Shark Week at Provo Primary

shark-stanley-bookEach year we dedicate a week to learning about wildlife in our local environment. Shark week follows on from our successful Osprey Week last year.  This week across the school, classes are investigating sharks.

We would like to thank all the community members who will be offering their expertise.

On Wednesday, David Gallardo (photographer) will be sharing his amazing photography and diving with shark experiences with Jk – Yr2.

On Thursday, Tina Randall (Shark Defenders), Jackie Walker (Amanyara Nature Discovery Centre) and Amy Avenant (DEMA) will be joining together with our Yr. 1-6 teachers to offer a morning of shark activities that the children will rotate through. Activities will include: fact finding, crafts, poetry and drama.

Bring your cameras on Friday and take some family photos with the Stanley Shark photo board.

Find out more about Stanley Shark and what you can do to help protect sharks at http://www.sharkdefenders.com/

Summer Term, 2015 – Newsletters and Topic Maps

topic-maps-summer-2015Class newsletters and curriculum topic maps help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class this summer term.

Access important information, discover topics your child will be exploring and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.

What a variety of exciting, creative topics we will be exploring!

 

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After-School Clubs, Summer 2015

school-club-imageStarting Monday 2oth May, we are pleased to offer new and exciting after-school clubs to enjoy this term for all children from JK through to Year 6, alongside some returning popular ones.

For our younger members  we have a majestic ‘Be a Princess Club’ and an energetic ‘Adventure Club’.  Our ever popular ‘Bit of Everything’ club is also continuing this term.

Feeling sporty?  Then how about our ‘Soccer’ or  ‘TAG Rugby’ clubs.   Our new ‘Newspaper Magic’ club will appeal to those who like to solve a problem and be free to be creative.  This term is a great opportunity for new members to enrol in ‘Junior / Advanced French‘ Steel Band and Homework clubs too.

If you are interested in your child joining us then please download the attached registration form.

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Flamingoes and Chicks are Taking a Break

flamingo-family-2Our very popular Flamingoes and Chicks sessions, we will be taking a short break this term. We will start up these popular sessions once more in July and then again in September.

We hope you enjoyed what started out to be a few free sessions, but due to popular demand, ended up running for months! A big thank you to Mrs. Helen and Mrs. Rachel for leading the programme over its time.  We will miss seeing everyone each week, but with a full toddler class this term, our fullest attention needs to be on our enrolled young minds and needs.

Thank you all for your interest and support and we look forward to seeing you in either July or September.

School Lunch (Monday 20th April to Thursday 21st May)

school-lunch-picPlease click on the image left to see our new school lunch menu for Monday 20th April to Thursday 21st May.

Lunches are available for full-time children.

We have new ordering options this term.  Please note that all orders and payments need to be made in ADVANCE and that a cut off ordering date system is now in place.

 

Welcome to the Summer Term, 2015

summer-term-2015Welcome to the summer term at Provo Primary.

Thank you for your patience with our website issues.  We are almost back to our familiar look and are pleased to publish our first post of the new term.

It is a busy and exciting term ahead, starting with our ‘Shark Week’ and ‘Parent Maths Calculation workshops’ in April.  We look forward to welcoming Mrs. Bonnie and Mr. Joel in May and our swimming programme from K-Yr. 6 starts in mid May.  Our PTA are also busy planning their annual fundraiser – amongst a few other events.

Take a look at our calendar for the events and dates we have in place this term.

 

Talk4Writing: Journeys to other Worlds in Year 4


Take a look at this fantastic Talk4Writing text from the Flamingo Class! As part of their World Exploration topic, students studied stories that take place in other worlds. They set about learning Where the Wild Things Are as a talking text. They were given simple visual prompts in the form of a story map and were challenged to create all the actions for their story independently.

Read on to read some Year 4 imaginary world stories that were inspired through this work.

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The Great Provo Primary PTA’s Egg-cellent Egg Hunt – 2015

egg-hunt-2015Our annual PTA egg hunt was once again a phenomenal success. All the way from our youngest students, right through to our oldest, everyone enjoyed the egg-citement of searching our playgrounds for colourful eggs, filled with treats.  In total almost 500 eggs were concealed, with a few ‘golden’ eggs with eggs-tra special treats inside. What an eggs-travaganza! Everyone was thoroughly egg-hausted at the end – no doubt especially the Easter Bunny, who came very early today to hide them all.

Walnut, our school chicken, took a break from laying today, but didn’t want to miss out on the hunt, collecting 5 eggs of her own!  Well done, Walnut!

All in all, a lovely way to have some fun and celebrate the end of a hard-working and productive term – Happy holidays, everyone and see you all back on Tuesday 14th April!

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Creative Spring Bonnet Parade – 2015

spring-bonnets-2015What a wonderful display of spring bonnets we saw today.  Each of our Toddlers, Preschool, Jnr. Kindergarten and Kindergarten children proudly paraded around the school, sharing their creative designs with the older students and a large crowd of mums and dads.

Congratulations – we saw bouquets of flowers, chicks, eggs and lots of bunny ears!  We hope you everyone enjoyed creating these together with their children.  What talents milliners we have!

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Year 1 Investigate ‘How to make a Fruit Salad’

yr-1-fruit-salad-2015-(19)In the last few weeks, we have been investigating healthy eating and our senses, as well as exploring instructional writing. We have investigate the steps needed to wash our hands, how to grow a sunflower and lastly, how to make a fruit salad.

During one of our Spanish Immersion sessions, we explored and investigated different fruits such as bananas, melons, mangos, oranges and apples with our senses. We had such a fun time looking and sorting the seeds of the different fruits! As a culminating task, we made a healthy fruit salad, which was delicious, and then together wrote the instructions for how to make it.

Please enjoy the pictures of the children enjoying their fruit salad. It was a very yummy treat, indeed!

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Healthy Reefs Need Sharks!

shark-talk-mar-2015-3Years 5 and 6 were extremely fortunate to attend Brayton Hall and listen to a talk delivered by Rob Stewart. Rob Stewart is an enthusiastic advocate for sharks and the maker of the documentary film ‘Sharkwater’.

Feedback from students indicated the following:

‘A great way to show how children can be advocates for something in which they believe in.’

‘A well-prepared talk which was easy to follow and understand.’

‘Rob was clearly passionate about sharks and extremely knowledgeable about them.’

Following this, our Year 2-4s were also able to join in as Rob was able to squeeze in a time to come to the school and talk to them too – thank you Ali for arranging this.

Community members are invited to a public screening of ‘Sharkwater’ Saturday evening – see details here.

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Reader Beware – you are in for a Scare!

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Writing to entertain: Horror Stories

Year 6 recently studied Roald Dahl’s short story: The Landlady. A story filled with mystery, intrigue and suspense. The story ends on a cliff-hanger and the reader is left wondering what will or could happen next. In Year 6 we considered how the story might continue. Planning out our ideas we got busy writing the sequel to this tale.

Please look out for the following features in our writing:

  • Structure: start, middle and conclusion;
  • Paragraphing;
  • Short sentences to build suspense;
  • Demanding vocabulary;
  • Characterisation;
  • Figurative language features.

We dare you to read a selection of our stories! Click on ‘read more’ below to  see them – we hope you enjoy them!

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Wonderful Whale Awareness with SFS

sfs-students-mar-2015 (8)The whole of Key Stage 2 were recently lucky enough to have a second visit from the wonderful team at School for Field Studies (SFS) in South Caicos. This was a new group of students who have just began their time studying here.

As it was nearing the end of the whale migration season here in TCI, the students dedicated all their activities to educational information on them. The knowledge they had, along with the dynamic and entertaining way they delivered it to the children, was wonderful.

All our children loved the morning and didn’t want the students to leave. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our wildlife here in the TCI, while also having the chance to interact with a different age group and learn about their studies.

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Talk4Writing: Kindergarten Instructional Text


“Have you ever wanted to know how to build a rocket?”

If your answer is “yes!” then you’re in luck! The Kindergarten class have been learning how to give clear instructions as part of their Destination Outer Space topic. Their Talk4Writing project focused on the proper way to introduce and organise their instructions.

Read on to see a couple of examples of the instructions that they wrote and to find out more about their next stage – adapting the text to ‘how to build a moon buggy’.

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Year 4 are ‘Moving and Growing’!

yr-4-moving-growing-mar-2015 (1)What a fantastic half term Flamingo Class has had with our topic of ‘Moving and Growing’! We have learnt so much about our bodies and how they work! It also led us to looking at how our bodies enable us to develop in sport.

Mr George introduced the hypothesis ‘Does the length of our leg affect the distance we can jump?’ This led to a lot of class discussions as you can imagine! So off we went with our Numeracy Investigation.

We started off with planning our investigations in groups. We then looked at all the variables that would affect the investigation and how we could keep it as fair as possible. After this, we measured our legs to the nearest 1cm and recorded our converted measurements in millimetres.

 

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Christmas Smiles

christmas-smiles-2014It was quite a while ago now, but here are a few photos from the distribution of the Christmas gifts, which were mainly donated by Provo Primary School to The Salvation Army, and which we distributed in the community on your behalf.

Thank you to all the students and staff who helped to make it all possible.

Cheers!

Johanne

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The Great Year 6 Balloon Debate

yr-6-debate-mar-2015A balloon debate is a debate in which a number of speakers attempt to win the approval of an audience. The audience is invited to imagine that the speakers are flying in a hot-air balloon which is sinking. Everyone, bar one individual, must be thrown out in order to have one survivor.

Year 6 recently participated in their own balloon debate. The class were split into 4 groups. Competing with the other members in their group they had to speak on behalf of a famous person, author, fictional character and so on (dead or alive) in order to present their case and to convince the audience of their worth.

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Toddlers visit the Local Farm

t-farm-trip-mar-2015 (3)The toddler class embarked on their first field trip to Turner Farm. Farmer Liz greeted us and took us to see the rabbits. There we got to feed them carrots. Some of the rabbits were quite impatient and took the entire carrot from us! We opened the cage and found a surprise – bunnies! They were so cute and little.

 

 

 

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Estimate – Weigh – Price – Buy – Check your change – Consume

yr-3-weighing-fruit-mar-2015-(18)Year 3 welcome you to the ‘Fruit Café’. We have been having a fruity time ‘estimating’ the weight of different fruits using g and kg this week. Each person brought in a different kind of fruit which we all got to estimate and weigh, using both balancing and calibrated scales. Our estimates were getting better and better each time. We even found that one of the melons weighed the same as an adult brain! – (1.5kg).

 

 

 

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‘Hideaway’ with Provo Performing Arts School

It’s so amazing to see so many of our Provo Primary Students performing in this amazing video – both past and present – all linked together and connected through dance. A true combination of talent, enthusiasm, hard work and dedication.  Well done, everyone!  I am thoroughly looking forward to your ‘Summer Showcase’ performance – Miss Sian.

Are you inspired to dance?  Provo Performing Arts School invite you to read on to learn how this video came about, and to see details on how you can sign up for their new dance sessions starting in Monday 20th April.  See the full programme details here.  You’ll need to sign up by 3rd April if you want to participate in the ‘Summer Showcase’.

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We’re not here today – we’re having an ‘Unplugged’ day!

Unplugged-LogoAlthough we value the amazing contribution that technology makes to our teaching and learning at Provo Primary, today as part of our Healthy Tech/Life Balance Week, we are having an ‘Unplugged’ Day.

We will be busy learning as usual – just without all of the technological support that we are accustomed to.  It will probably not be much of an impact to our younger students, where real-life hands-on play-based learning dominates and technology use is much less a part of their day, but I am sure it will be a little more noticeable higher up in the school, where projectors and whiteboards, laptops and tablets play an integral role, alongside hands-on learning experiences. How will our teachers feel its impact?

How will it impact the administrative running of the school…?!? No computers or emails…bear with us as we find out! Just to note – this post was written yesterday and was scheduled to publish today without human interaction!

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Shark Conservation Poster Winners

shark-poster-winners-mar-2015What an amazing level of participation – a total of 63 students, from Year 1 right through to year 6, entered the Amanyara Nature and Discovery Centre’s Shark Conservation Awareness Poster competition last week.  The message was clear on every child’s poster – sharks are important to the marine ecosystem and we need to protect them, both here in the TCI and globally!

We were extremely impressed by the high standard of research, aesthetic presentation skills and the phenomenal level of creativity that went into each poster’s design.  Recognition of the time and effort that each child had put into their poster was celebrated in a special assembly on Wednesday and each child received a special certificate – well done, everyone!  All of the posters were displayed around the school and, at the end of the assembly, we all got the opportunity to view them together.

All the posters will be displayed at the Rob Stewart Sharkwater Talk and Screening event at Brayton Hall this Saturday and also at the Turk and Caicos Reef Fund Cocktail Party fundraiser on Wednesday at Provo Golf Club – we hope to see you there at either or both events.  Our Year 5 and 6 students have been invited to a special Sharkwater school presentation this Thursday.

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Keeping Healthy Week – Walk to School

walk-to-school-imageJoin us on Monday morning, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for our traditional and popular ‘Walk to School’ event.

Meet at the top of the IGA hill for a prompt 8am set off.

Please accompany your child(ren) on the walk. Teachers will be posted at the road crossings along the route.

 

 

 

 

Keeping Healthy Week – Do you have a Healthy Tech / Life Balance?

screen-time-imageTech to life ratio—What does your family consider a ‘Healthy’ Balance? We often hear the phrase – ’Screen Time or Media Time’, which helps to promote a happy medium that encourages children’s use of technology for learning, development and positive social interaction, while protecting them from developing addictive or compulsive behaviours with technology. During the week we will be exploring this theme through a variety of in-house activities.

 

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How did Year 2 Celebrate Chinese New Year?

yr-2-chinese-new-year-2015 (14)As most of you will know, in Y2 we like to learn all about different cultures and the traditions they celebrate. On February 19th the coming of the New Year was celebrated throughout China and the world…and also in one classroom here in the Turks & Caicos Islands!

We did this with a Chinese New Year party! Thanks to ‘Chopsticks’ restaurant we were able to use their chopsticks to eat a feast of delights generously brought in by the Year 2 parents. We listened to traditional Chinese music, ate traditional Chinese food and all received a red envelope (a sign of good luck) with a 100 Yuan note inside…now all we need to do it save up the money to travel there so we can spend it! We topped off the afternoon with a performance of a Chinese song that the children had written and composed themselves…check out our video and see photos of us enjoying our party!

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