A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Wheels on FIRE ! Get rollin’ down the road…
The Provo Hockey League and the Provo Primary Parents Association are hosting:
SKATE NIGHT – Thursday Sept 27th from 5:00 – 7:00
Click on the poster for details.
Thank you,
Provo Hockey League
Providenciales Primary & Middle School recently competed in the TCIFA’s 7v7 Corporate Challenge, supporting youth soccer in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and were proud to claim the runner-up trophy.
Yet, this was a team with a difference. Instead of parents cheering on their children, this event gave our Provo Primary parents and friends a chance to run out and compete!
The team fought hard in a series of tight games through hot summer weather, tight group games, penalty shoot outs and extra time, eventually claiming a spot in the final against the TCI Police Force. Despite our eventual defeat, it proved to be a wonderful morning of fun, camaraderie and effort.
Many thanks to the Provo Primary parents and friends who signed up for the event – we look forward to going one step further in next year’s competition!
A HUGE thank you to the amazing efforts of our Provo Primary families and friends who supported our ‘International Coastal Clean-up Day’ participation this morning. Cleaning up the road from the TCIFA Soccer Field to the CARIFTA Stadium, was a crowd of hard-working volunteers (inc 25 students from our Yrs 1 to 7). This photo shows some of the team and a portion of the rubbish collected.
The area had been brought to my attention as in desperate need for a clean up by our Years 3-6 students who travel the route to the stadium for their P.E. lessons. With vast amounts of rubbish collected, I trust that due to their actions, their journey will be noticeably cleaner (and for others and the wildlife too!).
With a knowledge that we all have the ability to take action and to make a difference, it was interesting to hear the children’s ideas on how we could help to discourage the littering in the area – I wonder what you think could help?
During National Youth Week next week, a variety of events are happening in the TCI in celebration our young people. The theme for this year is: Empowering the youth, one Island at a time; no child left behind.
Provo Primary School is looking to make a presence and would love for you to come along and help support our school and all schools on island. Here are a couple of the events…
Provo Primary and Middle School have pledged to join The Department of Environment & Coastal Resources (DECR), and its partners to support…
Why here? Walking to the stadium for PE lessons, our Year 3-6 children have noticed a lot of rubbish on the path that they feel something needs to be done about. So let’s clean it up and help make a difference!
We are excited about the upcoming start to the new school year and the learning journeys ahead here at Provo Primary and our new Provo Middle School. We have lots of new families joining us this year and we take this opportunity to welcome them all into our community.
Come along to meet the teachers, see your child’s new classroom – and take a peek at our amazing new Middle School buildings – find out more about the year ahead and ask any questions you may have.
Thank you to all the children for their amazing efforts in our EY Trike-a-bike-a-scooter-thon and KS1/2 Triathlon.
It was fantastic seeing every child in the school taking part with such enthusiasm for the activities and challenges – riding, running and swimming! Well done teachers too for organising and supervising the various stations along each route.
A HUGE thank you to all the kind family and community sponsors who have supported the children’s efforts to help raise funds for learning resources which they themselves will benefit from. To Flamingo Park and the TCIFA for the use of the road, pool and field. And finally, thank you to all the parents who brought bike and scooters to school and to everyone who was able to come along and encourage the children with claps and cheers.
2nd – 13th JulySign up for 2 weeks of fun:
Simply click on the image above and print and complete the attached registration form. Hand it into the school office or email it to us at info@provoprimary.com.
Imagination Island 8.15am-12.00pm: $40 per day or $180 for the week
8.15am to 3.00pm: $60 per day or $280 week
Here is a taster of what this summer’s camp on-site fun, games will involve:
Simply click on the image above and print and complete the attached registration form. Hand it into the school office or email it to us at info@provoprimary.com.
We are excited to share our plans for our Summer Camps this year for July 2nd to July 13th.
Registration is now open in the school office or via email.
2-6-year olds Imagination Island Summer Camp 2018
7-13-year-olds Raft Building and Sea Faring Camp 2018
We look forward to you joining us the for adventures ahead!
Roll, up, roll up… get your skates on!
Join us for food, drink, treats, music, skating and a fun “obstacle course” for our non-skaters.
‘Wheel’ see you there!
The Providenciales Public Library will once again be hosting its annual Read-a-thon from July 9-14, 2018 under the theme “Read to Succeed”. The aim of this competition is to promote the habit of reading whilst exposing the children to a wide variety of books.
Since its inception, this competition has generated a fair amount of interest among the children and so they are not expecting anything less this year. The format has undergone a slight adjustment to make it a little more interesting and no doubt the children will embrace this.
You need to be a member of the library, so if you’re not… now is the time to join!
Year 3 are leading the way, creating some ‘NO TO STRAWS’ cards to help remind everyone to join the DECR ‘WE SAY NO TO STRAWS’ campaign. The idea is for them to take the cards out with them when their family is dining out, helping them to specifically ask for no straws when ordering their drinks.
With permission of the venue, we hope to make a collection of photographs of the children with their straw-less drinks. Many local restaurants are already joining in with the campaign and perhaps our cards and photos will encourage more and more to consider following suit. Please send in the photos to principal@provoprimary.com
The Year 3s have also made cards to be placed into their lunch boxes to help them remember not to bring straws to school.
This campaign is to create awareness of our beautiful marine environment and how we can take small actions each day to conserve and protect it! No Straw is a simple choice that can make a big difference. [Read more…]
This year’s Earth Day (22nd April) was the kick off for the DECR ‘WE SAY NO TO STRAWS’ campaign and Provo Primary is in full support.
Through encouragement from our School Council, we have taken on the challenge to try not bring any straws into school, especially those attached to juice cartons. The straws that have been bought in are being recycled and used during art and craft sessions – a great idea from our Year 6!
We have also managed to encourage everyone to recycle and/or use metal cutlery during our eating times at school.
Look out for further blogs this week about our ‘No Straw’ mission.
Through the help of our School Council, Provo Primary is taking part in a Class Food Bank Drive for the Food for Thought organisation.
As you may know, Food for Thought (as well as its Breakfast Programme) currently has a Food Bank Programme, in which ten of the government schools have Breakfast Boxes where students in need can go to get something to eat.
They provide instant oatmeal for 20 students per day at each of the ten schools. On top of this, they ask for public donations of other non-perishable breakfast items to keep the Breakfast Boxes topped up and full of variety.
They have come up with a new initiative in order to boost the public donations – a Class Food Bank Drive! And Provo Primary is happy to support this. Click on to find out how we can help [Read more…]
It’s not every day that an iguana visits your school, but today it really did happen! ‘Rocky the Rock Iguana’ came to Provo Primary, together with Dr. Higgs from the National Trust, to tell us all about the recently launched ‘Saving the Iguana Islands’ project.
We learnt that rats and cats can be a threat to the iguana populations, and that the project is working hard to keep them away from areas where the iguanas are living. We also learnt about how we should behave around iguanas, when we see them, by being quiet and not feeding or chasing them.
It was lots of fun to meet ‘Rocky the Rock Iguana’ – he rocks! Having our class photos taken with him was really special.
We felt very lucky that ‘Rocky’ and Dr. Higgs came to visit us during our special Iguana Week. Thank you! We will do our best to remember all the important information they shared with us and share this with everyone we know.
Our ‘Iguana Week’ kicked off to a great start this morning with an informative visit from Amy Avenant from the DECR. Speaking to all our children from Junior Kindergarten to Year 6, she explained why our iguanas are so special to our islands and why we need to protect them. Thank you, Amy.
Did you know that rock iguanas found here are endemic to the Turks and Caicos Islands, which means that they are found nowhere else in the world. How special is that! If you would like to learn more facts about our iguanas, then come and ask any of our children. You can also find out more at this website and, even better, plan a visit to Little Water Cay and see them first hand!
Throughout this week we’ll be learning even more about our iguanas and comparing them to others around the world. We certain should be experts by the end of the week!
The Turks & Caicos Islands Football Association had 4 youth teams participate in the Weston Cup soccer tournament in Florida, USA over the weekend of February 17th – 19th. The tournament hosts approximately 700 teams from the USA, Canada, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean. The under 10 boys team and under 11 girls team had several Provo Primary students on their rosters, and the under 12 and 13 boys teams had several former Provo Primary students included. There was also a large number of Provo Primary parents filling the roles of coach and manager!
All of the teams were very successful and improved on their results from the 2017 Weston Cup. The under 10 and 12 boys both made the finals and finished 2nd in their divisions. Great job by everyone involved! Contributed by Jen.
PPPA Valentine’s Day Bake Sale & Coffee Bar!
Friday, February 9th
Make a donation to the PPPA and get a yummy Valentine’s Day treat!
If you would like to bake treats, they will be collected Thursday, February 8th in the teacher’s lounge after school at your pick up time.
Dear Santa! Thank you for coming to visit us on our last day of term today at Provo Primary School:
Thank you to the Fire Service for helping Santa to get to our school.
The fire truck was big and red, just like your sleigh
The truck made a big noise.
I hope you weren’t too hot in your suit and boots.
Your beard was as white as snow and tickled.
I love the present that you gave me. It was a book. Thank you.
Thank you for the candy cane.
I hope you have a safe journey back to the North Pole.
Love from all the children at PPS.
Three cheers to our Year 2 parents too for baking goodies and offering refreshments for Santa, teachers, guests and onlookers throughout the morning.
On behalf of all the staff at Provo Primary, we would like to thank everyone for all their support this term, for their kind best wishes, cards and thoughtful gifts.
In return we wish everyone a happy holiday season with all your friends and family. See you next year!
Good luck tonight to all our Year 1-6 children with the first night of their Peter Pan musical show- ‘Pantastic’!
It will be a packed audience with tickets all sold out for tonight’s show.
Here they are at their dress rehearsal on Wednesday, which was enjoyed by our Year 5 friends from the Ianthe Pratt Primary School. Tonight it will be dark and they’ll be performing under the sparkle of the stage lights, with character make-up to add to their amazing costumes. It’s going to be…FANTASTIC! Enjoy the show, everyone!
Santa 🎅🏻 Selfie at The Jingle Jam! What a fabulous turn out! So much festive cheer, and lovely to see all the little ones having such a jolly good time. Thank you so much to everyone that helps me to make this possible every year! 🎁
Kate Burchill
A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated books for our Pen Pal Schools on South Caicos, Calvery Christian School and Iris Stubbs Primary School. Altogether we donated 12 big boxes of books – the kindness of our children is quite overwhelming.
Earlier today, Santa flew over to South with his two elf helpers from Year 5, Miss Laranda and PPPA rep, Kelsey, to deliver the books. Looking at the first photo we’ve seen, it certainly looks like it has been a fun time. We look forward to seeing more photos and hearing more news about their special delivery on their return!
We decided to collect books when we were sad to hear that many of the schools’ books had been damaged by the Hurricanes. The children looked on their own bookshelves and choose books that they had enjoyed that they thought others would too.
Thank you everyone. Thank you Santa for taking time out of your busy pre-Christmas preparations to help us, and thank you to Sail Rock for helping us with transporting everyone, and all the boxes, over to South.
It’s the Jingle Jam tomorrow, Wednesday 6th December from 5-7pm. Join us at Provo Primary for a parent and toddler – Kindergarten aged friendly Christmas Party – older siblings are of course welcome!
Tickets: $5 per person (under 1 yr goes free!)
Community friends are more than welcome to come along!
The evening kicks off the festive season with a toddler friendly dance party, Christmas crafts station, mulled wine, mince pies and a visit with Santa himself! It’s the perfect opportunity for a relaxed family photo with the jolly old guy and we will have a professional photographer there to snap away – your holiday photos will be sent to you free of charge – just remember to write your email on the back of your ticket!
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