Art
Students participate in a weekly specialist Visual Arts program that focuses on exploring and developing their artistic and creative ideas. They learn and develop knowledge, skills and techniques through planned units encompassing:
- painting
- printing
- textiles
- clay
- drawing
- collage
- construction
Art observations and comparisons are shared together before work is displayed in classrooms, around the school, on the school's website or taken home to take pride of place on the fridge.
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Health and Physical Education
The Physical Education program aims to assist each child to attain maximum physical, social, emotional and intellectual development and is therefore an integral part of education at Gladstone Park P.S. A specialist teacher provides weekly Physical Education lessons and students also participate in regular sports activities as part of the classroom program.
Years 5 and 6 students participate in summer and winter interschool sports with local schools. Other activities include swimming (Preps to Grade 4), athletics and cross country.
All Prep children participate in the Perceptual Motor Skills program which aims to teach children perceptions and understandings of themselves and their world through motor and movement experiences.
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You Can Do It!
The You Can Do It! program focuses on our students' emotional health. The foundations are:
- Confidence
- Persistence
- Organisation
- Resilience
- Getting Along
These foundations are incorporated into everyday classroom programs from Prep to Grade 6. At the conclusion of each term, certificates are awarded to those students who have excelled in displaying the behaviours and attitudes related to the focused foundation.
Success - Getting Started Award Recipients - Term One 2010
Prep: Kaysie, Alex and Chanelle
Grade 1: Marwa and Anthony
Grade 2: Bawesh and Bersan
Grade 3: Aleshia and Kaiza
Grade 4: Taleisha and Daniel
Grade 5: Tamara, Shalini and Stefan
Grade 6: Jamilla and Wing
Aussie of the Term Award Recipients - Term One 2010
Prep: Arda
Grade 1: Jake
Grade 2: Azmi
Grade 3: Paul
Grade 4: Jack
Grade 5: Anthony and Adonia
Grade 6: Lyka
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Music
As music is a universal form of expression, it is an integral part of the curriculum and has a high profile at Gladstone Park P.S. All students from Prep to Grade 6 participate in a weekly specialist Music program.
Students may also choose to study violin from Grades 3 to 6 and we run Junior and Senior Choirs plus an auditioned Chamber Choir.
The Performing Arts are important at the school, with the children regularly participating in performances at assemblies, concerts and many community events.
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Library
The Library at Gladstone Park P.S. provides a well resourced and inviting environment that supports learning for students and for the professional development of staff. It is a learning setting where students are immersed in literature and where multiple sources of information, including electronic resources, can be accessed enabling students to develop information skills in a meaningful way. Classes are timetabled for weekly Library sessions.
