A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Saturday 31st October at Provo Primary School.
Between 6 and 8pm. Entry ticket $5 per adult/child.
Great for families with young children (0-tweens) looking for a fun evening with an organised trick or treating route, lots of games and dancing.
Come dressed in your most creative Halloween costume.
Food and drinks available.
Tickets on sale at the school at pick up and drop off. Also call 441 5638.
This year, Years 1 and 2 have been getting together for a weekly assembly. Our assemblies this term have focused on highlighting all the lovely National Holidays and other special days such as World Kindness Day, that occur during our school year. We have enjoyed getting together to share our learning with each other. Please read on to see their hard work creating posters for National Heritage Day!
‘Global Handwashing Day’ (Oct 15) is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of hand washing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases.
Teaching children about hand washing early in life is important. Most children develop the ability to wash their hands independently by about three years of age. But even when they know how to do it, they’ll almost certainly need to be given lots of encouragement and reminders.
At Provo Primary, teaching about hand washing and reinforcing its practice is an everyday part of school learning. On ‘Global Handwashing Day’ we will be highlighting and reinforcing this even more, with our younger children participating in a variety of focused activities.
Thank you to everyone for the amazing support of our 12 hour Perform-a-thon this weekend. Congratulations to all of the children – they sang, danced, acted and stretched their hearts out for the entire 12 hours. It was hot and sweaty, but well worth it – the children enjoyed being on stage and showing everyone what they’ve been working on for the past 4 weeks.
A special thank you to the parents and guardians who inspired and enabled the children to take part – it wouldn’t be possible without you. A big thank you also to all of our community supporters who made donations.
The Provo Primary School Council would like to pass on a huge thank you to everyone who donated children’s books for the local Library, downtown!
We will be sorting through the many books this week.
Look out for our next post telling you all about our trip to the library, what we learnt and discovered about this local facility and how we plan to support and promote it.
My second National Heritage Month video choice comes from our friends at Brilliant by Tropical Imaging. A collection of amazing photography that captures the spectacular nature, rich history and cultural splendor, our smiling people and wonderful places and experiences that can be enjoyed here in the Turks and Caicos.
Island Life in Turks and Caicos from Brilliant by Tropical Imaging on Vimeo.
On Friday, we culminated our ‘Week of the Child’ reading celebrations with a whole school ‘Drop Everything and Read’ (DEAR) session.
The everyday sounds of the school were replaced with the hush tones of children reading, as throughout the school everyone stopped what ever they were doing, picked up a book and enjoyed quiet reading, by themselves or with others.
Take a look at a selection of our photos… it was lovely to see children choosing their individual places to read around the school, inside and out, capturing Mr. Sajouste, our caretaker, enjoying being read to, and seeing our older and younger children sharing this special reading time together.
A moment presented itself on Friday for us to video our Year 3 and 5 children singing ‘This Land of Ours’, the unofficial national song of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This song accompanies ‘God Save our Queen,’ the official national anthem of the country at every major event and special ceremony.
Written and composed by the recently passed Rev. Dr. Conrad Howell, it is a song that’s sincere words unites all who are fortunate to live here in the Turks and Caicos, celebrates its natural beauty and reminds us of our duty to protect this for the future.
Reading buddies got together all around the school this week, with older children reading with younger children. It was lovely to see everyone enjoying the experience of reading to others, being read to, or both!
Activities like these have many reading skill benefits and are also great for building self-esteem. I love to see how it unites us a school, developing closer, caring connections within our Provo Primary family.
The votes are in… it was a popular event… and one which we would like to repeat again soon!
Over the month of October – our National Heritage Month – I will be featuring some of my favourite videos about our islands. Let’s start with this wonderful video ‘Introduction to the Turks and Caicos Island’, which looks at each island in our ‘Beautiful by Nature’ archipelago.
Thank you to whoever made this… let me know if you know who did?
Only 3 more days left to join in…
The Provo Primary School Council is asking YOU to look through bookshelves to see if you have any GENTLY USED CHILDREN’S BOOKS that you would like to DONATE to the PROVO LIBRARY, DOWNTOWN.
This initiative takes place as part of our Department of Education’s National ‘Week of the Young Child’, under this year’s theme…“Celebrating Our Youngest Learners: – Grow a Reader and Watch them Bloom”
(Please pass on donations to your class teacher by Friday 9th October)
Thank you, The Provo Primary School Council
Embarking on their first community project this year, a selection of our School Council members will be visiting the library later this week. They aim to find out all they can about this local facility, which supports children on the island with their development and enjoyment of reading.
Each year during the month of October, the Department of Early Childhood Education celebrates ‘The Week of the Young Child’.
The week aims at highlighting the crucial period for learning that takes place during the life span of an individual and celebrates the unique way in which young children learn. The week commences October 5-9, 2015 under the theme;
“Celebrating Our Youngest Learners: – Grow a Reader and Watch them Bloom”.
We are pleased to share that our Early Years classes are participating in a variety of extra reading activities this week. The whole school also aims to get together for some book buddy reading times, with older children reading to young ones. There will also be a ‘DEAR’ session, where upon everyone in the school time Drops Everything And Reads at the same!
How will you choose to celebrate the theme “Grow a Reader and Watch them Bloom” at home? Why not send us a photo?
The Perform-a-thon has been be rescheduled for Saturday October 10th between 10am and 10pm at Provo Primary School’s Stage
Performing Arts teacher Niki Flowers has teamed up with The Turks & Caicos Friends of the Arts Foundation (TCFAF) and an old friend of hers; to bring London’s West End Theatre to Provo in February 2016.This project will be financially supported by TCFAF, but a fundraiser is required to assist with the cost. Niki wanted to include children in the fundraising efforts, so has asked all of her students to get involved and sponsored in a 12-hour Perform-a-thon. Niki teaches a collection of classes here at Provo Primary School, under the heading of Provo Performing Arts School.
Niki is appealing to the public, as well as local corporate organisations for their support – if you have any air miles that you could donate, or a pledge of backing please contact her at nikiflowers@gmail.com
The children will also benefit greatly from support on the day – come along and cheer them on!
A couple of weeks ago the Preschoolers came into the classroom after morning play outdoors. Sitting on a chair was a poorly looking little bear! He was covered in dirt, was holding a crumpled tissue and his leg was torn. The children immediately expressed concern for our new friend.
Mrs. Rachel picked him up gently and started asking the children a few questions. What happened to him? “He’s dirty,” said one child. “Look at his leg. It’s broken,” noticed another. Why does he have a tissue? “Oh, no! He’s crying” – sighed one girl sadly. How is he feeling? He’s sad” – thought one boy. [Read more…]
Come….Let’s celebrate our culture and heritage with national pride.
Here is the Calendar of events in relation to celebrations for National Heritage Month, provided by The Department of Culture through the Ministry of Tourism , Environment , Culture and Heritage
A host of different national celebrations are taking place around the islands this October…
Look out for details of these in future post and see how Provo Primary plans to participate…
Led by our school Computing Co-ordinator, Mr Jason, Year 3 have been having a ‘whale’ of a time investigating into what computer programming is about – following and/or producing a set of instructions to make things work.
Building on programming skills introduced last year in Yr 2, they are now working with Scratch Junior. They have been learning how to set a program so that the characters move from one place to another. Plus they have been learning how to get the characters to communicate. They have achieved this not only by inserting speech bubbles – practising their sentence writing skills – but also by recording their own voices, therefore becoming one of the characters in the program – at this point some children were able to practise their singing skills!
Next steps are to build their own characters and sets and create their own story using their newly developed programming skills. Well done Year 3 and a BIG thank you to Mr Jason for sharing your skills with us.
School Council Elections have come to an end and the new School Councillors have been appointed.
There was a flurry of excitement last week as the students at Provo Primary were preparing presentations for their class explaining why they should be chosen to represent their class in the School Council. The feedback from teachers, students and the children on the presentations was so positive and all those who participated did a ‘fabulous’ job. We had posters, film clips, presentation cards and a whole array of wonderfully confident and vibrant presentations – so well done to ALL of YOU who participated.
Provo Primary PTA and The Provo Sailing Club invite you to come and celebrate National Youth Day with us at our Beach Family Fun Day.
Friday 25th September at the Kids Park in the Bight between 2 and 5 pm.
Join us for Hobie cat rides, sandcastle building and endless oodles of beach and water fun.
Bring your coolers – the PTA will also have a refreshing watermelon stand.
Our Autumn term after-school clubs start on Monday 28th September and will run until Wednesday 2nd December. Along with our usual favourites, we are pleased to be introducing Blogging, Handball, Art Attack, Origami and Construction Club.
Click on the image left to see the club schedule.
All payments need to be made through IsleHelp and should be made in advance, by 9am on Monday 28th September.
NB: There are no clubs during mid term or during parent meeting week.
Remember to order your child’s school lunch for the month of October by 9am on Monday 28th September.
Please find below our October lunch menu (Monday 28th September – Friday 23rd October). All meals are up to $6.00 each.
| Monday | Chicken fried Rice |
| Tuesday | Cheese or pepperoni pizza ($3.00 for 1 slice/$6.00 for 2 slices) |
| Wednesday | Pasta and meatballs with garlic bread |
| Thursday | Fish fingers with mash and coleslaw |
| Friday | Roast chicken, roast potatoes, and mixed veg |
Read more to find out how to order using our Point of Sale (POS) or online payment options using IsleHelp.
Our 2015/16 Class Information Booklets for Kindergarten through to Year 6 are now available online for you to download.
These booklets aim to provide you with information about the school ethos, class expectations, and the curriculum for each class year group.
It’s time for our FREE Flamingos and Chicks session again tomorrow (Friday) between 9am and 10am at Provo Primary School. All Flamingo Parents/Carers along with their Newborn and Toddler Chicks are welcome. Find out for yourself why our Early Years Programme is so popular and successful!
We have lots of great toys and exploratory activity centres available for your young chicks to enjoy. Find out more our Early Years programme.
‘FIGHTING FOR TRASH-FREE SEAS’
Join our Provo Primary group of volunteers this Saturday from 7am – 9am to help clean-up the Children’s Park beach area. Meet us at the park and do your bit.
‘Only have an hour to spare – no problem – every little helps!”
See the poster below for further details and to know what to bring (DEMA-coastal-cleanup-campaign-2015)
In 2014, 168 people collected 279 bags of trash nation-wide. How will TCI do this year? Come and join in.
This weeks PTA Meeting will kick off the School Year for 2015. We have a few new members and some important subjects to discuss, so if you can make it – please do try and come along.
Our main topic of conversation at this meeting will be the upcoming Halloween Party. If you would like to volunteer your time or help with this incredibly popular event, but cant make it to the meeting please let us know.
We would like to encourage current Class Reps, and those interested in taking up the role to come to the meeting so you can better understand what your role is for the year!
Thank you,
PTA
Provo Primary