We had an end of year excursion this week to the Werribee Open Range Zoo and the historic mansion. This year we have been lucky enough to go on excursions to the Ballarat Wildlife Park, the Wizard of Oz musical in Melbourne, Swimming (10x 1 hour lessons with a 1 to 2 teacher student ratio,…

Charles Kemp from Regional Office visited our school this week and donated some pea straw, sheep manure and fertilizer as well as some bean, pumpkin and tomato plants for us to plant. we have a lot of watering to do for the remainder of the year. Our strawberries are looking great, we might have a…

This week we went on our annual Science excursion (Actually the second for this year) to the Yr F-2 Fascinating Frogs program at Ecolinc in Bacchus Marsh. We had a great time and found out lots of interesting information about frogs and water pollution.

Glen Park visited the Ballarat Art Gallery for Science week and worked with Stephanie Davidson to learn about parasites. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot too. Later in the term we are going to Ecolinc in Bacchus Mash to learn about amphibians and wetlands.

Another busy term at Glen Park. We have been fully engaged in our learning and showing impressive progress this year. Attached are some photos of us busy at work. Check out our Facebook site to see what we are up to every day.

We went to Sovereign Hill for an excursion this term and although a bit chilly at the diggings we had a great time. A big thank you to Alison Middleton for being our guide.

We have resumed our swimming program for 2018. One instructor for every two students means we see lots of improvement from our students by the end of our ten week program. We also checked out some old railway engines (Grade Prep-1 are studying train themed books) waiting for restoration.

On 23rd May we went to see the Wizard of Oz (so to speak) at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne. This was our Arts excursion for 2018. Previously we’ve seen Wicked, Matilda, Mary Poppins and more. We had a great time.

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.

We commemorated ANZAC day this year at Glen Park by baking ANZAC cookies and completed Flanders poppies art activities.