Obley Street
Yeoval NSW 2868
Telephone 02 68464004 Fax No: 02 68464317
Education District: Dubbo
School Sport Area: Western
School Sport Zone: Dubbo

SCHOOL DESCRIPTION

Yeoval Central School is a K-12 school located in a rural area in the Central West of New South Wales. The school has a secondary population of 73 students and draws form the townships of Yeoval and Cummnock and from an extensive surrounding farming area. A significant number of students travel long distances by bus. The school provides senior secondary education as part of the Western Access Program, linking Yeoval Central School, by technology know as telematics, to six other quality educational programs to achieve quality student outcomes. The school strives to ensure that students leaving the school have a positive self-esteem, highly effective communication skills, are able to enjoy life as caring responsible citizens and independent lifelong learners. In 2000 three secondary students represented Western Area at State Carnivals in Rugby Union, Cross Country and Athletics. Yeoval Central competes in the Central Schools knockout in a range of sports.

SPORTS ORGANISATION

Sports Program

Contact Damian Toohey, Sport Coordinator and Vice President Western Area School Sport, or Paul Farquhar, Principal

Yeoval Central School conducts a Scattered Sport Program on Wednesday for Years 7 & 8 during periods 3 & 4 (11.30 – 1.00) and for Years 9 to 11 periods 5 & 6 (1.40 – 3.15)

Sports offered in 2001 include:

Aquatics, Badminton, Basketball, Bocce, Cricket, Fitness, Golf, Hockey, Lawn Bowls, Rugby, Tennis, Table Tennis, Soccer, Street Hockey, Softball and Volleyball.

In the previous years the following sports have also been offered:

Australian Football, Baseball, Frisbee Sports, Lifesaving, Outdoor Education, Squash, Touch, and Walking.

Wet Weather Sport usually sees a rotation between theatre sports, trivia afternoons and videos.

Example Program

Term 1

Swimming Carnival Week 1, Aquatics Week 1-6, Rugby Training, Basketball, Tennis Week 7-10, Athletics Carnival Week 9

Term 2

Table Tennis Week 1-4, Cross Country Week 2, Elective Golf, Badminton, Hockey Week 5-9

Term 3

Elective Lawn Bowls, Soccer, Street Hockey Week 1-5, Elective Fitness, Badminton, Softball Week 6-10.

Term 4

Cricket, Volleyball, Bocce Week 1-6, Aquatic, Alternate Choice Week 7-10

Students

The selection of sport works in two ways. The first is multi sports, where students are placed in groups and rotate around the different sports. The second is elective, where students choose a sport for a series of weeks.

The school tries to encourage students to select a variety of sports, so that students broaden their experiences. If they had their choice the boys would do rugby all year round. The town does not operate competitions of a weekend or weeknight because of distance. The average cost for sport is 50 cents per visit to the pool with Squash being $2.00. Everything else is free. The town’s facilities can be used whenever at no cost. Travel costs for representative sport can be up to $12.00 per trip.

Some Year 12 students elect to do sport.

Staff

The timetable usually dictates which staff members are available to take sport. However, sport is seen as part of the whole school staffing, where two teachers from Primary are used due to their expertise in given sports. The Sport Coordinator, in conjunction with the staff, allocates the sports.

Besides the general staff inservicing on Development Days or at Staff Meetings there are no specific programs. Coaching Courses and other and Accreditation Courses are advised to staff members who are encouraged to take part.

OTHER SPORT INVOLVEMENT

Knockouts and Gala Days

The school enters Combined High Schools knockout competitions in:

Open Girls Tennis, Hockey, and Softball

U15 Girls Basketball

Open Boys Tennis and Cricket

Mixed Lawn Bowls and Table Tennis

The school enters the Combined High School Central Schools Knockouts in:

Girls – Netball and Touch

Boys – Cricket and Touch

Fifty three (53) of the seventy two (72) students represented the school in 2000 / 2001 - Year 7 58%, Year 8 71%, Year 9 85%, Year 10 80%, Year 11 75%, Year 12 70%. All ten (10) staff members are usually involved either as coaches or managers. This helps when it comes to covering classes. Teams usually train at lunchtime or after school. The staff members share the supervision but the PDHPE staff members usually attend most training sessions.

Yeoval Central School attends Cluster Sports Days involving ACCESS cluster schools from Western Access Program (Trundle, Trangie, Tullamore, Tottenham, Peak Hill, and Yeoval). These involve a number of sports both Summer and Winter. These days are usually organised by Peak Hill Central School.

Yeoval Central School also attends Gala Days organised by NSW Sport Associations such as Cricket, Union and League.

Other Student Participation

Talented sport students are usually given training programs and sessions if they are attending an area trial or state carnival. The school usually has around three or four students per year reaching Combined High Schools Carnivals in sports such as League, Union, Athletics, Swimming and Cross Country.

Students often work as coaches and officials, especially within the primary section. They have trained teams and organised carnivals especially the ‘Three Way Carnivals’ between St Columba’s Yeoval, Cumnock Public and Yeoval Central.

Community Involvement

The community helps with most sporting programs plus transport. This is particularly so in preparation and games for representative sport. Parents and ex-students are also involved with the knockouts. The school has regular visits from development officers in the sports of Rugby Union, Cricket and Netball.

SUCCESS OF THE PROGRAM

The population of Yeoval is small and the towns sporting facilities limited. The major resources are the swimming pool, sports ground golf course, tennis courts and bowling club. It is essential that the school support all these facilities. The travel distance to surrounding centres is impossible for interschool competitive school sport.

The school has purchased equipment to allow students to experience an alternative range of sports. This equipment is portable and allows a variety of sports to be played in different settings. This variety of sports is essential in the success of the program and for students who are less skilled in traditional sports.

The school supports NSWCHS Central Schools Knockouts and Western Area CHS. Representative school sport allows students to compete and mix with students from other schools. The introduction of the Central Schools knockout competitions has made a very big difference in expanding the range of students exposed to representative sport.

The introduction of scattered sport has increased the positive involvement by all students in compulsory school sport. The Traditional sport model allowed the older students to dominate all games being played. This introduction has been very successful in making the most of the physical resources and staffing.

The school gained a grant from the School Sport 2000 Foundation of $1900. This is to buy more sporting equipment of a nature that can be utilised without specialist facilities. These sports are not necessarily traditional such as Badminton, Croquet, Polo Hockey, SOF-Cross. This will introduce students to sports not played in the local community.