Posts by Glen Park Primary School
Swimming
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…
Read MoreOliver
One of our ex-pupils, Xander Vandenberg has just finished starring as Oliver in ther Centrestage production of ‘Oliver’ at the Geelong Performing Arts Centre.
Read MoreBusy term ahead
WOW what a big term 2 and even bigger term 3 Lucy finished teaching Italian with us at the end of term (She has a placement next term) but will…
Read MoreKookaburras
We are lucky to be surrounded by farm and wild animals up at Glen Park. At the moment we have a lively colony of kookaburras keeping us amused with their…
Read MoreAquarium Excursion
Just before the holidays we went on our main excursion for term 2 to see an IMAX 3-D movie on the Great Barrier Reef and followed that up with a…
Read MoreArt projects
One of the great things about being at Glen Park is that you can work on long term projects (including art projects) knowing you will have space to do it,…
Read MoreBusy start to the term
We’ve been very busy this term. The children finished their ANZAC Day models, had a BBQ at Kirk’s Reservoir and have been hard at work in Japanese with Simone and…
Read MoreBushwalk
Being small we can go on bushwalks this year whenever the weather suits. This week we went for a walk the the Creswick State Forest.
Read MoreANZAC DAY
We completed ANZAC Day research and craft activities this year including making a medal, a trench periscope and a plastic model fighter plane.
Read MoreVisit to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
We had the Begonia Festival in Ballarat last weekend.We thought we’d avoid the crowds and because we are currently reading The Secret Garden, we went to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.…
Read MoreWorking in our kitchen garden
This year we decided to only grow plants in our kitchen garden that we want to eat. After a short survey we determined that we should plant strawberries and potatoes.…
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