Learning

At Cranbourne East Primary School, our Physical Education Program is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed for active and healthy living.

We are committed to providing every student with a weekly 60-minute session led by our dedicated Physical Education team. Our facilities include two basketball courts, a full-sized oval, a synthetic turfed area called the agora, and a spacious indoor gymnasium. Our program is supported with colourful equipment that enhances learning across all areas of the Health and Physical Education curriculum.

Our curriculum aligns directly with the Victorian Curriculum. In Foundation to Year 2, students focus on developing Fundamental Movement Skills through engaging games and rotations. This fosters movement confidence in a supportive and enjoyable environment.

From Year 3 to Year 6, students continue to refine their Fundamental Movement Skills through modified games and activities. They gain confidence in applying these skills in sport-specific settings using a Game Sense approach. Additionally, they explore the key elements of leading a healthy and active lifestyle.
Whole school activities:

Swimming

At CEPS, we prioritize water safety for all students. We provide opportunities for every student to learn swimming and essential water safety skills.

Camps

Year 4
In 2024, our Year 4 students will experience an exciting and engaging camping trip to CYC The Island in Cowes, Phillip Island. The students build independence, confidence, and friendships while enjoying activities like ziplining and low ropes courses.

Year 6
At Woorabinda Camp, students explore diverse landscapes and participate in environmental studies, team building, and adventurous challenges. Students will explore sustainability, engage in exciting activities, and develop leadership skills.

Cross country

Led by our PE Team, all students participate in a fun run. Top performers represent the school at the District Cross Country event.

Athletics

Students from Year 3 to Year 6 compete in track and field events at the Casey Fields Athletics Track, enhancing physical fitness and skills.

Year 6 Lightning Premiership

Students compete in various team sports against other schools, showcasing their skills and teamwork.

Lunchtime Activities

Teacher lead activities during recess and lunch to promote physical activity, focus, and social skills.

Hoop time

Students eagerly anticipate the Hoop Time basketball tournament, where they compete and support each other, demonstrating teamwork and sportsmanship.

The Performing Arts program at Cranbourne East Primary School encourages all children to express their ideas and feelings through Music, Dance and Drama. Every student is given the opportunity to sing, dance, and act out drama skits while also using a variety of musical instruments. Students are given the opportunity to work on their own performances while also participating in group activities.

The students in Foundation to Year 2 learn the basics of beat, pitch, rhythm and movement through voice and instrumental playing. This is done with tuned and untuned percussion.

As the students progress into Year 3 and Year 4 they put these skills into a number of musical activities whether it be singing, instrumental or movement.

In Year 5 and Year 6 the students are required to expand and improvise on the fundamentals of music such as making up movement patterns for dances, acting out TV commercials and playing complex rhythms while also learning about the theory of music.

The children have numerous opportunities to showcase their talents and achievements through online assemblies and performances in class.

The school has a Choir which performs at school events and for local organisations.

ll students have access to a very well-resourced Digital Technology lab. Our vibrant lab is filled with modern equipment that ensures our students are not limited when it comes to creativity, innovation and collaboration.
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DigTech Lab resources include devices such as Chromebooks, IPad’s, Micro:bits and Makey Makeys. Students are provided with ongoing opportunities to become confident and creative when using these devices.

Students build and develop coding and robotics skills using our well-equipped Robotic class sets. These set include BeeBots, WeDo2.0, Probots, and Spero Bolt Robots. These hands-on coding and robotic lessons build foundational coding skills.

Students become proficient in a variety of programs including Google Apps for Education (GSuite), Lego Robotics, Code. Org and Scratch.

The Visual Art rooms at Cranbourne East Primary School are well equipped, exciting places of creativity and exploration where students are encouraged and challenged to achieve their artistic potential in an enjoyable, inspiring and supportive environment.

Students develop and refine their practical and fine motor skills as they experiment with materials, tools and techniques. Throughout their time at CEPS, students are given the opportunity to explore a wide variety of different art mediums such as drawing, painting, textiles, printmaking, collage, sculpture and modelling; encompassing all Elements of Art. Art classes are 60 minutes long and lessons are often inspired by other cultures (such as Indigenous Australian, Indian, Central and South American cultures) and famous artists (James Rizzi, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet, for example). Students learn to respond to their own art work as well as the art work of others.

The artworks produced by our students are celebrated and displayed in the art rooms, around the school, in our school newsletter and on our weekly online assemblies. Children are given the opportunity to enter Art competitions and invited to attend recess art clubs.

Children are natural scientists, born curious about the world around them. Science at Cranbourne East Primary School aims to develop and extend students innate interest in the biological, physical and technological world. We want to keep students engaged and excited about science! Classes blend enticing class demonstrations with small group activities to make complex scientific concepts accessible and facilitate genuine learning.

Learning science at school provides students with opportunities to ask questions, make predictions, solve problems and draw conclusions about the world around them, and beyond. Through fun hands-on activities, students develop an understanding of scientific processes and learn to think like scientists. They work on recognising patterns and ordering and organising phenomena to assist with understanding. By the end of primary school, we hope to have given students the skills to make informed decisions about local and global issues as well as participate in science related careers if they choose.

Students actively participate in all streams of scientific understanding including Earth and Space, Biological, Physical and Chemical Science in addition to a range of scientific skills that are relevant to many other areas of life. Some of these inquiry skills include planning and conducting, recording and processing, analysing and evaluating as well as communicating observations, ideas and findings.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) is incorporated into each lesson. In collaborative small groups students often think about real world problems with real world constraints to come up with a range of solutions as a team. All lessons are underpinned by important sustainability and social responsibility ideas and practices.

So far this year we have erupted instant snow, made a colour-change bead keychain that detects UV light, launched popping test tubes underwater to create a tsunami, watched solar grasshoppers and spiders jump in the sun, created an indoor rainbow using a prism, modelled seismic earthquake waves with a slinky, and more. And there are lots, lots more to come!

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein

Welcome to STEM at Cranbourne East Primary School!

At Cranbourne East Primary School, we’re excited to introduce our students to the world of STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEM is all about exploring real-world problems, thinking creatively, and working together to design innovative solutions.

Through hands-on challenges and engaging projects, our students will become designers, creators, and problem-solvers. From building bridges and designing moving toys to experimenting with coding and developing sustainable solutions, our learners will use critical thinking and collaboration every step of the way.

STEM learning at CEPS encourages curiosity, builds confidence, and prepares students for the future—equipping them with the skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It’s not just about learning what to think, but how to think.

Get ready to imagine, explore, and invent—because STEM starts here!

At Cranbourne Eat Primary School we acknowledge and respect the members of the Deaf community in Australia, who preserve their rich heritage, culture, and language, Auslan. We also acknowledge the custodians of Auslan, promoting awareness, equality, and access through sign language.

Students at CEPS learn Australian Sign Language (Auslan) from Foundation to Year 6. Auslan is the native language of the Australian Deaf Community. It is a visual-spatial language with its own grammar and vocabulary and conveys a message through a combination of sign, fingerspelling, physical posture, and facial expression.

Along with the benefits of learning an additional language, Auslan brings awareness to Deaf culture and aims to reduce cultural appropriation. Students are exposed to vocabulary (signs), depicting signs, Deaf history, Deaf culture and a variety of native Auslan users on videos from many sources.