Tickets will be on sale tomorrow for our end of term shows. We look forward to seeing you there.
Budding Young Artists in Pelican class
23 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Pelican class recently took a look at the artist Andy Warhol and in particular his vibrant portrait paintings. We took the children’s photographs and they painted on top of them using bright water colours. They then made their own background in Andy Warhol style printing. To do this they took a small rectangular piece of foam, carved a simple pattern on one side with a pencil, covered this with paint and used it as a stamp to make 4 prints. The results were simply eye catching!
Year 6 TCI Prints on Sale
22 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
“Hello! We are a dedicated Year 6 class, ages 9 -11, from Providenciales Primary School and this is our last primary year. We are trying to raise money to go on an educational trip at the end of the school year that means so, so much to us. It is a once in a lifetime experience. We are raising money by selling these unique art prints that you cannot get anywhere else in the world! We created these prints ourselves using photos from the Turks and Caicos and reinterpreted them by using mind-blowing colours and creating these pieces in our Adobe Photoshop classes. We wanted to show the tropical colours of our home!
These limited editions are unique works of art! Each is professionally printed on photo archival paper. The prints are $50 each or $90 for the set of two and are available to buy at the school. We hope you enjoy them!” Click ‘read more’ to see larger photos of the children’s prints. [Read more…]
Return to the Dark Side!
22 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Our Hummingbird class has been learning about light and dark during our topic work.
We started off by exploring what is a natural source of light and what is a ‘man-made’ source of light. We brought our learning outside to draw around our own shadows and investigate how our shadows seem to ‘move’ even though we are standing in the same spot, at different times during the day!
Read on to find out more about our shadow show, firework poetry and science work. There are lots of photos of us busy exploring!
TCI Shines Clean-up Campaign, 2011
21 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Donned with gloves and large rubbish bags, a group of keen Provo Primary children and staff joined forces with employees from The Alexandra Resort for the TCI SHINES CLEAN-UP.
Starting off at our school at 6:30 am we focused on the area around the Sports’ Centre and Soccer Field. Sadly, there was quite a lot of rubbish to be found, which was mainly drink containers and food wrappers. Fortunately, our enthusiastic team of junk-busters soon swooped in and picked it all up. It was so lovely to look back and see the natural beauty restored after our efforts. The children were proud of their efforts, but slightly bemused and disappointed that people had dropped their litter in the first place and didn’t understand why they hadn’t put it in a bin or taken it home. There is hope for a cleaner future.
The TCI Shines Clean-up event was organised by the Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association. They were excited about getting the children on the island of Providenciales to participate in this campaign and hope this will be the beginning of a programme that promotes, educates and inspires our youth to keep our islands ‘Beautiful by Nature’.
Well done to everyone who got up early and took the time to care for our local community environment. Also, well done to those of you who joined in with other groups or took the time to clean up the area around your own home. Every bit of effort makes a difference to show that we care.
Year Five Hospital Visit
19 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
One of our Year Five Science Topics this term has been on the cardiovascular system, where we have been learning about the heart and how it pumps blood around our body. A visit to our recently built hospital was a fantastic opportunity to see how doctors monitor our hearts with a variety of equipment.
The best part of our visit was examining a child’s heart using an ultra sound machine. We could see the four chambers of the heart (atrium and ventricles). We could see the tricuspid and bicuspid valves opening and closing, allowing blood to flow through from the heart to the lungs. The children were able to identify the pulmonary artery, lungs and the aorta. [Read more…]
Remember, Remember the 5th November!
17 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
As part of this half-term’s “Let’s Celebrate” topic, Flamingo Class have enjoyed a week learning about and celebrating Bonfire Night! We explored the occasion’s history and traditions, in order to understand why this event has become such a popular celebration in Britain. Read on to find out more about our Design & Technology task to create a life-sized Guy Fawkes and to see photos of Bonfire Night, Turks and Caicos Style!
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Things I Like…Crowns!
16 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
As pa
rt of our learning about Toys this term, the Kindergarteners read the book Things I Like by Anthony Browne. In the book, the main character shows himself doing all sorts of his favourite things like playing with toys, making a cake, having a bath and even painting! So, we decided that we would make something we liked. After voting, we decided to make crowns.
Fantastic Forces Fun!
15 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Year 6 have been investigating the forces around us and learning all about Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of physics. We decided to have some fun with an investigation on elastic bands and what happens to an elastic band as the pulling force is increased and what will happen to the elastic band as weights (masses) are suspended from it? Will the elastic go back to it’s original size? All these questions needed to be answered so we donned our safety goggles and started investigating! As you can see from the photos we found that elastic bands are stronger than you would think and had some super scientific fun along the way!
Parts of a Flowering Plant
15 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Year 5 have been learning about parts of the flower and their role in the life cycle of flowering plants. We opened up a flower by removing the petals to look at the reproductive organs. We took out the stamen of the flower and wiped it on black paper to look at the yellow dust like material called pollen. The children were surprised to see how much pollen came out of each stamen. We carefully used a toothpick to open the carpel to look at the female organs which contain the ovaries. This is where the seed of the flower is reproduced.
Baking Bread Bonanza!
10 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Year 5 and 6 have been baking lots of different breads recently after tasting a wide variety themselves! They looked at a range of basic bread recipes and tried some of these out before then designing their own bread in groups. They had to consider texture, taste, who their buyer would be and how to make it appealing. Some had chocolate chips in, some had lemon and cinnamon, all of the breads were a success and enjoyed by the children and their lucky families! We have now evaluated our breads and what we would do to improve them next time. The Year 5’s and 6’s are now focusing on how to package their bread to appeal to their customer. [Read more…]
It’s a Sign!
10 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
Watch this Space! Not only have the School Council have been busy doing a survey to find out which colour scheme to use for our new sign – for the front and back of the school; but they have also been busy arranging and attending appointments with Mr Billy – the carpenter – to discuss and measure up the rather large pieces of wood needed for our new signs.
Thank you Mr Billy and ‘great work’ to the School Council. We can’t wait to see what happens next!
KS2 Athletics Sports Day 2011
1 November, 2011 Leave a Comment
As a culmination of all the events in our Keeping Healthy week, Years 3-6 set off for Sports Day at the Athletics track! All children competed in teams, collecting the greatest score possible for their groups by either running, jumping or throwing for victory! After developing our Athletics skills throughout the past 6 weeks, the children were able to show off their newly acquired skills in the hurdles, long jump, triple jump, discus, javelin, and shot put.
Sports Day created a very different atmosphere to our normal PE sessions. Due to increased levels of concentration, the pressure of a large audience (thank you parents for supporting your children so brilliantly!) or the excitement of the competition, every child produced some excellent performances! All of the teachers were delighted to hear about all the Personal Best records that were beaten in each event. It seemed like every child was achieving great things and celebrating their individual successes!
So, a huge congratulations to every child who participated with such wonderful spirit and enthusiasm. Our Sports Day was jammed full of great sportsmanship and plenty of the ‘Olympic Spirit’ that we had spoken about before the event. It was the perfect way to round off our keeping Healthy week. Click read more to see some more photo of the children in action,both in practice sessions and in Sports Day.