A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Our fully-fledged Year 6 class are preparing for their graduation cermony tomorrow morning. The flamingo is our special school emblem and we often refer to the journey of our students through the school as one from chicks to fledglings. So as our Year 6 spread their wings and take flight from our Provo Primary nest, we would like to share with them some ‘Flamingo Wisdom’, which encourages them to make good choices as they continue to soar onto greatness.
Over this term in Year 5, we have been studying Aztecs and the importance of cacao and chocolate in general to them. This has led on to us designing some different chocolate bars based on the Aztec chocolate drink but we ended up branching into bars of interesting and unusual combinations too. We decided upon four scrumptious bars; two Aztec and two modern day ones.
The children were split into groups and each group made a different chocolate bar whether it was-milk, dark, or a combination of milk, dark and white. Ingredients such as cinnamon, honey, spices, dried fruits, nuts, marshmallows and caramel were then added. [Read more…]
‘Come Dine with Me’ and ‘Crazy Creations’. Starting Monday 4th July Provo Primary is offering a wide range of amazing camp programmes to keep your 2-12 year old child learning, active and having fun during the summer:
* Come Dine with Me (6 – 12 year olds)
* Crazy Creations (2 – 5 year olds)
* Flamingoes & Chicks Sessions (0 – 2 yrs) (returing soon)
Click on the links above to see more details and to register your child today. More details are below as well.
A HUGE shout out to everyone who helped organise, and who supported our annual PTA fundraiser at Mango Reef last night. What a fun night it was! It was great to see Provo Primary parents and community friends all enjoying themselves together. The children’s phenomenal artwork decorated the area and reminded us of the reason why we were all there. Both Provo Primary and Food for Thought are very appreciative of all of your support.
Pirate ships, rockets, teepees, mud pies and more…
Traditionally, each year the children contribute to our annual PTA fundraiser by creating pieces of artwork to be auctioned. This year they are especially excited to be involved as proceeds from this Saturday’s event at Mango Reef will go towards enhancing our school playground.
In collaboration with the PTA, we hope to build a magical playground brimming with opportunities for more imaginative and creative play.
To help make our dreams a reality, we would like to tap into our diverse community expertise and businesses as much as possible. PTA/School funds will be utilized to pay for these local supplies and services.
Here are the Year 6 at the airport, ready to embark on their week long eco-adventure, residential trip to Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa in the Dominican Republic.
At Provo Primary, we feel that residential field trips integrate academic and social development by providing students with an opportunity to investigate and apply academic knowledge to the outside world, as well as develop their personal and social skills, through a broad range of activities away from their home environment.
We would like to congratulate all 9 of our Year 6 students on their successful post-primary entrance exam results. All of the children have passed every exam taken and have been accepted into the schools of their choice – either the British West Indies Collegiate, the TCI Middle School or at other international schools.
Six of our Year 6 students took local school Year 7 entrance exams:
In total, 37 children from the Turks and Caicos sat the Year 7 British West Indies Collegiate exams for 9 available places. We are extremely pleased that all 5 of our students who sat the exam were offered a place.
All 6 students were offered a place at TCI Middle School out of only 12 available places.
As a final celebration of our ‘Turtle Week’, here is a short video selection of the fantastic activities and experiences that the children across the school engaged in during the week, with a special thanks everyone who helped. We feel very fortunate that our children’s learning was enhanced by so many community supporters. Please enjoy all the wonderful photos.
A HUGE thank you to local artist Lucie Winton-Stubbs, from Diftwood Studios, for coming in to help create these beautiful paintings together with our Year 3 and 4 children. What a multitude of skills and techniques were taught as she carefully took them through the process step-by-step. I think you will agree that she encouraged oodles of artistic flair and talent to be creatively released onto the canvas. Aren’t they wonderful?! Look closely and you will see lots of individual details – just like their creators, there are many similarities and yet they are unique in their design!
Has our ‘Turtle Week’ at Provo Primary inspired you to find out more about sea turtles in the Turks and Caicos Islands? If so, then perhaps you may like to relax in a hammock, or on the beach, and read through some wonderful articles from our locally produced magazine – The Times of the Islands.
Keeping Tabs on Turtles – Beach profile monitoring for marine turtle nesting areas.
Turtle Travels Unraveled – “Stay at home” turtles are valuable to boosting local populations.
Mother Sea Turtle – A look at the importance of turtles to the Tainos as food and myth.
A Promising Prognosis -Tackling TCI’s turtle fishery.
Thank you to The Times of the Islands team for collating and passing these on to us.
Enjoy!
Everyone in the TCI community is encouraged to join us for the TCI Shines Beach Clean-up anytime between 7:00-9:00AM on Saturday 23rd April at the Children’s Park in the Bight.
Not creating litter and being part of a beach clean-up is a powerful way in which we can make a difference to our wildlife’s well-being here in the TCI.
Help us ensure that rubbish at the park and on the beach doesn’t find its way into the ocean!
It’s turtle week at Provo Primary and so lovely to know that experiences and knowledge learnt at school are making the journey home to be shared with families. Here is one of our preschoolers entertaining family with a song she’s learnt this week…. “I had a little turtle”. Beautiful singing! Thanks for sharing.
Please remember to make time to come and view our turtle crafts display at pick-up time tomorrow together with your child
Buy your tickets at Provo Primary and you will receive a child ticket free with every adult ticket purchased. Adults Tickets $10 / Children $5.We encourage our families to take this fantastic opportunity of going to the first-ever live TCFAF Puppet Theatre performances at Brayton Hall on Saturday. Performances are at both 2PM and 6PM.
We are looking forward to having Liz and Daniel from the Lempen Puppet Theatre Company joining us tomorrow to do a puppet workshop with our Year 5 and 6 students.
(Ticket offer open to Provo Primary families only)
It is ‘Turtle Week’ next week at Provo Primary School and it is going to be a fun-filled educational and conversational exploration into the world of Turtles here in Turks and Caicos. Find out more in our ‘Turtle Week’ Newsletter.
A wide variety of activities are planned, many of which will be led by community volunteers and supporters. These include a turtle puppet workshop with the Lempen Puppet Theatre Company; presentations and workshops with local environmental experts from DEMA and the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre; a first-hand experience of tagging a turtle at Coral Gardens; the creation of an acrylic painiting under the guidance of local artist Lucie Winton Stubbs and a viewing of phenomenal turtle photography by David Gallardo and Sean Brady. We would like to thank all of these people in advance for sharing their time and expertise with us. Their contributions, together with our teachers plans, will help make our ‘Turtle Week’ turtley amazing!
PPA-WhatDoYouMean from Provo Performing Arts School.
Provo Performing Arts School’s Easter Camp was a brilliant success. Take a look at their amazing Justin Bieber’s ‘What Do You Mean’ video that they created, in association with Eyespice Photography. Throughout the project, the students explored and developed their knowledge and skills in choreography, dance, directing, acting, singing, voiceovers, costumes and make-up. Well done to all of the performers and to director, Niki, too. What fantastic talent all round… it certainly looked like it was lots of fun too!
Do you love to dance and perform… do you wish you had been in this video? Provo Performing Arts School is affiliated to Provo Primary School and classes run daily after school. Take a look at the Provo Performing Arts schedule for this term classes and look out for future Camp activities.
After-school clubs resume on Monday 11th April. Along with our usual favourites that will continue this term, we are pleased to be introducing Super Scientist, Animation, Softball and Field Hockey, and Steel Drums is back!
Click on the image left to download the registration form. Please check the registration forms carefully to see the dates of when there are no clubs and when they finish.
Please remember that all children will need extra water on club days. You may like to also include a small extra snack to be eaten at 3pm before the clubs start – especially if they are continuing on to Provo Performing Art Clubs.
All payments need to be made through IsleHelp and should be made in advance, by 9am on Monday 11th April. Clubs end on Friday 17th June.
Class newsletters and curriculum topic maps help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class this summer term.
Access important information, discover topics your child will be exploring and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.
What a variety of exciting, creative topics we will be exploring. We also have our local environment ‘Turtle Week’ to look forward to the week of 18th – 22nd April.
Here is our school lunch menu for the Summer term (Starting Monday 11th April):
Please note that lunches should be ordered by 9am on Monday 11th April either on the IsleHelp APP or on the POS in the office.
Congratulations to everyone who took part in our eggstra-special egg decorating competition. Wow, what amazing designs. They were eggsquisite! First and second prize winners where chosen from each age group from Year 1 – 6. Here they all are, eggshibiting their eggs. Bold colours, effort, creative ideas and attention to detail were eggsamined by the judge when making their eggstremely challenging choices.
Well done to all of our prize winners – all of whom were naturally eggstatic!
Word play at this time of year is always a joy to eggsplore! Shel Silverstein clearly was eggsited by this when creating the poem below, which one of our Year 3’s brought to me to share…
What an amazing selection of Spring Bonnets we saw today at our annual EYFS Spring Bonnet Parade.
Thank you to all of our EYFS families for doing such a wonderful job of creating the bonnets. It takes some skill balancing and sticking eggs, nests, chicks, flowers on a hat and creating bunny ears that stay upright – a great example of a STEM learning activity at home for both adult and child to work on together! What creative families we have! The bonnets were fantastic!
As is tradition, the children participated in a short parade around the school in front of cheering and clapping parents, friends and older students.
Chiropractor, Dr Craig Zavitz, and his wife Robin have being visiting Provo Primary for the past 5 years, each time with Dr. Craig sharing his knowledge of the human skeleton – in particular, the spine, neck and nervous system. The Year 4 class has just begun their topic of ‘Moving and Growing’, and Dr Craig’s visit was great way to introduce the topic and inspire the children to want to find out more.
During the session, Dr. Craig shared how chiropractors use their knowledge of the skeletal and nervous systems to help heal injuries and soreness caused by blockages to the delicate spinal cord. Volunteers took part in role-playing injury scenarios, with Dr. Craig demonstrating the treatment he would do.
A big thank you to Year 4 for teaching everyone in assembly on Friday about why we celebrate Commonwealth Day.
The Commonwealth is a family of 53 nations and are home to two billion plus citizens of all faiths and ethnicity – over half of whom are 25 or under. Member countries span all continents and oceans from Africa to Asia, the Americas, Australasia, the Caribbean, Europe and bases in Antarctica.
Most of the countries in the Commonwealth were once ruled by Britain, but today many other countries with different cultures, languages and faiths now want to be part of the Commonwealth. As an Overseas UK Territory, the Turks and Caicos is part of the Commonwealth and we have a public holiday every year.
Click on to find out more about the Commonwealth and Commonwealth Day and visit www.youngcommonwealth.org/ together with your child.
Monday 14th – Friday 18th – Keeping Healthy Week – The Enjoyment of SportsWith the majority of the school participating in various sporting events this week, our focus for this term’s Keeping Healthy Week is ‘The Enjoyment of Sports’. We encourage families to talk about sports and how these play an integral part of life at home and at school. What types of sports interest people in your family? What sporting activities do you participate in together as a family? What sporting events do you like to watch?
See detail of all of our planned school events below…
Congratulations to all of our Year 1 – 6 classes! Our Topic Learning Showcase was a magnificent demonstration of the tremendous talent, hard work, knowledge and creativity of all involved. It was lovely to see so many family and friends come along to support the event and take part in the activities on offer. The children all really enjoyed the experience, both of sharing their knowledge with others, and also getting the opportunity to visit and learn from all the other classes too. An all-round success!
Thank you also to everyone who helped put together all of the amazing costumes – we were very impressed with your creativity, attention to detail and resourcefulness!
Thank you to everyone who came along to our Early Years ‘STEM Learning’ Showcase last week. I think the photos below show how much fun the children, families and teachers appeared to be having as they played, talked and learned together, exploring the wide range of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths activities on offer.
We hope that the next time you see or hear the phrase ‘STEM’ you will think back to this event, confident in the knowledge of what it means, and also in knowing that, here at Provo Primary, your child is supported and fully encouraged to explore this through their everyday problem-solving and exploratory play.