Glen Park School News
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 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 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 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.…
Read MoreVisit to the Wild Life Park
This week we visited the Ballarat Wildlife Park. We were very lucky to see some active Tasmanian devils, koalas and lizards.
Read MoreWorking outside in the fresh air
One of the great things about being at Glen Park in the warm sunny weather is that we have plenty of space and plenty of shade and we can take…
Read MoreGreat start to 2017
We started back fresh and ready to learn for 2017! we did a lot of work outside and reorganised our classrooms during the break and it was all systems go…
Read MoreHello 2017
Another year has begun and I have been busy at school getting organised for 2017. I reorganised our main learning spaces, prepared our learning for the first month (Treasure Island…
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