Term 2 finishes

We finished term 2 with a bang with an excursion (to Werribee Mansion and RAAF Point Cook) and an incursion from Heather (Swinburne Uni) for our second Science Day this year on States of Matter. (Refer photos) We also just finished upgrading our playground equipment and gardens (Refer photos) More work on improving our storage…

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2025

Another big year for Glen Park Primary School. We have started with 9 students with at least one student in each year level. Term One’s highlights were a science day incursion focussing on electricity and we went on our annual zoo excursion this year to the Ballarat Wildlife Park.

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Term one 2024

Another big year for Glen Park Primary School. Once again 10 students have started the year from Prep to grade 6. Probably our biggest highlight for the term was the resumption of our science incursion program with Heather from Swinburne. This term we studied seeds and rocks. Some of our photos include landscapes, wildlife, Easter…

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End of 2023

Our year has come to an end. Finally, almost back to normal after the pandemic closures. I always say we had a busy year, but we certainly did in 2023. This year as far as excursions are concerned…we went to Mary Poppins, Old Melbourne Gaol, Melbourne Museum, the Aquarium, Sovereign Hill, the Ballarat Art Gallery,…

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End of term 3, 2023

Another big year at Glen Park Primary School. Photos include Katie our new MARC Van teacher, Kirrily our LOTE teacher and Linda our tutor and Music Therapy teacher. There are also photos of our new shade sail and picnic table, one of our students in period costume for our grade 5 two-day program at Sovereign…

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Start of 2023

Big start for us in 2023 with 3 new Preps joining us. Our decking is completed, and we welcome back Kari (MARC Van), Kirrily (LOTE- Japanese) and Linda. (Music Therapy and tutoring) Adding to our new look we hope to replace our old picnic table, add shade sail to it, paint the outside of the…

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End of 2022

At the end of 2022 we finished with our traditional Christmas lunch, an excursion to Old Melbourne Gaol and the Aquarium and our tutor Alison, and Office manage Heather retired.

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End of term 1

Another big term has come to an end. This is the first term back we’ve had for a while without any major disruptions. Thankfully no COVID here during the term but we have been prepared for it. Our air purifiers are working, the kids are distancing as much as possible and we are all wearing…

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Plans for 2022

We gained a new family for 2021 and have a robust enrolment of eight in 2021 and about the same in 2022 unless we get a new enrolment or two. We are looking forward to a big influx of preps in 2023.Students of all year levels are welcome but we are always keen to have…

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COVID in 2021

As we did last year, Glen Park provided ‘learning packs’ for individual students during lockdowns. These packs were all self-contained and included reading, writing, maths, and arts/humanities activities usually for 1-2 weeks. They would be collected by parents and changed over as required. Every pack had all the work, learning tools, books and consumables needed…

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Face-lift

We gave the front entrance of our school a much needed face-lift last year. This year we hope to create a dedicated  outdoor learning space. In recent years we have created a kitchen garden, a Street library for our local community to access, refreshed our sandpit and replaced the shade cloth and also doubled the…

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COVID stories.

Here is the link to the flipbook created by the Royal Flying Doctors based on My Place stories from our children. Congratulations to Stella and Charlie (Grade 6 last year anfd now one of our ‘Past Pupils’ in Year 7 at Woodman’s Hill Secondary School) for being selected to be featured in this book.  Photos of…

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