A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Our additional after-school clubs start Monday 30th September. Click on the image to download your registration form and see all the details!
Clubs include Explorers, Cheerleading, Advanced French, Ball Bonanza, Cooking and Amazing Animators.
We also have a few spaces available in Homework and Junior and Senior Art clubs. Golf and Steel Drum clubs are currently full.
We are also introducing Spanish Club for Junior Kindergarten, Kindergarten and Years 1 and 2, starting Wednesday 23rd October.
As we start a new school year, Year 5 have been getting their teeth into a brand new topic – Space, Segregation, the final frontier! This involves a focus on Space exploration starting from the 1960s moon landing. As we are looking at this period, we are also exploring what else was happening at that time with a particular focus on Martin Luther King and the effects of segregation.
MULTI-TABLE YARD SALE!
SATURDAY, OCT. 5TH
9:00AM-11:00AM
PROVO PRIMARY SCHOOL
NO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE!!!
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR
TO BOOK A TABLE CONTACT: info@provolearning.com
Last year, after-school rugby and soccer clubs run by community and parent volunteers raised $1210 to further supplement our school P.E. equipment. Thank you Jamie, Jen, Zoe and Janine for your time and efforts over the year. The clubs were well supported and enjoyed by the children. The PTA also helped us to purchase a field hockey set. Thank you everyone.
All the new resources will enable us to continue to broaden our P.E. curriculum throughout the school, by offering a wide range of sports to appeal to different interests of our children. They will also help us to promote and instil a love of P.E. and the desire to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Following the success of the introduction of handball last year to our invasion game units, we are excited this year to introduce field hockey and beach soccer. Last year we also introduced squash to our net/wall game units and this was very popular with the children.
Read on to see all the new equipment we have brought…
Each Dress Down Day a class will have the opportunity to hold an activity for the whole school to enjoy. This may be a fundraising initiative for a project in their class or simply a time to share or celebrate something special.
This month the kindergarteners are having a bake sale as part of their emergent curriculum topic “School is Cool: Building a community in our classroom and at Provo Primary”. The class has been working together to improve the outside house area (they have named it ‘The village’). They have decided that they need more outdoor materials for this play space. They made a shopping list and presented it to Ms Alison and Miss Sian. It includes cups, plates, pots, food, a tea party set with a teapot, a table for the kitchen and shovel and buckets to make sand castles.
They have planned the bake sale to raise money for these extra toys that they believe are important for the village play area. I am sure donations of these toy items will also be gratefully received. The Year 1 class has also joined in with the bake sale as they share the play areas with the Kindergarten class.
So when you come to pick up your child today, come ready for your senses to be enchanted by the wonderful array of baked goodies to tempt you and know that as you enjoy these, the Kindergarteners and Year 1s will be most thankful for your support.
What a great first week we had in Ospreys! As you all know we are learning about families this half term. We started our new topic thinking about what we were like when we were babies and how much we have changed. We began to start collecting questions about things we might ask a Mummy who had a new baby….and who should walk in?! Mrs Helen and baby Owen! What a surprise!
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Dress Down Day.
We cordially invite you to attend our assembly on Thursday 26th September at 2.15pm, during which time we will be celebrating being 10 years at our current location at Flamingo Park. Join us for songs, steel pans, poems, cake and more!
In total, the school has been in operation for 22 years so it won’t be long before we’re celebrating our silver anniversary!
Regardless of whether or not you are able to attend, we would appreciate that if you are a Provo Primary alumni family, a past teacher or a current attendee that could share with us a couple of sentences describing memories of your time at Provo Primary, either as a parent or student, to be displayed in our entrance way. Please email these to us by 25th Sept.
Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you and hopefully seeing you next week.
Year 3 Dolphins have been having a hiss-terical time with their ‘Place Value Snakes’. They have been used to asss-ist them in identifying the value of digits in 3, 4 and sometimes even 5 digit numbers. Each counter you drop into a snake’s hole stands for one value in that place. For example, two counters in the ‘tens’ hole stands for two tens, or 20. Three counters in the ‘thousand’ hole stands for 3 thousands or 3000. Such clever snakessss , such clever Dolphins too!
The thunder subsided and the rain held off for a very well-attended Beach Day this past Saturday afternoon. The beach in front of Ricky’s Flamingo Cafe was the perfect spot for parents to escape the sticky weather and socialize while the kids played soccer, boogie boarded, jumped from the pier and swam like fish with new and old friends. Families reluctantly began to pack up only as the sun went down and early bedtimes beckoned their extremely sandy and tired children!
At the end of the summer term, the PTA allocated over $6000 to help the school purchase a variety of wonderful new equipment and resources which will enhance the teaching and learning of all the children across the school. All the children, parents and staff would like to thank the huge number of people and organisations who generously supported our fundraising events last year, allowing us to work together to improve the educational experience of all Provo Primary Students. Click on to read more about how the money was spent…
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Take the pledge to help turn the tide on ocean trash – mark your calendars, set your alarms and give 30 minutes of your time for a place that gives you hours of enjoyment throughout the year.
The Department of Environment and Maritime Affairs (DEMA) will be once again spearheading a Coastal Clean-up in support of the Ocean Conservancy-led International Coastal Clean-up Day.
Be there at 7am at the Children’s Park in the Bight, this Saturday 21 st September . Bring gloves and a bags if possible.
Over half a million volunteers participated around the world, covering a distance of nearly 18,000 mile, collecting over 10 million pounds of rubbish!
Last year in Provo, we collected 63 bags of trash, consisting of beer cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles, cans and other general debris. Myself and two Provo Primary families joined in the effort of this initiative. This year we hope that many more teachers and families will support the event.
Learn more about International Coastal Clean-up Day.
Photo/Poster left – created by one of our Year 5 students last year.
Great news, the new Scholastic book club catalogues! All students will receive their copy today.
In the catalogues you will find fantastic, award winning books at unbeatable prices. Remember, every time you order, your child’s classroom will get 20% of your order value back in Scholastic rewards which our teachers can use on FREE books.
If you’d like to buy any books from the Book Club catalogue please complete your online order by 7pm on Sept 19th. If you’d rather not order online then please just complete the order form and bring it into school.
Yr 3, 4, 5 & 6 Wednesday 18th Sept @ 8:40am
Yr 2 Thursday 19th Sept @ 8:40am
Come and learn more about how teachers and children approach reading in our school, how our reading scheme and library books are organised and how you as parents can help your child on their reading journey, as they progress through the school.
EYFS and Yr 1 Reading Workshops will take place during the Ed Dept Early Childhood Unit’s ‘Week of the Young Child – Early Years are Learning Years – Early Literacy Counts’, 28th Oct-1st Nov.
Hello Everyone! Look at our amazing new outside play area! The children have been super-excited, climbing and sliding, digging and riding. Take a look at our beautiful Early Years playing together with our new equipment. We are pirates and adventurers and love going for a ride on our rainbow caterpillar, in our new police car and playing with our new diggers!
Thank you so much to the PTA for assisting us in buying our Activity Climber and Pirate Ship; we are very grateful!
Miss Claire Marie, Mrs Jeannette, Miss Shara and Ms Lourissa.
Join us at our Provo Primary PTA Family Beach Party
Saturday 14th September.
Pack a cooler and head over to the beach by Ricky’s Flamingo Cafe for socializing and swimming with other school families. The fun begins at 3:30pm.
Children need to be accompanied by parents or guardians please.
Welcome and welcome back to school! Although the year is new, there is already so much in the works. First up for the PTA will be getting started on the shade project for the soccer pitch. Funds for this exciting and long-desired playground improvement were allocated in June but due to the summer holidays, we delayed the project until now. Please let us know if you have construction/budgeting expertise and would like to be an advisor.
Class rep/Room parent sign up sheets have gone up outside all classroom doors…this is a great way to get involved, assist your child’s teacher and get to know other class parents.
Finally, the PTA is looking for 2 yard sale coordinators. Provo Primary typically holds 3 Saturday morning yard sales throughout the year (1 per term). A straight-forward and relatively simple money maker, these sales are extremely popular with the community. Term 1 – tentatively set for Saturday 5th October.
SAT. SEPT. 14 – Provo Primary Term 1 PTA Beach Party – pack a cooler and head over to the beach by Ricky’s Flamingo Cafe for socializing and swimming with other school families. The fun begins at 3:30pm.
MON. SEPT 16 – 6:30pm – 7:30pm, School Library – Term 1 PTA Meeting. Please join us as we see how PTA funds from last year were allocated and make plans for the year ahead. All parents are welcome! Childcare will be available.
THURS. OCT 31 – Provo Primary’s Annual Family Friendly Halloween Party. New ideas always welcome for this fantastic annual event that made the front page of the paper last year! Volunteer sign-ups will go up in October for ticket sales, bartenders/concessions, decorating and entertainment committees.
Look forward to seeing you around school!
Haley Weldon
2013-2014 PTA Chair
Four days into the start of term and the Flamingo Class have been busy starting their first topic of the new school year!
Children spent the morning thinking hard about everything they knew about “The Birth of America.” We discovered that the children already knew some pretty amazing facts about the history of the United States! Did you know that President Obama is the 44th President of the USA, but only the 43rd person to do the job?! President Grover Cleveland counts as 2 presidents but only one person!
As we were talking and thinking about America, the children were set the challenge of creating a huge class mural that will form the backdrop for our display this term. Children had to cooperate in order to create this amazing collage of the Stars and Stripes flag. Groups organised themselves into tearers, pasters and stickers in order to work effectively together in such a small space.
I’m sure you’ll agree that the result is pretty amazing!
We all look forward to sharing all of our fantastic learning with you. Call by the Flamingo Class to see how things develop!
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Our school lunch menu form for this half term from Tuesday 10th September – Friday 12th October 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.
Steel Drums Art, Golf and Homework Clubs will start next week. Please click on the image to open the registration form.
Our full after school clubs will start in the first week of 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.
Class newsletters help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class.
Access important information, discover topics your child will be exploring and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.
Click on the image on the left to download our first class newsletters for the new school year.
It has been fantastic to see everyone (or almost everyone) back at school this week and welcoming new families and teachers into the school.
Apart from a couple of children in Early Years who are understandably still settling, everyone seems to be happy and making new friends. It’s been great to see the children who were at Provo Primary last year helping new children to feel welcome in their new class and school. I was particularly impressed with one of our two year olds who was trying very hard to help her friend settle on the first day. Well done, you receive the first empathy award of the year!
Thank you to all parents who have contributed in one way or another by volunteering their time, offering ideas, or donating resources to enhance our school this year.
Everyone will have either noticed or probably been told by their children about our new playground dome, Early Years play equipment and natural shade areas that we’ve created over the summer. We’ve also got lots of Science, Literacy, Numeracy, Art and general classroom resources, that we will be telling you more about in main school newsletter next week. We will also pass on our events calendar for this term, after we have confirmed and added in upcoming PTA events.
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All the very best for this new school year, which also marks Provo Primary’s 10th anniversary at this location and which we will be celebrating shortly!