So the saying goes.

If that's the process, then Floraville Public School's boys football side were primed for this year's NSW PSSA knockout grand final.

This time last year, the school had suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to renowned football nursery King Park Public School.

So a year later, when the boys qualified for the grand final - again facing King Park - it was always going to be a very different contest.

Floraville took on King Park only a couple of hours after producing a stunning 10-0 victory over Tacking Point in the semi-final.

With their confidence sky-high, the boys played an outstanding first half to leave the scores locked 0-0 at the break. But their brilliant defence could not win them the game alone. Floraville needed to find a goal.

A parochial crowd of supporters cheered the boys on in the second stanza and 10 minutes out from full-time, Jacob Curry finally cracked the back of the net.

King Park launched wave after wave of attack in the final 10 minutes, but some desperate defending and heroic goalkeeping was enough for the boys to secure a famous 1-0 victory.

School principal and team manager Simon Mulready said it was a "magnificent" team performance.

The Nathan Faulkner-coached side consisted of Daniel Cross, Jacob Curry, Will Dobson, Angus Reid, Isaac Preston-Poole, Will Dugomanov, Bligh Holford, Matthew Kerr, Bailey Graham, Saxon Pasovski, Elijah Steadman, Kyden Leadbeater, Koopa Gray and Ben Breasley.

Corlette surfer Mike Clayton-Brown will compete in the World Junior Surfing Championship at Huntington Beach in southern California this week.

Part of the Australian junior surfing team, Clayton-Brown is competing in the under-16 boys division.

Australia coach Kate Wilcomes said the event had launched the careers of numerous Australian stars over the years, including Stephanie Gilmore, Julian Wilson and Owen Wright.

"This team is made of some of Australia's most exciting Surfing talent. It's a great opportunity for each athlete to test themselves and perform against some of the most exciting juniors in the world," she said.

"I look forward to bringing this group together under the pride of the Aussie flag and we'll support each of them to realise their potential, in what is a world class competition."

Four Hunter orienteers have helped NSW All Schools scoop its first national title for the first time since 2002.

Warners Bay High School students Mikayla and Erika Enderby, Merewether High's Alvin Craig and Dungog High's Oskar Mella competed in the Australian School Championships at Wagga Wagga earlier this month.

Craig won all three junior boys events - the spring, long and relay. Mella won the junior boys school relay.

Mikayla Enderby won the junior girls schools relay team.