Archive for 2018
ANZAC Day
We commemorated ANZAC day this year at Glen Park by baking ANZAC cookies and completed Flanders poppies art activities.
Read MoreStreet Library
Glen Park Primary is always an innovator; personalised learning, Blooms taxonomy planning, integrated curriculum, portfolios, one to one iPad usage and now a street library. Street libraries are becoming very popular especially in the US and New Zealand. They are starting to become popular in Australia with over 600 officially registered. Glen Park is the…
Read MoreBusy term 1
We have had a very busy term 1 so far. Last week we went to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens for an explore. Our older students are also finishing up a unit on Harry Potter so we have been studying some Potter inspired kitchen chemistry as part of science. Earlier in the term we completed a…
Read More2018!
We have now been back to school for 2 weeks and we’ve well and truly settled in. We started learning straight away (no ‘testing days’ here)and have been enjoying the air conditioned comfort of our rooms while we work and during break time. No huge class sizes here just plenty of room and comfortable well…
Read MoreChristmas at Glen Park
Its not unusual for Santa to visit the kids and hand out presents to them but I think unusual for the Principal to cook a turkey Christmas lunch for his students on the last day at school. We had a visit from Santa who delivered a gift from the school (a book- summer reading?) and…
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