Year 1 have been put through their paces by English cricket player, Paul Baker. The fully-qualified coach has been helping them learn the game as part of their PE programme and the budding stars of tomorrow have loved every minute of it.
The sessions have been varied and fun and the drills simple and easy to [...]

At the end of last term, our two Year One classes planted beans in plastic bags and hung them outside the classroom in order to observe them growing. Very soon, the roots and the shoots appeared and after drawing and writing about the changes they saw, they planted them in pots. Over the Easter holidays [...]

Year 5 teamed up with one of our Year 1 Literacy groups to read some information texts together. This linked in very nicely with our Turks and Caicos Education Department’s ‘Join the Reading Rush 2010’ celebrations
Both classes really enjoyed the session and a variety of  knowledge was absorbed!  Well done, everyone!

Year One’s art topic this term has been texture and pattern.  Last week, they looked online at some aboriginal paintings.  They used their interactive whiteboard to look closely at the patterns and talked about how they could imitate them using everyday objects from their classroom.  As their classroom is called the Gecko room, they decided [...]

Year one demonstrated some amazing problem solving skills in their Numeracy class today.  Games and challenges involved them finding different ways of making 7.  They used a variety of addition and subtraction strategies, lots of mathematical vocabulary and were encouraged to record their findings in their own individual way.

Watch a slideshow showing some of the highlights our fantastic Christmas Extravaganza.  Our Preschool children flew on to the stage as beautiful Christmas birds, flapping their wings and dancing and singing to some Christmas action songs.  Junior Kindergarten were dressed as red-nosed reindeer and thoroughly entertained the audience with their jingling bell ringing, action songs [...]

Across the curriculum, our two Year 1 classes are making full use of the computer technology available to them. They have used the computers and new eno interactive whiteboard (IWB) in the Year 1 adjoining classrooms.  They have also visited the computer suite and used the computers and the IWB in there.  See a slideshow [...]

On Monday June 22nd, the children in the Grade 1 class participated in a Spelling Bee.  It definitely was a nail biter!  The children were tested on a total of eighty words that had been taught in school and practiced at home.
All the children tried their best and did an amazing job!  We definitely have [...]

Swimming lessons for our Kindergarten, Grade One and Two children started last week with great success. The aim of the first session was to assess the children’s confidence, water skills and swimming ability. All the teachers were thoroughly impressed with the children’s efforts and are now ready to further develop the children’s skills in the [...]

The Grade 1 class has been learning about the different and unique features of the Turks and Caicos Islands. One thing that is very unique is that we have the only conch farms in the world. So off they went to visit on here on Provo.  See a slideshow of photos from their tour.
At the [...]

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘oil and water don’t mix’? Well, one of our Grade 1 students and his mum taught a Science lesson to his class this week that explored what would happen if you mixed honey, juice and oil.  The children learned that these liquids don’t  mix to make a solution.   They [...]

This afternoon, the Grades 1-7 ended their theme week with a “Time Travellers’ Walkabout”.  Each class decorated their room with all the things they had been working on this week. Each one looked wonderful and the children were all very proud of what they had done.  Some children dressed as characters and they travelled through [...]

Our Grade 1-7 Sports’ Day was a great success today and was packed full of  fun.  The children were full of energy, determined to do their best and displayed excellent teamwork and sportsmanship.  See the movie below for all the highlights.
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See more movies on each of the teams that took part:  Blue, [...]