The Preschoolers have been thrilled to learn about the role of people who help in our community. They were excited to get dressed up in the community helpers’ outfits and role play, imagining the classroom as if it was their work place. During the first week, the focus was on just getting acquainted with names of all the people who helps in our community. In the second week, they learned about how each community helper contribute their services to the community. The Preschoolers also learned about the tools of the community helpers.
Lending Helping Hands in My Community
31 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Year 3 – from Story to Playscript – Enjoy
27 May, 2018 1 Comment
As part of our Social Studies topic this term we have been looking at the life and times of the Native Americans. A story that we really enjoyed listening to was a traditional tale that may have been retold around a tipee fire. The story is called ‘The Clever Coyote’.
Listen to how the talented Year 3 re-wrote the tale from story format to a playscript. They had so much fun using their voices (and some of their facial and hand expressions too) to assist in retelling the story, using their newly written scripts. Fabulous team work and such great expression. I hope you enjoy the story as much as we did.
NEWSFLASH: Hybrid Dinosaurs Spotted in our Playground
25 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Take a close look and see if you can find little dinosaurs hiding in the trees and bushes…
All the children had great fun on Dress Down Friday as hybrid dinosaurs. We have been talking about creative/realistic colouring and realistic colouring/drawing. Today the children had a great time bringing this to life!
See you again soon.
Miss Claire Marie and Ms Shara
Celebrating World Turtle Day in Senior Kindergarten
24 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Did you know that yesterday, Wednesday 23rd May was World Turtle Day? Well, the SK children at Provo Primary School certainly did!
Already a very animal and environment conscious class, SK took the time to really think about why turtles are so special. We discussed how lucky we are to live in a place where we can go to the beach, particularly Smiths Reef and Coral Gardens, and spot turtles from the shore… or, even better, go for a snorkel and watch them feeding on the sea grass.
We enjoyed thinking about all the great things about turtles, however, we also began to think about how much danger they are in. From climate change to habitat loss and being caught in fish lines and nets, it is not surprising that 5 out of the 7 species of turtles are endangered.
Amy from DECR (Department of Coastal Resources) visited us and gave us an insight as to how our actions effect marine life. She read ‘The Tale of the Turtle and the Plastic Jellyfish’ by Sarah Nelms. [Read more…]
School Council News …busy busy busy…
24 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
This month the School Council have had quite a busy schedule. They helped organise getting the message of WE SAY ‘NO TO STRAWS’ out. We had a poster competition, made cards for our lunch boxes to remind us NOT to use straws, we even made a card to take out with us to show how proud we are of not using straws in cafes and restaurants.
We were also asked to participate in the ‘Food for Thought’ campaign – a very worthy cause that provides Breakfast Boxes to schools where students in need, can go to get something to eat. Thank you to everyone that participated in bringing something to fill up those big blue boxes. Super donations where made by all. Wonderful to think that we have helped other children on this island get to eat a hearty breakfast. THANK YOU.
To end the month of busy-i-ness. This month’s decided Dress Down Day became a bit of a challenge. Each class was asked to decide on a ‘secret theme’ whereby, on the day, everyone had to try to guess what each classes chosen theme was?
What have the Toddlers been up to, recently?
23 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
The dentist told us about how we can look after our teeth.
For the past few weeks, the toddlers have been learning about community helpers. They have gained a greater understanding of who our community helpers are and the roles they play every day. They have learned about the dentist, doctor, chef, mommy, daddy, police person and the firefighter.
The Toddlers have had lots of fun pretending and imagining themselves in these important roles, incorporating toy versions of vehicles, tools and uniforms that go with them. They have been fascinated with dressing up as these community helpers because they have distinct uniforms and roles that they can easily understand and, in some cases, relate to. All the toddlers have had their favourite roles and uniforms that they have wanted dress up and role play.
It’s Art-osaurus Time in SK!
18 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
This term SK have been learning all about dinosaurs! We have researched their names, features, environments, characteristics and evolution… we’re pretty much dinosaur experts!
This week, we used an art book to teach us how to draw and paint our favourite dinosaurs. We discovered you have to draw them in steps, starting from the head, then you add the neck, body and legs. Of course, paleontologists cannot be 100% sure what colours each species of dinosaur was, so we made our own interpretations.
After completing our pencil drawings, we took the time to mix water colour paints and carefully decorate our dinosaurs. Can you see the stripes, spots and patterns in our pictures?
At first, we thought we were just doing an art activity, then we realised that we were actually practising our fine motor skills as we carefully mixed and painted our water colours. Would you believe we practised them again when we cut our dinosaurs out using the art scissors? Finally, using the phonices we have learned this year, we labelled our pictures with the dinosaurs’ names. We think that maybe Miss Claire tricked us into ‘thinking’ we were just drawing and painting, when really we were practising so many other skills too!
Powerful Plastic Poetry!
16 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
As you probably know by now as a school we are pushing forward with a ‘No straws’ initiative across the classes. The children have been really inspired by this. In Year 5 we have been having lots of discussions about our world today, the current environmental issues we face and how they can be a part of a better, brighter, more aware future generation.
The children decided to write poems on this fight against plastic and their fears for the future if we did not all act. Their work was completely independent, the choice of their focus and the techniques they used but the content really blew me away! We have stuck these poems up around the school and attached them below in the hope that all of us, adults and children, will be more inspired to remember what is at stake for our future.
Please look around and take a read and hopefully be inspired!
‘SAY NO TO STRAWS’ Posters
15 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Year 5 winner
All the children from Year 1 to 6 were invited to participate in a poster competition, advertising the ‘SAY NO TO STRAWS’ theme. Well done to all the winners and to everyone who took the opportunity to participate.
With such creativity and thought, what a challenging task it was to choose the winners. Take a look at the winning posters and some of other the entries below…
‘NO TO STRAWS’ Cards
14 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Year 3 are leading the way, creating some ‘NO TO STRAWS’ cards to help remind everyone to join the DECR ‘WE SAY NO TO STRAWS’ campaign. The idea is for them to take the cards out with them when their family is dining out, helping them to specifically ask for no straws when ordering their drinks.
With permission of the venue, we hope to make a collection of photographs of the children with their straw-less drinks. Many local restaurants are already joining in with the campaign and perhaps our cards and photos will encourage more and more to consider following suit. Please send in the photos to principal@provolearning.com
The Year 3s have also made cards to be placed into their lunch boxes to help them remember not to bring straws to school.
This campaign is to create awareness of our beautiful marine environment and how we can take small actions each day to conserve and protect it! No Straw is a simple choice that can make a big difference. [Read more…]
Supporting the ‘WE SAY NO TO STRAWS’ campaign
14 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
This year’s Earth Day (22nd April) was the kick off for the DECR ‘WE SAY NO TO STRAWS’ campaign and Provo Primary is in full support.
Through encouragement from our School Council, we have taken on the challenge to try not bring any straws into school, especially those attached to juice cartons. The straws that have been bought in are being recycled and used during art and craft sessions – a great idea from our Year 6!
We have also managed to encourage everyone to recycle and/or use metal cutlery during our eating times at school.
Look out for further blogs this week about our ‘No Straw’ mission.
Time to tessellate in Year Two!
11 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Children in Year 2 have been having fun exploring tessellation while learning about 2D shapes. While devising increasingly complex repeating patterns, children had plenty of opportunity to practice their mathematical language.
It turns out, much to Mr Toby’s delight, that “THERE’S NO SUCH SHAPE AS A DIAMOND!” Instead, children learned to ask for a rhombus or parallelogram for their patterns!
Children began to talk about whether their patterns were symmetrical and whether they could really be repeated forever if we had enough pieces.
Great work Year 2!
Food For Thought Class Food Bank Drive
10 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Through the help of our School Council, Provo Primary is taking part in a Class Food Bank Drive for the Food for Thought organisation.
As you may know, Food for Thought (as well as its Breakfast Programme) currently has a Food Bank Programme, in which ten of the government schools have Breakfast Boxes where students in need can go to get something to eat.
They provide instant oatmeal for 20 students per day at each of the ten schools. On top of this, they ask for public donations of other non-perishable breakfast items to keep the Breakfast Boxes topped up and full of variety.
They have come up with a new initiative in order to boost the public donations – a Class Food Bank Drive! And Provo Primary is happy to support this. Click on to find out how we can help [Read more…]
Year 3 apply their classroom Numeracy skills to real life at the supermarket
2 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
Shopping at IGA
The past few weeks Year 3 have been extremely busy preparing our brains and developing our Numeracy skills for the yearly class shop to IGA.
We have been learning how to measure liquids using milliliters and liters; estimating and reading weight using grams and kilograms; plus we have been learning how to estimate, add and subtract using a decimal point – tricky, tricky!
We had a fabulous time at IGA, practicing these skills, estimating our shopping bill, paying for it and checking the change – it was a lot of FUN! A big thank you to IGA for hosting us.
We concluded our Math topic by creating an edible gingerbread house. Each ingredient had to be recorded, added up and paid for before we then happily devoured our amazing creations YUM! Well done Year 3.
Mythical, magical Year 4 meet a mermaid at the beach
1 May, 2018 Leave a Comment
A definite highlight of the short but packed Spring term, was our visit to the beach! As an introduction for writing our own myths, we learned about Mermaids and Selkies and went off to Iguana Island for inspiration. We gathered shells and other treasure on the beach – watching out for Iguanas! Then we went for a swim ……and MET A MERMAID! We had the chance to talk to her for quite some time before she swam off in to the distance and disappeared beneath the water!
Our amazing mermaid myths are now complete so please feel welcome to come into the Year 4 classroom to read them and to see our mermaid pictures close up.