A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
The Year 1 class have had a ball creating imaginative stories for their new role play area this term—a vet’s office. We decided that we wanted to open a vet’s office in Year 1 so that we could learn about how to properly care for our local animals.
The children were asked to bring in one toy each of an animal that they could find on island. While some of our animals don’t quite fit that description, we decided that we wanted to keep them in our office for observation!
Here are the Year 6 at the airport, ready to embark on their week long eco-adventure, residential trip to Rancho Baiguate, Jarabacoa in the Dominican Republic.
At Provo Primary, we feel that residential field trips integrate academic and social development by providing students with an opportunity to investigate and apply academic knowledge to the outside world, as well as develop their personal and social skills, through a broad range of activities away from their home environment.
Last week we were transported back in time as Ryesha Higgs and Dancescapes, came to Provo Primary to dance for us. Ryesha graduated from Provo Primary in 2008 and as she performed her dance, we remembered vividly, the talented little girl, who so enjoyed singing, music and dance and performing on stage while she was with us. It was truly wonderful to witness the now graceful young woman on the same stage, following her passion for the arts.
On Tuesday morning Year 3 got a real surprise when they were taken to a ‘TOP SECRET’ destination. Unbeknown to them all, they were being taken to the “Beaches Resort’ to meet Oscar the Grouch.
This special treat was awarded to one of our Year 3 students, who for the past 4 consecutive years (since she was 5) has always (yes always) managed to get up really early to attend and participate in the TCI Shines Clean Up event that is organised by the TCHTA and DEMA each year.
We would like to congratulate all 9 of our Year 6 students on their successful post-primary entrance exam results. All of the children have passed every exam taken and have been accepted into the schools of their choice – either the British West Indies Collegiate, the TCI Middle School or at other international schools.
Six of our Year 6 students took local school Year 7 entrance exams:
In total, 37 children from the Turks and Caicos sat the Year 7 British West Indies Collegiate exams for 9 available places. We are extremely pleased that all 5 of our students who sat the exam were offered a place.
All 6 students were offered a place at TCI Middle School out of only 12 available places.
Have a look at our JK videos and photographs showing how the children are at different stages of drawing, learning and story telling.
The children are given the freedom to explore magnetic letters and drawing the white board. They do so very creatively at their own levels – take a look and be amazed.
Story telling is a big part of J.K life and the children are able to draw intricate pictures to express a narrative. More recently, we built a puppet set and characters with a story that lasts around 10mins. The children are all able to act and tell the beautiful story of the fox, the princess and the monster that lived on the frozen lake. A tale of tragedy and happiness – come in and listen sometime! [Read more…]
As a final celebration of our ‘Turtle Week’, here is a short video selection of the fantastic activities and experiences that the children across the school engaged in during the week, with a special thanks everyone who helped. We feel very fortunate that our children’s learning was enhanced by so many community supporters. Please enjoy all the wonderful photos.
Years 5 and 6 were very fortunate to work alongside Lempen Puppet Theatre Company last week when they visited Provo Primary. To support our environmental focus on ‘Turtles’, Lempen Theatre Puppet experts Daniel and Liz ensured that our students Design and Technology skills would be put to the test. Listening to the story of ‘Fisherman Joe and the Three Brothers’ set the scene for our very own moving turtle puppets!
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?
A HUGE thank you to local artist Lucie Winton-Stubbs, from Diftwood Studios, for coming in to help create these beautiful paintings together with our Year 3 and 4 children. What a multitude of skills and techniques were taught as she carefully took them through the process step-by-step. I think you will agree that she encouraged oodles of artistic flair and talent to be creatively released onto the canvas. Aren’t they wonderful?! Look closely and you will see lots of individual details – just like their creators, there are many similarities and yet they are unique in their design!
Our Year 4 Flamingo class quite literally dived into the world of the sea turtle, joining Jackie Walker from Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre, and Amy Avenant and Katharine Hart from DEMA at Coral Gardens for an educational visit to witness first-hand how sea turtles are tagged in the TCI.
‘Turtle Week’ was a busy, fun and turtley exciting week in KS2. We are very grateful to Miss Katharine and Mrs. Amy from DEMA and Miss Jackie from Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre for sharing their vast knowledge and for creating such a wonderful collection of fun and exciting turtle activities!
“I felt the turtle activities were really fun and made me really happy,” said BD.
“I learnt that leatherbacks have collapsible lungs so that they can dive deep,” commented ED.
“I enjoyed Turtle Week because it raises awareness of the turtle situation, especially here in the T.C.I.,” added JW.
We started ‘Turtle Week’ first thing Monday morning with a superbly informative talk by Miss Katharine Hart (DEMA) about the current situation of turtles in the world, their life cycle and the different species. Then after break the children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 took part in a round-robin of activities on the benches and field with Miss Katharine, Mrs. Amy (DEMA) and Miss Jackie (Amanyara.)
Take a look at our ‘Teeth Landscape’ paintings. Can you guess who is behind each smile? In Science, Year 3 have been researching teeth. We have discovered many facts about our teeth. For example, did you know we have two sets of teeth during our lifetime – deciduous teeth and permanent teeth; unlike sharks whose teeth renew forever and ever!
See what all of the Kindergarten children said they’d learnt during Turtle Week when we asked them…
Kindergarten decided to team up with the Year 1 class and carry out some fun activities together. We split into 3 groups and worked on 3 different activities which were all about turtles of course – drawing turtles, writing poems and making hatchlings. Have a look at our photos to see exactly what we did and how much fun we had.
Has our ‘Turtle Week’ at Provo Primary inspired you to find out more about sea turtles in the Turks and Caicos Islands? If so, then perhaps you may like to relax in a hammock, or on the beach, and read through some wonderful articles from our locally produced magazine – The Times of the Islands.
Keeping Tabs on Turtles – Beach profile monitoring for marine turtle nesting areas.
Turtle Travels Unraveled – “Stay at home” turtles are valuable to boosting local populations.
Mother Sea Turtle – A look at the importance of turtles to the Tainos as food and myth.
A Promising Prognosis -Tackling TCI’s turtle fishery.
Thank you to The Times of the Islands team for collating and passing these on to us.
Enjoy!
Last Saturday morning saw Provo Primary school take part in the Spring Inter-Island U12 tag rugby competition. With tag rugby being such a popular sport on the island and interest from all schools at an all-time high, it was no surprise that Provo Primary could enter two teams: Provo Thunder and Provo Hurricanes.
With competition at such a level, Provo Thunder and Hurricanes instantly realised that they had to use all the skills they have mastered during tag rugby club as well as a strong sense of team work and communication. Both teams played exceptionally well against really well-organised and disciplined teams
Everyone in the TCI community is encouraged to join us for the TCI Shines Beach Clean-up anytime between 7:00-9:00AM on Saturday 23rd April at the Children’s Park in the Bight.
Not creating litter and being part of a beach clean-up is a powerful way in which we can make a difference to our wildlife’s well-being here in the TCI.
Help us ensure that rubbish at the park and on the beach doesn’t find its way into the ocean!
“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees….. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”The children have been enjoying books by Dr. Seuss as part of their topic, Think and Wonder, Wonder and Think. Last week we looked at the book, The Lorax. It is a perfect introduction to Earth Day and our local wildlife environmental week about turtles. We discussed several ways we can help take care of our Earth. The children may be little but it is never too early to make them aware of ways in which they can help take care of our environment. [Read more…]
It’s turtle week at Provo Primary and so lovely to know that experiences and knowledge learnt at school are making the journey home to be shared with families. Here is one of our preschoolers entertaining family with a song she’s learnt this week…. “I had a little turtle”. Beautiful singing! Thanks for sharing.
Please remember to make time to come and view our turtle crafts display at pick-up time tomorrow together with your child
Buy your tickets at Provo Primary and you will receive a child ticket free with every adult ticket purchased. Adults Tickets $10 / Children $5.We encourage our families to take this fantastic opportunity of going to the first-ever live TCFAF Puppet Theatre performances at Brayton Hall on Saturday. Performances are at both 2PM and 6PM.
We are looking forward to having Liz and Daniel from the Lempen Puppet Theatre Company joining us tomorrow to do a puppet workshop with our Year 5 and 6 students.
(Ticket offer open to Provo Primary families only)
Year 1 took a field trip to Provo Ponies. We were so excited to get the chance to see the horses, dogs, the donkey and chickens after spending so much time learning about animals through our last topic, The Carnival of Animals.
The children and I did a shared retell of our trip to Provo Ponies in the afternoon. Here it is:
Last term each of our School Council members participated in a First Aid Course devised especially for children, by the British Red Cross. Book donations and the purchase of library resources were also bought and presented to the Public Library. Find out more about these two projects and do check out some of the photo to see our wonderful School Councillors at work!
It is ‘Turtle Week’ next week at Provo Primary School and it is going to be a fun-filled educational and conversational exploration into the world of Turtles here in Turks and Caicos. Find out more in our ‘Turtle Week’ Newsletter.
A wide variety of activities are planned, many of which will be led by community volunteers and supporters. These include a turtle puppet workshop with the Lempen Puppet Theatre Company; presentations and workshops with local environmental experts from DEMA and the Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre; a first-hand experience of tagging a turtle at Coral Gardens; the creation of an acrylic painiting under the guidance of local artist Lucie Winton Stubbs and a viewing of phenomenal turtle photography by David Gallardo and Sean Brady. We would like to thank all of these people in advance for sharing their time and expertise with us. Their contributions, together with our teachers plans, will help make our ‘Turtle Week’ turtley amazing!
A reminder to all that we invite you to attend our Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9) Meeting tonight at 6.30pm at Provo Primary School.
We are looking forward to your attendance and support at our Provo Primary PTA meeting tomorrow, Tuesday 12th @ 5:30pm.