The day of the Fool’s Regatta raft race finally arrived and each team eagerly met at the beach with their raft to make their final preparations. As well as Fastest Raft, prizes were being awarded for Best Design and Best Spirit.
For the “Flame ‘n’ Go’s” team, tensions were running extremely high as they had not [...]
Our Junior and Senior Band entertained the crowd at the Fool’s Regatta with the caribbean sounds of the steel drums. This was the first public performance for the Junior Band, who have only just started playing together this term. As always, we were very happy to play at this annual community event and have been [...]
Earlier this month, we were invited to take part in the raft race at this year’s 19th Fool’s Regatta. The Fool’s Regatta is one of the social highlights of the year in TCI. It is always a fun event and this year the proceeds will go to the Volunteer Fire Fighters and the new National Sailing [...]
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 [...]
In Design and Technology Grade 3 explored how to make things move by using ‘pneumatics’ – a force that makes things move by using air.
They decided to design and make monsters with “pneumatic jaws”. Watch out they may come and bite YOU!
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 [...]
Grade 4 visited the Environmental Centre as part of their Social Studies topic on the Turks and Caicos Islands. They enjoyed finding out about the different types of habitats and animals that live in the TCI. They also had fun using their saved up Golden Time playing in the Children’s Play Park. See a slideshow [...]
I want to pass on a big thank you to Shelley, our web hoster, for helping with a recent emergency maintentence update. We have been unable to access the blog for a couple of weeks and thanks to Shelley, we are back online and will be posting again this week. Shelley has been a fantastic [...]
RED
Red is a beautiful rose
Red is the colour of a juicy tomato
Red is the colour of a beating heart
Red is wrapping paper that keeps my feelings in
Red is a juicy cherry
Red is the background of my life.
YELLOW
Yellow is the colour of a sweet banana
Yellow is a dandelion
Yellow is stars in the night sky
Yellow makes me [...]
As part of Teacher Appreciation Week I asked the children to tell me words that best described their teachers. These were made into poems and presented to them in our end of week ‘Celebration Assembly’. The teachers were touched by all the lovely compliments.
Here is a collection of all their words represented in [...]
All of our classes study aspects of the Turks and Caicos Islands (T.C.I) as part of their Social Studies Curriculum. The Grade 2 class did some research about our past and present leaders. They created portraits of each leader using recycled material. These are displayed in the classroom in chronological order. [...]
The teachers were treated to a delicious ‘Teacher Appreciation Breakfast’ this morning provided by a very generous and thoughtful group of parents. There was a variety of amazing dishes including some scrumptious home-cooked goodies. Thank you – it was all really yummy and thoroughly enjoyed!
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 [...]
At Provo Primary School, we think our teachers are very special, they work extremely hard and not only teach, but offer guidance, emotional support, care and many other things to our children. They are a huge part of their lives.
Anybody who has spent any amount of time with a large (or small) group of children [...]
Our Grade 5/6/7s were inspired by the beauty of flowers and how they touch our lives with their vibrant colours and tender petals. Here are three of their soul-touching poems …
I LOVE YOU SO DEAR
My beautiful flower,
White like new fallen snow, scent sweet like a lollipop,
Yellow center like the sunset at the end of the [...]
Our 2008/2009 Yearbooks arrived today and everyone was eager to collect their copy and immediately started flicking through its colourful, photo-filled pages. This year we have two yearbooks, a Preschool-Grade 5 book produced by Krys Mann and a Grade 6/7 book produced by the class themselves. Both are packed full of memories of our year [...]
Six room poems began with students writing a draft on a paper divided into six sections or rooms. In the first room, the students described a strong image of something that they had seen outside in nature. In the second room, they described light and colours associated with their image and in the third [...]
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 [...]
Our Grade 3 class visited Cheshire Hall today. Cheshire Hall is a 200 year old Cotton Plantation. It is a historic site and the ruins are looked after by the National Trust. The Grade 3’s have been studying the cotton industry as part of their TCI Social Studies curriculum and visiting the site really [...]