Other than a short 5 day glitch due to COVID early this term we have been back to (almost) normal at Glen Park for 2021. We have 6 students from Foundation to grade 4 (with 2 new students joining us in term 2) starting with us this year. We have a new Strategic Plan (refer…

We have now had two periods of off-site learning this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic. (Hopefully we won’t have anymore.) At Glen Park we sent home individually developed learning packs (three went home during the last period of distance learning ) which included reading, writing, maths, humanities and science learning plans and resources.…

Our students made their long awaited return to school after distance education and they all said they were glad to be back.

Term One was quite short for us and sadly we had to cancel our Arts excursion to see Shrek. I hope that we will be able to re-schedule our planned excursions at some other point this year. Victorian state schools have been preparing for distance education since we started our school holidays early on 24th…

We had a new enrolment in term 3 bringing our enrolment up to 8. That’s good. It should remain 8 with one definite Prep for 2020 and one grade 6 leaving us. It would be fantastic to get a few more enrolments next year too. Now that DET has finally released maps of school zones…

Term 1 was a busy term with a lot going on: an increased enrolment, new ipads for all students, two excursions to Ecolinc and one to IMAX/Melbourne Aquarium, grade 5-6 visit to Sovereign Hill and a Respectful Relationships incursion by CAFs during February. We also had a visit from our local member (Michaela Settle, photo…

We had an end of year excursion this week to the Werribee Open Range Zoo and the historic mansion. This year we have been lucky enough to go on excursions to the Ballarat Wildlife Park, the Wizard of Oz musical in Melbourne, Swimming (10x 1 hour lessons with a 1 to 2 teacher student ratio,…

Charles Kemp from Regional Office visited our school this week and donated some pea straw, sheep manure and fertilizer as well as some bean, pumpkin and tomato plants for us to plant. we have a lot of watering to do for the remainder of the year. Our strawberries are looking great, we might have a…

This week we went on our annual Science excursion (Actually the second for this year) to the Yr F-2 Fascinating Frogs program at Ecolinc in Bacchus Marsh. We had a great time and found out lots of interesting information about frogs and water pollution.

Glen Park visited the Ballarat Art Gallery for Science week and worked with Stephanie Davidson to learn about parasites. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot too. Later in the term we are going to Ecolinc in Bacchus Mash to learn about amphibians and wetlands.

Another busy term at Glen Park. We have been fully engaged in our learning and showing impressive progress this year. Attached are some photos of us busy at work. Check out our Facebook site to see what we are up to every day.