We feel that with all that is going on at Provo Primary, children must have lots to talk about when asked this question, but if your children sometimes give you a blank stare when you ask about their day, here are some tips you might want to try from mommy blogger, Liz Evans. Before Liz was a mom to three, she was a teacher and comes with an expert’s eye on how to get kids to spill.

Her post 25 Ways to Ask Your Kids “How Was School Today?” WITHOUT asking them “How Was School Today? has had more than two million page views.

Let’s us know some of the responses you get from your children.

Here is the school-lunch-form-oct-2014 for October.  If you would like your child to continue having hot lunch, please complete and return the form to the office, together with payment.

The children were happy and excited to meet and learn more about our new quail and tilapia and how to to look after them. Matt Slattery, an ex Provo Primary student himself, brought the quail, and built and introduced our aquaponics system to the school. He was happy to answer the children’s varied and interesting questions. We look forward to learning and sharing much more over the upcoming months.

School Hot Lunches start today and are available to all full-day children at a cost of $5.75 per meal (except for pizza which is either $2.25 per cheese slice or $2.50 per pepperoni slice).

If you wish your child to have lunch, please complete the September lunch form below and return it to the office.

School Hot Lunch Order Form Sept 2014

Forms are also available in the office. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.

It has been wonderful to see everyone back at school today and to welcome our new families and teachers into our community.

Everyone seems to be settling in well, and the children appear to be very happy and making new friends. It has been great, as always, to see the children who were at Provo Primary last year helping new children to feel welcome in their new class and school.

We would like to welcome our new teachers, Mr. George, who is our Year 4 teacher, and Mrs. Yorka, who has joined our Spanish teaching team, working mainly in Early Years to Year 1. We are sure you will enjoy getting to know both of these teachers more over the year.

What else is new at Provo Primary this year?

3 Specialist Foreign Language Teachers – With 3 language specialists in the school (Miss Cara, Mrs. Helen and Mrs. Yorka) we will be offering increased foreign language teaching, including 20 hours of Spanish Immersion a week throughout our Early Years programme.

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As the holiday period draws to an end, and your mind starts to focus on the start of a new school year, we hope that you will find our  School Handbook 2014-1015  a helpful resource full of school information about the school.

Further information about the start of the new school year will be emailed out to our families with  this week.