During our first week back at school children in Years 3/4 were thrown into the deep end and challenged to complete a Collaborative Art Project. They were asked to fill a display board by recreating an ocean scene.
Kindergarten are Great Critical Thinkers
28 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting’s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy. As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book. Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.
Tttttt…Turtles!
28 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
Year 3 and 4 were very lucky last week to have Brian and Natasha come to talk to them and answer their many questions about sea turtles that live around The Turks and Caicos Islands.
Learning a range of P.E. Skills
22 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
From Athletics to Yoga, children throughout the school have enjoyed their first couple of P.E. sessions of the year. See a slideshow of the children learning and practising their techniques. Read on to learn more details on what they are learning.
Science Museum Physics Fun!
20 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
Launchball is a physics-based Flash game produced by the Science Museum in London.
It’s a great game that those of you who are familiar with ‘The Incredible Machines’ and ‘World of Goo” will really enjoy.
The aim of the game is to get a ball from a starting position to a ‘goal’ by placing additional blocks onto the grid-based screen. Blocks include springs, slopes, magnets, lights, mirrors and so on.
30 levels to complete and a create and share section, too. The challenge is on!
Learning Spanish
20 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
Mrs. Mary and Mr. David are teaching Spanish this year. They are following the units provided in the UK “Framework for Languages”.
The first unit is called Yo (All about me). In this unit children learn to greet others, say how they are and introduce themselves. They begin to respond to and ask questions about their name and age. They learn to count, read and write numbers. They discuss linguistic diversity within their class and learn that Spanish is spoken in many places around the world.
The framework ensures that children”s learning in each year group is guided through clear stages of progression and that they are challenged.
Teaching involves a wide variety of active learning and collaborative activities. The children explore and learn Spanish through games, songs and rhymes, simple conversations and role-plays activities, interactive whiteboard and computer activities and independent worksheets.
Here are a couple of fun websites to share at home: BBC Primary Spanish and Online Games Let us know if you find any others or have any good resources that we can use at school.
Well on our way to Healthy Eaters!
10 September, 2009 Leave a Comment
As a school we like to promote nutritious eating habits and at our playtime snack each morning, we encourage the children to choose to eat their healthy snacks first.
It was wonderful today to see so many children and teachers throughout the school with a wide variety of healthy choices. A big thank you to all our parents for supporting us in our endeavors to promote healthy eating.
See a slideshow of some of the healthy fruit and vegetable snacks that were being munched on and were caught on camera today!
A Happy First Day
10 September, 2009 3 Comments
What better way to sum up our first day back Provo Primary than looking at these smiley faces. Walking through the school today, it was truly evident that the children and teachers were excited to be back. New children settled well and old friends were pleased to see each other. The classrooms looked wonderful and the children were eagerly engaged in their first day back activities. At playtime, it was lovely to hear the familiar sounds of the steel drums and children happily at play in the playgrounds. A wonderful start to the new year!
Please take a look at our first day at school in the slideshows below. Some classes have more photos than others and I can’t promise you that everyone is in them, but it does offer you a glimpse into the day in the life of your child that I am sure you’ll be happy to see.
Early Years (Preschool, Jnr. Kindergarten and Kindergarten – Well done especially to all the 2 and 3 year old Preschoolers who had their first day ever at school today!