School Lunch Menu – Sept – Oct, 2012

Our school lunch menu resumes on Monday 10th September.  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.

As the owner of our school lunch provider is away until October 15th, we have decided to keep the menu the same as it was last term. On his return, we will be trialling some new options with a view to introducing any new dishes into the menu after the mid-term break.  Consequently, this order form takes us up to the 17th October.  A new order form incorporating some new lunch ideas will be sent out to cover the period between the 18th October and 26th October.

As always, we welcome your comments/feedback on the lunch programme so if you do have any “bright ideas” as to what we can include, please do let us know.

Please note that we are unable to provide lunches unless payment is made in ADVANCE.

Steel Drums and Homework Clubs Start Next Week

Steel Drums and Homework Clubs will start next week.  Please find details on the attached the registration form.  Our main school clubs will start in the week beginning 1st 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.

 

School Handbook and Class Information Booklets, 2012/2013

We are proud of the educational programme we offer to your children and of the cooperative working relationship we strive to develop with our families. Our 2012/2013 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 from our website.

New School Year Class Newsletters, Sept 2012

Class newsletters help you to keep in the loop and find out what is happening in your child’s class.

Access important information, note future upcoming dates and events and see how you can support your child’s learning at home.

Click on the image on the left to download our latest class newsletters.

Owl Pellet Dissection Lesson

Year 4, 5 and 6 students had an opportunity to participate in an owl pellet dissection lesson using laboratory sterilized barn owl pellets. Owl pellets are neat little packages of mostly fur and bones that are regurgitated by an owl after it has finished digesting everything else. The students worked together to discover what the barn owls had been eating by dissecting their pellets. By carefully sorting and organizing the bones they found, students were able to reconstruct a skeleton of a rodent, in this case a vole. Thank you Miss Bonnie for providing such an interesting lesson.

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Yr 5 Kayaking Trip

Photos of our Year 5’s recent kayaking trip to Little Water Cay.
Many thanks to Big Blue Unlimited.

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Flamingo Class Olympic Record Breakers!


As part of our theme week, Year 4 pupils set out to research World Records for some of the upcoming Olympic events. It was amazing to think that some of these records are nearly thirty years old! We discovered who still hold these records and where they are from. We wanted to see what these records really looked like, so we measured out the heights and distances. It was incredible to see how high or how far people had jumped, or how far people could throw! It seemed impossible! One pupil even claimed “he must have flown!” when looking at the Long Jump world record.

Of course, we wanted to set some records of our own! Check out our video blog to see how we got on!

Thanks South Caicos for an Amazing Adventure

Our Year 6 class, from the Providenciales Primary School, had an exciting week visiting the neighbouring island of South Caicos, where we were welcomed by the entire local community.

Just after arriving on the TCI Ferry from Providenciales on Monday, June 11, the buzz was all over town that there was a group of very enthusiastic visitors to the small island of the Big South.

Read on to find out more about our amazing adventures and to meet some of the wonderful community people who helped to make our trip so special.

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Outstanding Academic Successes at Provo Primary School, 2012

outstanding-acievement-2012We would particularly like to mention some of the many academic successes that we have had this year pertaining to our oldest students in the school (Years 5 and 6).

*       Many children in Year 6 have attained level 5c’s and 5b’s and are working well ahead of Year 6 expectations in English, Mathematics and Science. One child was assessed as a level 6c writer, working just below the average for a 13 year old.

*       Some of our Year 6s have been following an extended Year 7 Maths curriculum this year.  All these children have gained level 7c’s and a 7b which is well ahead of their expected level, completing a paper which is generally done in Year 9 by 14 year olds!

*       In school entrance exams, we have also experienced huge successes, gaining high marks across the board in entrance exams. We gained the 1st, 2nd, 3rd places in the TCI Middle School.

*       Our school also attained 1st and 3rd place in the Year 7 British West Indies Collegiate exam again, competing against a whole host of other children.

*       One of our Year 5 students also came in 1st place in the Year 6 exam for British West Indies Collegiate and one was accepted into Year 7.  All children that sat the exam were accepted into the school.

*       Our whole Year 5 class attained the UK national average for Year 5 in English and Mathematics, with some children achieving level 5c’s and 5b’s, working well ahead of expectations.

 

Provo Primary Hockey Camp 2012

Join Professional hockey Player Dom Osman for our roller hockey camp.

On and off-rink drills and skills.

Click on the link below to find out more and to register your child:

Provo Primary Hockey Camp 2012

Monday 2ndJuly to Friday 6thJuly.  

11:00am -3:00pm  (5yrs – 17yrs).  

An amazing body and mind opportunity, not to be missed!

 

Provo Primary Summer Camps 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 2ndJuly  to Friday 13thJuly 

Click on the links below to find out more and to register your:

Summer Camps:

Early Years (2 – 5 yrs) Summer-Camp-2012

Provo Primary Summer School / Camp  and Hockey Camp 2012

 

Toddler Taster Sessions:

Provo Primary Toddler Tasters (14mths to 2 yrs )July 2012

 

Summer School (5 – 12 yrs): 

Mind Up, Wake Up Session and Math Drills

Summer Camp (5 – 12 yrs):

Music, Drama and Dance, French, Arts and Crafts, ‘Mind Up’,  Sports, Swimming Lessons, Beach Day and Boat Trip

Roller Hockey Camp (5 – 14 yrs):

Join Professional hockey Player Dom Osman  for on and off-rink drills and skills

Summer Camp (2- 5 yrs):

A range of daily fun activities

Toddler Taster Sessions (14 mths – 2 yrs):

Provo Primary School invites prospective families to come and experience the unique qualities of our school and what we can offer your family.

Toddler Taster Sessions (14 mths – 2 yrs)

Provo Primary School invites prospective families to come and experience the unique qualities of our school and what we can offer your family.

For ages 14 months to 2 years.

2nd July – 13th July – 8.45am -11.00am.

$20 per day.

Flexible days (two, three or five mornings each week)

Click on the link below to find out more and to register your child:

Provo Primary Toddler Taster (14mths to 2 yrs )July 2012

 

 

Preschoolers train for our Olympic Celebrations

All year our Preschool class have been participating in many fun physical activities to develop and refine their gross motor skills and co-ordination. More recently, we have been practising for our upcoming school ‘Olympics’ celebrations.  The children adore running games and delight in trying out all their skills when we play on our exciting obstacle courses.   Please have a look at our skills in the pictures below!

Yr 5 Explore Renewable Energy

From ‘Solar Ovens’ to ‘Solar Revolving Airplanes’, Year 5 has been looking at these renewable resource that has been around for years.  Solar cooking uses the sun as the source of energy instead of standard cooking fuels such as charcoal, coal or gas. Solar cookers are an inexpensive and environmentally sound alternative to traditional ovens.  Year 5 constructed their own solar oven using a shoe box, oatmeal container, aluminum foil, plastic wrap and a wire coat hanger.  They placed a hot dog on the hanger and covered their box in plastic wrap to keep out dust and bugs.   The completed solar cooker is shown in the pictures below. They placed the cooker in direct sunlight and checked the hot dog every half hour. Their hot dog was completely cooked in 1 ½ hours!  Of course the fun part was eating it. [Read more…]

Year 4’s World Ocean Day Maths Class

Our Year 4 Math group linked World Ocean Day to learning Maths facts today.

OCEAN FACT #1   Over ¾ of our planet is covered by oceans

Math fun facts:

~ As a percentage, ¾ is 75%
~ As a decimal, ¾ is 0.75
~ As money, 75 cents
~ As a fraction, ¾ can also be written as:  6/8,   9/12,   12/16,      15/20,   18/24,   21/28,   24/32,   27/36,   30/40 

We call these equivalent fractions.  This means that they are all worth the same value – even though they look different!

How did we find them?  We multiplied the top number (numerator) by two and then we did the same to the bottom number (denominator) and got 6/8.  Then we multiplied the numerator by three and did the same to the denominator and got 9/12.  We went on with this pattern 10 times.  Finally, we discovered that if we took the zero off 30/40 it is the same as ¾!

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World Oceans Day, 2012

Today is World Oceans Day! It’s an opportunity to us all to focus on our shared world ocean, learn more and do more to help protect and conserve the ocean, for now and for future generations.

What will you do today to explore, learn, and enjoy the beauty and wonder of our world ocean?

Let’s hope that each and everyone of you at Provo Primary takes the time to reflect on what you can do to protect and conserve them.  With the ocean all around us, let’s all try and dip our toes into the crystal blue waters today and make a splash in celebration of World Oceans Day!

 

Jk Celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee

The Junior Kindergarten were delighted to learn about the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The children enjoyed a wonderful story about the life of Queen Elizabeth II.  After the story, the children got on board the Royal Coach (which they created during group artwork) and walked off dressed in royal attire to enjoy some of the queen’s favourite food in Royal garden.  Read on to see some photos and to read more about our celebration activities.


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Preschool Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Celebrations across the school took place to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.   The Turks and Caicos is a UK Overseas Territory and so the queen is our Head of State.  Well, she did look fancy as she posed for a photo opportunity with our youngest children, all dressed up in their red, white and blue and donning the royal crown.  Thank you,  for letting them sit in your throne,  your majesty!  Click on to enjoy more photos of our royal princes and princesses.

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Yr 3 Dolphins visit the Dentist

Canines, incisors, molars… a whole lot of ‘wisdom’ was acquired during Year 3’s visit to Dr Mark Osmond’s Dental Clinic last week.

We got to see how healthy teeth should look and how our teeth could look if we didn’t look after them –argh! That bit was quite scary; the pictures were quite yukky!  You can see some of our horrified reactions in the photos below.  We were very relieved to find out that we were caring for our teeth properly.

Not only did we get to see and hold real teeth (It’s OK, Dr Mark made a deal with the Tooth Fairy), but we also got to sit in the dental chair without having to have any treatment whatsoever. Phew!

Thank you so much Dr Mark for inviting us to your clinic, it was a real fun and informative visit.

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Year 2 – Pasatiempos

In Hummingbird Class we’ve been interviewing each other in Spanish to find out about the activities our friends do when they’re not at school.  We’re a very busy class! We had to learn how to talk about all the different activities we do, then choose one to show in our interview.  We also had to learn how to ask the question “what do you you do in your spare time?” (¿Qué haces en tu tiempo libre?).  We had to really practise our Spanish speaking to make sure we knew what to say – we didn’t even need to write down our lines to help us remember! We worked really hard on building our confidence in our speaking.  It was a bit scary being filmed, but we think you’ll agree that we all did a great job when you watch our fantastic video!

World Premier of The Lorax @ the Flamingo Royale!

The Year 4 class nervously gathered outside the door of their Flamingo Classroom last week, peering in at a large crowd of children and parents. They had all gathered to watch the first ever performance of Dr Seuss’ The Lorax at Provo Primary School!  And what a performance it would be!  Only 3 weeks ago, the Year 4 pupils were challenged to learn and perform an entire musical, build a stage and find costumes.  No wonder they were so excited to see the huge audience that had gathered in their classroom to watch the World Premier of this wonderful story!  Intrigued and want to see a glimpse of the show?  Then click on ‘read more…’ see some amazing photos.

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Boca visits Provo Primary

Boca Floppy Williams is first and foremost Ms. Alison’s pet golden retriever, but she also works as an emotional support and therapy dog. This means that she offers help to people who need it. She is really good at sensing when children are upset and she can help make them feel better. If you haven’t already tried it, try talking to her and she’ll answer you through Ms. Alison. (She needs Ms. Alison to interpret what she’s trying to say in dog language.) She even helps relieve pain when children hurt themselves, just by letting them stroke her.  She helps children stop crying and relax so the pain goes away much faster.

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Fruity Friday, 2012

Last week we celebrated ‘Fruity Friday’ at Provo Primary school and each child dressed in the colour of a fruit and brought in a dollar to go towards our local cancer society.
In Year one, the children wore watermelon colours for the day and got to share out a whole water melon between them. Whilst cutting the watermelon, the children discussed its size and shape and we learned the terms ‘whole’, ‘halves’ and ‘quarters.  As they were eating the watermelon, the children described its taste- and came up with ‘juicy’, ‘crunchy’, ‘sweet’ and ‘delicious – it certainly was!
Smile if you like watermelon!  Click on the image to see whole class enjoying their Fruity Friday, healthy treat.

TCSPCA Dog Show Poster Winner

Well done to all our creative artists that entered the TCSPCA Dog Show Poster competition.  The winning design, by a child in our Year 5 class, has been chosen to be on all the publicity media advertising the upcoming event. Click on image to see a close up of this wonderful picture.

The dog show is an annual fundraising event and will be this Saturday 26th May at the Turtle Cove Marina, between 3 and 7 PM.  With events such as ‘best in show’, ‘best trick’, ‘waggiest tail’, ‘best potcake’ and ‘the dog the judges would like to take home’, it sure will be a great afternoon for all the family and dog lovers to enjoy.

Look out for Ms Alison and Boca, along with many of our school families and their pet dogs.

The TCSPCA is the oldest and most established Animal Welfare Organization in the Turks & Caicos Islands.  It is a non profit, registered charity that was established in 1998.   Click on the link to learn more about the work of the TCSPCA.  And, if you’re not sure what ‘best potcake’ meant above, then you’ll find out what a potcake is on their website.

 

School Lunch Menu – May-June, 2012

Our school lunch menu form for Tuesday 29th May – Thursday 28th June 2012 is now available.

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 we are unable to provide lunches unless payment is made in ADVANCE.