Cheltenham East Primary School: Our Students

Silver Street, Cheltenham East, Vic, 3192, Tel: (03) 9584-7240

School Captains and House Captains are elected annually from within the Year 6 students to represent the CEPS school body. These positions carry with them the highest honour and are considered as a very important part of school organisation. All Grade 5 and 6 students are involved in the election process. House Captains represent the members of their house and are voted for by the children in Grades 4, 5 and 6. These positions are important to the school organisation and the organisation of sporting positions. There are four houses: KAMBARA (Green), TARMAROO (Yellow), COOLAC (Blue) and ARUNYAH (Red). All students in Year 6 are also given the chance to nominate for their chosen leadership position in areas such as library, canteen, gardening, etc.

The Junior School Council is an opportunity for students to experience leadership at school, and to have an input into the development of the school. The children in each class from Prep to Year 6 are elected by their peers for a twelve month term of office. The Junior School Council meets with the nominated teacher once per month and is chaired by the School Captains. They discuss any items raised by the children of the various classes, as well as performing a range of fundraising and awareness activities for charity. Recent activities have included Harmony Day, Red Cross Bushfire Relief Appeal and our Jelly Baby Day to raise funds for Juvenile Diabetes.

Students from all year levels are invited to join our Chess Club. Chess coaches from a private chess coaching company attend each week to provide sessions at lunchtime for all interested students. This is a user pays program. Intra school and inter school tournaments are run regularly. Chess is all about deduction, reasoning, strategic analysis, concentration, spatial awareness, logic, social interaction and so much more. But most of all, it's fun! The latest flyer is available below.

Our senior school children are introduced to our transition students during our Step into Prep program in the year prior to school entry and this is the beginnings of their relationship. The Buddy system provides our Prep students with a face that is familiar to them, who will be able to guide and reassure them throughout their first year of school.

There are many wonderful websites available on the internet for children to visit that are free of charge, and fun too! Each of the PDF documents below include a list of clickable links in Maths, Literacy and other areas for students to explore.

The Buddies are involved in activities in the Step into Prep program and are the face to meet the children on their first day of their Prep year.

Click to open our term newsletter.

The children, both big and small, look forward to their weekly activities and a very strong bond develops. The Buddy system provides our older students with leadership.

The Preps had a visit from local firemen and learnt all about Fire Education.

Our band performed at a special Education Week Assembly ...

... and our choir sang beautifully too!

There was lots of dancing at the recent Kids Disco.

We celebrated our last day of term with a lunchtime T-ball match, Students -v- Teachers. Mr Tait had his eye on the ball ...

Check out that swing! Go Mr Snow!!!

Mr Bourke concentrated hard ...

... and Mrs Price was very excited!

The team shot. Well done everyone!

On Grandparents Day, Clifford the Dog came to visit. Here are some of our classes meeting Clifford. Prep C

Prep A

Year 1A

Year 2B

Year 2J

Year 34M

Year 34T

Year 56C

We all rocked along to the Code One Police Band on 3 August.

Nancy and Julieta-Maria received special awards!

Even the teachers got into the swing!!

We celebrated Science Week from 17-21 August and enjoyed a visit from the CSIRO. Grade 1 participated in a Toy Science Session.

There were lots of things to try ...

We learnt lots of fun things.

On 3 September, Grade 5/6 visited Parliament and explored the City. Grade 6 boys on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral.

Exploring the Street Art

Grafitti walls were a great hit ...

They were so colourful ...

And there were so many of them ...

And more ...

Our instrumental students performed beautifully at the annual Musical Extravaganza.

Flute students.

More talented musicians.

Well done everyone!

The Year 3/4's had a fabulous time at the Royal Melbourne Show. They saw pigs ...

... and sheep,

... snakes (eek!),

... and chickens,

... goats,

and cows. It was a really wonderful day!

On the last day of term, we played a Teachers versus Students netball game.

There were lots of spectators cheering loudly for us all (mainly for the teachers!).

There was some good play ...

... and we all had fun (even if the teacher's did win!!).

DEECD has also developed a website "Connect" which has dedicated sections for early childhood, primary students and secondary students.

Click here to access "Connect".

Congratulation to our fabulous Hoop Time All Stars Girls and All Stars Boys basketballers who made it to the regional finals on 15 October.

All Star Girls Team

All Star Boys Team

Everyone enjoyed the Disco on October 16th.

The glow bracelets were a real hit!

It was the last disco for our Year 6 students ...

... and our younger students still have lots of discos to look forward to!

Everyone joined in the dancing!

The disco was great fun!

It's raining on PE day ... no problem - we'll get out the Wii and do some exercises!

Keeping fit at school is fun.

Our first ever Market Day was a real hit ...

We sold lettuces, snow peas, carrots, spring onions ...

Parents were excited to purchase our freshly grown vegies ...

... and we were just as excited to sell them!

Our successful 'Have a Go" Cricket Team.

The staff here at CEPS are very talented. Miss Anderson and Mr Jensen performed at a recent Monday morning assembly.

... and Mr Snow helped out the Year 5's with their final assembly item for the year!

Our new Preps and Grade 5/6 Buddies enjoyed getting to know each other in the first week of school

Rhys and his buddy, Hayden.

School is fun!

The Year 5/6 group performed at Assembly this week and brought a tear to the eye of many in the audience with their wonderful rendition of "I still call Australia home."

Kambara House Captains

Tarmaroo House Captains

Coolac House Captains

Arunyuh House Captains

Office Leaders

Bike Shed Leaders

Sports Leaders

Resource Leaders

School Captains

We all donned our "Hats for Haiti" on Tuesday 2 March.

There were some wonderful creations!

We raised nearly $700 which will be forwarded to the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

On 2 March we held "Hats for Haiti Day". Students (and staff) were encouraged to wear their favourite hat and provide a gold coin donation to support the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. We raised nearly $700 which has been forwarded to the Red Cross. Well done everyone!