CYS has extensive grounds including several hectares of school farm. Students from B-12 are involved in the farm, with primary students engaged in our Garden to Plate program and 7-12 students through Agriculture lessons and courses. The school employs two Ag teachers, a groundsman with farm upkeep responsibilities.
Garden to Plate
We offer Garden to plate to all primary students and offer Agricultural Studies to our secondary students. Our facilities include a 13 hectare farm which is run and managed by our students in conjunction with our school staff and Agriculture committee. Local farmers and businesses strongly support our Agriculture program, providing fantastic opportunities for excursions and work experience. We are developing links with outside training providers, allowing students to build individual career pathways in the Agriculture sector.
Year 7-8 Agriculture
Students study Agriculture for two lessons a week as part of their Science curriculum. The subject is theory based, but includes a significant practical component so students can gain confidence developing their ‘hands on’ skills. Topics covered include: farm safety, incubating chicken eggs, enterprises run at CYS, wool production and processing, cattle production including raising calves, field crops, farm machinery, sheep production and plant science.
Year 9-10 Agriculture
Practical skills and scientific knowledge are further developed through working with livestock, crops and soil for three lessons per week. Students develop- independent work skills by learning to drive the school tractor and preparing the school paddocks for seeding. Topics covered include: insects and agriculture, lamb management, poultry production, soil science, pig production, field crops and sheep and wool. We have a proud and successful history in livestock competitions at the Royal Adelaide Show. Students in Years 9 and 10 have the opportunity to represent CYS at this national event in the goat and steer competitions.
Senior Agriculture
In this full year subject students apply science inquiry skills to design and conduct agricultural investigations, using appropriate procedures and safe, ethical working practices, obtain, record, represent, analyse, and interpret the results of agriculture investigations, evaluate procedures and results, and analyse evidence to formulate and justify conclusions, develop and apply knowledge and understanding of agricultural concepts, skills, and practices in new and familiar contexts and explore and understand agricultural science as a human endeavour. Topics include Animal Production , Plant Production, Resource Management and Agribusiness..
Latest News from our Ag Program
May 29, 2023
The Garden to Plate classes have been busy this term preserving beetroot, using carrots for bun-bowls, putting up hose reels, planting …...
May 20, 2023
he Year 9 class are in charge of our sheep flock. So far we have sixteen lambs which is enough …...
May 20, 2023
Stage 2 Agricultural Production students at Central Yorke School are conducting individual practical investigations on primary production enterprises...
May 2, 2023
Our calves are arrived from the Dublin markets last Tuesday (May 1), courtesy of Mark A Carter & Co. The …...
March 18, 2023
As a community focus school, it is important we support community events such as the Maitland Show. Our strong presence …...
February 8, 2023
Congratulations to Sophie Baker, who received her Merit Certificate in Agricultural Production today. She was awarded the certificate, which...
November 11, 2022
A large group of student, staff and community volunteers braved the very stormy weather for the Term 4 working-bee. The …...
September 20, 2022
Yuri On Tuesday afternoon, me, Peri, Andrew, Tate and Darryl were loaded into a trailer and travelled all the way …...
September 16, 2022
Central Yorke School was well represented in the Led Steer and Led Goat competitions again at this year’s Royal Adelaide …...
August 19, 2022
We’re all very proud of the 2022 CYS Show Team- such an amazing group of senior Agriclutre students. Congratulations go …...
July 23, 2022
The Steers Arrive The senior Ag. students welcomed our Murray Grey, Lord Mac Ashvell from Amy Nankivell a month ago. …...
June 23, 2022
The Point Pearce R-2 Class has been integrating storytime, Maths and Science in our afternoon sessions making connections across subjects …...
May 1, 2022
The year 5/6 Ag class have been working with a focus on ‘Apples’. They teamed up with the Year 9 …...
May 1, 2022
After a very busy term of ‘Wool’ study, the Year 7/8 class have finished the unit with more hands on …...
May 1, 2022
Ben Eglinton shared his wealth of knowledge on machinery and farm safety on the first of three visits to our …...
April 3, 2022
Mark from ABS came and visited us on the Wednesday morning of March 4. To start the morning, we suited …...
March 10, 2022
he ELC has been growing sunflowers and some of them are huge! Students explored the flowers and developed their fine …...
March 3, 2022
The Ag Block produced a lot of large zucchinis over the school holidays which Ag teacher Mrs Le Feuvre picked …...
March 3, 2022
Thank you to Mark from the Australian Bee Services who came in and shared his expertise on bees, honey and …...
March 2, 2022
The Year 7/8 Ag class continued their unit on wool production today. Last week they sourced and then scoured the …...
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