By CASEY NEILL
A Twilight School session shifted the Athol Road Primary day to the afternoon and evening.
Assistant principal Carmel Nigro said the Springvale South school’s annual Education Week event featured a 12.30pm to 7pm timetable instead of the typical 9am to 3.30pm day.
Technology was the focus for this year’s Education Week.
“In the last session of Twilight School we encouraged parent participation from 5.30pm to 7pm so that parents had an opportunity to get involved with technology-focused activities in their child’s learning space,” Ms Nigro said.
Year 2 students had been learning about different force, including push, pull and gravity.
“Parents got involved by assisting their child to make a parachute, pin wheel, helicopter and paper plane as part of their investigations,” she said.
For the last 15 minutes of the evening, students went outside to create a “glow stick bonanza” and sang Good to be Alive and Wishing on a Star.
“It’s spectacular to see all the glow products in the dark while our happy, bright students sing loudly and proudly together to celebrate Twilight School,” she said.
