A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
All the Early Years children and teachers were so excited to get new outdoor shelves and bins to keep all our lovely toys organized that we could hardly wait to put them all together! Both Kindergarten and Junior Kindergarten worked together to build the shelves and containers, all of which were bought by PTA funding. Please take a look at the pictures to see how we all got on. It was tough work but phew, it looks lovely out in our playground now! A massive thank you to the PTA.
What a start to the year it’s been in Year 4!
We have spent a lot of time during these first weeks getting to know each other! We discussed the importance of helping each other out this year so that everyone can participate, learn and have fun in Flamingo Class. In order to put our ideas into action, we set about creating pieces of art that required us to cooperate together and learn from each other.
Our additional after-school clubs are starting Monday 1st October. Click on the image to download your registration form and join in the fun!
Choose from French, drama, animation, Lego and games, and art club. We also have a few spaces available in homework and junior steel drums clubs. Senior steel drums and golf club are fully booked, I’m afraid.
Children from the community are also most welcome to participate in our club programme so do send a link to any friends that you think might be interested.
We have a new member of the class! Mr Skully, the school skeleton, has been helping Year 2 out with our topic this term – our bodies, our bones and our organs! We actually assembled Mr Skully ourselves, whilst learning which bone attaches to which part of the body. We were amazed at the length of the femur bone (the largest bone in our body) and the stirrup bone in the ear (the smallest bone in our body).
We have been trying to remember all the scientific names of our bones and most of us even can tell you how many bones there are in an adults body! (206).
Have a look at the photos below and see our work in action! [Read more…]
Our School Council Reps for 2012-13 have been voted in. The team have lots of big ideas and are keen to work together for the good of the school. Recycling was top of the agenda in their first active and productive meeting, and this project is now back up and running. Playground timetables too were fairly agreed upon.
We are very proud of our School Council and consider this to be a strong and well established feature of our school. We think it is very important that children have a means of discussing important issues about our school and have a forum for airing views and ideas.
Click on to see a photo of our new School Council Reps and to learn more about what the job involves
Kindergarten’s beginning topic is Habitats around the World. Within this topic, we will be identifying and making a connection between different animals and their habitats. First, we’ve been learning about the polar habitat. So far, we’ve been learning all about polar bears that live in the Arctic and next we’ll learn about penguins in the Antarctic. We’ve learned how polar bear keep warm in the icy cold weather, what food they eat and how the mother polar bear creates a den to have her babies in.
For our weekly craft activity, we made polar bears! Have a look at some of the Kindergarten children having fun making their textured polar bears. Aren’t they cool?
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The Dolphin Class has also been fortunate to have a parent helper, Mrs Catherine, come in and work with us to help us to plant new herbs in our school garden. do you know the herb we are holding in the photo and about to plant?
This on-going project is a great opportunity to combine our classroom learning in Science about how plants grow, with the outdoor environment. It has also allowed for plenty of ‘hands-on’ learning.
Anybody looking for some healthy herbs this half term? Come along to the Dolphins class I have a feeling we are going to be ‘growing experts’ very soon! A huge thank you, Mrs Catherine. [Read more…]
What as fabulous start to the new school year in the Dolphins class. We have worked in pairs using our computer research skills, looking into lots and lots of interesting facts in relation to our class creature, the Dolphin. Not only did we learn how to record the information researched into a colourful spider diagram, but we also jointly presented our newly found facts to the rest of the school during our first assembly on Friday. Well done Dolphins! What would like to know about dophins? Well come into the Dolphin Class and see if the answer is on our informative spider diagrams.
Children from Provo Primary School joined volunteers around the world to pick up rubbish from our coastal environment. International Coastal Cleanup, is an annual event to raise awareness of the importance of keeping the world’s waterways and oceans clean. Well done and thank you to the families who got up ‘super’ early to join in other community members, cleaning up the Children’s Park Beach in the Bight. The children did a great job and, although they were disappointed by the amount of rubbish they actually collected, they felt proud that they had cleaned up an area that is often enjoyed by children. The clean up was organised by the ‘Environmental Club’ together with the DEMA. They hope to see this becoming an annual event on our TCI calendars.
Our school lunch menu resumes on Monday 10th September. If you would like your child to have lunch, please click on the image and download and complete the form. Forms are also available in the office.
As the owner of our school lunch provider is away until October 15th, we have decided to keep the menu the same as it was last term. On his return, we will be trialling some new options with a view to introducing any new dishes into the menu after the mid-term break. Consequently, this order form takes us up to the 17th October. A new order form incorporating some new lunch ideas will be sent out to cover the period between the 18th October and 26th October.
As always, we welcome your comments/feedback on the lunch programme so if you do have any “bright ideas” as to what we can include, please do let us know.
Please note that we are unable to provide lunches unless payment is made in ADVANCE.
Steel Drums and Homework Clubs will start next week. Please find details on the attached the registration form. Our main school clubs will start in the week beginning 1st October so look out for details of these exciting new club choices in the next couple of weeks.
We are keen to hear about community members who would like to run a club, or assist with one, as a part of our after-school programme. Suggestions for potential clubs you feel your children would enjoy are also most welcome.
We are proud of the educational programme we offer to your children and of the cooperative working relationship we strive to develop with our families. Our 2012/2013 School Handbook and Class Information Booklets have been developed in an effort to enhance this relationship and to provide you with information about the school ethos and expectations, and the curriculum for each class year group.
Please click on the image on the left to download the latest copies from our website.
Class newsletters help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class.
Access important information, note future upcoming dates and events and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.
Click on the image on the left to download our latest class newsletters.
