This week is ‘Keeping Healthy Week’ and our focus has been on ‘Being Active as a Family’, promoting and celebrating family involvement in physical activity. 

Between school, home and the community, we work as a team.  At school, we strive to play our part by promoting and providing opportunities for active playtime and lunchtime activities every day, together with two P.E. lessons each week.  This week we also included two ‘Walk to School’ events and a ‘Wake-up, Shake-up’ fitness session which families were encouraged to participate in. Thanks Jo for leading this – the children loved it!.  We also had our Early Years Sports Day.

We recognise that many of our Provo Primary families lead active lifestyles.  We hope that all families have chosen to use this week at home to celebrate their achievements, explore new ideas and see how they can further encourage healthy life choices for all their family to add to the physical activities encouraged during a child’s school day.  Click on ‘read more’ to see photos highlighting our school events. [Read more…]

Our new tetherball has been an instant hit with our Key Stage 2 children.  Click ‘read on’ below to see a movie and some photos of us in action.  Here are some comments the children had to say about the new tetherball…

“It really keeps you active and was really fun”…  “A whole body workout!”…”It was hard to get the ball to the other side” .. “I like the thought of girls versus boys”… “It’s a game of healthy competition and very active”… “Its an anybody’s game.  Anyone can win!”
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The Junior Kindergarten are learning about community helpers, but when the Turks and Caicos Emergency Medical Service crew came to show them their emergency response vehicles, the sirens alerted the whole school of their presence and every class came out to have a look.

A big thank you to the crew for showing the children the inside of an ambulance and telling them about how some of the equipment is used, and for talking about the responsibilities of being a paramedic.

Click on ‘read more’ to see more photos but do not panic!  Mr. Toby wasn’t really injured.  He was simply volunteering to demonstrate how people are secured to the stretcher.  Two of the children in his class then gave careful instructions on how to raise the stretcher and move him into the ambulance. [Read more…]

This week is National Education Week here in the Turks and Caicos.

We are having a Theme Week with each class exploring the topic – ‘A Day in the Life of…’

Click on the image to the left to see details of what each class will be doing.

Children will be dressing up as a character related to their topic on Friday. Classes will share their costumes with each other on the stage at 8:45AM during a “Dress-up Parade’.

On Friday afternoon we will be having an ‘Open House’.  Come and tour the school and visit each class to discover new facts and to participate in a variety of interesting activities.

Be sure to mark your diaries and come visit us for the ‘Dress-up Parade’ at 8:45AM and the ‘Open House’ between 2:30 and 3:00PM.

Congratulations to all our teachers over the years – this is our 500th blog entry!

We are very proud of our blog and how we have kept adding to it over the past five and half years.  It offers an insight to our school in action, following our children as they progress through the school and highlighting our varied and inspiring activities.  We hope you enjoy seeing all the photos and videos and that you find it helpful in giving you access to all the latest school information.

Our school lunch menu form for Monday 20th February – Thursday 29th March, 2012 is now available.
If you would like your child to have lunch, please click on the image.  Download, complete and return the form, together with payment by Monday 20th February.  Forms are also available in the office.
Please note that we are unable to provide lunches unless payment is made in ADVANCE.

This week, two children from Year 5 and 6 went head to head in a mini Spelling Bee to decide who will represent Provo Primary at the upcoming Turks and Caicos National Primary School Spelling Bee in February.  Inviting in Mrs. Robinson, our Government Education Officer, to lead the competition, she followed the protocol of a real Spelling Bee,  giving the two boys some increasingly difficult words to spell.   It was a very close match between the boys, but after 5 rounds a winner was decided, by a few points. Congratulations to both boys who have worked extra hard, learning some very tricky words and a big thank you to their parents for all their support.  The boys should be very proud of their efforts.   We wish our representative (pictured left in the photo) the best of luck in the upcoming Spelling Bee .

Tickets will be on sale tomorrow for our end of term shows.  We look forward to seeing you there.