October 2016 - Glen Park Primary School

Visiting Guides

By Glen Park Primary School | 29 October 2016

On Thursday night, October 27th, the Delacombe Junior Girl Guides celebrated World Teacher’s Day by inviting their school teachers to join them at a special annual Girl Guide activity. The girls thanked their teachers for the time and effort they put into organising classes and excursions. The Guides and their teachers spent the night doing…

Tours

By Glen Park Primary School | 22 October 2016

Because of our size we were lucky enough on our ‘Sturt Street walk’ to get a tour of the Town Hall including the mayor’s rooms (We just popped in to look at the beautiful tiles and staircase and we were invited to have a special tour and talk) and we stopped off at il Piccolo…

Sturt Street ramble

By Glen Park Primary School | 22 October 2016

We picked a rare sunny day to go for a walk down Sturt St and to sketch and photograph (with our iPads) the statues that we found on the centre strip of Ballarat’s main road. We also used the free Wi-Fi to research some of the statues we investigated.

Beautiful spring weather

By Glen Park Primary School | 15 October 2016

I know its not necessarily unique to Glen Park but we really enjoyed the last few days of glorious spring weather and our fantastic school site means we have a lovely, tranquil and safe outside learning and play space for the kids to enjoy.

External review completed.

By Glen Park Primary School | 15 October 2016

Glen Park completed its four yearly external review with flying colors. This week we finished the last day of our review. We had a two day inspection and wide ranging discussion based on our self-evaluation encompassing all that we have done at Glen Park over the last 4 years.