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Join us at our Provo Primary PTA Family Beach Party
Saturday 14th September.
Pack a cooler and head over to the beach by Ricky’s Flamingo Cafe for socializing and swimming with other school families. The fun begins at 3:30pm.
Children need to be accompanied by parents or guardians please.
Welcome and welcome back to school! Although the year is new, there is already so much in the works. First up for the PTA will be getting started on the shade project for the soccer pitch. Funds for this exciting and long-desired playground improvement were allocated in June but due to the summer holidays, we delayed the project until now. Please let us know if you have construction/budgeting expertise and would like to be an advisor.
Class rep/Room parent sign up sheets have gone up outside all classroom doors…this is a great way to get involved, assist your child’s teacher and get to know other class parents.
Finally, the PTA is looking for 2 yard sale coordinators. Provo Primary typically holds 3 Saturday morning yard sales throughout the year (1 per term). A straight-forward and relatively simple money maker, these sales are extremely popular with the community. Term 1 – tentatively set for Saturday 5th October.
SAT. SEPT. 14 – Provo Primary Term 1 PTA Beach Party – pack a cooler and head over to the beach by Ricky’s Flamingo Cafe for socializing and swimming with other school families. The fun begins at 3:30pm.
MON. SEPT 16 – 6:30pm – 7:30pm, School Library – Term 1 PTA Meeting. Please join us as we see how PTA funds from last year were allocated and make plans for the year ahead. All parents are welcome! Childcare will be available.
THURS. OCT 31 – Provo Primary’s Annual Family Friendly Halloween Party. New ideas always welcome for this fantastic annual event that made the front page of the paper last year! Volunteer sign-ups will go up in October for ticket sales, bartenders/concessions, decorating and entertainment committees.
Look forward to seeing you around school!
Haley Weldon
2013-2014 PTA Chair
Four days into the start of term and the Flamingo Class have been busy starting their first topic of the new school year!
Children spent the morning thinking hard about everything they knew about “The Birth of America.” We discovered that the children already knew some pretty amazing facts about the history of the United States! Did you know that President Obama is the 44th President of the USA, but only the 43rd person to do the job?! President Grover Cleveland counts as 2 presidents but only one person!
As we were talking and thinking about America, the children were set the challenge of creating a huge class mural that will form the backdrop for our display this term. Children had to cooperate in order to create this amazing collage of the Stars and Stripes flag. Groups organised themselves into tearers, pasters and stickers in order to work effectively together in such a small space.
I’m sure you’ll agree that the result is pretty amazing!
We all look forward to sharing all of our fantastic learning with you. Call by the Flamingo Class to see how things develop!
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Our school lunch menu form for this half term from Tuesday 10th September – Friday 12th October is now available.
Lunches are available for full-time children. If you would like your child to have lunch, please click on the image, and download and complete the form. Forms are also available in the office. Please note that payment should be made in ADVANCE.
Steel Drums Art, Golf and Homework Clubs will start next week. Please click on the image to open the registration form.
Our full after school clubs will start in the first week of October so look out for details of these exciting new club choices in the next couple of weeks.
We are keen to hear about community members who would like to run a club, or assist with one, as a part of our after-school programme. Suggestions for potential clubs you feel your children would enjoy are also most welcome.
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 our first class newsletters for the new school year.
It has been fantastic to see everyone (or almost everyone) back at school this week and welcoming new families and teachers into the school.
Apart from a couple of children in Early Years who are understandably still settling, everyone seems to be happy and making new friends. It’s been great to see the children who were at Provo Primary last year helping new children to feel welcome in their new class and school. I was particularly impressed with one of our two year olds who was trying very hard to help her friend settle on the first day. Well done, you receive the first empathy award of the year!
Thank you to all parents who have contributed in one way or another by volunteering their time, offering ideas, or donating resources to enhance our school this year.
Everyone will have either noticed or probably been told by their children about our new playground dome, Early Years play equipment and natural shade areas that we’ve created over the summer. We’ve also got lots of Science, Literacy, Numeracy, Art and general classroom resources, that we will be telling you more about in main school newsletter next week. We will also pass on our events calendar for this term, after we have confirmed and added in upcoming PTA events.
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All the very best for this new school year, which also marks Provo Primary’s 10th anniversary at this location and which we will be celebrating shortly!
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.