A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Years 1-6 present…
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th December
6pm @ Provo Primary School.
Tickets $10 (Children 12 and under free)
Refreshments on sale.
Buy your tickets directly on the IsleHelp or in the school office.
Email info@provolearning.com or call 441 5638 for details.
Provo Primary School’s
Toddlers and Preschool present a Pre-Show Extravanza…
and our Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten Present…
Wednesday 14th December – 6pm – at Provo Primary School.
Tickets $5 (Children 12 and under free)
Refreshments on sale.
Buy your tickets directly on the IsleHelp App or in the school office. Email info@provolearning.com or call 441 5638 for details.
Wow! Year 2 completed their first home learning project of the year and they did a fantastic job! As part of our Science in school, we have been investigating all about animals. Through our reading comprehension sheets, non-fiction books and videos we’ve learned a lot about animals, including humans! The children were allowed to choose an animal and investigate it, while answering a few specific questions such as where the animal lives, what it looks like, what it eats, how it grows from baby to adult and any other interesting facts they found out and wanted to share.
I was very impressed by their work during this term in Science and was very happy to see that the children’s enthusiasm was shared at home! The children did a great job sharing their knowledge with their classmates and answering questions posed by them.
I can’t wait to see what our next home learning project looks like! Based on our first one, it will be awesome! [Read more…]
Come along to Provo Primary School on Monday 5th December for our Jingle Jam Tots Christmas Party. 4:30-6:30pm. All families with children 4 years old and under welcome.
Click on the poster for details.
In J.K. we have been reading Pete the Cat! The children have enjoyed re-telling the stories ‘I Love My White Shoes’ and ‘Four Groovy Buttons’. They have been threading buttons, counting buttons and matching buttons! The children were very thoughtful in adding a few extra foods for Pete to ‘step’ in and considered carefully what colour Pete’s shoes would become. They have also discovered that quite a few of them own real cats and they talked how they care for them. Of course, pretending to be a cat was great fun, too!
Flamingo Class shared some amazing home learning projects this week, the culmination of their first half-term’s learning on The Age of Discoveries.
Our class knew it all! Children had produced all kinds of projects, including: maps of their routes from between 800-500 years ago, models of the ships used to circumnavigate the globe, a sailor’s diet on board an explorer’s ship, clothing from the period and tales of bravery and treachery!
We spent a lovely morning sharing our new knowledge with each other, our parents and children from other classes. Every new visitor shared in our excitement for this exciting topic and posed even more questions that need an answer.
Another small tradition of Bonfire Night is having the Year 4 class prepare a Guy Fawkes for the school’s event at Bay Bistro. As part of their Let’s Celebrate! topic, our Flamingo Class went all-out to make a full-size Guy. The class put so much into their project that many felt a little sad to see him sitting on top of the burning fire!
The class were challenged to make a Guy using only materials that would have been available 400 years ago, when Guy Fawkes and his conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. Not only that, but the children had to ensure that he was dressed in the correct fashion of the period. Well, our Guy needed to look good for such a big party!
After sessions of designing, planning and finding the right materials the class set about building the Guy. Many, many stitches later (!) the class were rightly proud of their creation!
On Sunday 6th November, the Provo Primary community gathered for our 5th annual Bonfire Night celebrations at Bay Bistro. It was especially exciting to see that new experiences have slowly given way to yearly traditions in this very British event.
Families gathered around the large bonfire for food and drinks, much like in communities all over the UK. However, our Provo Bonfire Night has slowly adopted its own unique traditions that we all enjoy! A pre-bonfire swim is now essential, as is the chorus of the Remember, Remember the 5th November rhyme. In addition, we were treated to a bright and noisy firework display above us. We also always enjoy seeing familiar friends of the Provo Primary community who come out to join us for this special evening.
We thank all families for their support and, of course, Bay Bistro for hosting another fantastic evening for us all!
Year 6 recently played a significant role in Provo Primary School’s annual Halloween Party. They were set the challenge of designing, creating and implementing the games that could be used. The design brief enabled the students to focus on games that would be fun to play, could be differentiated easily across different age groups and maintained a spooky theme to fulfill the atmosphere of a Halloween party.
The students in Year 6 were grouped into 5 teams and posed with the above challenge. Getting straight down to work they blasted ideas before settling on a firm notion that could be developed fully to meet the needs of the design brief. The planning stage also considered how prizes would be allocated to winners, how many people would be needed to operate the games, resources and materials needed to build and so on.
In Year 2, we have been learning about colour mixing. Did you know that when you mix yellow and red, you make orange? Or that when you mix blue and red, you get purple? The children had such a fun time exploring the primary colours and then mixing those primary colours to make secondary colours. Some children even decided to challenge themselves to make turquoise!
Stanley is a book character boy who lives with his Mum, Dad and his brother Arthur. He went to bed one night and whilst he was asleep a bulletin board fell and squashed him flat!
After visiting the doctor for a checkup, amazing things start to happen to Stanley. He is flown like a kite by his brother, he goes down a drain to rescue his mum’s ring and he gets to help the police catch two dangerous art thieves, he even gets mailed to California for a vacation.
Year 1 thought it would be fun to send their own Flat Stanley’s on vacation too. We thought this would be a really fun way to learn about lots of different countries. Right now Flat Stanley can be found in the Year 1 classroom, he is looking at the world map and checking out where in the world he is going on vacation. All the children in Year 1 have chosen a friend or relative to mail their own Stanley’s to and we are excited to find out where they are all going. So far, we have Hungary, Canada, India, USA and England on our list. We are hoping to ask Mrs. Yorka to help us send Stanley to Chile.
The Year 1 class are excited to learn about the countries he will be visiting. We hope to make a big class book to show what we have learned. Watch this space to find out more about Stanley’s adventures over the next few months
Provo Primary is having a charity Movie Night this upcoming Friday 11th November. See the poster at school for details.
5pm Pick up at 7:15pm sharp. $5 per child.
There will be food and drinks available.
All community friend welcome.
Please note that if your child is 5 or younger, they need to be accompanied by an adult.
All proceeds to go to the Haiti disaster relief programme in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Tickets can be purchased the evening of the event.
At the start of our Early Years National Heritage Week celebrations, the preschoolers faces’ lit up as they entered the door seeing rays of colourful scarves hanging up in their classroom. Some said, “I see a rainbow,” some called out their favourite colour, while others simply enjoyed the feeling of wrapping themselves up in the soft hanging cloth.
Each colour is special to the Turks and Caicos. The colours are on our National Costume. Each colour represents one or more of the islands that make up our country and identifies what makes them special. Do you know your Island colours?
Year 6 proudly presented cheques today to Food for Thought; and to The Hope Foundation for Autism TCI. After participating in Jill Beckingham’s Foot Steps 4 Good initiative; the Year 6 class decided to donate their raised loose change to the organizations named above, in order to support them in the good work they offer to the residents in need of them in the TCI. Provo Primary students are delighted that the raised an amount of $630 which was split evenly between our selected organizations to assist them in the invaluable work that they carry out. We wish to thank our entire school community for their generous donations. [Read more…]