A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Mr. Sajouste has been our school caretaker for 9 years. Every morning he opens up the school, he works hard all day and locks it up again before he goes home. Everyone likes Mr. Sajouste and yesterday it really showed as the whole school sang Happy Birthday to him. We made Sajouste a special platter of fruit which he really enjoyed (I think he liked the cookies surrounding the fruit the best of all).
As you may have been aware, the school Scholarship Programme hosted a very successful event at Provo Golf Club during the Christmas Holidays. The event formed part of our fundraising efforts for the next, 2014-2015, academic year. It was also our aim to raise awareness of our programme and to attract sponsors and donations from outside our school community.
In recent months we have had a number of requests for more information about the Scholarship Programme. We hope that you find our first Scholarship Newsletter informative (click on the link or the image to download). The aim of the Newsletter is to give updates on our fundraising progress while providing the opportunity to thank our generous supporters.
We hope that you’ll be able to come out to our Golf Challenge on January 4th and 5th. Come and play a round of golf then visit us on the 17th hole where you’ll have the chance to get a hole in one or closest to the pin.
Even if you can’t make it out that weekend, you can purchase a raffle ticket for only $5 (3 for $10) and enter the chance to win one of the following luxury prizes
a full-day boat charter;
2 night stays @ The Sands, The Windsong Resort, Point Grace & Royal West Indies;
2 Day Passes to Club Med;
…and more!
A Night of Music and Art with live jazz by Perry Delancy, Shara Bowen and Brentford Handfield
Friday, November 29, 2013
7pm onwards at Provo Primary School
(ticket includes one raffle ticket entry)
View resident artist, Charlotte Chapman’s beautiful paintings, together with a selection of children’s artwork.
A portion of Art sales and all other proceeds from the evening, will benefit our Scholarship Fund.
Drinks and nibbles available.
Raffle and auction prizes include: Dinner for 4 at Amanyara, Spa package for 2 at Amanyara, Dinner for 2 at The Palms, Paradise Scooters voucher, Discovery Tours Boat Trip, Islandcom phone and other items.
Email director@provolearning.com (432 6327) for further information
Previous community Scholarship Fund supporters include: Mark Pankhurst (Stargazer Villa) and…
It has been fantastic to see everyone (or almost everyone) back at school this week and welcoming new families and teachers into the school.
Apart from a couple of children in Early Years who are understandably still settling, everyone seems to be happy and making new friends. It’s been great to see the children who were at Provo Primary last year helping new children to feel welcome in their new class and school. I was particularly impressed with one of our two year olds who was trying very hard to help her friend settle on the first day. Well done, you receive the first empathy award of the year!
Thank you to all parents who have contributed in one way or another by volunteering their time, offering ideas, or donating resources to enhance our school this year.
Everyone will have either noticed or probably been told by their children about our new playground dome, Early Years play equipment and natural shade areas that we’ve created over the summer. We’ve also got lots of Science, Literacy, Numeracy, Art and general classroom resources, that we will be telling you more about in main school newsletter next week. We will also pass on our events calendar for this term, after we have confirmed and added in upcoming PTA events.
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All the very best for this new school year, which also marks Provo Primary’s 10th anniversary at this location and which we will be celebrating shortly!
Summer Camp is in full swing at Provo Primary and the children are having a great time!
Our Early Years Camp activities have included baking, biking, water play and a variety of Arts and Crafts.
One of the children’s favourite activities this week was a picnic in our little garden area.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
For our MindUP and Math Sessions this year, the children were given an open ended task of designing a Theme Park.
We had a price list of materials and the children set off designing and building their structures and calculating the cost.
The first two weeks of Provo Primary Summer Camp ended with an amazing boat trip with Caicos Dream Tours. Our group of 12 children plus adult helpers, gathered together at The Alexandra Hotel on Grace Bay Beach ready to board the boat.
During our hockey camp this year, the children worked with Josh Williams, from Philadelphia Revolution Junior A team in the Eastern Hockey League. Josh, now 18 years old, is an ex Provo Primary student himself and the son of Director, Alison Williams. He has been living, attending school and playing ice hockey in The U.S since 2007. Josh was happy to come back to Provo to work with our children this summer. ” We worked on improving our skating, getting better at stick handling, we worked on our shot and played a lot of fun games”.
Josh said, “The children were all enthusiastic, worked hard and improved greatly over the week”. The children said “We all had fun working with Josh!”
Click on the link below to watch Josh’s interview with WIV Channel 4 TV
Our End of Year Assembly and Graduation Ceremony is a time when we focus on our children’s accomplishments throughout the year and we truly have an amazing group of children, teachers, not to mention parents, here at Provo Primary.
Although all our graduating students of 2013 have been commended on their outstanding test scores, they are far more than this. Helping children to recognize and value their innate talents and strengths plays a huge part in how we educate our children at Provo Primary.
Our “Dancing Under the Stars, A night of Jazz, Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll”, is taking place THIS UPCOMING FRIDAY 31st MAY. This is a casual event which will include lots of great music, an International buffet, and “Blue Martini Bar” (also selling wine, beer, and soft drinks).
For those of you who enjoy the fun and bustle of Live Auctions, we have three amazing auction items on offer:
Raffle draw tickets are also available.
Three children from Miss Cara’s class decided to take the Year 7 TCI Middle School entrance test last weekend. We are pleased to report Theo Weldon (Year 5), Jamie Gray (Year 5) and Melinda Walkin (Year 6) were awarded the top three places. Theo also took the British West Indies Collegiate Year 7 Entrance Test and gained the top place there as well.
This is not the first time we have seen such wonderful test results from our students and we believe this is proof that our creative, hands on approach to learning, not only makes learning more meaningful, but also helps develop higher academic attainment. This is the second year in a row that we have gained 1st, 2nd and 3rd position in the Year 7 TCI Middle School Entrance Tests and the third year in a row gaining the 1st position and 3rd position. We have also gained the top position in the Year 7 British West Indies Collegiate School Entrance Test for the past 3 years in a row (2011,2012 and 2013) and also in 2009.
It was lovely to see new smiling faces enjoying our soft play area and playing alongside each other. The children each made a Flamingo Hand Print picture (our school logo) to take home with them. They seemed to really enjoy the feeling of the paint brushes tickling their little fingers and even had fun washing the paint off their hands. Enjoy these pictures of the children busy playing and creating their art work.
For more information about our Parents and Babies/Tots sessions, please email director@provolearning.com
Our Year 4 Math group linked World Ocean Day to learning Maths facts today.
OCEAN FACT #1 Over ¾ of our planet is covered by oceans
Math fun facts:
~ As a percentage, ¾ is 75%
~ As a decimal, ¾ is 0.75
~ As money, 75 cents
~ As a fraction, ¾ can also be written as: 6/8, 9/12, 12/16, 15/20, 18/24, 21/28, 24/32, 27/36, 30/40
We call these equivalent fractions. This means that they are all worth the same value – even though they look different!
How did we find them? We multiplied the top number (numerator) by two and then we did the same to the bottom number (denominator) and got 6/8. Then we multiplied the numerator by three and did the same to the denominator and got 9/12. We went on with this pattern 10 times. Finally, we discovered that if we took the zero off 30/40 it is the same as ¾!
Boca Floppy Williams is first and foremost Ms. Alison’s pet golden retriever, but she also works as an emotional support and therapy dog. This means that she offers help to people who need it. She is really good at sensing when children are upset and she can help make them feel better. If you haven’t already tried it, try talking to her and she’ll answer you through Ms. Alison. (She needs Ms. Alison to interpret what she’s trying to say in dog language.) She even helps relieve pain when children hurt themselves, just by letting them stroke her. She helps children stop crying and relax so the pain goes away much faster.
Last Friday night saw a number of visitors come to the school including a steel pan playing lion. All was going well until the lion chased away the drummer. Fortunately, there was another one in the house and the show was able to continue!
David Gettes, steel pan builder, tuner and performer is coming to Provo on November 19th.
During his visit, David will be tuning Provo Primary School’s steel drums and working with groups of children from the school, showing them a little about tuning and developing their playing technique.
David will also be performing at various places around town during his short stay. He will be playing at Iguanas restaurant on Monday 20th November and at Providenciales Primary School on Friday 24th November. The Friday performance will be specifically for children and will involve a story telling session in addition to steel pan performances.
After only two music lessons this term, the children in Provo Primary School Senior Steel Band are already playing three songs: Calypso Warm Up, Jamaica Farewell and Matilda. These young musicians are taking it very seriously this year and I have no doubt that they will be out in the community playing in no time. If you happen to enter the school during recess times, you may hear them practising in their spare time and WOW do they sound good!!!
 
 