3 is on today in the hall. Collect from the P3 door at 2.45pm.

The Inspectors visited the school on the 27th of November last year to follow up on our previous Inspection of June 2016. They met with a number of staff as well as Governors and visited and observed some lessons. The report has now been published and is a very positive one I'm pleased to say!

As Principal, I wish to extend my thanks to the teaching staff for all their hard work and professionalism through this past year, the Governors for their support and encouragement of the leadership team and the non-teaching staff for their very hard work and dedication to the staff and children. We have worked very hard as a team to ensure a great outcome from this report.

I attach a link to the report:

https://t.co/Um0Eexqxzb

Active Travel events were really successful in December.

Despite the freezing cold weather we managed to reach 75k in our C.P.S. Walk to Santa 100k Challenge.  Well done to P2H, P5P and P7B who all completed 11k each.  Well done to every class that took part.  Hopefully we can reach our 100k challenge the next time when the weather is a bit better. 

Well done to all those who completed the Cycle and Walk to Santa.  Great effort especially by those in KS1.

Active Travel in 2018

Welcome back to school and the start of a busy few months in Comber Primary linked to Active Travel.  Lots of events coming up and there is something for children from P1-P7.  Check out the list of events coming up.

Wednesday 17th January

- New Year Walking Bus for anyone in P1-7.  Meet along one of the 3 routes and walk together into school. ( PARENTS MUST WALK WITH CHILDREN WHO DO NOT NORMALLY WALK TO SCHOOL ON THEIR OWN)  It starts at 8.25am.  See the maps below for the location of each route.  Which route will be the busiest?

Friday 26th January

- Bike It Breakfast for anyone in P4-7.  Cycle or scoot to school on this day and you will get a free breakfast of pancakes and a drink and a free cycling prize.

Translink Travel Challenge

As part of our Green Flag, one of our topics is looking at how we all travel to school every day .  Each child in the school will receive a page on which they will need to record how they travel to and from school every day between 21st January and 2nd February.  In total this should be 20 journeys with 2 each day.  The Eco Council will then be using these results to identify how Eco friendly we are.  This event will be repeated in March.  

Other events

    - Be Bright Be Seen Walking Bus- An event for everyone in P1-7 to walk to school in bright colours.  More information on this at a later date.

As you can see lots is happening over the next few months.  Remember to keep safe if out on bikes or walking and try to wear bright colours so you are easily seen.

Keep checking out the gallery for pictures of these events and I hope as many of you can take part as you can.

If you have any questions about any of the events do not hesitate to contact me in school.

Mr Pinkerton

The Walking Bus that was to take place on Wednesday 13th December and the Biker Breakfast on Thursday 14th December for P4-7 have been cancelled.  This is a result of the very cold weather and also the fact lots of the pavements are very icy in the morning.  These events will start up again in January 2018. 

Cycle to Santa

Due to the bad weather some of those in P4-7 who may have planned to cycle have not done so as it is too icy and it is not safe to cycle at present.  As a result if any of these children walk to school instead of cycling this week they can get their Cycle to Santa page filled in that way by their teacher.  Remember if you get 10 Santa characters circled bring your page to me in my P5 classroom.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me at school.

Mr Pinkerton

A big thank you to all families who brought a shoebox to school. Our school council have sorted and organised them and in total we had 85 completed shoeboxes! This is a fantastic total and we are overwhelmed by the generosity shown by everyone.

Jenny and Sonya from Samaritan's Purse came and collected our shoeboxes - they will shortly be heading to Eastern Europe and they will make a real difference to children who have so little.

Lewis Garrett and Aimee Thompson from our school council helped to pack the shoeboxes and presented Sonya and Jenny with a cheque.