A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Fly on down to Provo Primary School on Tuesday 30th September between 8.30am and 10.00am for our very first Flamingo (parent) and Chick (toddler) session. See our flyer here for more information.
10 FREE sessions have been planned between now and Christmas, every Tuesday morning, so don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to enjoy our air-conditioned soft play room and join in with some fun activities with your toddler.
The children were happy and excited to meet and learn more about our new quail and tilapia and how to to look after them. Matt Slattery, an ex Provo Primary student himself, brought the quail, and built and introduced our aquaponics system to the school. He was happy to answer the children’s varied and interesting questions. We look forward to learning and sharing much more over the upcoming months.
School Hot Lunches start today and are available to all full-day children at a cost of $5.75 per meal (except for pizza which is either $2.25 per cheese slice or $2.50 per pepperoni slice).
If you wish your child to have lunch, please complete the September lunch form below and return it to the office.
School Hot Lunch Order Form Sept 2014
Forms are also available in the office. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.
Our EYFS welcome 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.
Years 1 – 6 will be sending home creative topic maps for this term in the next couple of weeks.
Click on the image on the left to download our EYFS class newsletters.
We are very proud of the educational programme we offer to our children and of the cooperative working relationship we strive to develop with our families.
Our 2014/2015 School Handbook and Class Information Booklets have been developed in an effort to enhance this relationship and to provide you with information about the school ethos and expectations, and the curriculum for each class year group.
Please click on the image on the left to download the latest copies of our Class Information Booklets.
It has been wonderful to see everyone back at school today and to welcome our new families and teachers into our community.
Everyone seems to be settling in well, and the children appear to be very happy and making new friends. It has been great, as always, to see the children who were at Provo Primary last year helping new children to feel welcome in their new class and school.
We would like to welcome our new teachers, Mr. George, who is our Year 4 teacher, and Mrs. Yorka, who has joined our Spanish teaching team, working mainly in Early Years to Year 1. We are sure you will enjoy getting to know both of these teachers more over the year.
3 Specialist Foreign Language Teachers – With 3 language specialists in the school (Miss Cara, Mrs. Helen and Mrs. Yorka) we will be offering increased foreign language teaching, including 20 hours of Spanish Immersion a week throughout our Early Years programme.
As the holiday period draws to an end, and your mind starts to focus on the start of a new school year, we hope that you will find our School Handbook 2014-1015 a helpful resource full of school information about the school.
Further information about the start of the new school year will be emailed out to our families with this week.
From Monday 14th – Friday 17th July Ms Shara will be offering a week’s youth performing arts programme.
Performing Arts Summer Camp Registration Form
The camp will include:
Theatre Arts Skills
Acting, Staging, Props, Production, Scripting, Costumes, Choreography, Vocal Coaching, Tech & Performance
Mini Musicals – Annie, Oliver, Cats, The Sound of Music, Grease
Ages 7-16 welcome, varied ages needed!
$30/day or $125 for the week
Call 441-5638 for details
Summer Camp continues for 16 months – 7 year olds through July and August.
Click on the links below to find out more and to register your child:
16 months-7 yrs Summer Fun Camp Registration Form
Together with Mrs. Bonnie, our Year 4 students have enjoyed exploring oranges, shells and flowers with the loupes and wrote these amazing poems.
My spectacular shell reminds me of a spiral staircase going on forever,
It’s like sweet caramel ice cream on the crunchiest cone,
It’s as soft as a silk web made by a spider,
The top of my shell is a tall pyramid,
My shell is as white as new snow with a little caramel sauce on top of it,
I’d like to go inside my shell right to the bottom of it
And I would enjoy every second in there,
My shell is the light of my life!
S.B.
Year 5 spent a fabulous two days in North and Middle Caicos and experienced an overnight stay as a class for the first time ever!
We had a busy and educational visit. We kayaked at Major Hill, looked at the devastation of a hurricane and the repair of the Middle Caicos Causeway. We visited Conch Bar caves and learnt about how they were used in the past and swam at Mudjin Harbour. We had a delicious dinner and breakfast at Pelican beach, thanks to Miss Susie and a good night’s rest after hide and seek.
Mrs. Bonnie introduced the Year Five students to ‘private eye’ poetry. Using jeweler’s loupes they looked closely at a flower. They asked themselves: What else does it look like? What does it remind me of? and created some amazing poetry.
My bright, mysterious flower,
Your mini-petals surround your center acting like guardians to protect your secrets,
My bright, mysterious flower,
What secrets do you hide?
Your bold colours are like a brilliant, beautiful sunset capturing everyone’s attention,
The stripes in your center are like a tiger prowling in the jungle all the way across the ocean,
Your unique smell is like a Starburst melting in my mouth.
My bright, mysterious flower
You are just beautiful!
By M.Z.
The Junior Kindergarten have had a really great time learning about animals this term. During the first part of the term we focused on farm animals. We explored their habitat and young ones. The children enjoyed role playing, listening to stories and making paper and food craft to support the topic. They particularly liked matching the babies to their moms and dads.
The class visited a small farm to see how each animal and their young ones live, eat, rest, sound and responds. They were very excited during the visit. Talking about the trip on their return, the majority of the children expressed how much they had enjoyed themselves. The piglets and hens were the animals that they talked about the most. Please look at the photos of the children and look at their facial expressions while they are exploring.
We are offering a wide range of amazing programmes this summer to keep your child learning, active and having fun.
Click on the links below to find out more and to register your child:
14 mths to 2 yrs: Toddler Taster Sessions 2014
2 -5 year olds: 2-5 Year Olds Summer Fun Camp 2014
6+ year olds: 6+ Year Olds School Camp / Summer School 2014
Year 1 had such an exciting morning visiting Caicos Conch Farm and Bay Bistro as part of our learning about our current topic, My Country: TCI. When we arrived at the Conch Farm, we got a brief lesson of the history of the farm and also got to learn lots of information facts. Did you know that the conch is as small as a pin when it’s created? Or did you know that conch can float like a butterfly in the ocean before it gets a shell?
Our latest field trip involved us exploring the beach and expanding our knowledge about the sea. We started off by visiting the DEMA Environmental Centre, where Amy, the Environment Outreach Coordinator, shared many interesting facts about the Turks and Caicos Islands and highlighted the importance of taking care of our reefs. Looking around the exhibits, we were thrilled to meet a real-life boa constrictor and to touch a humpback whale’s tooth.
We then headed across to The Children’s Park on our way to the beach. A special tree planting ceremony was taking place in celebration of International Bio-diversity Day. The Honorable Premier, Rufus Ewing, asked us to help him to plant some lignum vitae trees. He then invited us to pose with him in a photograph that would be featured in the Canadian magazine, PIE. We felt like the paparazzi were all around us as cameras clicked and flashed. What a memorable trip!
For those of you who haven’t been down to the Y2 end of the school recently, you won’t have seen the amazing transformation that has occurred. What was once the Osprey classroom has now become the Osprey Museum!
As part of their homework project the Osprey children had to bring in a ‘museum piece’. It could be ANYTHING they wanted as long as it was from the Turks and Caicos Islands! It’s safe to say that no one expected such a wide range of items. We had everything from shells found on the beach to fanner baskets from North Caicos, a TCI stamp to a toy rock iguana, a sea fan to real life hermit crabs!!! You read right, we had real life hermit crabs in a crabitat!
Both parents and children alike got to visit the museum last week. It was great to see the Year 2 Ospreys being so brave and showcasing their knowledge by telling their audiences all about their objects!
If you haven’t been down yet please take some time to pop in and talk to the Osprey children about their amazing collection of TCI exhibits. And the best bit is…you get in for FREE!
This term’s, big DT and Science project was to design and make a boat. First, we investigated different materials, looking closely at materials that were waterproof and would float. Then, the children drew up a plan using the materials we had collected. After that, we started building!
All the rafts and boats were so original and well-built. During our investigation, we learned that all the boats but one, floated and stayed afloat when different quantities of marbles (10, 20 and 30) were placed on them. We also saw how some of the boats tilted, depending on where the marbles were placed.
Read on for pictures of boat building extravaganza!
A few photos to share from our Year 6’s first day on their Grand Turk and Salt Cay trip. We look forward to hearing all about it on their return and sharing more with you next week about what they got up to.
It was an evening of great food and friends at Bay Bistro on May 16th, as the PTA put on a fabulous “Cocktails & Curry” fundraiser that netted thousands of dollars for school and classroom enhancements.
With all classes contributing beautiful artwork and over 50 other silent auction items donated by local businesses, there was lively bidding going on throughout the night, including some via email and cell phone!
As dessert was cleared away, the 100 person+ crowd made their way to the Sandbar after-party where the fun continued into the wee hours, raffle winners were drawn by DJ Dallas and guests were entertained by Johnny’s infamous fire show.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came and supported the school – we look forward to allocating the monies raised towards enhancing our children’s education!
This year we found that the tipi needed a bit of facelift. So we kindly asked Mr Neal if he could return and work on rebuilding it with us. Parents came in the day before, however, to help in dismantling it, which gave us a good idea of how to assist Mr Neal in reconstructing the structure.
Once it was finished, we collected and painted lots of rocks and arranged them around the tipi. It looks wonderful – do venture into the playground to have a look. Sitting in it really does offer great shade from the summer sunshine.
Thank you to our parent helpers and to Mr Neal for you invaluable help.
Hi everyone! We are crazy about our new topics! The children have been exploring many different art techniques and methods to make our ‘Smiths Reef’ display. As you will see from the photos, it was great fun and our display looks fantastic!
Please also take a peak at some of our fun times with dinosaurs! The children used there are skills again to make an amazing Stegosaurus! We have had great fun outdoors with the giant dinosaurs…making a mud bath/ water hole and taking them on exciting adventures around the playground.
Last week, Year 5 were lucky to have been picked for the chance to make some delicious and nutritious ‘no bake’ cookies. The idea was ‘cooked’ up by the fabulous School Council and Miss Mani so that each year group have a chance for some fun in the kitchen before the end of the school year.
Mrs B designated the children all different jobs of blending and mixing, stirring and sharing and, needless to say, everyone had a lot of fun! What was so great was we didn’t need that hot oven on once and yet we ended up with fourteen really tasty, chewy, flavoursome and healthy cookies, full of good things including apple butter, apricots, dates, seeds and so much more!
Thank you so much to Mrs B for your patience and skills in the kitchen and great job School Council! What a great snack to munch on as we peruse our new Scholastic book catalogue!
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…
In Preschool we explore the concept of Maths and Science using many different materials, activities and ideas. Maths and Science can be messy! Maths and Science can be captivating! Maths and Science can be quiet and focused! Maths and Science can be easy! Maths and Science can be tricky! Maths and Science can be indoor or outdoor! The main thing we know is that Maths and Science is captivating and fun!
Please take a look at our photographs and imagine how they lead your child into later maths and science experiments.