Posts by Glen Park Primary School
2018!
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.…
Read MoreSwimming
We just wrapped up our 10 week one hour swimming lessons at the Ballarat YMCA. Our students made great progress over the course of their lessons. We were lucky to…
Read MoreARTS Excursion 2017
I decided to put this new item into ‘Unique at Glen Park’ because I don’t think there would be another state school in Victoria that would take their students to…
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