Posts by Glen Park Primary School
Premier’s Reading Challenge
I’m sure there are some other schools where 100% of the students attending successfully reach their reading challenge target but there wouldn’t be very many (I’m betting they’re small rural schools like us) and we have done it on consecutive years. We will pop into Ballarat as a treat this week and select a book…
Read MoreVisiting Guides
On Thursday night, October 27th, the Delacombe Junior Girl Guides celebrated World Teacher’s Day by inviting their school teachers to join them at a special annual Girl Guide activity. The girls thanked their teachers for the time and effort they put into organising classes and excursions. The Guides and their teachers spent the night doing…
Read MoreTours
Because of our size we were lucky enough on our ‘Sturt Street walk’ to get a tour of the Town Hall including the mayor’s rooms (We just popped in to look at the beautiful tiles and staircase and we were invited to have a special tour and talk) and we stopped off at il Piccolo…
Read MoreSturt Street ramble
We picked a rare sunny day to go for a walk down Sturt St and to sketch and photograph (with our iPads) the statues that we found on the centre strip of Ballarat’s main road. We also used the free Wi-Fi to research some of the statues we investigated.
Read MoreBeautiful spring weather
I know its not necessarily unique to Glen Park but we really enjoyed the last few days of glorious spring weather and our fantastic school site means we have a lovely, tranquil and safe outside learning and play space for the kids to enjoy.
Read MoreExternal review completed.
Glen Park completed its four yearly external review with flying colors. This week we finished the last day of our review. We had a two day inspection and wide ranging discussion based on our self-evaluation encompassing all that we have done at Glen Park over the last 4 years.
Read MoreSmall School Conference
On Friday I attended the Moorabool Collegiate group Small School Conference (We were one of 18 schools attending).
Read MoreBusy in the break
Lots of work inside and outside has been completed these holidays. One big job that was done, while we had some sunny weather was adding some new soft-fall under our playground equipment and filling up our sand pit (Where does all the sand go?) We also weeded and mulched our veggie garden ready for spring.
Read MoreVisit from an Echidna
We often get visits here from native wildlife including possums, koalas, kangaroos and of course kookaburras but yesterday we had a visit from an echidna for the first time that I can recall. Sadly the kids are on holidays and missed it this time but I managed to get a few photos before it scurried…
Read MoreM.A.D.E.
This week we visited the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (MADE) in Ballarat. We viewed their impressive collection of artefacts and documents and explored their interactive displays
Read MoreCupcakes
After our visit to the ballarat Art gallery we had lunch in Ballarat and then on the way home stopped off at the Little Cupcake Shop and chose our own delicious cupcake for afternoon tea!
Read MoreArt Gallery Visit
Yesterday we visited the Ballarat Art Gallery. It was a great opportunity to view some iconic paintings and sculptures but to aslo view some new and exciting exhibitions that they currently have there.
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