Oakbank Area School

Ag - Wine

Special Features 

We have a well-established school farm of approximately 10.0 ha with excellent facilities including:

• Specialist classrooms
• A large fully-functional shearing shed
• A small glasshouse and polyhouse
• Large meat bird and layer sheds
• Vineyard with Merlot and Chardonnay grapes
• Open range poultry
• Permanent and irrigated pastures
• Cattle shed and yards
• Winery

Our major projects include:

• Vegetable growing
• Laying hens
• Day old chickens to pullets
• Cross-bred sheep flocks
• Cattle showing at the Royal Adelaide Show and local Shows
• An apple orchard and vineyard
• Wine making
• Calf rearing

We provide an excellent learning program for students in agriculture. Our school farm is second to none of any country school. Our students experience both practical and theoretical aspects of agriculture from Year 8 through to Year 12.

Agriculture students learn skills in recording, observation and making decisions.  Year 8 and 9 students are involved in vegetable growing, laying fowls, chickens and calf rearing.   Year 10 students focus on sheep, viticulture, apples and insects.   Year 11 students gain skills in viticulture, wine making and beef cattle husbandry.   Our vineyard of Merlot and Chardonnay grapes is managed by these students gaining skills in pruning, fertilizing, netting, weeding and picking.   They are then taught how to convert the grapes into wine.   Year 12 Agriculture consists of either a 'general' or a 'restricted' course.

Year 10 to 12 Agriculture students are also involved in preparing steers for The Royal Adelaide Show.

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