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Term 2 finishes
We finished term 2 with a bang with an excursion (to Werribee Mansion and RAAF Point Cook) and an incursion…
2025
Another big year for Glen Park Primary School. We have started with 9 students with at least one student in…
Visit from old scholar’s family
Popped up to work one Saturday and found Mr Kellet (93) related to the Ralstons and his daughter parked out…
Term one 2024
Another big year for Glen Park Primary School. Once again 10 students have started the year from Prep to grade…
End of 2023
Our year has come to an end. Finally, almost back to normal after the pandemic closures. I always say we…
End of term 3, 2023
Another big year at Glen Park Primary School. Photos include Katie our new MARC Van teacher, Kirrily our LOTE teacher…
Start of 2023
Big start for us in 2023 with 3 new Preps joining us. Our decking is completed, and we welcome back…
End of 2022
At the end of 2022 we finished with our traditional Christmas lunch, an excursion to Old Melbourne Gaol and the Aquarium…
School Experiences 2023
This year we started our excursions program again (post COVID) At the end of last year we visited the Old…
End of term 1
Another big term has come to an end. This is the first term back we’ve had for a while without…
Plans for 2022
We gained a new family for 2021 and have a robust enrolment of eight in 2021 and about the same…
COVID in 2021
As we did last year, Glen Park provided ‘learning packs’ for individual students during lockdowns. These packs were all self-contained…
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Face-lift
We gave the front entrance of our school a much needed face-lift last year. This year we hope to create…
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COVID stories.
Here is the link to the flipbook created by the Royal Flying Doctors based on My Place stories from our…
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Learning Packs
What is unique to Glen Park is our approach to COVID 19 remote learning. We decided last year that we…
2021 Visit to the Wildlife Park
Other than a short 5 day glitch due to COVID early this term we have been back to (almost) normal…
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Returning to onsite learning in term 4
We have now had two periods of off-site learning this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic. (Hopefully we won’t…
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Return to school
Our students made their long awaited return to school after distance education and they all said they were glad to…
Distance education at Glen Park term 2
Term One was quite short for us and sadly we had to cancel our Arts excursion to see Shrek. I…
Very Busy Term 3
We had a new enrolment in term 3 bringing our enrolment up to 8. That’s good. It should remain 8…
Great Feedback
Over the last few weeks I’ve run into some ex-parents of the school (In the supermarket) and its great to…
Another busy term completed.
Term 1 was a busy term with a lot going on: an increased enrolment, new ipads for all students, two…
First news update for 2019
Well, we have had a very busy start to the year. We have a new Prep and now we have…
Great news from past students
Lately I’ve run into a few ex parents from Glen park and heard some great news about how their kids…
Werribee Zoo and Mansion excursion
We had an end of year excursion this week to the Werribee Open Range Zoo and the historic mansion. This…
Spring Gardening
Charles Kemp from Regional Office visited our school this week and donated some pea straw, sheep manure and fertilizer as…
Our Street Library a first
SLAV (School Librarians Association of Victoria) have asked us to write a news article for their newsletter as we are…
Excursion to Ecolinc
This week we went on our annual Science excursion (Actually the second for this year) to the Yr F-2 Fascinating…
Science Week
Glen Park visited the Ballarat Art Gallery for Science week and worked with Stephanie Davidson to learn about parasites. We…
Another busy term
Another busy term at Glen Park. We have been fully engaged in our learning and showing impressive progress this year….
Sovereign Hill
We went to Sovereign Hill for an excursion this term and although a bit chilly at the diggings we had…
Swimming Started
We have resumed our swimming program for 2018. One instructor for every two students means we see lots of improvement…
Wizard of Oz
On 23rd May we went to see the Wizard of Oz (so to speak) at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne….
Our school environment
With Autumn almost over and winter right round the corner we are lucky at Glen park to have a beautiful,…
Science
We enjoy hands on science at Glen Park which includes a local environmental education visit to Lake Wendouree, testing solubility…
ANZAC Day
We commemorated ANZAC day this year at Glen Park by baking ANZAC cookies and completed Flanders poppies art activities.
Street Library
Glen Park Primary is always an innovator; personalised learning, Blooms taxonomy planning, integrated curriculum, portfolios, one to one iPad usage…
Busy term 1
We have had a very busy term 1 so far. Last week we went to the Ballarat Botanical Gardens for…
2018!
We have now been back to school for 2 weeks and we’ve well and truly settled in. We started learning…
Christmas at Glen Park
Its not unusual for Santa to visit the kids and hand out presents to them but I think unusual for…
New Prep
Our new prep for 2018, Lola had her orientation day this week. She had a great time with her sister…
Sovereign Hill Excursion
As our final major excursion for 2017, we visited Sovereign Hill for the day. We dressed up, panned for gold…
Lovely Spring
We have had a lovely spring this year. Our grounds look green and lush (in fact its been hard keeping…
Busy term Four
We have been working really hard this term on major theme work including ghost stories, The Wimpy Kid & Captain…
Swimming
Its been a few years since we’ve run a swimming program at Glen Park. (We found that most students were…
Asbestos Free
Glen Park is now totally free of all asbestos (We even had our school safe removed because it had asbestos…
Spring
Its been a long winter but hopefully spring has now arrived. Our bulbs are out and hopefully we can get…
Playground addition
We have just finished building a new addition to our playground equipment. Our old fort was sadly too difficult to…
Swimming
We just wrapped up our 10 week one hour swimming lessons at the Ballarat YMCA. Our students made great progress…
ARTS Excursion 2017
I decided to put this new item into ‘Unique at Glen Park’ because I don’t think there would be another…
Oliver
One of our ex-pupils, Xander Vandenberg has just finished starring as Oliver in ther Centrestage production of ‘Oliver’ at the…
Busy term ahead
WOW what a big term 2 and even bigger term 3 Lucy finished teaching Italian with us at the end…
Kookaburras
We are lucky to be surrounded by farm and wild animals up at Glen Park. At the moment we have…
Aquarium Excursion
Just before the holidays we went on our main excursion for term 2 to see an IMAX 3-D movie on…
Art projects
One of the great things about being at Glen Park is that you can work on long term projects (including…
Busy 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…
Bushwalk
Being small we can go on bushwalks this year whenever the weather suits. This week we went for a walk…
ANZAC DAY
We completed ANZAC Day research and craft activities this year including making a medal, a trench periscope and a plastic…
Visit 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…
Working in our kitchen garden
This year we decided to only grow plants in our kitchen garden that we want to eat. After a short…
Visit 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…
Working 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…
Starting year 7
One of our ex parents (only from last year) popped in yesterday to tell me that his daughter has settled…
Great start to 2017
We started back fresh and ready to learn for 2017! we did a lot of work outside and reorganised our…
Hello 2017
Another year has begun and I have been busy at school getting organised for 2017. I reorganised our main learning…
LOTE again in 2017
Simone will be back to teach Japanese with us (Photo below shows Simone making Japanese calendars for 2017) and Lucy…
Last 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…
Warrnambool Camp
Last week we went on our annual overnight camp. This year we went to Warrnambool. We visited Fagstaff Hill, the…
Transition day
our new prep for 2017, Stella spent the day with us yesterday. The kids spent most of the day with…
Harmonious learning environment
I have heard lots of stories recently about students in some schools spending days in ‘doubled up’ classrooms working on…
Volunteers
We are lucky to have some volunteers helping us this year. Lucy who had a teaching round here earlier this…
Book Buying
As a reward to the children for achieving their Premier’s Reading Challenge targets for 2016 we visited Collins Books in…
Premier’s Reading Challenge
I’m sure there are some other schools where 100% of the students attending successfully reach their reading challenge target but…
Visiting Guides
On Thursday night, October 27th, the Delacombe Junior Girl Guides celebrated World Teacher’s Day by inviting their school teachers to…
Tours
Because of our size we were lucky enough on our ‘Sturt Street walk’ to get a tour of the Town…
Sturt Street ramble
We picked a rare sunny day to go for a walk down Sturt St and to sketch and photograph (with…
Beautiful spring weather
I know its not necessarily unique to Glen Park but we really enjoyed the last few days of glorious spring…
External 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.
Small School Conference
On Friday I attended the Moorabool Collegiate group Small School Conference (We were one of 18 schools attending).
Busy in the break
Lots of work inside and outside has been completed these holidays. One big job that was done, while we had…
Visit from an Echidna
We often get visits here from native wildlife including possums, koalas, kangaroos and of course kookaburras but yesterday we had…
M.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
Cupcakes
After our visit to the ballarat Art gallery we had lunch in Ballarat and then on the way home stopped…
Art Gallery Visit
Yesterday we visited the Ballarat Art Gallery. It was a great opportunity to view some iconic paintings and sculptures but…
Visit to Sovereign Hill
As part of a maths unit we’re starting on money we went to the Ballarat Gold Museum to look at…
Almost Spring
Well its almost spring here at Glen Park and our dozens of bulbs are popping up all over the place.
Japan Challenge
This is the twelfth year of the Japan Challenge competition open to school children in the Ballarat area who are…
No waiting
One of the great things about Glen Park is that we are not constantly standing around waiting our turn….I’ve noticed…
Maho visits
Simone, our LOTE teacher brought along a Japanese student teacher that she has visiting her, Maho from Osaka. She helped…
Completed model
At Glen Park our students have time, space and resorces to complete quality projects they can be proud of. Such…
Point Cook RAAF Museum
Recently we completed a unit on World War Two and we studied Carrie’s War and The Silver Sword. We also…
Werribee Mansion
What better way to help visualise the lives of characters from Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre than to visit…
Keeping warm
Not only does every child get a sunhat at Glen Park but they also receive a warm beanie for those…
Hot Scones
Wednesday 13th was a freezing day but we were able to spend some time playing in the snow but then…
New Books
When our students returned to Glen Park after their term 2 break they each had a pile of new books…
Another snow day
We are being well and truly spoilt this year with snow. On the 13th June we had another big dump…
MCG Tour
We went on an excursion on the 15th July to the Essendon FC training facilities and to the MCG for…
Matilda excursion
On June 15th we went to see Matilda at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne. One of our School Council members…
Snowing at Glen Park
The 458 Spider’s unique hard top doesn’t deform because of the pressure field that builds up at high speeds either. Cabin space and comfort are actually improved thanks to the roof’s double curvature, an element made possible by its aluminium.
Zayda earns Peak Achievement
Zayda earns BP Award We wish to congratulate our past student, Zayda Vandenberg, on her recent completion of the Girl…
Zayda elected school captain
Congratulations Zayda Zayda Vandenberg has just been elected as Ward Junior Arts Captain at Loreto College. This is a huge…
