A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Part of the Year 3 Rocks and Soils topic took us in the direction of looking at volcanos. During their research they not only created amazingly informative posters, which they presented with growing clarity and confidence – check them out below. They they also built their own erupting volcanoes. Their reactions are priceless. Enjoy watching their videos!
Well done Year 3. You are all volcano experts now!
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The thought of drawing a conch shell may seem like a super hard thing to do! Watch this video and learn how to draw it step by step.
Year 3 took on the challenge. I’m sure some found it tricky but they persevered. Click on to see their beautiful conch.
[Read more…]The sounding the conch shell horn (blowing the conch) is a tradition here in the TCI used to call attention to an important event or celebration.
A perfect way to draw your attention to our amazing Year 3 Conch class who have made information posters about their class namesake.
I imagine they really had to ‘conch-centrate’ while making these!🤣
How have the children’s use of text colour and size, artwork, titles, heading, questions, text boxes, bullet points and other features drawn you in and made it easy to find out more about these amazing seashell animals?
There is certainly a lot to learn about conch. Well done, Year 3. 🐚
[Read more…]Being a good digital citizen means being safe and responsible online. With our school learning at home remotely at the moment and using computers and tablets to help us, being a good digital citizen is more important than ever.
It’s a good job that e-safety has always been a big part of our school curriculum. The Year 3’s have already learned lots of skills in their previous classes.
It’s always good to refresh and update our skills though and the video below does this in a fun way. Click on to hear our Year 3 Digital Citizen pledges.
[Read more…]Year 3 were given a list of criteria of things to find around the house – such as 6 different circles, a triangle, a pair of glasses, anything that could make a purple hat, something that had an orange bottom, anything that moves, 4 square objects, a chosen object of their own, one of which needed to move, a sign.
Then they used their imaginations and their engineering skills to build some amazing ‘masterpieces’ (that also, had to be 5 feet tall by the way).
Check out how creative they were – AMAZING! Well done Year 3.
This week families have nominated all the teachers to receive ‘Stars of the Week’ certificates as part of our virtual Primary School Celebration Assembly. What a wonderful way to end an usual spring term of learning.
Teachers have done an amazing job adjusting to distant learning through our Home Learning Programme and happy students sharing their love and appreciation for them is heartwarming to see. Thank you everyone for all your photos and videos.
If it’s ever been true that it takes a village to raise a child, this is a moment for that village to come together, and Provo Primary and Middle School’s teachers and parents have certainly been a great team and led the way. School may be closed but our student’s brains have been open for business as usual!
After a successful week of distant learning through our Home Learning Programme, of course we had to end the week with our usual primary school ‘Celebration Assembly’. Congratulations to all our students, parents and teachers – through your great teamwork and hard work, learning has continued to flourish at Provo Primary School. It was lovely to celebrate this virtually, imagining we were on the school field as usual. Thank you everyone for all your participation and for doing the best you can.
Safer Internet Day activities took place all across the school last week, encouraging our students to explore how they manage their online identity and safety, and how the internet shapes how they think of themselves and others.
Year 3 had fun creating paper and online avatars and made posters about being SMART online.
In Year 3 we have been picking a special ‘mood of the day’ card to remind us of how we can use our positive traits throughout the day. We pick a card and think of an action or a body pose that is connected to the ‘mood’ presented on the card. We have had so much fun moving our bodies into different shapes independently, in pairs then as a class. Can you guess which picture is related to which ‘mood card’?
Happy New Mood to you all!
Provo Primary children amazed their audiences again this year with another of their incredible holiday productions.
The children at Provo Primary have been dazzling audiences with an array of talents for the past 28 years. They certainly didn’t disappoint us this year as our Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 took to the stage with their rendition of The Little Caribbean Mermaid and The Enchanted Ring. [Read more…]
Check out Year 3’s thoughtful and beautifully written ‘Rock Poems’.
We have rocks that remind of us outer space, deserts and oceans full of bubbles. We have rocks that tell us that they love fluffy things! We have rocks that make us feel happy on the inside and amazing on the outside. We even have rocks that feel smooth like ice-cream – yum!
Well done Year 3. I just loved listening to all of you read these uniquely precious poems to us all; they are truly FABULOUS! [Read more…]
Waving their positive affirmation flags, excitedly, Year 3’s support really encouraged our Year 6, 7 and 8 students, as they determinedly found the energy and endurance to keep going in the final laps of their Fun Run yesterday. Here’s what Year 6 wanted to pass on back to them:
Thank you for the signs, you really motivated us.
We couldn’t have made it without you.
Thank you for putting so much thought and care into the posters.
Thank you you all for the support and energy you gave us.
Year 3’s signs really encourage us when we were about to give up.
Way to go, Year 3! So great to see you being GAME ON leaders, motivating our older students!
When it was the Year 3’s Fun Run turn, they had lots of family and friends support too, as you’ll see in the photos below.
How lucky are we? Years 2, 3 and 4 were fortunate attend a special introductory session at the newly opened Provo Gymnastics Academy, Downtown. They climbed ropes, balanced on beams, made bridges on floor work and tried their hand at somersaulting from a bar.
The coaches got them warmed up and busy for 90 minutes non-stop. They each had a fabulous morning using their ‘observation and listening’ skills to build on their balance, co-ordination, flexibility and strength.
Thank you to Denver and Shin, the two professional coaches, who worked with them. Check out the photos to see how much fun they all had!
And let’s not forget that in our Literacy Letterland learning energetic, Gentle Ginger helps us to read and spell the word ‘gymnastics’ and other words like magic, huge, age and giant!
Our Years 3-6 children are actively sharpening their athletic prowess in preparation for our annual KS2 Sports Day. Parents are encouraged to come cheer on their children and see what they have learned over the past five weeks of P.E.
This day culminates the track and field sessions where children have improved their skills in Sprinting, Hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, Javelin, Discus, Shot Put, and Relay. Out of these events, students have made their choice of three events to take part in on Sports Day.
Sports Day will end with a final relay. There will be four teams for relay made of one person from each year-group. It will be an event not to miss! Please come and join us at the National Stadium from 8:45 – 10:15am.
Congratulations to our new Year 3 – 6 School Councillors for being chosen to represent your classes and your school. This time round we have 3 students from each class to share the responsibilities over the year. Thank you to everyone who put themselves forward for election. Once again, all the teachers commented on how well you represented yourselves, it takes courage as well as enthusiasm to present yourselves to the whole class – keeping that amygdala in check. Well done to all of you!
We have already been busy talking about adjusting the playtime schedule as well as revisiting and reminding us all about continuing to use metal and reusable cutlery and NO to STRAWS! Are we ready to reduce all single-use plastic?!
The first early ‘Dress Down Day’ was a success. You all donated a total of $335 – an outstanding amount of money that will all be donated to assist the people of the Bahamas who suffered during Hurricane Dorian. [Read more…]
What a great way to start the new school year by looking into how our brains work, and how we can make it work even better for us!
To remind us that our brain sorts out all of our ‘thoughts, memories, actions and feelings’ we created our own model brains to share with you – take a look at the photos.
Did you know that our brain has over 86 billion ‘neurons’ that help us to connect our learning? When these connections are made, we call it ‘firing up’!
Look at the wonderfully ‘funny face pulling’ that went on during our Science lesson on Teeth. Year 3 were checking to see how many incisors, canine, premolars and molar teeth they had. Many had lost some of their ‘primary teeth’ and were counting how many ‘adult teeth’ they already had. Year 3 are really growing up!
Later we got to observe carefully and draw our own set of teeth – pulling even more expressive faces. Can you identify whose teeth belong to who?
Thank you to all the parents who came into class and joined in the Ancient Egyptian celebrations. The children’s home projects were amazing. We had stories; games; dress up; singing and dancing; numerous presentations; talking mummies; a hieroglyphic quiz; pyramids that sparkled and lit up and had incredibly delicate models inside; read and nut tasting, models of ancient Egyptian buildings, with additional models and facts about the River Nile; mummified dolls and people models that we could dress up. What a lot creative ideas!
We even got a chance to share our D.T. project of the ‘resurrected mummies’ where we used our pneumatic knowledge to make the mummy wake up…ekkk scary!
Year 3 have been super busy using different mediums to explore some of the historical elements of Ancient Egypt.
We used water colour pencils to draw and paint our 3D pyramids.
We used wax crayons to design and colour our sarcophagus and two other inner coffins – ekk!
We used oil pastels to design and decorate our own beautiful ancient Egyptian head dresses.
And finally, we used pencil and coloured markers to decorate our own portraits masks. Can you guess who is who?
Check out the photos to see some of the wonderful pieces of art work created by all.
Year 3 have once again been making mathematical explorations with the Cuisenaire rods. As we are looking at the Ancient Egyptians, we thought it would be an idea to build a flat 2D shape of a pyramid using the rods.
Once built, we observed and recorded what we noticed and what we wondered about our creations. These ideas were shared and discussed – check out our photos to see what original ideas we came up with!
Do you remember the rainy Thursday we had a few weeks ago? Well on that day, the Year 3 students put their rainy day ‘poet hats and shoes’ on and wrote some super gorgeous poems to celebrate. Our inspiration came not just from the looking and listening to the rain, but by also ‘feeling’ the rain. We had a great time splishing and splashing around in all the water that had accumulated in our playground – it was great fun and really inspired us.
We composed a class poem by using each person’s favourite line from their poem. We hope you enjoy it:
Last Thursday the 8th of November and the previous Thursday (1st) Years 3-5 had their Sports day and what a set of Sports days it was! Due to the eagerness of the children to carry out a range of races and the temperature at that time of day, we decided to split the events over two sessions. This way the children could enjoy both without feeling over-exhausted or with sunstroke. Our first session involved the track events: 100m, hurdles, 200/400m and relay. The skill and speed of our runners in all year groups really blew us (as teachers) all away; they were superb. It was fantastic to see how determined and how focused the children were on pacing and delivering in each race and quite simply the huge passion so many of them have for running in general.
The next session was based around the field events of discus, javelin and long jump with the focus less on competition with each other and more with themselves. [Read more…]
Wednesday the 17th October the whole of KS2 were lucky enough to be visited by the wonderful SFS (School for Field Studies) from South Caicos. These are university students from America who come over to study the nature, biology and wonders of the T.C.I for one semester. They have visited our school for roughly the past 5 years and it is always a complete delight to have them here. Their enthusiasm and their kind, friendly, open nature towards all of our children makes their visit not only academically worthwhile but also a wonderful social experience for the children interacting with a different age group.
Last week Year 3 questioned whether rocks can absorb water. To test our predictions we used the pipettes to carefully place the drops of water onto each rock.
But how did we make this experiment ‘fair’? Well, we placed the same amount of drops onto each rock – therefore the variable we kept the same was the drops of water, and the variable that we changed was the rock!
We closely observed what happened to the water. Did it sit on top of the rock, run off the rock or did the rock absorb the water? We found some interesting results, and amazingly many of our predictions were correct. Great observations Year 3 and such careful use of the pipettes – well done!
Just like a sponge, porous rocks have the ability to absorb water. I wonder if they increase in weight and size as they take in water? How could we measure this? I also wonder whether they absorb other liquids – perhaps you can explore at home.
There has been some interesting ‘I wonder’ and ‘I notice’ moments experienced during last week’s Numeracy lessons in Year 3. One of the tasks was to ‘estimate’ how many cubes or lollypop sticks were in a given pile. As the piles became bigger, we soon discovered how much easier it was to begin placing the objects into groups of either 2, 5 or 10, finally counting them using our times-tables knowledge – hurrah! Our counts became much quicker and far more accurate; we certainly got better and better at both estimating and counting!
The class were also given the Cuisenaire Rods with some problem cards. The cards asked them to find out ‘how many different ways’ they could create the same length. They re-discovered that the numbers could be made using lots of different colour combinations – hence they could be made using different number combinations. After some discussion and sharing of findings, some of the children noticed that these patterns could also be related to the different ways of making even bigger numbers, especially when looking carefully at the value of each digit.
By the end of the week, Year 3 had become ‘estimation’ and ’equivalent’ experts! Good work, Year 3! [Read more…]