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

Graden to Plate | Term 2 Update

The Garden to Plate classes have been busy this term preserving beetroot, using carrots for bun-bowls, putting up hose reels, planting …...

New lambs

he Year 9 class are in charge of our sheep flock. So far we have sixteen lambs which is enough …...

Production Investigation

Stage 2 Agricultural Production students at Central Yorke School are conducting individual practical investigations on primary production enterprises...

New calves

Our calves are arrived from the Dublin markets last Tuesday (May 1), courtesy of Mark A Carter & Co. The …...

Maitland Show 2023

As a community focus school, it is important we support community events such as the Maitland Show. Our strong presence …...

Sophie Baker | Merit Certificate

Congratulations to Sophie Baker, who received her Merit Certificate in Agricultural Production today. She was awarded the certificate, which...

Working Bee

A large group of student, staff and community volunteers braved the very stormy weather for the Term 4 working-bee. The …...

Peri & Yuri’s Big Adventure

Yuri On Tuesday afternoon, me, Peri, Andrew, Tate and Darryl were loaded into a trailer and travelled all the way …...

CYS Adelaide Royal Show Success

Central Yorke School was well represented in the Led Steer and Led Goat competitions again at this year’s Royal Adelaide …...

Kadina Show 2022 | Led Steers

We’re all very proud of the 2022 CYS Show Team- such an amazing group of senior Agriclutre students. Congratulations go …...

Ag Block News (Term 2)

The Steers Arrive The senior Ag. students welcomed our Murray Grey, Lord Mac Ashvell from Amy Nankivell a month ago. …...

Making Connections

The Point Pearce R-2 Class has been integrating storytime, Maths and Science in our afternoon sessions making connections across subjects …...

Year 5/6 Ag – Apples!

The year 5/6 Ag class have been working with a focus on ‘Apples’. They teamed up with the Year 9 …...

7/8 Ag Wool Project

After a very busy term of ‘Wool’ study, the Year 7/8 class have finished the unit with more hands on …...

Year 10 Tractor Driving

Ben Eglinton shared his wealth of knowledge on machinery and farm safety on the first of three visits to our …...

Beekeeper Visit

Mark from ABS came and visited us on the Wednesday morning of March 4. To start the morning, we suited …...

ELC Sunflower learning

he ELC has been growing sunflowers and some of them are huge! Students explored the flowers and developed their fine …...

5/6 Ag – Zucchini Cupcakes

The Ag Block produced a lot of large zucchinis over the school holidays which Ag teacher Mrs Le Feuvre picked …...

Senior Ag – Bee Incursion

Thank you to Mark from the Australian Bee Services who came in and shared his expertise on bees, honey and …...

7/8 Ag – Wool dyeing

The Year 7/8 Ag class continued their unit on wool production today. Last week they sourced and then scoured the …...