A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Summer Camp is in full swing at Provo Primary and the children are having a great time!
Our Early Years Camp activities have included baking, biking, water play and a variety of Arts and Crafts.
One of the children’s favourite activities this week was a picnic in our little garden area.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
For our MindUP and Math Sessions this year, the children were given an open ended task of designing a Theme Park.
We had a price list of materials and the children set off designing and building their structures and calculating the cost.
The first two weeks of Provo Primary Summer Camp ended with an amazing boat trip with Caicos Dream Tours. Our group of 12 children plus adult helpers, gathered together at The Alexandra Hotel on Grace Bay Beach ready to board the boat.
During our hockey camp this year, the children worked with Josh Williams, from Philadelphia Revolution Junior A team in the Eastern Hockey League. Josh, now 18 years old, is an ex Provo Primary student himself and the son of Director, Alison Williams. He has been living, attending school and playing ice hockey in The U.S since 2007. Josh was happy to come back to Provo to work with our children this summer. ” We worked on improving our skating, getting better at stick handling, we worked on our shot and played a lot of fun games”.
Josh said, “The children were all enthusiastic, worked hard and improved greatly over the week”. The children said “We all had fun working with Josh!”
Click on the link below to watch Josh’s interview with WIV Channel 4 TV
Our End of Year Assembly and Graduation Ceremony is a time when we focus on our children’s accomplishments throughout the year and we truly have an amazing group of children, teachers, not to mention parents, here at Provo Primary.
Although all our graduating students of 2013 have been commended on their outstanding test scores, they are far more than this. Helping children to recognize and value their innate talents and strengths plays a huge part in how we educate our children at Provo Primary.
As part of this term’s ‘Keeping Healthy Week’, nutritionist Tamika Handfield came in to teach Nutrition classes to all the children from Year 2 – 6. Some classes made egg and vegetable burritos, while others made fruit kebabs. The children learned about how whole-grain foods and fruits and vegetables are healthy, the importance of looking at the labels on food packaging, washing hands before cooking, safety in the kitchen and that washing up is part of the cooking process! PTV came along to video for their news programme. Click on to see photos and to learn more about our nutrition classes.
In Year 1 we have been learning to describe an event in detail through poetry writing, in the form of an acrostic poem.
“What is an acrostic poem?” we hear you say.
Well, an acrostic poem is a poem which begins with your title, which you write down the side of your page, or in a margin. Each line of your poem begins with a letter of the title.We use these letters to create words about the subject.
Our task was to create an acrostic poem about Summer, using our best descriptions and vocabulary to ‘set the scene’. “What does ‘set the scene’ mean?” This means describing an event and/or place in great detail, so that the reader can picture the scene clearly in their mind, as if they were there themselves. We hope you enjoy reading some of our fantastic acrostic poems about Summer.
The year two children have been learning about the coral reefs. As part of this study, they made edible coral polyps in class. They also each wrote descriptive poems about the coral reef. Lines from everyone’s poems were chosen to create a class poem. The Amazing Coral Reef Yr-2 poem. Wow – such it really conveys the busy life of the coral reef habitat – Well done, Year 2!
Each coral polyp consisted of a hard outer skeleton (paper cupcake liner), a soft body (marshmallow), a central mouth (candy corn) feeding tentacles (licorice strings) and algae to provide food for the coral (green sprinkles).
What fun was had on Friday morning when the Year Three Dolphins made a visit to the Cheshire Hall National Trust historical site. We were greeted by the curator Jonathan, who shared his knowledge and stories with us. Cheshire Hall was set up over 200 years ago by Thomas Stubbs , who had been encouraged by his brother, Wade, to leave his home in England and develop a cotton plantation.
How can we build resorts that attract tourists without destroying our island’s natural environments? Can we protect our stunning National Parks from damage while encouraging people to visit and enjoy them? Finally, is it even possible to enjoy watching wildlife without making them feel threatened in their natural habitats?
Flamingo Class took the trip to Northwest Point last week to learn about the difficult balance between conservation and tourism. And what a trip it was!
It all started with a lively discussion at the Year 2 snack table… were the critters that we were finding all over the playground centipedes or millipedes?
“They’re centipede because millipedes are bigger!”
“I think they’re millipede because they have so many legs!”
“Centipedes are brown and this is grey with yellow strips. It must be a millipede!”
“Yeah, but this one is reddish brown so is this one a centipede. It looks the same as your stripey one?”
With no foreseeable definitive decision being reached, it was time for me to intervene. This then led on to a whole big project of discovery that dominated the next few days of playtime and lunchtime activities!
Beware, the squeamish amongst you may not wish to look at our close-up photos of the critters!
Our “Dancing Under the Stars, A night of Jazz, Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll”, is taking place THIS UPCOMING FRIDAY 31st MAY. This is a casual event which will include lots of great music, an International buffet, and “Blue Martini Bar” (also selling wine, beer, and soft drinks).
For those of you who enjoy the fun and bustle of Live Auctions, we have three amazing auction items on offer:
Raffle draw tickets are also available.
Hello everyone! As the first half of the Summer Term is coming to a close we wanted to show you some of our beautiful work. Please have a browse of our photographs and see how we used our collage skills to make many different under the sea pictures for our topic. We also learned a lot from books read in class and the children wanted to share the books they have loved.
During next half of the term we are going to be reading Mr Men and Little Miss books….stay tuned to see some fun Mr Men art! Miss Claire Marie.
Last Wednesday and Thursday (15th and 16th May)Year 5/6 set off on a fabulous adventure. We started our day travelling across the beautiful ocean on the ‘Caribbean Cruisin’ ferry to North Caicos. On arrival we headed straight for Wades Green Cotton Plantation where we were lucky enough to have a guided tour around the ruins by an amazing local lady Alveira Duncan.
Did you know that the majority of the Year Three Dolphins are still waiting for all of their milk teeth to come out? The tooth fairy is rubbing her fairy wings together in anticipation for all those ‘milk teeth’ to be collected.
During this lesson the Dolphins were asked to look at their teeth closely. How many incisors, canine or even molar shaped teeth did they have? What shape were they and why? How do we look after our teeth? What are cavities and how do we avoid getting them? Lots of facts were acquired during this activity. Plus lots of laughter… just look at all those funny faces that were pulled during our observational drawing! Miss Mani has such a ‘beautiful’ and ‘handsome’ Year Three!
Hello again! Look at what Preschool can do independently!
We love Maths and can make a circle holding hands and sort colours into baskets! We have fun refining our hand eye co-ordination using threading, glue and cotton bud painting. We adore sensory activities like creative mark making and messy play! We have also been learning sounds – “c for clever cat” said one of the class!
See you again soon… Miss Claire Marie.
Roll up! Roll up! It’s time for the Great Human Bird Competition!
As part of our Literacy project on Plays, Flamingo Class are excited to present their very own performance of My Dad’s A Birdman on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.
The Year 4 classroom has been a hive of activity for the past 13 days, as we developed our theatre project using skills learned across our curriculum. Every lesson has had a distinctly feathery theme! We invite you all to join us for a memorable performance…we’re ready for take off!
In our reading, we have been thinking about how we can infer how characters feel by the things that they say. We have used this difficult skill to help us create a fantastic play, using all our drama skills to bring the story to life!
But it hasn’t stopped with reading skills! We have been learning about persuasive writing so that we can create advertisements for our performance. In our dance lessons, we have choreographed original dances to represent moods and feelings as well as create images of birds in our audience’s mind. In order to create our set and props, we have used our art and design lessons. We even experimented with air resistance in science to see if we really could fly!
We can’t wait to show you our fantastic show. So Roll up! Roll up!
Both our boys and girls’ teams have thoroughly enjoyed participating in a friendly inter-school Beach Soccer Tournament this past couple of weeks.
Playing on the new TCIFA beach soccer pitch for the first time was exciting. It certainly was a challenge, with the ball not rolling as much as it usually does on grass. It’s hard on your muscles to run in sand, too!
Both teams played really well, with the girls almost reaching the final.
I was impressed by the teamwork, support, skills and sheer determination to keep going, in spite of tiredness and injuries. There was some fantastic defending and some terrific goals. “It felt good to score a goal!” said one of the girls who had scored an amazing goal by chipping the ball over the defenders and over the goalie’s head into the back of the net.
Mother’s Day was celebrated with a sunflower theme this year in JK. Mums, aunts and grandmas were invited in for a special tea party. The party began with some Mother’s Day songs that the children had created themselves to express their thanks to their mums. Then everyone shared a delicious picnic on the carpet together. The children made banana muffins, which the guests got to decorate with icing and a flower. There were also home-grown tomato and cucumber sandwiches and, of course, teapots galore with refreshing hot tea.
Happy Mother’s Day – we hope everyone enjoyed being pampered and appreciated.
The Year Three Dolphins have been enjoying a Design and Technology project about designing sandwich snacks.
After lots of tasting, researching, designing and re-designing they came up with some of their own fabulous nutritionally balanced sandwich designs; plus their own set of written instructions to follow while making their creations.
They created lots of different varieties:
‘Flutter Fly Summer Time’, Blooming Blossom, Ginger Bread Man, Mr Sheep’s Head, Tuna Delight, Boat Couch, Clown, Mickey Mouse, Pack Man, Angry Bird Sandwich, Happy Star Tree and the Butter Fly Sandwich’. See if you can identify them from the photos below.
Last week, the Year Ones were very excited to go on a field trip to the dentist. We learnt all about why it is important to keep our teeth healthy and clean. One of the highlights of our visit was when we were able to dress up as the different people who work at a dental clinic.
Do you know why our teeth are important? They help us to bite and chew our food so that we can swallow it easily. They also help us to talk clearly and they are important for our appearance. We would look very strange without teeth!
As part of our on-going science learning about Friction, Flamingo Class have been busy designing and building a contraption that can maximise the effects of air resistance.
Linking with our literacy work on My Dad’s a Birdman, we held a Great Human Parachute Competition! We wanted to see who could maximise air resistance by creating a parachute/hang-glider for a toy doll. The design process was very difficult: light and large materials were a popular choice, but making them strong enough to survive the fall was really tricky!
May the 3rd turned out to be a night to remember as the PTA’s “Cocktails & Curry” fundraiser drew a sold out crowd to Bay Bistro and raised thousands of dollars for learning resources and playground improvements.
There was a high-energy vibe throughout the night, set to a soundtrack compiled for the evening by Jo Gray and spurred on by enthusiastic bidding over Charlotte Chapman’s classroom created art projects. Of course Clive Whent’s curry was unparalleled and guests raved about the meal for days following the event.
A fabulous evening that went on into the wee hours, a huge thank you to the many parents and staff involved in putting such a successful fundraiser together and for all who attended in support of the school.
This video introduces a few of the play opportunities and activities that we provide our Toddlers, to enhance their physical development.
Three children from Miss Cara’s class decided to take the Year 7 TCI Middle School entrance test last weekend. We are pleased to report Theo Weldon (Year 5), Jamie Gray (Year 5) and Melinda Walkin (Year 6) were awarded the top three places. Theo also took the British West Indies Collegiate Year 7 Entrance Test and gained the top place there as well.
This is not the first time we have seen such wonderful test results from our students and we believe this is proof that our creative, hands on approach to learning, not only makes learning more meaningful, but also helps develop higher academic attainment. This is the second year in a row that we have gained 1st, 2nd and 3rd position in the Year 7 TCI Middle School Entrance Tests and the third year in a row gaining the 1st position and 3rd position. We have also gained the top position in the Year 7 British West Indies Collegiate School Entrance Test for the past 3 years in a row (2011,2012 and 2013) and also in 2009.