Archive for September, 2009

Year 3/4’s Collaborative Art

September 30th, 2009

During our first week back at school children in Years 3/4 were thrown into the deep end and challenged to complete a Collaborative Art Project. They were asked to fill a display board by recreating an ocean scene.

Kindergarten are Great Critical Thinkers

September 28th, 2009

Over the course of last week, the Kindergarten class read Hugh Lofting’s Travels of Doctor Dolittle as part of a shared reading/critical thinking skills workshop in Literacy.  As well as answering questions, they also acted out several parts of the book.  Here they are creating a bridge across the mountain.

Tttttt…Turtles!

September 28th, 2009

Year 3 and 4 were very lucky last week to have Brian and Natasha come to talk to them and answer their many questions about sea turtles that live around The Turks and Caicos Islands.

Learning a range of P.E. Skills

September 22nd, 2009

From Athletics to Yoga, children throughout the school have enjoyed their first couple of P.E. sessions of the year.  See a slideshow of the children learning and practising their techniques.  Read on to learn more details on what they are learning.

Science Museum Physics Fun!

September 20th, 2009

Launchball is a physics-based Flash game produced by the Science Museum in London.
It’s a great game that those of you who are familiar with ‘The Incredible Machines’ and ‘World of Goo” will really enjoy.
The aim of the game is to get a ball from a starting position to a ‘goal’ by placing additional blocks onto [...]

Learning Spanish

September 20th, 2009

Mrs. Mary and Mr. David are teaching Spanish this year.  They are following the units provided in the UK “Framework for Languages”.
The first unit is called Yo (All about me).  In this unit children learn to greet others, say how they are and introduce themselves. They begin to respond to and ask questions about their [...]

Well on our way to Healthy Eaters!

September 10th, 2009

As a school we like to promote nutritious eating habits and at our playtime snack each morning, we encourage the children to choose to eat their healthy snacks first.
It was wonderful today to see so many children and teachers throughout the school with a wide variety of healthy choices.  A big thank you to all [...]

A Happy First Day

September 10th, 2009

What better way to sum up our first day back Provo Primary than looking at these smiley faces.  Walking through the school today, it was truly evident that the children and teachers were excited to be back.  New children settled well and old friends were pleased to see each other.  The classrooms looked wonderful and [...]