A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
As we take on ‘exploring our local TCI environment’ through Science, Social Studies, Dance and Music, Year 2 began scientific discovery by learning about the Queen Conch, one of the nationally recognised symbols of this great country.
As part of bringing our learning to life our class paid a visit to the Caicos Conch Farm for a tour of their fasinating facilities, followed by taking up an invitation to taste some delicious conch recipes at the Bay Bistro restaurant.
This term in Year One, the children are learning about castles. For a home-learning project this week, they were asked to design and make their very own castle. The final results were absolutely amazing. Every castle was unique with the children using different materials and styles! Click on ‘Read more…” below to see some photos of our wonderful castles.
Can you identify the different features of a castle? Need some help? Then click on to find out more about castles and to have a go at a couple of interactive castle activities on the Internet.
The latest dance craze has reached the shores of the Turks and Caicos Islands! JK, Kindergarten and Year 2 all got together for a shaking good time after a buddy reading session together! Can you spot your child flip-flopping and jerking their way through the dance? What an awesome time we all had! [Read more…]
Hello Again from Preschool – Wow what an amazing start to the new term – the children have been absorbed in activity since coming back after a lovely Spring break.
We are all getting older now and can do so much more with our busy hands and inquisitive minds. Have a look at our photographs of the children working on the mat during independent choice. We can count, sort and build. You can also take a look at our amazing gluing skills as we make our sound of the week ‘r’ rainbow and our fish for our Under the Sea display.
See you again soon with more lovely news and photographs.
This term’s focus on Letterland has really allowed the children in the Kindergarten class a chance to interact with the Letterland characters, consolidating initial sound knowledge and learning all the fun Letterland stories which help to explain why letters make certain sounds when standing together in a word.
Did you know for example, that when Sammy Snake stands next to Harry Hat Man in a word, Harry turns around to Sammy and tell him to SH…. He hates noise and Sammy makes so much noise hissing around all over Letterland. When Clever Cat stands next to Harry, his hairy hat tickles her nose and instead of saying her usual “C” sound, she sneezes, making a little “Ch” sound.
Please enjoy looking at the pictures of the Kindergarten children having fun with Letterland!
Children across the school celebrated Earth Day through a variety of mindful earth-friendly activities.
Our School Council organised a clean-up of the school yard and the surrounding area, and individual classes took part in class-based activities.
It was great to see children working hand in hand to look after our world!
When it comes to curry, it doesn’t get any better than Clive’s, so please join us for a fabulous evening of food and friends on Friday 3rd May, as we raise money for improved technology, learning resources, playground equipment and scholarships for the school.
Cocktail hour starts at 6:30pm with passed hors d’ouevres, followed by an extensive curry buffet and dessert. Silent and live auctions featuring restaurant, travel and recreational activities will be held throughout the night. Tickets are $50 and include a 3 course meal. Cash Bar.
Contact Haley Weldon for more information or to purchase tickets: hfweldon@gmail.com.
Well done to our dedicated environmentally-conscious families who rose early this morning to participate in the 5th annual Earth Day TCI Shines Clean-up campaign. Thank you for taking part in this community event to help keep our island ‘beautiful by nature’.
Joining forces with a group of volunteers from The Point Grace Resort, the litter-grabbing team traveled the route between the school and the Graceway Sports Centre and TCIFA soccer field. This route is frequently used by our children on their way to use these sporting facilities as part of our P.E programme.
In all, over a dozen giant rubbish bags were filled with litter! On a positive note this seemed less than when we collected along this same route back in October 2011, but still it was a disappointment to find so many drink bottles, snack packets and food containers littering our local community. Our young helpers just couldn’t understand why the litter was there. “People should put it in the bin!” they remarked.
This week, it was lovely to receive and share a thank you certificate and note to all of our families here at Provo Primary School from the Provo Children’s Home (PCH). The certificate was presented to the children in our weekly ‘Celebration Assembly’.
Last term, our School Council worked hard to co-ordinate and promote a variety of events to raise money and collect food for this worthy local community charity. Read more about our fundraising events here.
Tanis Wake-Forbes passed on the thank you certificate as a small token of appreciation for our kindness and support of PCH. She said, “I would like to thank the children, parents and staff of Provo Primary School for their continued support and generosity to PCH. Without donations like these we would find it very difficult to provide the level of care for our less fortunate children.” She went on to say, “It is doubly appreciated when support comes from children helping other children and brings out the best in all of us. Thank you again for caring.”
Thank you everyone and we look forward to continuing to support the PCH again in the future.
Students in Flamingo Class have been busy researching aspects of Ancient Roman life this week, in preparation for a great debate!
Together they have discovered some incredible things about some of the inventions, buildings, ideas and beliefs that made the Roman Empire so influential in World history!
Read on and decide which of these facts you think is most incredible?
While the Year 3 Dolphins are busy learning about how a balanced meal should contain certain food groups to make a meal a ‘healthy meal’ – proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals (such as calcium) and a small amount of fats and sugars, the JK class have been busy growing their own vegetables, and selling lots of healthy, vitamin full fruits and vegetables at their class (make-believe) shop.
JK kindly invited the Year 3 to come and visit them to do some shopping and to check out their fabulous growing skills. Lots of fun and knowledge was exchanged between the 2 classes.
We have new and exciting after-school clubs to enjoy this term, alongside many returning popular ones. How about our ‘Crazy Contruction’ club or if you fancy staring in a movie, then perhaps ‘Movie Making’ club is for you?
Click on the image, left to download the registration form. Please check the registration forms for the finishing dates of each club.
Enrollment is on a first-come first-served basis and some clubs may be very popular, so be sure to make your choices ASAP. All payments need to be made in advance. Please note that students are not considered enrolled in clubs until the registration form and payment has been received.
You may like to ensure that your child has a small extra snack and drink in their lunch box.
Our school lunch menu form for this half term from Thursday 11th April – Thursday 23rd May 2013 is now available.
Lunches are available for full-time children. 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. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.
Last term certainly was busy with lots of events and activities that enriched the children’s learning. In particular, our Science theme week, PE showcases, sports days, bike-athons, community fundraisers and PTA bunny activities were all a great success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all their hard work and support in helping us provide this wonderful variety of events – children, teachers, parents and community helpers alike.
Want to know more about some of the events and activities coming up this term? Then click on the school calendar and also look out for our class newsletters.