Wesburn Primary School

Our grade 1/2 and Prep/1 classes have been hatching chickens! With fertile eggs and an incubator they’ve been watching with great excitement for the big day.
Grade 1/2 were given a creative writing exercise: Imagine you are inside the egg, just before hatching. What happens next?  Have a read of these excellent reports, that earned each [...]

The excitement around school this morning was amazing!  Everybody was ‘spruced up’ to look their absolute best for school photos.  First up was the staff photo.  Have you ever tried to have your photo taken with 109 students standing around laughing and pulling faces?  It’s not easy!  Nevertheless, with soft lenses and photo touch ups, [...]

Today staff at Wesburn celebrated a special morning tea to thank and honour an incredible volunteer at the school. Carole A. has been an incredible worker at our school; supporting Sharyn in the Kitchen garden over the last two and  a half years. She has regularly worked for two days a week over that time. [...]

Astronomy Night
I’d like to draw your attention to a great activity that you might like to attend on August 6 at Upper Yarra Secondary College.  It is an Astronomy Night which will be held in their theatre and on their oval.  A huge telescope and other telescopes will be available for people to use, or [...]

I would like to take this opportunity to mention how fortunate we are to be running the “Go for Your Life Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.”
We started this program in 2007 with funding provided by the state government under the “Go for Your Life” banner.  However, the initial funding amount has now run out, and [...]

Recently in discovery time the children started making glasses from cardboard and cellophane. How the world changed when everything was purple or red!
But why did some colours look black through the cellophane? And what does that have to do with a rainbow?
Pastor Luke and Mrs Beale followed these questions up a week later, with coloured [...]