Year 9/10

Middle School 2025 Principal Award

A Principal Award is an award of great significance as it recognises the achievements of three students who have truly made the most of the educational opportunities available to them throughout the year. These students have demonstrated exemplary attendance, contributed positively to the wider school community through their involvement in College events and activities, and shown consistent academic progress across all subject areas. Throughout the year, they have embodied the College values of Respect, Growth, Achievement and Responsibility. 

The Middle School 2025 Principal Award recipient is Blair J

Kwong Lee Dow Scholarship

Since its launch in 2007, the Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program has attracted more than 9,500 student applications from over 500 Victorian and interstate boarding schools. The program is inspired by and named in honour of Professor Kwong Lee Dow OAM, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, a distinguished scholar in education and a significant contributor to curriculum reform both nationally and internationally. Professor Dow continues to play an active role in supporting the Young Scholars Program each year. 

Among many benefits of the prestigious scholarship, recipients are eligible for a guaranteed place at the University of Melbourne in the Bachelor of Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Design or Science. 

Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars are selected based on outstanding academic performance, placing within the top 5% of students in their year level, as well as for their demonstrated leadership potential, active citizenship, and commitment to community involvement. 

This year our recipient is Year 10 student - Alkay C

Year 9 & 10 Annual Awards Night Recipients

Subject Awards

DUX & RGAR Awards

Year 9

🍡 Sweet Success! Year 9 Students Master Tanghulu in Mandarin Class

The Year 9 Mandarin class finished the term with a delicious cultural activity: making Tanghulu (糖葫芦), the traditional Chinese candied fruit skewer!

Students put their learning into practice by creating this popular Northern Chinese snack, dipping fruits like strawberries and grapes in a glossy, hardened sugar syrup.

It was a fun, hands-on session that connected them with Chinese culture, resulting in a sweet and crunchy reward for a term of hard work.”

✍️ Character Challenge! Year 7-9 Students Shine in Hanzi Writing Competition

Our Year 7-9 students put their pen skills to the test in the Chinese Hanzi Writing Competition, held during Term 4! The competition challenged students to demonstrate their mastery of Hanzi (Chinese characters) by accurately reproducing passages relevant to their current term topics. This task requires careful attention to detail, precision, correct stroke order, and legible character formation.

Engagement

Congratulations to in Tuksy in Year 10 for completing the Operation Newstart this term as well as to Gabriel in Year 10 graduating from the Handbrake Turn program this term.

Laura Sculley also attended the RISE graduation at Foundation Learning Centre on the 4th of December and would like to congratulate the following students for graduating the program with their certificate I or II in general education for adults: Dorar, Melanie, Ruth, Keira, Kyle, Caitlin, Bailey and Bella. 

At school, we also had a range of students graduate the INSPIRE program successfully completing their certificate II in workplace skills. Congratulations to the following students: Brad, Koat, Christina, Juanita, Mia, Dexter, Moza, Will and Scarlytt. On Monday the 8th, we celebrated the year with the students from the INSPIRE program by going to Gumbuya World and having a bit of fun in the sun.

Hands on Learning

This year has been a busy one in Hands on Learning and Semester 2 was no exception!  After working on the Production Sets for months we finally get to see them shine! The work that goes into designing, building and painting 3 huge set pieces is unbelievable! All of our Hands on Learning Students and Designer/Builder extraordinaire Mr White should be so proud of their Work! Our work in the wider community continued this semester with 10 Mini golf putting greens we built for Casey Fields Primary school along with and excursion to the primary school with our talented year 10 students to put them together with the very excited Primary school students.  

Our community work also included Sensory boards and Abacuses for Willandra Rise Primary School and Cladding Shipping containers for CESC! After all this exceptional Community Involvement we were rewarded with some fun of our own in the form of a Go Kart!!  We purchased the Go Kart in a kit form and it has been a fun and educational journey… The students have already replaced an axle, put in a new brake system and learned many driving skills along the way!  This is just a few of the wonderful achievements in HOL this year! We look forward to a massive 2026 filled with lots of awesome projects, continued Community Involvement and constructing an underwater wonderland for the Little Mermaid!!  

Art Therapy

Art Therapy continues to be a calm and inclusive space where students are free to explore their creativity, try new mediums, express themselves though art and to learn how to regulate their emotions in a positive, creative and fun way!  With the use of many different mediums and found object students are free to create sculptures, wall hangings, paintings, ink blending and the most delicious of all cupcake decorating…  Its and opportunity to shift their focus from peer pressures, stress, anxiety or just to simply be creative!  We look forward to expanding on our program in 2026 and are very excited for Sarah Bentley one of our fabulous Wellbeing Counsellors to facilitate Art Therapy, while Hannah is on leave, along with Catriona Noble our Art Therapist.  Sarah has a passion for all things creative and she already has a fabulous rapport with our students! We look forward to a colourful, creative and calm 2026!

Everyone in the engagement team at Cranbourne East Secondary College wishes everyone a wonderful and safe break!