Science
19 May 2018
We enjoy hands on science at Glen Park which includes a local environmental education visit to Lake Wendouree, testing solubility and viscosity, studying Australian native animals and their environment and recently studying plants and seeds.
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Visit from old scholar’s family
Popped up to work one Saturday and found Mr Kellet (93) related to the…
End of term 3, 2023
Another big year at Glen Park Primary School. Photos include Katie our new MARC…
School Experiences 2023
This year we started our excursions program again (post COVID) At the end of…
COVID in 2021
As we did last year, Glen Park provided ‘learning packs’ for individual students during…
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Returning to onsite learning in term 4
We have now had two periods of off-site learning this year due to the…
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Return to school
Our students made their long awaited return to school after distance education and they…
Distance education at Glen Park term 2
Term One was quite short for us and sadly we had to cancel our…
Werribee Zoo and Mansion excursion
We had an end of year excursion this week to the Werribee Open Range…
Spring Gardening
Charles Kemp from Regional Office visited our school this week and donated some pea…
Our Street Library a first
SLAV (School Librarians Association of Victoria) have asked us to write a news article…
Excursion to Ecolinc
This week we went on our annual Science excursion (Actually the second for this…
Swimming Started
We have resumed our swimming program for 2018. One instructor for every two students…
Street Library
Glen Park Primary is always an innovator; personalised learning, Blooms taxonomy planning, integrated curriculum,…
Sovereign Hill Excursion
As our final major excursion for 2017, we visited Sovereign Hill for the day….
Playground addition
We have just finished building a new addition to our playground equipment. Our old…
Busy start to the term
We’ve been very busy this term. The children finished their ANZAC Day models, had…
Visit to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
We had the Begonia Festival in Ballarat last weekend.We thought we’d avoid the crowds…
Working in our kitchen garden
This year we decided to only grow plants in our kitchen garden that we…
Visit to the Wild Life Park
This week we visited the Ballarat Wildlife Park. We were very lucky to see…
Working outside in the fresh air
One of the great things about being at Glen Park in the warm sunny…
Last school day for 2016
Another big year over for our small rural school. The kids have finished and…
Harmonious learning environment
I have heard lots of stories recently about students in some schools spending days…
Book Buying
As a reward to the children for achieving their Premier’s Reading Challenge targets for…
Premier’s Reading Challenge
I’m sure there are some other schools where 100% of the students attending successfully…
Visiting Guides
On Thursday night, October 27th, the Delacombe Junior Girl Guides celebrated World Teacher’s Day…
External review completed.
Glen Park completed its four yearly external review with flying colors. This week we
Small School Conference
On Friday I attended the Moorabool Collegiate group Small School Conference (We were one
Visit from an Echidna
We often get visits here from native wildlife including possums, koalas, kangaroos and of…
Art Gallery Visit
Yesterday we visited the Ballarat Art Gallery. It was a great opportunity to view…
Japan Challenge
This is the twelfth year of the Japan Challenge competition open to school children…
Maho visits
Simone, our LOTE teacher brought along a Japanese student teacher that she has visiting…
Completed model
At Glen Park our students have time, space and resorces to complete quality projects…
Werribee Mansion
What better way to help visualise the lives of characters from Pride and Prejudice…
Snowing at Glen Park
The 458 Spider’s unique hard top doesn’t deform because of the pressure field that
Zayda earns Peak Achievement
Zayda earns BP Award We wish to congratulate our past student, Zayda Vandenberg, on…
