The Year Ones have really enjoyed their gymnastics lessons at the Sports Centre. Over the course of the six lessons, they have worked on a variety of skills such as balancing (on 2, 3, and 4 points) and jumping and traveling in different ways. They have also learnt how to start and finish a routine with gymnastic poise. Week by week, as the children have been developing and improving their skills, they have each worked on creating their own routine. During the last session they performed these to the class. [Read more…]
Pelican Class Gymnasts
3 March, 2012 Leave a Comment
School Council Recycling Trip
3 March, 2012 Leave a Comment
Today, the School Council visited the TCI Waste Disposal Plant, on a fact finding mission to discover how we can play our part in recycling on the island. They learnt about the importance of recycling and the processes that our rubbish goes through at the plant. The children asked lots of questions and came away with lots of information and ideas. The school has 2 new recycling bins and the School Council will now be organising a whole school campaign to use them as much as we can. We would like to pass on a big thank you to Ramez Hakoura from TCI Waste Disposal for allowing us to visit. We look forward to learning more from him when he comes to our school to help the School Council lead an assembly on recycling . Click here to watch a local TV report about their trip.
Taking Ownership of the Library!
1 March, 2012 Leave a Comment
Inspired by lots of newly bought fiction books and our computer system needing updating, a chance to make a change and take ownership of the how the library is organised was seized by KS2 children this week. Discussion, debate, research and lots of sorting occurred as the children worked together to re-organise all the fiction books from the library shelves into their respective genres, during World Book Day Celebrations last week.
“It felt good to work together to organise the library”…”I like how the different genre stickers will help me find the sort of books I’m interested in”…”I think our new library looks bright and colourful”.
Family Skate Night
24 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
The goal was ‘a good old family night out’ and around 150 skaters and non-skaters alike agreed that this was successfully achieved, all having great fun at our PTA’s first annual ‘Family Skate Night’.
“It was wonderful to see all ages (ranging in age from 3 to 50+) from Provo Primary and the local community, joining together to party the night away,” commented Haley, one of the organisers.
Many of the older generation found themselves being taken back to the roller-disco times of their youth – although in those days, the skates looked a little different! A few were even seen holding hands as they circled the rink together!
Well done to an excellent team of parents for putting on this much enjoyed event. After such success, perhaps we now just need to change the annual bit, to termly – or perhaps add in a parent roller-disco revival night!
Pyjama Day Storytelling, 2012
24 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
As an early celebration of World Book Day, Dress Down Friday became “Pyjama Day” this month as we all donned our finest night attire to raise money for Provo Children’s Home. As a special treat, we ended the day with story time courtesy of Mr. David Bowen and his drum. We settled down with our pillows and cuddly toys to hear the story of two boys who found a barrel of delicious coconut water on their way to the well. They certainly learned their lesson when one of the boys drank too much and made himself very sick indeed! The moral of the tale? “Be smart and be good!” The boys in the story definitely had a thing or two to learn on that score!Mr. David then told us that 1 billion people on the earth don’t have access to clean drinking water. That’s a seventh of the earth’s population! Lots of people also have to walk a long way to collect water from a well, just like Mr. David did when he was a child. It’s very hard work as we found out from the song he taught us – “Got a Bucket on my Head – Yes Sir, Yes.” March is World Water Month, so we’re going to do our bit to be smart and good with the water we use. Many thanks Mr. David.
“Pig in a pen – my story end…”
Congratulations – 500 today!
20 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
Congratulations to all our teachers over the years – this is our 500th blog entry!
We are very proud of our blog and how we have kept adding to it over the past five and half years. It offers an insight to our school in action, following our children as they progress through the school and highlighting our varied and inspiring activities. We hope you enjoy seeing all the photos and videos and that you find it helpful in giving you access to all the latest school information.
Growing and Changing in Kindergarten
9 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
This week, Kindergarten has investigated how fruits, vegetables and flowers grow. We have read lots of different storybooks and non-fiction books about growing and changing. We visited the garden of one of the children in the class for an outdoor play and a picnic. We also got to plant 3 different kinds of seeds and starter plants—bok choy, black beans and pumpkin. We also got to smell and taste mint and basil. Thank you to the family for letting us visit their lovely garden!
PTA’s 1st Annual “Great Family Skate”
9 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
Please join us for Provo Primary’s 1st Annual “Great Family Skate”
Next week – Friday 24th February
5:30-7:00pm @ the Graceway Sports Centre
$10 admission for Sk8’ers / $5 admission for Non-Sk8’ers / Children under 3 free
Raffle Ticket included with purchase!
Kindergarten Journey’s into the Land of the Dinosaurs!
9 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
This half term, Kindergarten has enjoyed learning all about dinosaurs. We’ve learnt about how dinosaurs grew from eggs, facts about lots of different dinosaurs (Did you know that dinosaurs that walk on four legs are plant eaters?). We painted a Harry and his Bucketful of Dinosaurs mural. In our role play area we created a dinosaur museum and acted as tour guides for the visiting Year 2 class. As our culminating task, we made junk model dinosaurs! It was so interesting to see how creative all the children were in picking out their materials for the different body parts, cutting, gluing and taping independently, and then finally, painting their dinosaurs! Please check out the pictures to see how much fun we had learning about dinosaurs and making our 3D dinosaurs. [Read more…]
Una Semana Muy Ocupada – A Very Busy Week
8 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
It seems Flamingo Class are very busy people! They’ve been learning how to tell us all about their packed schedules in Spanish classes and have created this wonderful video to show everyone what a multi-talented bunch they are! This half term they have been learning how to use different verbs to talk about their pastimes. They have linked this together with the days of the week to give us a run down of all the activities in which they are involved. In our classes, the pupils have also learnt how to change verbs to talk about other people and the things they do in their spare time, as well as using verbs in the infinitive to give their opinions about different activities. In doing this, they have also managed to acquire a few new adjectives to justify their opinions. Pretty amazing stuff! Take a look at the video to see just how much these excellent Spanish speakers manage to fit into their week! “¡Buen trabajo, Flamingo Class!” (Good work, Flamingo Class!)
Preschool Enjoy their Indoor and Outdoor Activities
8 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
In the Preschool class, we have thoroughly enjoyed playing in our hospital role-play area, pretending to be doctors, nurses and receptionists and looking after our ‘patients’ and baby dolls with great care. Our hospital then went on to include a hair salon!
Building and construction have played a big part of classroom life and the children have been busy finding new ways of using our construction toys. We have also explored the topic ‘On The Farm’, and the children have adored painting and sticking to create farm animals and machinery. All their art work is making our classroom extremely bright and colourful.
As well as all of these indoor activities, the children have been very busy outside. Playing with balls on our school soccer field is definitely a firm favourite!
Please read on to see a selection of photos of our Preschool’s enjoying their activities.
School Lunch Menu
8 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
Our school lunch menu form for Monday 20th February – Thursday 29th March, 2012 is now available.
If you would like your child to have lunch, please click on the image. Download, complete and return the form, together with payment by Monday 20th February. Forms are also available in the office.
Please note that we are unable to provide lunches unless payment is made in ADVANCE.
What on Earth is a Talking Text?
7 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
This term, in the Flamingo Class, we have been thinking about how we can explain our ideas to someone else. Writing an explanation, it appears, is harder than you’d think!
To help us remember the structure of an explanation text, we have been learning a Talking Text! At first, we thought Mr Toby had gone mad! The talking text didn’t look anything like a book we’d seen before.
This means we all learned to speak our text aloud, before writing anything down! This helped us a lot, as we were able to make sure we included titles, subheadings, full stops, commas and subordinating clauses. All of that without even writing a single word!
This week we have been busy using our talking text to help us write our own explanations, based on our science learning. It was amazing how we were all able to remember our full stops better!
Feel free to drop by Flamingo Class to check out our fantastic writing!
Year 3 Shop till they Drop!
6 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
The Year 3 Dolphins had a wonderful IGA shopping experience they will never forget. Not only did they get to practise their ‘estimating weight’ skills – “Does this coffee jar really weigh that!” exclaimed Will, they also got the opportunity to do their own shopping. Their generous and trusting parents gave each child a shopping list from which the children had to –
* find the product in the store
* round up the price to the nearest dollar
* estimate the total cost of their shop
* pay for the goods
* and of course check the change!
Some parents wrote some really tricky shopping lists!
Year 4 Investigate if all 3d Cube Nets make a Cube
6 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
In our Year 4 Maths group we discovered that you can make many different net arrangements with six 2d squares, but are they all nets that all fold into a 3d cube? We decided to investigate this further. We used square tiles and masking tape to create each net and then tried to fold them up. We started to find that we were getting better at visualizing the net being folded up and could make pretty accurate predictions about which nets would or wouldn’t make a cube before we tested them. If you would like to have a go, try our worksheet and test the nets yourself. We also investigated dice nets. You can have a go at arranging the numbers on the dice net that we found most challenging here.
Happy Chinese New Year, January 2012
5 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
Monday 23rd January marked the start of the Chinese New Year and the Pelican Class had fun learning about Chinese traditions and that this year is ‘The Year of the Dragon’. We made Chinese moon cakes, a moving dragon picture and had a good go at eating noodles with chop sticks! Read on to see our pictures.
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Year One Green Fingers
5 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
The Pelican Class are exploring the Science topic ‘Growing Plants’. We have observed the different types of plants in and around our school environment. We have looked at the different parts of a plant and can label the roots, the stem, the leaves and the flowers. We have learned that some plants are vegetables and were shocked to find out that when we eat carrots we are actually eating the root of the carrot plant! In order to see this first hand, the children are growing carrot tops and, so far, three out if the four carrot tops have grown strong stems and leaves. We have also monitored and recorded the growth of bean seeds over the past two weeks. Initially, we ‘planted’ the beans in Ziploc bags but had to put them into glass jars after a couple of days because flies and ants seemed to like them a lot! Read on to see our wonderful work on this topic.
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Year 6’s Whoopie-Pie and Other Baked Goodies
4 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
Well done to the girls who took the turn to host the Year 6 baked goodie table at our yard sale this morning. There were homemade brownies, Biscotti, cakes and irresistible whoopie pie treats together with fresh coffee and homemade lemonade to tempt the hungry bargain hunting crowd. The Year 6 are raising funds for an end of year residential trip and certainly will have made some well earned money this morning, I’m sure.
Thank you to all the children and parents that helped with baking and supporting this venture. Yum, Yum!
Bargains at the PTA Yard Sale
4 February, 2012 Leave a Comment
As the clock struck 9am, a large crowd of eager buyers surged into the school grounds, where an expectant 20 vendors posed ready for the buying rush ahead. There certainly were bargains galore at today’s PTA Yard Sale, with both sellers and buyers happy with their earned cash and new items to take home. With household goods and food, to toys and clothes on sale, our Provo Primary School yard sale is always a big hit with our local community. Look out for our next one later in the year. Thank you to our PTA volunteers for their work in organising this event. The money raised will help go towards our PTA Egg Hunt later this term which the children look forward to each year.
Fantastic Scholastic – January 2012
29 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
There was great excitement at the end of school today. Our latest PTA Scholastic book order (totaling 303 books) had arrived and there was a reading buzz in the air as families collected their new books. Some children were so excited they just couldn’t wait to get started and, finding a place to perch in the playground, they delved into their new books right there and then.
The Scholastic International School Book Club has been a fantastic opportunity to promote and celebrate children’s reading at the school. Every 3 months children can choose and order from a fantastic range of books from around the world. As an extra bonus, our school earns 20% of the total order value back in FREE books! It’s a win, win all around!
Many thanks goes to our PTA volunteers who run this fantastic reading club. Click on to see more photos.
Year 5 and 6 World War 2 Wonder
28 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
The Years 5 and 6 are studying World War Two this term and were lucky enough to have a very special visitor this week, Sven Kirkegaad, a granddad of one of the children, who was just a little boy in Denmark when World War Two was going on. He told both classes about his experiences of living under German occupation: the rationing of food; the blacking out of lights as British bombers flew overhead and the nice and not so nice soldiers. Some of the children’s comments were… “He told us some very interesting stories. ” … “ My favourite story was when he was telling us about the German soldier who came to his door, asking for his father and his mother had to race away on a bicycle to find him.” Listening to a firsthand perspective of war really helped the children understand how different and difficult life could be, as well as informing them about a different country’s experience of war. Next week, Year 6 are looking forward to making models of ships which were involved in the battle at Dunkirk and possibly even a few famous Spitfires!
Year 5 – Explore Liquids, Solids and Gases
27 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
Can you think and act like a scientist? Year Five have proven they are real scientists by discovering some of the characteristics of solids, liquids and gases. Through various experiments, they have started to learn how matter can change physically and chemically.
One of our experiments involved finding the boiling point of liquids. Although most students knew the boiling point of water was 100 oC, they did not realize that other liquids have different boiling points. They were surprised to learn that alcohol‘s boiling point was 78 oC, 22 oC less than water. Both substances reached their boiling point within 2 minutes and once they started to boil their temperatures did not increase, no matter how long we boiled them.
Our second experiment involved a chemical change using vinegar and baking soda. We discovered that when matter changes form in a chemical reaction, it looks, smells and feels different. However, it will still have the same mass.
We will be scientists all term long, look for our next blog on how to create secret writing.
The Forecast is Fantástico for the Dolphin Class
27 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
The Dolphin Class turned into real life weather reporters in Spanish lessons recently. In connection with their learning on the topic of weather with Miss Mani, they watched real Spanish and Central/Latin American weather reports. Then, they learned how to report the weather in different parts of the world for themselves.
First, the children chose the continent on which they wanted to focus their report – Europe, North America or Latin America. Next, they decided which cities they wanted to report on, and learned where they were, in order to make their weather reports slick and professional, just like the real thing. I think you’ll agree that they did just that when you watch their superb video. Excelente!
Spelling Bee 2012 – Head to Head
26 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
This week, two children from Year 5 and 6 went head to head in a mini Spelling Bee to decide who will represent Provo Primary at the upcoming Turks and Caicos National Primary School Spelling Bee in February. Inviting in Mrs. Robinson, our Government Education Officer, to lead the competition, she followed the protocol of a real Spelling Bee, giving the two boys some increasingly difficult words to spell. It was a very close match between the boys, but after 5 rounds a winner was decided, by a few points. Congratulations to both boys who have worked extra hard, learning some very tricky words and a big thank you to their parents for all their support. The boys should be very proud of their efforts. We wish our representative (pictured left in the photo) the best of luck in the upcoming Spelling Bee .
Scientific Excavation in Flamingo Class!
25 January, 2012 Leave a Comment
We were all surprised to hear that a scientific dig was going to take place in the Flamingo Classroom this week. We were even more surprised to hear that we were going to be the scientists!
In order to understand what happens in a real scientific dig, we were set the task of finding and excavating a collection of objects that were completely buried in sand. We learned how to observe, classify and identify the objects that we uncovered. It took a lot of time, care and patience in order to discover and clean the items. All of them had to be inspected and drawn before we were allowed to move them. It didn’t take long to see that we were dealing with a large collection of bones!