On Friday 19 of October, myself and two other students and Mrs Le Feuvre attended the Adelaide Roseworthy pig education day run by Graeme Pope and Pork SA. It was a very informative day learning about pig nutrition, piglet survival, colostrum testing in bloods, artificial insemination and...
On Monday 22 October the two Year 7/8 Ag classes visited Julie Page's rabbit farm at Warooka. The class saw the rabbit breeding cycle, helped milk a cow and tried to avoid the emus! Thank you to Rob for driving the bus and to Julie Page and her helpers for sharing their knowledge and time with...
On Thursday October 25 the JP travelled to Adelaide and stayed overnight at the Zoo for our 2018 'Zoo Snooze'. We had a great time, learned lots about animals and had some wonderful adventures!
The JP were all very excited on Thursday morning and set off early for the long...
Thirty four Year 5s and 6s, three teachers and an SSO left school bright and early on October 15— the first day of Term 4—heading for the Illawonga camp site near Swan Reach on the Murray River.
The campsite was originally built to showcase gymnastic equipment and was used by the...
On Monday 15th October, the Year 3/4’s boarded a bus and set off to the Woodhouse Activity Centre in the Adelaide Hills. It took us about 3 hours. When we arrived, we unpacked our bags and split into our teams known as the Kangaroos and Koalas. We then began our activities,...
We had a fantastic turnout for our 2018 Fathers Day breakfast! Dads (and grandads) spent the first lesson joining in STEM activities in the classrooms, building bridges, gigantic towers and aluminium ships. Many tasks had a competitive side and dads rose to the challenge of floating the most...
To complete their unit on programming, the Year 1/2 class were given the challenge of rescuing a stranded astronaut from Saturn, where she'd been investigating the new moons. The students created a maze on a pre-cut grid using cut-out planets and plasticine asteroids....
The Year 4 students from 4/5B and 4/5J participated in Schools Tree Day for 2018 by helping the Yorke Peninsula Council plant trees on the Maitland golf course on Thursday July 26.
The site chosen was at the southern...
Central Yorke School was part of an amazing Australia wide event on the evening of May 23rd. The ABC in partnership with the Australian National University were aiming to smash the Guiness Book of Records for the most people in one country stargazing at the same time. Participants were required...
