A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
In a world where you can be anything, be kind.
November 13 is World Kindness Day. It is a day dedicated to promoting and celebrating kindness in all the different ways we can. It’s a reminder to show one another how much we care.
Reflect on the kindness you have experienced in your life and what that has meant to you, or how it has shaped you. How will you pay that kindness forward?
You may like to share these 2 story videos below with your children about kindness and happiness…
Our Provo Primary Early Years families are hosting their annual Christmas Jingle Jam Disco Party for children 5 years and under and their families and friends.
Wednesday 5th December between 5 and 7 pm @ Provo Primary School.
A wonderful evening for little ones with festive music and dancing, Christmas themed games and crafts, family photo opportunities with Santa. Mulled wine, mince pies and other festive treats on sale!
All community families are welcome come and join the fun!
Tickets $5 per person (under 1 year olds free!). All funds raised go towards our Early Years Programme.
Providenciales Middle School Open Evening & Official Opening:
Monday 12th November, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Please join us on Monday evening as we celebrate the opening of our new school!
We are delighted to invite you to share an evening with staff, parents and students of Provo Middle School.
Come along to hear about our Year 7, 8 & 9 provision, tour our purpose-built facility and hear from our students and parents about life and learning at Provo Middle School.
We look forward to welcoming you and hope to share our educational vision with you. You might also like to learn more on our website.
Warm regards,
Ms. Alison & Mr. Toby
With the launch of November as Tourism Environmental Awareness Month, under the theme: “Tourism is Key… It Starts with ME,” ‘Throw back Thursday’ takes us back 6 years to November 2012. Our then Year 4s felt that the issue of littering on our beaches was an environmental and tourist-impacting pollution that they all felt strongly about – so much so in fact, that they set about creating some protest photography to raise awareness on the subject. Read their story here.
Litter education has positive effects on changing student attitudes and behaviours toward littering because it instills a positive cultural value and norm for how we treat our environment. (Hartley et al., 2015, Oliver et al., 1985).
Reflecting on the many, many environmental activities over the years that we have engaged in here at Provo Primary School, it would be interesting to hear how those same children, now 14 and 15 years old, feel about this subject today, along with our countless other Provo Primary alumni.
How has this education, alongside family values, for example, impacted their attitudes and behaviours towards littering today? And what of others growing up in the TCI who have been a part of similar programmes.
What a spook-tacular Trick or Treat and Halloween party we enjoyed last night at Provo Primary and Middle School. A wonderful community event with families from across the island dressing up and joining in with the fun.
A HUGE thank you to our team of AMAZING parents who organised and helped out with everything – from decorations, candy supplies, food, drinks, photos and music, to our FANTASTIC Year 6s who did a great job running all the entertaining games, to Year 7 and friends for making the Haunted House such a THRILLING place to visit and to all the Flamingo Park residents who kindly joined in with the Trick or Treating.
The school looked amazing and it was wonderful to see so many children having fun in their costumes, enjoying the games and playing together. The smiles, the joyful play and the wonderful friendly nature between them all made the evening such a delight!
A night to remember! Hats off to the clean up crew too. Well done everyone – a successful night thanks to all your team effort and support. Until next year…!
What’s it all about?
World Mental Health Day 2018 is observed on October 10. This day is meant to raise awareness about importance of mental health of individuals across the world.
Please help us to support World Food Day by donating non-perishable food items for the families in need in Providenciales.
Click on the image left to see a list of needed items.
Drop off your donations at Provo Primary School, Graceway Sports Centre or ECG Youth Centre by 14th October 2018.
Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services
“The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher,” (theme for World Teachers’ Day 2018 International Conference)
The Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services, joins the global community in observing World Teachers’ Day 2018. Happy World Teachers’ Day!
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate the essential role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels. It also commemorates the anniversary of the 1966 signature of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. Its aim is to mobilise support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers.
The Minister of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services, Honorable Karen Malcolm, and her team at the Ministry take this opportunity to celebrate with and express gratitude to each teacher in the archipelago for their dedication and commitment to the education of our children. [Read more…]
In recognition of World Food Day, October 16th, Food for Thought is asking all the school children of Providenciales, from age 5-19, to use their imagination to create a poster that illustrates their idea of Zero Hunger.
In order to enter the contest, the poster must be submitted by October 12th. The students would need to include their name, name of their school and their age. The winners will be announced on World Food Day, October 16th and receive a lovely prize from Food for Thought! Some classes may be doing the poster in class, others may have it set for homework. Families are encouraged to check out class noticeboards or to ask their child’s teacher for details.
In addition, the winners will also have the opportunity to participate in the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) World Poster Contest, which will be announcing their winner in December. They would be promoted by FAO offices around the world and receive a surprise gift bag and Certificate of Recognition if they are selected. They will also be featured in an exhibition at FAO headquarters in Rome.
Prior to World Food Day, Food For Thought will also be holding a large food drive for the families in need in Providenciales. Please look out for details on when to bring donations into school from our School Council, who will be helping to co-ordinate the collection.
We are pleased to invite you to come and enjoy our Year 3, 4 and 5 Heritage Month Showcase on the stage tomorrow afternoon between 2:20 and 2:50pm.
The children will be presenting items from some songs and folk tales they have been practising with Mrs. Niki in their Theatre Arts classes. We hope you can stop by.
Provo Primary and Middle School after school clubs commence on Tuesday 9th October. We are pleased to be introducing a range of new and previously popular experiences…
Just reading the list inspires and excites:
Great choices – which ones will you choose?
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.
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.
All payments need to be by cash or cheque and should be made in advance, by 9am on Tuesday 9th October. Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that students are not considered enrolled in clubs until the payment has been received.
Inspired by ‘Caine’s Arcade,’ and with access to a HUGE pile of cardboard, a large crowd of creative thinkers and designers descended on the school this Sunday for an afternoon of good, old-fashioned family fun!
An amazing array of cardboard creations emerged, with each family making something completely different to everyone else! With a lemonade stand and popsicles to keep us hydrated, the only thirst we felt was to think outside the box, create and play!
Here’s a selection of few of the almost 100 photos of the day!
Monday was the official ‘Play Day’ with the whole school excited to see the cardboard playground on their arrival. Come snack and lunch play, the creations certainly were given the full test of playability! Everyone had so much fun! Check out some of the action on this short video below:
Sadly, the rain today has brought a soggy end to our cardboard extravaganza but we are already looking forward to next year and the opportunity to create once more! That’s if, by popular demand – and a truck full of cardboard, we don’t have another one sooner!
Thanks Caine for inspiring us!
Year 1 were thrilled to receive a special thank you letter from Letterlander Quarrelsome Queen this week. How quickly she responded! Click on the image left to read it.
As you can see, she thought their Happy 50th Birthday video was unquestionably, quite magnificent!
I’m certainly not going to quibble about that – it really was top quality!
Thank you Quarrelsome Queen. We are really happy that you liked our video!
If you missed our video earlier this week here is a link.
Following our National Youth Week celebrations last week, the first week of October here in the Turks and Caicos is always dedicated to focusing on our very youngest youth members. With the theme of “Early Childhood Education The Foundation to a Bright Start” we are excited to join in with a selection of the planned events that will take place in Early Years centres across the islands.
Take a look at the poster and look out for activities being explored in our Early Years classes this week.
It’s National Heritage Month here in the Turks and Caicos.
The Ministry of Education, Youth, Culture and Library Services invites you to join us in celebrating encouraging friends and neighbours to come out and be a part of the month –long activities. Click on the image left to see what’s happening in each island.
National Heritage Month is a time in which we wholeheartedly observe and celebrate the rich cultural history of our country. It is through our celebrations that we recognise the work done by our forefathers, and the rich legacies they have left for our enjoyment.
As we celebrate, we ask that we each reflect on our level of patriotism to this beautiful country; the role each citizen must play in making this a safer place in which to live, and the steps that are to be taken to make the TCI a more unified country.
Everyone is invited to join us as our Years 3-6 honour our national song, tales and dances. We hope you’ll be able to join us for the celebrations!
As always, do let us know if you are willing to come in and share a heritage related activity with the children during this month.
All Provo Primary families are invited to join us for an afternoon of creativity at our Global Cardboard Challenge event.
What would your family add to our city? A fairground? A skyscraper? A castle? A park or even a soccer stadium? We’ll need everything from the neighbourhood cat to an international airport! Will it be a city of the past, present or future? No idea is too big or too small for Cardboardia – our imagination is the only limit!
Just bring:
• Scissors, box cutters, etc.
• LOTS of masking tape (no duct tape please)
• An imagination
We have loads of cardboard but feel free to bring any tubes, thin card or any other card resources you think would help to embellish our city.
Please BYO drinks and snacks and cash for our lemonade stand!
All children need to be accompanied by at least one family adult or supervising adult.
No technology, just simple, basic, imaginative fun!
Wheels on FIRE ! Get rollin’ down the road…
The Provo Hockey League and the Provo Primary Parents Association are hosting:
SKATE NIGHT – Thursday Sept 27th from 5:00 – 7:00
Click on the poster for details.
Thank you,
Provo Hockey League
A HUGE thank you to the amazing efforts of our Provo Primary families and friends who supported our ‘International Coastal Clean-up Day’ participation this morning. Cleaning up the road from the TCIFA Soccer Field to the CARIFTA Stadium, was a crowd of hard-working volunteers (inc 25 students from our Yrs 1 to 7). This photo shows some of the team and a portion of the rubbish collected.
The area had been brought to my attention as in desperate need for a clean up by our Years 3-6 students who travel the route to the stadium for their P.E. lessons. With vast amounts of rubbish collected, I trust that due to their actions, their journey will be noticeably cleaner (and for others and the wildlife too!).
With a knowledge that we all have the ability to take action and to make a difference, it was interesting to hear the children’s ideas on how we could help to discourage the littering in the area – I wonder what you think could help?
During National Youth Week next week, a variety of events are happening in the TCI in celebration our young people. The theme for this year is: Empowering the youth, one Island at a time; no child left behind.
Provo Primary School is looking to make a presence and would love for you to come along and help support our school and all schools on island. Here are a couple of the events…
Provo Primary and Middle School have pledged to join The Department of Environment & Coastal Resources (DECR), and its partners to support…
Why here? Walking to the stadium for PE lessons, our Year 3-6 children have noticed a lot of rubbish on the path that they feel something needs to be done about. So let’s clean it up and help make a difference!
We are excited about the upcoming start to the new school year and the learning journeys ahead here at Provo Primary and our new Provo Middle School. We have lots of new families joining us this year and we take this opportunity to welcome them all into our community.
Come along to meet the teachers, see your child’s new classroom – and take a peek at our amazing new Middle School buildings – find out more about the year ahead and ask any questions you may have.
Happy summer holidays to all our families.
What an eventful year we have had together – starting with turbulent hurricanes and ending in a whirlwind of celebrations and goodbyes at our Graduation/ Celebration Assembly. It’s certainly one to remember!
We wish you all a happy summer full of new experiences and adventures together with family and friends.
And if you find yourself at a loose end or missing us… remember that we have Summer Camp starting July 2nd .
2-6-year olds Imagination Island Summer Camp 2018
7-13-year-olds Raft Building and Sea Faring Camp 2018
Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you again on Tuesday 4th September for our Open House (11:30am -1:30pm), with the 2018-19 school year starting at 8:15am on Wednesday 5th.
In my role as Principal, every day I take the opportunity to step away from the office admin duties to enjoy spending time in various classes and sharing in all the learning taking place. This week, I had the pleasure of teaching a couple of short numeracy sessions with the Year 2 class.
I chose to review and apply their understanding of number bonds/number facts to 10 and 20, using the Cuisenaire Rods. Fitting in with their’ Sea Faring’ class topic, my activities were presented in the context of the children being sailors working for a notorious Pirate Captain (who was known for expecting a hardworking crew, but who also liked to have fun along the way). I have to say… the Captain was extremely pleased with all of the Year 2 sailors – their key number skills were impressive and fortunately no one was made to scrub the poop deck or walk the plank and feed the fish!
Take a look at some photos of the mathematical adventure we had together as we weighed anchor and hoisted the mizzen! I think the Year 2s will agree that playing and learning at the same time is fun for everyone!
Remember to pick up / purchase your 2017-18 Provo Primary School Yearbook. With its beautiful hardback cover, decorated by our Year 6 students and 152 pages of wonderful photos and memories, we are sure that each opening of the book, will bring back a wealth of memories for years to come.
A HUGE thank you to our Yearbook Team, Claire, Janine and Joan. The immense amount of time and effort that you have put into creating this is very much appreciated by all at Provo Primary and I’m sure all the children and parents.
What a lovely keepsake for children and families to enjoy.
Thank you to all the children for their amazing efforts in our EY Trike-a-bike-a-scooter-thon and KS1/2 Triathlon.
It was fantastic seeing every child in the school taking part with such enthusiasm for the activities and challenges – riding, running and swimming! Well done teachers too for organising and supervising the various stations along each route.
A HUGE thank you to all the kind family and community sponsors who have supported the children’s efforts to help raise funds for learning resources which they themselves will benefit from. To Flamingo Park and the TCIFA for the use of the road, pool and field. And finally, thank you to all the parents who brought bike and scooters to school and to everyone who was able to come along and encourage the children with claps and cheers.