A unique Primary School, offering a British based, child centred education in the Turks and Caicos Islands
As part of the National Trust’s Beautiful by Nature campaign, Flamingo Class headed to Long Bay beach to prove a point! The issue of pollution on beaches around Providenciales is something that we all felt strongly about, so we set about creating some protest photography to raise awareness on the subject. Please take a few minutes to look at the photos of our trip and check out our amazing posters. We think you’ll agree that there is a powerful message to our work!
Provo Primary School are thinking about what ‘Beautiful by Nature, protected by us’ means to them. The National Trust and Turks and Caicos Conservation Society have asked schools – how can we conserve our island for generations to come?
What does the slogan mean to you? Read on to find out how each class in our school have expressed their ideas through art and writing.
On 5th November, children and parents of Provo Primary School celebrated Bonfire Night…Provo-style! This year’s School Council had decided that they would love to organise a bonfire party on the beach – and what better occasion was there for it than Bonfire Night?! The event was attended by many families from across the school. As people arrived, everyone was interested to look at the two Guy Fawkes models placed carefully on top of the unlit bonfire! Just like Bonfire Night celebrations held across the United Kingdom on the 5th November, our own Provo Bonfire Night began with the burning of the Guys. The crowd gathered to watch as the fires were lit and many children were excited to see their carefully-made Guys catch fire! We would like to say a huge thank you to Clive and all the staff at Bay Bistro for putting on such a fantastic evening. It really was a terrific night for our whole school community – for parents, children and teachers. We, of course, would also love to thank the School Council for their fine idea!
Children of all ages as well as adults were decked out in a variety of creative costumes enjoying every minute of the cheerful PTA Halloween Party atmosphere. Trees, posts, Classroom doors and anywhere plain were decorated with playfully spooky spider webs, pumpkins, skeletons and other Halloween accessories. Laughter filled the evening as kids enjoyed the contemporary music, snacks, getting temporary tattoos, playing exciting games and winning lots of little prizes.
The children of Provo Primary School Council warmly welcome them to their Bonfire Night on Monday 5th November. See details on the invite below.
School Council Bonfire Night Invite 2012
We hope to see you there!
Provo Primary School was proud to be a part of a Guinness World Record attempt last Friday. National Geographic Kids aimed to organise ‘the most people running 100 metres in 24 hours’. It was an exciting event to be a part of. It wasn’t about who came first, it was about everyone taking part. It certainly was fun and we all looked very colourful in our orange and black dress-down day clothes!
The ‘Guinness Book of Records’ books are very popular in all the classes and the thought that we could be in the next edition, and be able to say that we had broken a world record, was an exciting prospect. Well done to each and every one of you. In the words of the late Roy Castle…’You’re a Record breaker!’
A big thank you goes out to Matthew and Sonia at the TCIFA National Soccer Academy for letting us use their pitch and also for them offering to witness our record breaking attempt.
Calling all vampires, princesses, witches and superheroes! Provo Primary’s annual post – Trick or Treat Halloween Party will be held on October 31st, from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Games, prizes, dancing and more! Food and beverage for sale and Brilliant by Tropical Imaging will be doing costume photo shoots for charity.
$5 entry fee.
A fun time for all ages!
The PTA Yard Sale was a wonderful community success with over 20 tables and lots of bargains to buy. A big thank you goes out to all the parents who donated items for our PTA table.
The PTA lemonade stand was a great hit with both the sellers and buyers. Nothing like a freshly made lemonade to refresh and quench your thirst! There were also sweet treats and homemade bread.
Well done to everyone who helped out.
Children from Provo Primary School joined volunteers around the world to pick up rubbish from our coastal environment. International Coastal Cleanup, is an annual event to raise awareness of the importance of keeping the world’s waterways and oceans clean. Well done and thank you to the families who got up ‘super’ early to join in other community members, cleaning up the Children’s Park Beach in the Bight. The children did a great job and, although they were disappointed by the amount of rubbish they actually collected, they felt proud that they had cleaned up an area that is often enjoyed by children. The clean up was organised by the ‘Environmental Club’ together with the DEMA. They hope to see this becoming an annual event on our TCI calendars.
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.
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.
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.
The inaugural Digicel Interschools TAG Rugby Championships were held this weekend at the TCIRFU’s Meridian Field in Grace Bay Village. Children from schools all across Providenciales turned out to compete against each other in the game of Tag Rugby.
We entered two teams: one in the Under 8s, and another in the Under 11′s. The children really enjoyed themselves and played fantastically. “The children were great sports throughout the event,” commented one parent watching. Well done everyone! Special congratulations go to our Under 11 team who won the championship in their age group.
We would like to say a big thank you to Coach Mark for helping our teams during the tournament. He did a fantastic job encouraging the children. Thanks also to all the parents and friends who came out to support the event.
Provo Primary School now has brown recycling bins on the premises. After a visit to the Recycling Plant last term, the School Council have a devised a simple ‘Recycling Mission’ to encourage us all to recycle. They hope you can all participate!
Their intentions are that all snack\lunch recyclable refuse will be taken home to be washed and placed in the brown bin located at the school entrance, in the mornings as you come into school. Other household recyclables can also be brought from home.
To encourage and entice your participation, they have created tally sheets for each class to record the number of objects placed in the bin. These tallies will be counted up each week and the class who collects the most tallies at the end of the month will receive a special ‘Recycle Certificate’ which will entitle the class to an extra ‘Golden Time’.
Well done, School Council. I wonder which class will collect the most recyclables this month? We look forward to an update on this fantastic initiative later in the term.
Throughout the school, the children took part in a number of activities to celebrate Earth Day, 2012. In our Friday assembly, Year 5 introduced Earth Day with a presentation, Year 1 told everyone some facts about how they could help to ‘Save our Earth’ and Year 2 talked about how sea turtles are becoming extinct and the dangers they face, such as rubbish in the ocean.
On Earth Day for the past 3 years, The Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association has organised a ‘TCI Shines Earth Day Clean- up Campaign’. Donning gloves and raring to play their part, the children in years 3 – 6 collected rubbish outside the school perimeter fencing, around the TCIFA soccer field and up to the Graceway Sports Centre. The children in Years 1 and 2 collected litter from around the school playground.
The children filled approximately 30 large trash bags in total – almost all with rubbish collected from outside the school grounds. The photo on the left shows the children with just a few of these bags. The children were upset to have found so much rubbish that people had littered in our area, but felt happy that they had helped clean up their surroundings.
Children were treated to a demonstration of Aikido this half term, courtesy of two of our own students! The audience was amazed at the speed and power that our pupils possessed. Using the skills they had learned in an after-school Aikido club, they were able to show defensive moves with great skill and confidence.
When volunteers were taken from the audience, everyone was surprised how it was possible (with the help of some clever moves) to defend against an attack from the coach, Clay Seymore.
The demonstration concluded with a presentation of attack and defensive skills using long staffs. What a fascinating way to end this excellent demonstration!
If any parents would like to know more about Clay Seymore’s Aikido classes, please ask for details from Mr Toby or visit the Graceway Sports Centre website. [Read more...]
The Year One and Two classes have been very fortunate to have a series of rugby lessons with Mr. Jamie from the TCIRFU. The children have learned how to run fast with two hands on the ball, how to throw softly to a partner and how to catch with wide open hands. They have also practised dodging with the ball and have played a number of mini tag rugby games. Thank you very much Mr Jamie! The children have thoroughly enjoyed this rugby introduction.
Mr. Jamie has also worked with all our KS2 classes and has done a wonderful job to promote the game of rugby and the TCIFCU’s youth programmes. Find out more at the TCIFCU website. We hope that many of our enthusiastic children take the opportunity to become involved. Click on ‘read more…’ to see photos of the Year Ones in action.
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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.
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!
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.
New After-school Clubs are filling fast so download your registration forms and join in the fun!
Choose from ‘Steel Drums’, ‘Soccer’, ‘Computers’, ‘Glee’ and our ‘Bit of Everything’ clubs. We also offer ‘Homework’ clubs for children in Years 3-6. Find out more about all our clubs by clicking the image on the left.
Children from the community are also most welcome to participate in our club programme so do send a link to any friends that you think might be interested.
Also, let us know if you have a talent or hobby and would like to be a part of our after-school club at the school.
Happy New Year and welcome back to all our children, parent, teachers and community friends (locally and around the world).
‘We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.’ Edith Lovejoy Pierce.
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