We are googly about googly eyed learning in Year 1.
Would you believe that you can use googly eyes for more than just googly eyed faces? This week, Year 1 discovered that you can do maths (!!!) using these jiggly critters!
After becoming pretty successful at addition and subtraction equations, Year 1 upped their game and began to look at multiplication! We first began rote counting in 10s, then realising we were pretty good at that, progressed to 5s then after that we rocketed to counting in 2s! Now, when it came to solving multiplication equations and word problems, we discovered that googly eyes come in pairs…what better resource is there to help us work out two times table questions?
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As part of our Celebrations topics, Year 1 and 2 have so far enjoyed learning about Halloween, Bonfire Night, Remembrance Day and Diwali.
It was a first time experience for many of the Senior Kindergarten class last week when Miss Laranda showed us something quite unique. After learning all about South Caicos and the other islands in the Turks and Caicos, Miss Laranda gave us an amazing insight as to how local fish make it from the ocean on to our plates.
At Provo Primary School, we aim to provide our early years children with the tools to be able to achieve the three characteristics of effective learning…Playing and Exploring; Active Learning and Creating and Thinking Critically. There are lots of ways to achieve this and here is just one of our wow moments…
We all know that mummies are very special ladies. So, this Mother’s Day, Kindergarten class, decided to show them just how much they mean to us by throwing them an Afternoon Tea Party.
What a fantastic start to kick off Kindergarten’s new topic Roots, shoots and leaves. Kindergarten were lucky enough to receive an invitation to visit an amazing garden belonging to one of our families. In case you didn’t know they have a garden that is full of seeds, vegetables, plants, trees and compost.
What a fantastic week it has been with all the children in Early Years joining in the celebration of Early Childhood Education Department’s TCI ‘Week of the Young Child’. See a video of some of our young toddlers singing Humpty Dumpty.
Last Sunday saw the 42nd World Environment Day. It is observed every year on the 5th June and “aims to inspire more people than ever before to take action to prevent the growing strain on planet Earth’s natural systems from reaching the breaking point.” (
Teamwork, communication, patience and cooperation are just some of the skills Year 1 and Year 2 have been putting into practice this term. More specifically, we have been using them in our joint Outdoor and Adventurous Education P.E. lessons. Year 1s and 2s were put into mixed groups and given the task of completing a 2D birds-eye view of our very own school, Provo Primary School. Miss Tracy and Miss Claire had already drawn in the buildings, but which way up did the map go? Which building was which? Where was all the outdoor equipment?
