This year we started our excursions program again (post COVID) At the end of last year we visited the Old Melbourne Gaol, this year we went to see Mary Poppins, our senior students went to Somers Camp, we had an AFL footy clinic and a full day Science incursion run by Heather from Swinburn. Later…

What is unique to Glen Park is our approach to COVID 19 remote learning. We decided last year that we would maintain our program as close to what it is like on-site . That meant creating learning packs for Literacy, Numeracy, Art, LOTE and Science/Humanities. These comprehensive learning packs went home to families on a…

SLAV (School Librarians Association of Victoria) have asked us to write a news article for their newsletter as we are one of very few schools with a street library in Victoria if not Australia.

With Autumn almost over and winter right round the corner we are lucky at Glen park to have a beautiful, tranquil rural landscape to enjoy while only being a short distance out of busy Brown Hill. The best of both worlds.

Glen Park Primary is always an innovator; personalised learning, Blooms taxonomy planning, integrated curriculum, portfolios, one to one iPad usage and now a street library. Street libraries are becoming very popular especially in the US and New Zealand. They are starting to become popular in Australia with over 600 officially registered. Glen Park is the…

Its not unusual for Santa to visit the kids and hand out presents to them but I think unusual for the Principal to cook a turkey Christmas lunch for his students on the last day at school. We had a visit from Santa who delivered a gift from the school (a book- summer reading?) and…

We have had a lovely spring this year. Our grounds look green and lush (in fact its been hard keeping up with the mowing) We had lots of lovely plants in bloom and some planting going on next door. Glen Park has a beautiful environment for learning and playing.(Not many schools have camels just down…

I decided to put this new item into ‘Unique at Glen Park’ because I don’t think there would be another state school in Victoria that would take their students to Melbourne to a world class international production such as Aladdin which we just attended. (In the past we have been to Matilda, King Kong, Wicked,…

Being small we can go on bushwalks this year whenever the weather suits. This week we went for a walk the the Creswick State Forest.

Last week we went on our annual overnight camp. This year we went to Warrnambool. We visited Fagstaff Hill, the beach and foreshore and climbed the Tower Hill volcano. We stayed in a motel opposite Flagstaff Hill and dined in style. The camp is free and all students are able to attend.

I have heard lots of stories recently about students in some schools spending days in ‘doubled up’ classrooms working on the floor and doing ‘busy work’ because schools don’t replace absent teachers. I have also heard very disturbing stories about students afraid too come to school because of the volatile or aggressive environment in their…