Central Yorke School

History

Central Yorke School began in 2017 with the amalgamation of Maitland Area School, Point Pearce Aboriginal School and the Maitland Children’s Centre. This amalgamation resulted in Central Yorke School becoming a Birth to Year 12 school with a new Early Learning Centre built on the Maitland site during 2015 & 2016. Kindy commenced at the new site in term 4 2016. The campus at Point Pearce is a Birth to Year 2 centre.

Philosophy & Values

Central Yorke School supports students using innovative learning practices to empower them to achieve their full potential as successful and valued members of their communities.

Our staff take great pride in providing a safe and secure learning environment, whilst at the same time providing a full range of dynamic and challenging academic and extracurricular programs with a special emphasis on Agriculture, the Performing Arts and the SAASTA Sports Academy.

CYS believes in ‘learning together’, and ‘making a difference’ and this is reflected in peer tutoring, cross-campus activities and learning, local community, state and international programs and through our school values of respect, resilience and relationships.

School Policies, Procedures and Information

Full details of our school’s education programs, administrative structures and procedures can be found in the 2019 CYS Parent Handbook, which includes:,

Principal’s Welcome
Central Yorke School History
Leadership Team & Care Group Teachers
Teaching & Support Staff
Curriculum & Pathways
R-11 Curriculum Overview
School to Work Strategy
SACE & Vocational Education
Specialist Programs: Agricultural Studies, Performing Arts, SAASTA, Sport & Outdoor Education
School Information, policies and procedures
Point Pearce Campus, history and information
Early Learning Centre, history & information
Events & Activities Calendar

International Students

For more information about studying abroad in South Australia, please contact:

International Education Services
Department for Education
PO Box 1152, Adelaide SA 5001 | GFW, 31 Flinders Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Telephone: +618 8226 3402 Fax: +618 8226 3655
Email: education.isp@sa.gov.au
Website: http://www.internationalstudents.sa.edu.au

Downloads

You can download our handbooks and annual report here:

CYS 2019 Parent Information Handbook

The CYS 2019 Parent Information Handbook contains information on our school's history, its amalgamation with the Maitland Kindy and Point Pearce Aboriginal School. There is a curriculum guide with details of our specialist programs, contact details for staff and an overview of our polices and procedures .

CYS Early Learning Centre Information Guide

The CYS Early Learning Centre Information Guide includes the centre's belief statement, a short history of the centre, staff lists, contacts, parent information and centre procedures. For more comprehensive information about CYS, see the CYS Parent handbook.

CYS Point Pearce Campus Information

The Point Pearce Information Guide includes a short history of the centre, staff lists, contacts, parent information and campus procedures. For more comprehensive information, see the CYS Parent handbook.

CYS & Point Pearce 2018 Annual Report

Central Yorke School and Point Pierce Child Parent Centre 2018 annual report to the community.

Raising a Complaint With DECD

Guide to raising a complaint with DfE.

Anti-Bullying Policy

Student Mobile Phone Policy

Update to the Student Mobile Phone Policy, April 12 2019

CYS Maitland Campus News

Year 3/4 STEM: Chinese Fans

The Year 3/4 are investigating different ways fans can be made as part of their STEM unit on Chinese inventions. We started with simple origami ...

Year 2 STEM: Mechanical Hands

The Year 2 students have been investigating how muscles and tendons hands move hands. They then made models of their own hands and used the ...

Mambray Creek Bushwalk

The Stage 1 and 2 Bushwalk took place in the beautiful Mambray Creek area of Mount Remarkable National Park from Wednesday the 29th of July ...

Stage 2 Physical Education

The Stage 2 PE class is currently studying their external assessment task. This task is a Group Collaboration task. We have joined with the Stage ...

Open Girls Football

As part of the Central Yorke Football Academy the girls took part in the School Sport SA Statewide Football competition. Round one was scheduled for ...

Year 9 Goats

As we approach the finish line of our Led Wether Goat project, the Year 9 students have been busy putting the final touches on their ...

Year 6/7 Knockout Netball

On Friday July 31, our Year 6/7 Netball Knockout Team played a round robin at the Maitland Town Courts. We lost our first game 34-18 ...

Sticky Date Pudding: Home Ec Recipe of the Week

INGREDIENTS 125g pitted dates, chopped ½ tsp bicarb soda ¾ cup boiling water 62g butter, softened ½ cup brown sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla 1 egg ...

SAASTA

We are well underway with the planning of the combined Aboriginal Power Cup/SAASTA Shield. The Carnival will start in the afternoon of Wednesday 18th November ...

Pupil Free Day – Sep 11

Can parents please note that we have a pupil free day Friday the 11th of September. Staff will be working on Formative Assessment, Site Improvement ...

STEM Paper Fans

The Year 3/4 class’s Term 3 STEM theme is China, and we’re going to be making paper, bamboo irrigation systems, wheelbarrows and lots more. This ...

Balinese Shadow Puppets (1)

The Year 7 students have just started their new Performing Arts unit looking at ‘Wayang Kulit, a style of shadow puppet theatre popular in Indonesia. ...