Unique to Glen Park
School Experiences 2023
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,…
Read MoreLearning Packs
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…
Read MoreOur Street Library a first
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…
Read MoreOur school environment
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…
Read MoreStreet Library
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…
Read MoreChristmas at Glen Park
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…
Read MoreLovely Spring
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…
Read MoreARTS Excursion 2017
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…
Read MoreKookaburras
We are lucky to be surrounded by farm and wild animals up at Glen Park. At the moment we have a lively colony of kookaburras keeping us amused with their…
Read MoreBushwalk
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.
Read MoreWarrnambool Camp
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…
Read MoreHarmonious learning environment
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…
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