A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
We are all very proud of our Year 6 graduates!
Their graduation had to be conducted individually with restricted gatherings and safety protocols, but the spirit, pride and feel of our usual graduation was evident throughout.
Here is one of our amazing student’s graduation memories – coronavirus style!
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During our Home Learning English lessons, via live online teaching, Year 6 have written our very own horror stories.
Our aim was to include a balance of setting description and narrative, incorporating figurative language such as high-level metaphors and personification.
We focused on manipulating grammar and punctuation in order to create variety in our sentence structures and keep the readers engaged. We wanted to create both tension and suspense and we are extremely proud of our final drafts!
Here are just some of our super scary narratives… read our starting paragraphs and continue on if you dare…
As we continue with our Home Learning activities, we are mindful of including structured Art lessons that are not overly demanding on resources or complex skills, but that are very engaging and valuable. As such, the Year 6 students have actively participated in some amazing lessons that have allowed for enjoyment, and artistic creativity and development to thrive.
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.
The Primary School Science Fair Team have worked extremely hard this term investigating the question ‘Does colour impact memory?’ They have conducted both preliminary tests and final tests to investigate whether or not colour improves memory retention.
The Yr 5/6 students who took part in the investigation were all eager to represent Provo Primary School at the Fortis TCI Science and Technology Fair, on Thursday 5th of March, to the best of their ability and that’s exactly what they did! We are all super proud of our students and how well they were able to relay their hypothesis, results and conclusion to the judges. Although we did not place this time, we are already looking ahead with ideas for next year’s Science Fair!
As a school, we have been learning about the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the last half term. These 17 goals, part of The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are,
“an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”
(Source: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs)
That sounds like something everyone should get involved in, doesn’t it? Well, our students certainly think so. [Read more…]
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…]
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.
In Year 6 we have started our new fractions topic in Maths. This week we have been working on equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions and problem solving.
On Wednesday, Miss Iman challenged us to a tarsia puzzle; with collaboration and communication we were all able to solve it!
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.
Over the past few weeks in Year 6, we have been creating our own vision boards. A vision board is a tool used to help clarify, concentrate and maintain focus on a specific life goal. Literally, a vision board is any sort of on which you display images and words that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in your life.
Here are a few statements from the children in Iguana class about their understanding of visions boards and their purpose:
- Vision boards display what we hope to achieve in our futures.
- Our goals and targets are colourfully illustrated on paper or as 3D models.
- We all hope that one day, in the near or far future, we will be able to think how much we have achieved and how our vision boards helped us.
- The reason why we created vision boards is to show what we envision ourselves achieving.
- We made them to showcase what we are going to accomplish.
In Year 6, we really hope that these vision boards allow us to take our ideas and goals to the next level by seeing exactly what it is that we want to achieve.
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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…]
Congratulation to our Graduating Class of 2019s.
Year 6, I know I speak for everyone when I say, we are so proud of you today. As you move on to the next stage in your life, please keep writing down your goals and continue to do what excites and inspires you. Know that you are the architect or author of your life. Think creatively, interact with people who share or support your visions, and go out there and achieve your goals. Most of all, be HAPPY, continue being YOU and be the best version of yourself that you can be!
I love to ask children about their life goals at various times throughout their time in school, and I recently asked our Year 6 class to write down theirs, which I thought you’d like to hear. Here are their combined Life goals:
Congratulation to our AMAZING Graduating Year 6. Here is their wonderful steel drum performance of ‘Have It All’ by Jason Mraz.
May you have auspiciousness and causes of success
May you have the confidence to always do your best
May it take no effort in you being generous
Sharing what you can, nothing more, nothing less
Year 6 have recently returned from the Dominican Republic; having spent five fantastic days there on their residential trip. The mountainous area of Jarabacoa provided the backdrop to a fun-filled week of exhilaration and adventure. Rather than me tell you all about it, I thought that you would rather hear from the Year 6 students directly. So, please read the quotations below to get a better sense of the exciting times that were had by all.
As part of their English Literature classes, Year 6 has just recently finished reading John Boyne’s: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The novel falls into the historical fiction genre, thus the context of the story is centered on some of the atrocities committed during World War 2. This has been an excellent complement to our history lessons too, which has also focused on different aspects of this war.
Having a sound grasp of the contextual features of the novel has enabled Year 6 to develop more critical approaches to studying plot developments, themes and characters present in the text. Boyne’s novel contains many heroes and villains, and the Year 6 students have enjoyed getting to grips with how Boyne has presented them on paper; through physicality and personality.
Science lessons in Year 6 this term have been centered on the study of the human body. Year 6 students have been busy identifying the main internal organs of the human body; and describing their functions. In addition to this, they have also been examining some of the main body systems to further their understanding of how organs work together purposefully within the body.
With this in mind, Year 6 students were asked to make an individual presentation to their peers regarding an element of the human body which interests them. Students were asked to present their material using a style of their choice; but they just had to ensure that their audience would gain something useful from the presentation made.
Year 6 & 7 Athletics Finals Festival
Monday 1st April, 9-11am.
We are excited to invite you to our planned Athletics Finals Festival next week at the National Stadium.
Children have spent the term learning to compete in a range of Track & Field disciplines. We have practiced the basic techniques and used video analysis to improve our performance and technique in each area. Check out our video analysis work here.
Children have chosen 2-3 events to compete in, balancing the freshness,energy and focus needed to give their best in each event. After all the refinement of their skills, children are now anxious to see how a bit of pressure impacts their performance!
We hope that you will be able to join us for this showcase event. It has been designed to give all students an equal and competitive opportunity to apply their learning. We are hopeful that this will be a dress-rehearsal for an inter-school athletics event after Easter.
As we complete our Athletics unit, please join me in thanking Ryan Jones and Jen Blain for giving their time to support teaching. Their input has been valuable and much appreciated!
If you are able to join us, I will look forward to seeing you at the track on Monday!
Years 6 & 7 have been studying and practising Athletics this term, thinking about how track & field athletes are able to develop their technique in order to improve performance.
Students have spent time learning the specific techniques needed for each discipline: the shot put, javelin, long jump, high jump, triple jump, sprint and hurdles. All children then made an excellent effort to practise these skills.
In recent weeks, we then started to look at how video analysis can help sports people to identify strengths and weaknesses in their performance and technique. Children watched videos of record breaking athletes in order to identify “best examples” for each event. We then recorded each other at our PE sessions to see how we compared and where we could improve.
As part of their work in PSHE and Literacy, Year 6 have been discussing important issues surrounding the topic of bullying. They have discovered that bullying comes in many forms; verbal, physical, emotional, indirect and cyber to name a few. They have also explored case studies depicting situations at school in which bullying occurred. This provided ample opportunities to discuss why bullying was happening; the impact it was having on the victim; and most importantly what was being done to stop or prevent from it surfacing again.
To complement this scheme of work, Year 6 students devised and redrafted independent bullying stories. The stories had to portray a fictional scenario in school; or at home when bullying could take place.
Students graduating from Providenciales Primary School have proved through their strong academic results and successes as young adults, that our creative approach to teaching and learning has a large impact on their lives.
Providenciales Middle School extends upon this approach, ensuring that our brightest minds continue to be challenged and developed into their teenage years.
This week, the Year 1s had a lovely surprise when the Year 6s invited them to listen to their Christmas stories. Year 6 had worked hard researching, planning, writing, editing, publishing and illustrating their very own Christmas stories and the Year 1 class were a willing audience.
In pairs, the Year 6s patiently read their stories to the Year 1s who enjoyed hearing all about the adventures of elves, reindeer, Santa and his sleigh. Despite it being a little after Christmas, the stories sparked lots of conversations about the lovely holiday season the children had all had.
We look forward to lots more joint year group activities as the year goes on!
Thank you Mr Jason and the Year 6s!
Students from Provo Primary & Middle Schools participated with great skill, perseverance and stamina this week – with some taking part in a developmental swim meet for the first time. Hosted by the International School of the TCI, the meet gave a total of 20 children the opportunity to compete.
Children participated in two-length races in freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. All students set good times that can be used to track their own development in the future. A number of children found themselves paired in tight contests throughout the morning; competing in extremely close races against other students in the pool. It was a pleasure to see our children facing a new challenge with such determination and a positive attitude!
The event finished with two 4×2 length relays and a fun whole-team race at the end.
Very well done to our eight Provo Primary & Middle School swimmers! We look forward to the next opportunity to compete in the pool.
Throwback Thursday takes us back to November 2015 when our current Year 6s were in Year 3 learning about rocks. You rocked then guys – and you still do today!