The Preschool Fathers’ Day Bear Hunt was a huge success, with a great turn out of “daddies” for this interactive event!   They were all good sports, taking their shoes and socks off and joining their child in a tactile journey of fun… tracking through a playground scene recreating a grassy lane, river, mud [...]

Provo Primary School will be hosting a play morning on June 12th between 9.30 and 11.30 am for prospective Preschool families. Come along with your child and experience for yourself the unique qualities of our school and what we can offer your family.
Please contact the Principal, Sian Jones, at 941 5638 or principal@provoprimary.com to reserve [...]

Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mums throughout the school.

We are so excited to share with you our most recent study about “How things Grow”.  The children have been learning about seeds, soil, and a variety of plants.  They planted sweet basil, tomatoes, sunflowers and other seeds, to watch them grow.  We will eventually transplant these seedlings into our new garden.  Look [...]

To celebrate Earth Day and all we have recently learned about plants,  the Preschool and Jr. Kindergarten enjoyed a Garden Picnic at the wonderful home of one of our parents. During this field trip the children were able to plant seeds, observe different kinds of lettuce growing (and tasted some too), as well as [...]

The Preschoolers have been exploring, learning and having conversations about seeds, leaves, soil, flowers and thinking about “How things grow”.
They have been enjoying our sensory table working with real dirt using rakes, spades, and shovels.  The Science table has had an array of leaves, plants, seeds and books to explore. The children [...]

The Preschool has been exploring a variety of sensory experiences that we like to call ‘Messy Play’  Together they have made ‘Clean Mud’, which is made from soap and tissue paper. They have also created ‘Wet Mud’ with soil and water.  Drawing in shaving cream sprayed onto a table top is also a favourite activity.
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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 [...]

Using a set of colourful scarves created a multi-sensory treat for both the Preschooler and Junior Kindergarten classes last week.  They explored both colour and body movements as they enjoyed playing with the scarves while listening to music.  Watch a slideshow of them in action.

Welcome to the Dinosaur Dig!  A celebration for father’s day honoring all the important men in a child’s life.  We began our gathering by giving these special men a “dinosaur dig hat” and their own large toy dinosaur.  The children then sang and acted out “The Dinosaur March” song.  They also performed their friend’s song [...]

The Bounce-a-thon today was a great success with all of our Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten children bouncing to help raise money for books, playground equipment and computers.  Each child bounced for one minute by themselves and their total bounces were recorded.  They then had five minutes with their friends to bounce together.  The children [...]

A great time was had by the preschool children and their mums at the “Smoochie Smoothie Mother’s Day” event!  They started off their lovely celebration with the children singing two songs…”Friends, Friends 1,2,3, and “Way Up in the Sky”.  Then Miss Evieann read the story “Oh Baby, My Little One” as each child nestled into [...]

The Preschool children have been exploring the concept of food and learning about all its different varieties. Some of the questions we have focused on are… where does food come from… how do fruits and vegetables grow… what kinds of foods do we like, dislike, and how do we make food like cake, trail [...]

Our Early Years classes, Preschool, Junior Kindergarten and Kindergarten, enjoyed their sports’ Day today.  It was lots of fun!  It all started with some popular circle games, that had the children, jumping, hopping, skipping and skating!  Following this, each class demonstrated their games skills and teamwork with their own activities.  Held at the nearby Graceway [...]

Early Years ended their theme week on creative minds with a parade for mums and dads, friends and the rest of the school.  There were costumes, masks, artwork and songs to share from their weeks activities.  What a lot of creativity!  See a slideshow of the parade.  Click below to watch a movie of the [...]

The Early Years theme for Education Week is “The Creative Mind of the Child” and we aim to recognise the creative spark and imagination of each child by offering a variety of activities for them to explore.
Preschool have been cooking.  Their cooking recipe for Friendship Soup, allowed them to choose vegetables to bring from home [...]