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.

On Friday I attended the Moorabool Collegiate group Small School Conference (We were one of 18 schools attending).

Lots of work inside and outside has been completed these holidays. One big job that was done, while we had some sunny weather was adding some new soft-fall under our playground equipment and filling up our sand pit (Where does all the sand go?) We also weeded and mulched our veggie garden ready for spring.

Yesterday we visited the Ballarat Art Gallery. It was a great opportunity to view some iconic paintings and sculptures but to aslo view some new and exciting exhibitions that they currently have there.

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…

Well its almost spring here at Glen Park and our dozens of bulbs are popping up all over the place.

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…

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.