Archive for 2017
Kookaburras
We are lucky to be surrounded by farm and wild animals up at Glen Park. At the moment we have a lively colony of kookaburras keeping us amused with their antics.
Read MoreAquarium Excursion
Just before the holidays we went on our main excursion for term 2 to see an IMAX 3-D movie on the Great Barrier Reef and followed that up with a terrific visit to the Melbourne Aquarium.
Read MoreArt projects
One of the great things about being at Glen Park is that you can work on long term projects (including art projects) knowing you will have space to do it, it wont be interfered with or mistaken as rubbish and thrown away and that you will have all the resources you need to finish the…
Read MoreBusy start to the term
We’ve been very busy this term. The children finished their ANZAC Day models, had a BBQ at Kirk’s Reservoir and have been hard at work in Japanese with Simone and Italian with Lucy.
Read MoreBushwalk
Being small we can go on bushwalks this year whenever the weather suits. This week we went for a walk the the Creswick State Forest.
Read MoreANZAC DAY
We completed ANZAC Day research and craft activities this year including making a medal, a trench periscope and a plastic model fighter plane.
Read MoreVisit to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
We had the Begonia Festival in Ballarat last weekend.We thought we’d avoid the crowds and because we are currently reading The Secret Garden, we went to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. We took our iPads and while we were exploring we took photos of the begonias, statues, plants and trees. We will visit again to explore…
Read MoreWorking in our kitchen garden
This year we decided to only grow plants in our kitchen garden that we want to eat. After a short survey we determined that we should plant strawberries and potatoes. We planted our strawberries this week and our potatoes in August/September.
Read MoreVisit to the Wild Life Park
This week we visited the Ballarat Wildlife Park. We were very lucky to see some active Tasmanian devils, koalas and lizards.
Read MoreWorking outside in the fresh air
One of the great things about being at Glen Park in the warm sunny weather is that we have plenty of space and plenty of shade and we can take our fold up chairs and picnic rugs and head outside to read, eat lunch, work on our iPads or enjoy some water play.
Read MoreStarting year 7
One of our ex parents (only from last year) popped in yesterday to tell me that his daughter has settled into year 7 well at Damascus. I also know our year six boy from 2016 has settled in well to Clarendon College despite some blisters from new shoes. It was also great to run into…
Read MoreGreat start to 2017
We started back fresh and ready to learn for 2017! we did a lot of work outside and reorganised our classrooms during the break and it was all systems go for the first week of learning at Glen Park for 2017. We still have room for new students this year so make contact with us…
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