A HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped to make this year such a great success.

As our Daring Detectives camp activities for 6-12 year olds draw to a close we would like to wish happy summer holidays from all of us at Provo Primary School (for families still on islands,  camp for 12 month to 5 year olds continues throughout July and most of August – see camp info for more details).

There is a Japanese proverb that says, “Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.” We certainly are blessed with a school full of great teachers. Our teachers devote their lives to giving our children the tools to succeed and inspire them to do it. We would like to thank them for their countless hours, their energy and creativity, and their commitment to all the children of Provo Primary.  Enjoy your well deserved break.

We are also blessed here at Provo Primary to have very supportive parents and community friends.  Thank you to everyone who has helped with transportation when we have field trips, to all of our yearbook, library and classroom volunteers – your help is much appreciated.  A special thank you to our PTA Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and PTA team for all your hard work organising events and fundraisers, and to everyone who supported these.  Also, a big thank you to all of our community friends and businesses who have been a part of our school year, especially those who have donated expertise, time and generous fundraising gifts and scholarships.

Happy holidays to all of our wonderful children – you amaze us each and every day – thank you for making Provo Primary such an vibrant, happy, productive and friendly school to be a part of.

Finally, good luck to everyone who leaves us this year – we wish each of you all the best as you move on to new adventures.  Remember to keep in touch with your Provo Primary family and know that you are always welcome to come back and see us again.

As our fully-fledged graduating class of 2015 and leaving students take flight from our Flamingo Lake location, we would like to share with them some ‘Flamingo Wisdom’ which encourages them to make good choices as they continue to soar.

At Provo Primary, our PSHCE and MindUp programmes promote children’s personal, social and emotional development, as well as their health and well-being. [Read more…]

Congratulations to our fully-fledged graduating class of 2015 as they take flight from their Flamingo Lake location onto pastures new!

All of us here at Provo Primary School are extremely proud of all of our students’ individual achievements.  8 of our 14 graduating students have attended the school since Preschool and over their 9 years at Provo Primary School it has been both a privilege and pleasure to watch them grow and develop into the fine young people they are today.

Academic achievement—although important—is not the ultimate end goal for learning at Provo Primary. Our students’ social, physical, and emotional well-being is just as important. [Read more…]

We are pleased to invite parents to join us for a fun morning session aimed at providing information on how our students develop their numeracy skills throughout the school.

We hope to show how maths is developed and consolidated in across the school, as well as learning how to effectively support your child at home. We will offer information on:

• Emergent maths for young minds
• Understanding the number system
• Calculations
• Mental maths

Sessions will be split to allow us to focus on the differing needs of our younger and older children.We hope you can join us for these fun and informative sessions:

Key Stage 1 & 2: Year 2 – Year 6

Tuesday 28th April: 8:30 – 10:00am

Early Years: Toddlers – Year 1

Wednesday 29th April: 8:30 – 10:00am

We hope to see you there!

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!

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Our very popular Flamingoes and Chicks sessions, we will be taking a short break this term. We will start up these popular sessions once more in July and then again in September.

We hope you enjoyed what started out to be a few free sessions, but due to popular demand, ended up running for months! A big thank you to Mrs. Helen and Mrs. Rachel for leading the programme over its time.  We will miss seeing everyone each week, but with a full toddler class this term, our fullest attention needs to be on our enrolled young minds and needs.

Thank you all for your interest and support and we look forward to seeing you in either July or September.

Please click on the image left to see our new school lunch menu for Monday 20^th April to Thursday 21st May.

Lunches are available for full-time children.

We have new ordering options this term.  Please note that all orders and payments need to be made in ADVANCE and that a cut off ordering date system is now in place.

Welcome to the summer term at Provo Primary.

Thank you for your patience with our website issues.  We are almost back to our familiar look and are pleased to publish our first post of the new term.

It is a busy and exciting term ahead, starting with our ‘Shark Week’ and ‘Parent Maths Calculation workshops’ in April.  We look forward to welcoming Mrs. Bonnie and Mr. Joel in May and our swimming programme from K-Yr. 6 starts in mid May.  Our PTA are also busy planning their annual fundraiser – amongst a few other events.

Take a look at our calendar for the events and dates we have in place this term.

What a wonderful display of spring bonnets we saw today.  Each of our Toddlers, Preschool, Jnr. Kindergarten and Kindergarten children proudly paraded around the school, sharing their creative designs with the older students and a large crowd of mums and dads.

Congratulations – we saw bouquets of flowers, chicks, eggs and lots of bunny ears!  We hope you everyone enjoyed creating these together with their children.  What talents milliners we have!

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Although we value the amazing contribution that technology makes to our teaching and learning at Provo Primary, today as part of our Healthy Tech/Life Balance Week, we are having an ‘Unplugged’ Day.

We will be busy learning as usual – just without all of the technological support that we are accustomed to.  It will probably not be much of an impact to our younger students, where real-life hands-on play-based learning dominates and technology use is much less a part of their day, but I am sure it will be a little more noticeable higher up in the school, where projectors and whiteboards, laptops and tablets play an integral role, alongside hands-on learning experiences. How will our teachers feel its impact?

How will it impact the administrative running of the school…?!? No computers or emails…bear with us as we find out! Just to note – this post was written yesterday and was scheduled to publish today without human interaction!

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