Archive for August 2016
Visit to Sovereign Hill
As part of a maths unit we’re starting on money we went to the Ballarat Gold Museum to look at their exceptional collection of coins from around the world and real gold nuggets. We also popped over the road to Sovereign Hill where we saw a gold ,(The gold bar we saw created was worth…
Read MoreAlmost Spring
Well its almost spring here at Glen Park and our dozens of bulbs are popping up all over the place.
Read MoreJapan Challenge
This is the twelfth year of the Japan Challenge competition open to school children in the Ballarat area who are studying Japanese as a second language. This is the first year that we have been involved. This year’s theme is anime. We finished our posters yesterday and they will be displayed before judging at Ballarat…
Read MoreNo waiting
One of the great things about Glen Park is that we are not constantly standing around waiting our turn….I’ve noticed that students from the huge school group doing gymnastics before us at the Aquatic Centre have to line up and wait constantly for their turn on the apparatus whether it be the trampoline, balance bars…
Read MoreMaho visits
Simone, our LOTE teacher brought along a Japanese student teacher that she has visiting her, Maho from Osaka. She helped us with our language and also our Japanese cooking. We made yummy Okonomi which is like a savoury pancake/omlette.
Read MoreCompleted model
At Glen Park our students have time, space and resorces to complete quality projects they can be proud of. Such as this construction project where one of our students made a model of Gigantor and put it on display.
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