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 also asked to come back as a volunteer depending on her workload at Uni. Alsion will also be coming back to help with early years…

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 in a small school education for next year then I can be contacted via this web page and we can arrange for an inspection over…

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. Gina also popped in and made some delicious Christmas biscuits with us.

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. This week she came back after finishing her last teaching round and decorated Italian cakes for Christmas with us. Gina who is studying teaching at…

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…

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.

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.

On Friday I attended the Moorabool Collegiate group Small School Conference (We were one of 18 schools attending).

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.