What an amazing level of participation – a total of 63 students, from Year 1 right through to year 6, entered the Amanyara Nature and Discovery Centre’s Shark Conservation Awareness Poster competition last week. The message was clear on every child’s poster – sharks are important to the marine ecosystem and we need to protect them, both here in the TCI and globally!
We were extremely impressed by the high standard of research, aesthetic presentation skills and the phenomenal level of creativity that went into each poster’s design. Recognition of the time and effort that each child had put into their poster was celebrated in a special assembly on Wednesday and each child received a special certificate – well done, everyone! All of the posters were displayed around the school and, at the end of the assembly, we all got the opportunity to view them together.
All the posters will be displayed at the Rob Stewart Sharkwater Talk and Screening event at Brayton Hall this Saturday and also at the Turk and Caicos Reef Fund Cocktail Party fundraiser on Wednesday at Provo Golf Club – we hope to see you there at either or both events. Our Year 5 and 6 students have been invited to a special Sharkwater school presentation this Thursday.
Join us on Monday morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for our traditional and popular ‘Walk to School’ event.
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, the School Council organised a ‘Book Swap’ event. It was lovely to see everyone from Toddlers to Year 6 browsing through the vast collection of donations and happily going home with new books to entertain themselves. My favourite time had to be seeing the face of one of our youngest children beam with an enormous smile when she chose ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, a book they had been reading in class as part of our Talk4Writing initiative. She was so happy!
From Paddington Bear, to the Cat in the Hat and Horrid Henry, colourful characters were everywhere to be seen at Provo Primary on World Book Day. All the children were invited to come dressed up as their favourite story book character and take part a day of fun reading activities. The children enjoyed the opportunity to parade in front of each other, and in their classes talked about their book characters and why they chose to dress up as them. Guest storytellers also came to read stories to the children in our garden area and we even had a teddy bear’s picnic!
This year across the school, we have begun to explore ‘Talk4Writing‘, which is an innovative approach to developing speech and teaching creative and non-fiction writing that is fun, engaging and motivating for children. Following on from our Literacy Week showcase last Friday, we are very excited to share with you, our series of amazing Talking Text videos, which we have recorded across the school. These will be posted weekly on our blog. We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we do!
We invite all parents and friends of Provo Primary School to join us today for our fantastic Open House Literacy Talk4Writing Showcases!
Come and join in the fun at our family beach day with the Sailing Club at The Bight Beach Park on Sunday 8th March from 3-6PM. The Sailing Club activities will start from 1PM.
Our Year 5 and 6 School Councils Reps were lucky enough to attend a special Education Week ‘Living History’ activity afternoon at another local school yesterday.
Chess club has been a growing success. With quite a few beginner players, it’s great to see how they are now starting their games with clear opening moves, more carefully thought-out game play and a clearer idea on how to position their pieces to check mate their opponent.
The Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports & Library Services cordially invites the general public to celebrate this year’s Education Week: March 1st -6th, under the theme “Unite for Quality Education: Better Education for a Better World”.
Each year, during our TCI National Education Week, we have a themed week in school – this year our theme will focus on Literacy. During this week, we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March and we invite all children to participate in our Book Character Dress-up Day by wearing a costume that represents a favourite character from the world of books!
Next week is National Education Week. We are having a Literacy Theme Week with all the classes doing lots of fun learning activities throughout the week.
Did you know that sharks are an important top predator in the ocean and keep the ecosystem in balance? During the week of March 26-29th, 2015 Rob Stewart: director, photographer, and conservationist will be making a special trip to TCI and our older students will have the opportunity to hear him talk about why we should care about sharks? Rob is an active shark advocate. He participates in many global shark conservation campaigns and will be here in TCI to increase education and awareness about the importance of sharks in our environment.
Next week, we will joining in with 
– inspired, dedicated classes for girls and boys – building confident and creative individuals –