A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Year 3 enjoyed an afternoon of what appeared to look like playing with Lego and iPads… but what were they learning?
Using the iPad apps ‘Daisy the Dinosaur’ and ‘ Kodables’, the children were introduced to the basics of computer programming and algorithms.
Building with the Lego sets the children carefully followed step by step instructions and explored how simple machines work.
Read on to find out more…
It’s that time of year again when Year 3 get their creative hats on and explore ways of improving the look of our outdoor environment.
We found out that the tyres in the garden were super fun to jump in and out of. Therefore we decided to paint some of the extra tyres and, together with some of the older tyres, relocated them to a new spot in the sand area where all of us could have fun jumping around in them!
Some of the tyres were also re-potted with new soil and again relocated into another area of the playground. We then planted some new seeds in the hope of seeing some beautiful flowers emerge in the future…. Lets see if our magic green fingers work this year!
Huge thanks to all the parents who have helped us have so much fun in the garden and playground. We really could not have accomplished all the messy paint scenarios and laughter without you all…THANK YOU!
Here is the final school lunch form for this school year
Lunches are available for full-time children. If you would like your child to have lunch, download and complete the forms:
Forms are also available in the office. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.
The Junior K’s are learning about traditional nursery rhymes and fairy tales. They have enjoyed listening to the story of the three little pigs and have made each of the houses out of waffle blocks in their role play centre. To help recall simple parts of the story the children they have used puppets and acted out the tale using different voices and facial expressions. They thoroughly enjoyed taking the story outside during outdoor play, wearing their pig masks and pretending to be pigs playing in the mud.
Please enjoy the photos of the children developing their learning through play and feel free to come into the JK classroom to join in the fun!
What an exciting start to our summer term’s PE sessions! After a term in autumn with Coach Niall from Turks and Caicos Islands Rugby Football Union Y1 & 2 are now lucky enough to have the Turks and Caicos Islands Cricket Association coming in to teach us some early cricket skills! After just one session, it is already clear that we might have some cricket stars in the making! Watch out, Alastair Cook, you’ve got some TCI competition!
We’ve had such a great time with our latest topic, Growing and Changes. We’ve investigated the weather and seasons, growing plants, life cycles and we’ve just finished spending two weeks learning about ourselves.
For our art project on ourselves, we did some investigative drawing with a mirror. We carefully sketched out our eyes, mouth, nose and hair. Then, we did our first self- portrait using mirrors, crayons and pencil crayons.
The next day, we used pastels and mirrors to do another self -portrait. Our focus was on smudging or blending colours to try to get real life colours. We also really worked on adding details, like freckles and the black circle in the middle of our eyes.
Finally, we learned about Pablo Picasso and used his abstract portraits as our inspiration. The children chose a partner and drew two portraits of their partner. Then, we cut them up into pieces to make a jigsaw or abstract portrait.
Please read on to take a look at their lovely work!
Flamingo Class set out this week to see if it was possible to find evidence of the Ancient Roman’s influence on Provo. It’s amazing to think that the Romans can still have an affect our daily lives, 2000 years later and half-way across the globe! Our discoveries were quite surprising…you’d be forgiven for thinking we’d actually gone to Rome!
Afterwards, students were treated to a Roman Banquet at Pizza Pizza, consisting of pizza (possibly a Roman invention – Romans certainly ate panis focaccia, a bread with toppings added) Caesar salad (named after Rome’s most famous ruler) and red/white grape juice (even though Romans would have insisted on wine). After seeing our fantastic photo gallery, you’ll understand how we worked up such an appetite!
Class newsletters help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class.
Access important information, discover topics your child will be exploring and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.
Click on the image on the left to download your child’s class newsletter and their topic map.
We are very pleased to announce that Mrs. Bonne is coming down for three weeks at the end of May. Many of you will know Mrs. Bonnie and her husband Joel, who have been coming down and volunteering at Provo Primary School for over 11 years. Mrs. Bonnie is a much loved and amazing teacher and lives on the beautiful island of Victoria in Western Canada where she currently teaches university student teachers.
Whilst at Provo Primary, Mrs. Bonnie will help out in as many classes as we can schedule her in, with her main focus being on poetry and science teaching. Many children will remember her squid dissection lessons and the picture on the left demonstrates one of her amazingly fun science lessons that the Year 3s will remember from last year. Don’t forget to pack Scaredy Squirrel, Mrs Bonnie, a much loved puppet character!
We all love having Mrs. Bonnie and Mr Joel here with us and the children look forward to their visit each year. We really appreciate her giving up her time to be here with us again this year. We are sad that Mr. Joel wont be here to help out with our swimming programme and hope that he doesn’t miss Mrs. Bonnie too much! Don’t worry though, we’ll look after her and we’ll certainly keep her busy!
Once again new menu choices are available to delight our children’s taste buds this term. Back by popular demand is our all time school favourite… Spaghetti and meatballs! All lunches will be provided by Pizza Pizza.
As an addition to our hot lunch programme, The S Shack have just confirmed that they are able to continue offering subs and salad on Monday and Thursdays.
Lunches are available for full-time children. If you would like your child to have lunch, download and complete the forms:
School-Hot Lunch Order Form – May 2014
Forms are also available in the office. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.
After-school clubs resume on Monday 5th May. Along with our usual favourites, we are pleased to be introducing tap dancing this term and bringing back cheerleading!
Click on the image left to download the registration form. Please check the registration forms carefully to see the dates of when there are no clubs and when they finish.
Enrollment is on a first-come first-served basis and some clubs may be very popular, so be sure to make your choices ASAP. All payments need to be made in advance. Please note that students are not considered enrolled in clubs until the registration form and payment has been received.
Please remember that all children will need extra water on club days. You may like to also include a small extra snack to be eaten at 3pm before the clubs start.
The TCIFA School Soccer Tournament starts this week. We are entering teams in the Year 3/4 Boys’, Year 5/6 Boys’ and Year 5/6 Girls’ competitions.
We anticipate the tournament to be a very positive experience for each of our amazing teams!
Please see the updated TCIFA School Competition Schedule to see the game times each week and come and support our school teams.
Many thanks again to Casablanca Casino and our Provo Primary PTA for sponsoring our soccer uniforms.
Mark your calendars for Friday, May 16th at Bay Bistro.
The Summer Term starts here at Provo Primary on Monday 28th April. We hope that you are all enjoying your Easter break holiday and are looking forward to returning back to school. We have some new children and families joining our school community this term and we extend a warm welcome to you all.
As expected, we have a productive and eventful final term ahead with our class topics and activities, our Year 6 residential trip to Salt Cay and Grand Turk, SATs assessments in Years 2 – 6, end of year reports, parent consultation meetings, our final end of year assembly and Year 6 graduation.
We also have a few PTA events coming up – remember to save the date for our PTA Spring Fundraiser – Cocktails and Curry Redux on Friday 16th May.
As always look out for information here on the blog, in your email inbox and on our school notice boards throughout the term.
We have a variety of new and favourite After-School Clubs for you to choose from this term. Clubs will start on Monday 5th May. Look out for the club details and the registration forms this week. We will be entering 3 teams into the TCIFA Schools Soccer Tournament this year and we wish all our teams and players an enjoyable series of games.
A reminder that school lunches will resume on Monday 5th May. Forms will go out mid week for you to complete.
Class newsletters will go out this week, packed full of information related to class topics and events.
A spectacularly colourful display of spring bonnets paraded through the school today, donned by our younger students. The bonnets were thoroughly enjoyed by onlooking students, teachers and parents, who clapped and cheered to show their praise for the wonderfully creative designs. Well done to all the families for working on these together and do enjoy looking at the photos. It was so lovely to see such individuality and such a range of ideas on how to depict the theme of spring and Easter egg time.
The parade was followed by our annual PTA Easter Egg Hunt – an egg-citing event that by no egg-aaggeration is a much look forward to by all the students throughout the school. Thank you to Haley and all of the PTA volunteers for making this happen.
Happy Easter break holiday everyone and we look forward to seeing you all back at Provo Primary on Monday 28th April.
Today was Sports Day for all the children from 2 through to 7 years old. Many families came along to support the children and the event was a healthy success with beating hearts, puffed cheeks and smiles all round!
Watching all of the events was amazing opportunity to see first hand the growth and development of children’s motor skills during these short years. Gross motor skills are physical abilities or capacities such as running, jumping, hopping, turning, skipping, throwing, balancing and dancing that involve the use of large bodily movements.
The event allowed the children to demonstrate developmentally appropriate skills that they have been learning and practising during their PE (Physical Education) activities. Teachers and children explained to the audience the techniques involved in the various activities before the children showcased their skills in team and individual activities.
I hope you enjoy looking back at the photos – the concentration, determination and enjoyment on the children’s faces and through their body action is a delight to see!
We recently had the joy of celebrating St.Patricks day with our very own Irishman, Mr. Jason, our Year 6 teacher.
Mishka is Ms Alison’s dog and he is much loved in our Provo Primary community. When he comes into school he loves lots of attention – especially tummy rubs.
Mishka likes to check that the children are working hard and doing well! Here he is reading through some Year 4 Literacy work. He is particularly pleased when he see lots of creative ideas, but he is a bit of a stickler for punctuation use! “Woof, Woof!” he barks, which translates as “Well done, boys, but I can see some commas that need to be added!”
Literacy came alive in the Kindergarten room as the students explored fish by creating ‘Sophia the Parrot fish’ and told her story. Please enjoy! How many sight words can you find?Sophia the Parrot Fish
“This is Sophia. She lives in a coral reef. She likes to go in the deep water and she likes to have friends over. Sophia likes to swim around the coral reef and it is her favourite thing to do. Sophia lives with her family. Sophia has a brother and two sisters. Her brother’s name is James. Her sister’s names are Emily and Amber. Her dad is called Bob and her mum is called Kali. Sophia loves to play with her family. Sophia likes her mum and her dad and she gives them hugs everyday. She loves visiting the coral reef because that’s where her friends live. She goes to school. She loves her friends there. At school she learns her A,B,Cs and how to do tricks…karate tricks. She also learns how to do ballet.”
For the last two weeks in Year 1, we have been learning all about growing plants. Our class was lucky enough to visit Sunshine Nursery & Garden Centre for our field trip. I would like to pass along a massive “Thank you” to Nadine for showing us such a wonderful time! Not only did we have fun but we also learned lots!
During our trip, we took a tour and learned what a nursery is, about how some plants grow from seeds and how with some plants, you can snip off a bit of the plant and re-plant it to grow another new plant. We also learned where Turks Head Cactus keep their seeds and how important it is to show lots of patience because they take a long time to grow! After, our tour, we got a chance to plant a cutting of a bougainvillea and also two seeds straight from Africa—the Baobab seed and the Ceiba Pentendra seed.
Year Six recently joined forces with Justin Spencer, founder of Recycled Percussion and Legacy X in taking a stance against bullying by helping him build the worlds largest RED ‘X’, symbolizing our mission to stop bullying!
Year six students contributed powerful anti-bullying messages to Justin and the Legacy X team, which are now included in this anti-bullying sign in the Nevada Desert. Each leg of the RED ‘X’ is as big as a football field and consists of a compilation of almost 250, 000 personal anti-bullying messages, taken from people around the world.
Year Six were proud to be a part of this mammoth project, which will hopefully make a global impact upon the lives of those who suffer or have suffered from the devastating impact that bullying can bring.
Stand up against negativity! Spread the word. www.legacyx.com
Last Wednesday afternoon Year 5 were cooking up a storm! As part of our Design and Technology lessons we have been investigating how we can alter recipes to make them more healthy in a variety of ways without compromising the taste too much!
We looked at our favourite junk foods and the children have been designing and re- designing their own take on these junk foods . The children independently altered the recipes and in teams organised themselves to bring in the right ingredients and recipe to make it work!
Last Wednesday they got to try out these modified recipes and I am extremely proud of how successful they were; not only in making their designs but also in working together! We had three teams – one making whole wheat doughnuts with fruit topping, one making reduced fat and sugar cupcakes and one team making delicious dairy free and fruity milkshakes. All three recipes got the thumbs up, well done year 5!
Thank you to everyone at the Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust for organising this wonderful WOW celebration and encouraging us to learn more about the ospreys that live here in our islands. The week has been a great success and the interest of the children and the support community has been amazing. A true example of learning at its best!
Click on the image left to see some photos of the week’s events and fantastic art work and continue reading all about our different osprey activities below…
Our Year 2 class wrote thank you letters to DEMA and Fortis TCI. Ltd to thank them for working together to install the new Osprey nesting platform in the Children’s Park in the Bight. Here are a couple of examples. Saying thank you is an important skill to instil and we were pleased to get a prompt reply…
Dear Miss Jones,
The letters from the students are simply WONDERFUL!! Thank you so much for sharing them. We are so happy to have been able to partner with DEMA and make this event possible for the students to witness. Hopefully they will soon get to see an Osprey in its new home.
We have a few staff that will see you all tomorrow for the clean-up. 🙂
Best regards,
Talisha Simons|Manager of Corporate Communications | FortisTCI.Limited
What a fabulous week we all had learning so much about the amazing life of an Osprey bird. We discovered lots of fascinating facts! For instance did you know that the wing span of an osprey can be as long as 1.82meters (around 6 feet)? The females are bigger than the males. They lay between 2 to 4 eggs each year and they migrate to the same place. We wonder if the new osprey nesting platform, that was put up this week at The Bight Park, will become a new nesting place for a new pair of ospreys, we hope so!
We were also introduced to Belle. An American Osprey that migrated to Brazil for the winter months and is at this very moment making its way back to the US. Belle actually flew very near to us in the TCI on her journey back. We found out that she flew over 700 miles in 36 hours – how impressive is that! We decided to make some friends for Belle so we made some of our own ospreys. Check out our photos and meet Olive, Rainbow, Oscar, Otis, Freddy, Ricky, Sherman, Dotty, Oreo, Penny, Bed Head and Bucky the Year 3 Dolphin Ospreys – have fun! Click ‘read more…’ to see lots of photos of the children creating their ospreys.