Glen Park School News
LOTE again in 2017
Simone will be back to teach Japanese with us (Photo below shows Simone making Japanese calendars for 2017) and Lucy has volunteered to come back to teach Italian. Gina has…
Read MoreLast school day for 2016
Another big year over for our small rural school. The kids have finished and start their well-earned holiday. I’ll start getting ready for 2017 after Christmas. If you are interested…
Read MoreTransition day
our new prep for 2017, Stella spent the day with us yesterday. The kids spent most of the day with her playing in the home corner and making Christmas craft.…
Read MoreVolunteers
We are lucky to have some volunteers helping us this year. Lucy who had a teaching round here earlier this year has been visiting us every week to teach Italian.…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Read MoreVisit to Sovereign Hill
As part of a maths unit we’re starting on money we went to the Ballarat Gold Museum to look at their exceptional collection of coins from around the world and…
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