Posts by Glen Park Primary School
Street 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…
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…
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…
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…
Read MoreNew Prep
Our new prep for 2018, Lola had her orientation day this week. She had a great time with her sister and new friends at school. We also had our school…
Read MoreSovereign Hill Excursion
As our final major excursion for 2017, we visited Sovereign Hill for the day. We dressed up, panned for gold and watched a gold pour.
Read MoreLovely Spring
We have had a lovely spring this year. Our grounds look green and lush (in fact its been hard keeping up with the mowing) We had lots of lovely plants…
Read MoreBusy term Four
We have been working really hard this term on major theme work including ghost stories, The Wimpy Kid & Captain Underpants and Fables and Folktales. (Some of our art work…
Read MoreSwimming
Its been a few years since we’ve run a swimming program at Glen Park. (We found that most students were learning how to swim independently of the school) That is…
Read MoreAsbestos Free
Glen Park is now totally free of all asbestos (We even had our school safe removed because it had asbestos in it!) we have also had a ramp built and…
Read MoreSpring
Its been a long winter but hopefully spring has now arrived. Our bulbs are out and hopefully we can get into our kitchen garden and start enjoying our revamped playground.…
Read MorePlayground addition
We have just finished building a new addition to our playground equipment. Our old fort was sadly too difficult to maintain, so we built a new one to replace it.…
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