Parents Corner
Phil Nunn, an Australian psychologist, says that parenting is like having a rope around your waist. Parenting is all about knowing when to let the rope out and when to reel it in. I take this metaphor a little bit further. The rope around your waist is the relationship you have with your child. No […]
Healthy New Initiative for Glenmore Park
Glenmore Park Public School has welcomed the Glenmore Park Breakfast Club, a new initiative that has been developed to support the well-being of their students. Breakfast Club provides a relaxed and friendly environment where students can sit with their friends and enjoy a meal together. It is free and open to all students at the […]
The School of Rock
Local Glenmore Park band The Jestas are a group of young musicians going places, after recently celebrating making the semi-finals of the 2019 YouthRock Band Competition at Bankstown Sports Club. YouthRock, an official event for NSW Youth Week, is a music competition for teenage contemporary bands to write and perform their own music. The Jestas […]
Out of this World Experience for Ryan
17-year-old student Ryan Le Roy, from Regentville, was recently selected to participate in the 2019 International Science School (ISS) Frontier Science at the University of Sydney, where he undertook a two-week residential program of talks, tours, activities and social events with world-renowned science professionals. Ryan was chosen as one of 140 of the top science […]
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
Established since 1997, Martin’s Fruit World are a small, family run retail and wholesale business located in the picturesque Mulgoa Valley. Martin and Natalie, together with their friendly staff, provide the freshest quality fruit and veg to the local community. Not only does Martin source the juiciest and crispiest produce from Homebush Markets, he also […]
Calling all Book Worms!
Local resident Tricia Crane would like to put a call out to her fellow book lovers in the community to come together and form a Book Club in Glenmore Park. Tricia’s plans are to hold a monthly gathering of like-minded people who love to read, where members have the opportunity to pick and read a […]
Last Opportunity to Purchase Land in Family-Friendly Mulgoa Rise
Construction is nearing completion on the final stages of land in Western Sydney’s premier residential community, Mulgoa Rise. Over 500 homes have now been built in Mulgoa Rise. With only 60 home sites remaining, this will be one of the last opportunities to secure land within this established family-friendly community. The remaining home sites range […]
Think Spring – Think Leura!
Gardeners looking for inspiration or just wanting to experience the beauty of Spring in the world heritage listed Upper Blue Mountains, will again be flocking to the annual Leura Gardens Festival in October. This year’s Festival, the 55th, is open from 9:30am to 4:30pm and will take place for six days over two long weekends: […]
Education
The question of whether you should get tutoring for your child is not able to be answered with a stock response. Not every child will benefit from tutoring and certainly not from some styles; however, many children thrive with tutoring as it can provide the key to confidence and ‘fill in the gaps’ within their […]
Parents Corner
It seems that every day, we are reminded of how people are becoming more intolerant, aggressive, and unkind. The other day, a young fella in a car behind me was becoming impatient at my persistence to stick to the speed limit. He sped around me, ran a red light, and nearly collected a pedestrian […]