Posts by Glen Park Primary School
Face-lift
We gave the front entrance of our school a much needed face-lift last year. This year we hope to create a dedicated outdoor learning space. In recent years we have created a kitchen garden, a Street library for our local community to access, refreshed our sandpit and replaced the shade cloth and also doubled the…
Read MoreCOVID stories.
Here is the link to the flipbook created by the Royal Flying Doctors based on My Place stories from our children. Congratulations to Stella and Charlie (Grade 6 last year anfd now one of our ‘Past Pupils’ in Year 7 at Woodman’s Hill Secondary School) for being selected to be featured in this book. Photos of…
Read MoreLearning Packs
What is unique to Glen Park is our approach to COVID 19 remote learning. We decided last year that we would maintain our program as close to what it is like on-site . That meant creating learning packs for Literacy, Numeracy, Art, LOTE and Science/Humanities. These comprehensive learning packs went home to families on a…
Read More2021 Visit to the Wildlife Park
Other than a short 5 day glitch due to COVID early this term we have been back to (almost) normal at Glen Park for 2021. We have 6 students from Foundation to grade 4 (with 2 new students joining us in term 2) starting with us this year. We have a new Strategic Plan (refer…
Read MoreReturning to onsite learning in term 4
We have now had two periods of off-site learning this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic. (Hopefully we won’t have anymore.) At Glen Park we sent home individually developed learning packs (three went home during the last period of distance learning ) which included reading, writing, maths, humanities and science learning plans and resources.…
Read MoreReturn to school
Our students made their long awaited return to school after distance education and they all said they were glad to be back.
Read MoreDistance education at Glen Park term 2
Term One was quite short for us and sadly we had to cancel our Arts excursion to see Shrek. I hope that we will be able to re-schedule our planned excursions at some other point this year. Victorian state schools have been preparing for distance education since we started our school holidays early on 24th…
Read MoreVery Busy Term 3
We had a new enrolment in term 3 bringing our enrolment up to 8. That’s good. It should remain 8 with one definite Prep for 2020 and one grade 6 leaving us. It would be fantastic to get a few more enrolments next year too. Now that DET has finally released maps of school zones…
Read MoreGreat Feedback
Over the last few weeks I’ve run into some ex-parents of the school (In the supermarket) and its great to hear from them how well our ex-pupils are going. Some are still hard at work at secondary school and its great to hear how well they are doing, some are also doing tertiary studies and…
Read MoreAnother busy term completed.
Term 1 was a busy term with a lot going on: an increased enrolment, new ipads for all students, two excursions to Ecolinc and one to IMAX/Melbourne Aquarium, grade 5-6 visit to Sovereign Hill and a Respectful Relationships incursion by CAFs during February. We also had a visit from our local member (Michaela Settle, photo…
Read MoreFirst news update for 2019
Well, we have had a very busy start to the year. We have a new Prep and now we have 7 students. An old air shaft from an historic gold mine next door opened up. (No need to panic, its fenced off) a fantastic reminder of our local history. We replaced out old Ipads (bought…
Read MoreGreat news from past students
Lately I’ve run into a few ex parents from Glen park and heard some great news about how their kids are going. One is an apprentice electrician, one is working at a local furniture store where we bought all our school furniture, another is having (probably had now, a baby) another is performing (dancing, singing,…
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