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The Jealous Pea - By Evelyn & Honour

Newsletter - Wk 3 - Term 3

Student-Led Conferences

Firstly, thank you to all the parents who came along last week to hear about the children’s learning. It is empowering for the children to share their learning and their learning goals with you in a formal setting and it is essential that the school – home partnership is strong to enhance that learning. We are so grateful we have such a supportive whanau and community. If you have any further questions regarding your child’s learning or how you can help please don’t hesitate to email one of us.

Choir Wins Gold

Congratulations to our APPA Choir that performed last week in the Town Hall. They children were awarded a gold medal for their fantastic performance. Their dedication and hard work certainly paid off – well done! One of the songs they performed was an original poem written by our very own Joanie and set to music by Mary. What a talented bunch.

Art Exhibition

The art exhibition will be up in the hall until Thursday this week. The children have worked really hard on their various pieces of artwork and it looks fantastic on display. Congratulations to all our budding Bayfield artists.

Ukubaylees

There are have been a huge number of Rimu Team kids interested in joining the Ukubaylees for 2016 (our Bayfield Ukulele group J). As we are so privileged to have Mary, our amazing Music teacher – we have spoken to the children about the commitment involved with joining a group like this. If your child has put their hand up to join, please reiterate these sentiments with them. They will learn a lot, have fun and really enjoy being part of this group. The Ukubaylees are set to start practices (in school time) this week. Mary will be sending home an information sheet with students today.

Speeches

Speeches need to be finished and ready to share for the beginning of next week. All the information regarding speeches can be found here: http://rimubayfield.blogspot.co.nz/p/speech-information-term-3.html

Science

By now the children should be well underway with their Science Fair. This is compulsory for Year 6 and optional for Year 5. These need to be ready to be presented at school in the week beginning September 19 (Week 9). Again all the information is here: http://rimubayfield.blogspot.co.nz/p/science-fair-term-3.html

In class the children are all attending three of four Science workshops to do with the Physical World. Children will be learning about magnetic fields, sound, flight, bikes, forces and friction.

Kids Marathon

We will be once again entering a Bayfield Team in the Kids Marathon as part of the Auckland Marathon. The children need to run 40km prior to October 30th and they will complete the final 2.2km on the day of the marathon and finish their Kids Marathon across the finish line at the Auckland Marathon. More information is here: https://www.aucklandmarathon.co.nz/event-information/kids-marathon/

This is a big commitment for the children. Please ensure that they are keen and committed before entering them into the Bayfield Team at the Auckland Marathon website. Training starts in the week beginning August 22^nd.  We will be doing the 10 Week training program at Bayfield where children will need to complete 4 x 1km runs a week for 10 weeks. If they do not complete the runs at school – they will need to catch up at home. Children will be responsible for keeping track on their runs themselves this year. A training timetable will be completed soon and every child will get their own training schedule to keep a track of their distance covered.

Please email Lizzie if you are available to help with any of the training runs (any morning from 8am or any lunchtime) or email with any questions: lizzieb@bayfield.school.nz

Sugary Drinks Talks

Next Monday the 15^th of August we are having a special assembly in the hall to further the children’s knowledge on why sugary drinks are not the best option. We have special guest Che Fu to help us share the message.

Olympic Contact

Shay Neal is a NZ Olympic athlete who we have been in touch with in Rio. The children have been emailing him questions and we have recently heard back from him. He is in the New Zealand Men’s Hockey Team. On Monday they drew with the UK 2-2.

Important Dates: Term 3

August 11^th – ICSS Rugby Tournament

August 12^th – Assembly

August 16^th – ICAS Maths

August 23^rd – Bayfield School Speech Finals

August 25^th – ICSS Soccer Tournament

August 26^th – Assembly

August 29^th – September 2^nd – North Island Ski Champs

September 6^th – Photolife Class & Portrait photos

September 9^th – Assembly

September 15^th – ICSS Netball Tournament

September 19^th – 21^st – Bayfield School Science Fair

September 23^rd – Assembly & Final Day of Term 3

Bevan Pinfold

bevanp@bayfield.school.nz

James Graham

jamesg@bayfield.school.nz

Lizzie Bayliss

lizzieb@bayfield.school.nz

Joanie Panting

joaniep@bayfield.school.nz

Happiness

Happiness

It is the light of the day

The blossom of the flower

It is the powerful force that brings you up when you’re down.

It is your closest friend

Your best companion

LOVE IT

A.D.Reid

Sophie - Coco Chanel

Guitar by Louis M

Photography - Jacob

Blues Visit - Yr 5 & 6

In Week 7 we are lucky enough to have a few Blues players visit the Year 5 & 6 students. They came to award a few prizes for jersey designs done as part of a reading task. Thank you to Kara Prior, Hoani Matenga & Ngatahi Waa who came and talked to the students, sadly Renee Ranger was unable to make it. The students had also written funny poems about the visiting players - which they found very amusing. Also a big thank you to the Blues for sending the players to visit us and James for organising it.

Drums - By Edward

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Photography - By William

Zoo Debate

Zoo rights  

I am for animals to be kept in zoos. They are part of our community.

The animals give the children that come a chance to see and learn about lots of the animals that you don’t see in New Zealand.

They should be kept in zoos because the zoo keepers give them a big habitat, feed them & if they are injured they have lots of medical assistance.

Also in zoos it is safer for the baby animals to grow up and be big like their parents. In the wild they could be hunted, killed or hurt by hunters, predators & worst of all, those despicable poachers.

Monty

Zoo Debate

Zoo Debate!

I strongly believe that all animals should be kept in zoos and I am going to persuade you to agree with my reasons why we should keep all animals in safari parks or zoos.

My first reason why we should keep animals in zoos is that it is for their safety and there protection from their immortal predators. Zoos provide a safe and caring environment to the long lost animals in need of extra help.

The zoos educate and they help the awareness across all humans to save the ones that are becoming very extinct such as the silverback gorillas. It motivates people to stop poaching and start saving. Zoos also foster a great appreciation and caring environment to all the animals.

It is for their health and safety and zoos prevent a safe and healthy enclosure. Zoos provide health to all the animals so they don’t starve or catch any type of disease. They also save animals from habitat loss.

66% of people on debate.org say animals should be free in the wild and I totally, strongly disagree.

By Toby

Zoo Debate

How should we really be treating animals?

I am strongly against zoos holding innocent animals captive! Within the prison walls of every zoo sit tortured souls with empty eyes and broken spirits.

The thought of myself getting snatched away from some evil horrible person and having to leave my loving, caring and wonderful family is unbearable! First you are sitting in the free wild and the next thing you know you are being held captive in a dirty miserable cage! Knowing that your family is looking for you but you will never be found.

Some people think that zoos are good because they think that it keeps them from going extinct but surplus animals aren’t only being sold to other zoos but also to circuses, canned hunting facilities and even for slaughter! Like recently a giraffe has been shipped from Wellington zoo to Auckland zoo, but did that poor giraffe make that decision himself NO! They do not even have a choiuce to leave their natural habitat which is utterly devastating!

Imagine you, yourself being locked up and looked down on and laughed at. Think of our lives compared to theirs. Think about it. It is like people are controlling the animals mind like hypnotizers.

Don’t cry for me I am free now, be our voice be our hope!

By Evelyn 

Zoo Debate

Zoo Argument:

Zoos are like jails for the innocent. It’s cruel, its torture and it’s totally unacceptable. I’m strongly against animals being held captive, zoos should be banned permanently.

Inter-generational bonds are broken when zoos sell and trade animals. Sometimes the animals are separated from their parents and loved ones at very young ages and they’re taken into captivity. Absolutely no drive through safari park or enclosure can compare to the freedom of the wild!

Animals in captivity lose their natural instincts. They suffer from loss of knowing how to hunt and they lose the feeling of freedom. Their enclosures are miniature compared to the wild so these creatures lose the ability to sprint through grasslands.

Captive animals suffer from boredom, stress and confinement. Being stuck in a cage you can’t have fun or hunt with your family and you definitely can’t go on big adventures in a tiny enclosure. A vast majority of animals are sick to death of being in captivity.

It’s unacceptable, it’s barbarism and It’s cruelty to animals but why isn’t anyone doing anything about it? MAKE A CHANGE and help save the animals.

By Poppy M

Bayfield in Pictures

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Who are we? #7

Here at Bayfield we have a modern learning environment, we are situated in Herne bay, Auckland NZ. We have six classroom blocks with twenty one class rooms inside them. Our school goes until the end of year six. In year five and six there is one massive space with smaller open rooms inside it. It is also the same in year one and two, the block that year one, two, five and six learn in was built around the beginning of 2014 also built was the school hall. At Bayfield there are about four hundred students.

At Bayfield we are very sporty and we have won a lot of trophies and cups etc.  We have a lot of sports grounds including one and a half basketball courts       two netball courts one small field and one huge field with rugby posts and sometimes soccer goals on it during the winter. Most of Bayfield’s sports gear is stored in a place called the sports shed located on the netball courts, which is run by a couple of year sixes at lunch time. Bayfield also has houses, these are groups that we do sport events in. There are four different groups Hillary, Rutherford, Kupe and Shepard. There are two playgrounds at Bayfield and one of them was just rebuilt. It includes climbing walls and rope towers it also has heaps of spider webs and monkey bars then to top that all of its got a call slide.

 Bayfield has many special events including the production, picnic on the field, music on the field, Hammertime and the art exhibition. The production is where we perform a play and all the parents come and watch. The picnic on the field is a time to meet the teachers and all the parents of the other students. Music on the field is where we raise money for the school and play music. There is also a truck that comes to the school with a band and little stores. Hammertime is only for adults is also a time to raise money. The money raised is from auctions. Lastly, the art exhibition. The art exhibition is where we (students) pick some of our art to put in the schools competition. The winners get a book voucher and there art goes on display at New World.

In 1886 Bayfield school opened and was not funded by the government. It only had forty five students but then 1904 the roll call reached three hundred and eighty three students so a bigger school was built on the other side of the road, funded by the parents. Before the bigger school was built there was a farm on the other side of the road with a well, so when Bayfield knocked down its old leaky buildings we found the well and decided to renew it although we don’t take water from it it’s still really cool to have.

By Enzo & Jack

Who are we? #6

Who we are?

Bayfield Primary School has about three hundred and fifty kids and we don’t wear uniforms which means that we are a mufty school. Our school is located jervious Rd Herne bay Auckland city, New Zealand. We are very close to the harbour, we can see it from the year five to six class room windows.

Many children inroal into Bayfield to learn more. One of the things we value is art. Every two years we have an art festival where every person in a class makes one piece of art for the festival.

We have houses and if you don’t know what houses are they are four big groups they are Hillary, Kupe, Sheppard and Rutherford. We earn points for sports events, Mathletics and randomly get house points for doing good work.

Bayfield School used to be 1900 farm. How we figured this out is when we were doing construction on the school putting in a new playground for the year fives and year sixes, and if you poke your head in and smell, it smells like rotarua.

THE END:) 

Who are we? #5

We are Bayfield - Our school is a great school and if you want to read about it read this.

Houses

At our school we have houses and house captains. The way it works is that if you are being good you can earn yourself house points or you can earn points by:

·         Mathletics, Best of Bayfield, School sport events & House days

Your probably wondering what a house day is, well it’s when you get in your houses and complete activity’s to earn yourself house points. House days are always a fun time to enjoy yourselves and help the little kids get through all the activities.

MLE

At Bayfield are classrooms have MLE which stands for modern learning environment. The way it works is you have a guardian teacher that you go to 20% of the time. And while doing subjects you control your own learning. But don’t worry too much if you’re not in your friend’s guardian class.

Special Events

At Bayfield we have lots of special events that include:

·         Music on the field

·         Business day

·         Camp/EOTC week

·         Production

·         Inner City sports events

But the only problem with the production and music on the field is they happen every second year so you only get to do them at least 3 to 4 times.

Playing areas

Playing and swinging of the eagle nest wait what is an eagle’s nest you ask. At Bayfield we have a lot of playing areas that include, the mini beast the senior school playground, the junior adventure playground and the b-ball courts and netball courts as well as the footy field.  

Where are we?

Bayfield School is located in Herne bay Auckland in the city. Our school is on the corner of Jervois and Clifton road and is fairly big. We have a fairly modern school and we have just had a massive rebuild of our senior block classrooms and the hall. We have also only just built the senior adventure playground which a fair few people play on. Our big new building is a massive block with year 1, year 2, year 5 and year 6. It also has a big long stretched balcony for us year 5s and 6s to eat our lunch and morning tea. Each level has a different colour space for each year level:  Year 1= red                                      year 2= orange                            year 5/ 6 = blue and green

Also in the middle of the MLE classrooms there is a small room that connects the two spaces together. We like to call it the middle space.

History

Last year our big building block got demolished due to leakiness. It was a bit scary while we were knocking down the building we found asbestos in the construction site. So we had to go to Ponsonby Primary to stay there to get rid of the asbestos. It was a great time to meet different people and interact and play with them. When we got back from Ponsonby our school was a construction site. We had a long stretch of prefabs on the field which limited our space. We called it the village. Bayfield School opened up in 1888 and our school is now 130 years old. We have 400 max kids at our school and we are independent.  

Who are we? #4

Bayfield School

On Auckland 2-12 Clifton road, Herne Bay, Bayfield is rocking it with approximately 400 kids working to their best abilities. Bayfield is the most creative and fun school were all of us learning every day. We don’t wear uniforms and we call our fantastic, kind teachers by their first name. Were a happy, environmental, friendly school Bayfield has it all.

Go Rutherford!! That’s right we have our own houses named after some of the famous new Zealanders shared with the 5 year olds and over, Such as Rutherford, Shepard, Hillary and Kupe. We also have colours for our houses as well green for Rutherford white for Hillary blue for Shepard and lucky last, red for Kupe. When we are working hard and being polite we get house points for our houses and when sports events are on we also get them.

Bayfield School has special events each year like music on the field, the art festival, the production, swimming sports and business day. Music on the field is all about having fun doing all these spectacular things for example The bouncy castle, mini Ferris wheel listening to bands or  singers coming to our school just like when Jamie mc dell came to Bayfield and sang. Business day is when we make money for the year sixes to go to Rainbows end selling scrumptious sweet treats.

Year zero to year two, the juniors has their own fun playground to play on at their breaks, (morning tea and lunch). Also year three to six (middle school and senior) has their own play ground with an emerald fresh field where we play some of our sports on like rugby. We have a place called the mini beast that is a place surrounded by lush trees and plants. We play in there by making huts and collecting things. Finally the courts we have one basketball court outside, one in the hall and two net ball courts near the juniors.

Luck last our lovely music teacher, Mary she runs the APPA choir, girls kappa haka and ukulele festival. We also have our wonderful library monitor and basketball coach, Donna. You can’t forget our principal, Sheryl Fletcher she is one of the most amazing principals. Last of all deb and Linda our reception ladies that are always there for us when we are hurt or injured and helps in the office.

By Eva Z

Who are we? #3

We are Bayfield Primary,

I would like to tell you about our School. We have an adventure playground that has big a fast slide and lots of ropes to swing on. We also have a mini beast. Where you can collect sticks and build huts. At Bayfield School we wear mufti.

There are four houses

Kupe, Hillary, Rutherford, Sheppard. We are on 2-12 Clifton road Herne Bay. We compete in our houses against each other. There are four hundred kids at Bayfield with 21 class rooms. We have a unique learning environment. We have two different grades working together. Like year 3 and 4, and year 5 and 6.

Bayfield School used to be a farm a long time ago. And there was a well. Many years later the School was built. And the well was covered in concrete. In 2015 the school had a renovation and got rid of the concrete hill and found the well. The days past and the well is now the School well. There is a tree at Bayfield, It Is the Bayfield tree. That is one hundred years old. It is powerful and keeps our school strong.

 At Bayfield they make sure you finish your work. So you’re not behind at school.

Who are we? #2

We are Bayfield

With twenty one classrooms and roughly 400 children, Bayfield is a great city school. We don’t have uniforms and we call our teachers by their first names. Bayfield is definitely a school with lots of high achieving students. We are located in Auckland, New Zealand on 2-12 Clifton Road, Herne Bay.

Bayfield’s value include: excellence, respect, responsibility and diversity. If we are well behaved we get rewarded with a best of Bayfield or house points. Our houses include: Hillary (named after Edmund Hillary first person to conquer Mount Everest), Rutherford (named after Ernest Rutherford who split the atom), Kupe (the first person to find NZ) and Sheppard (named after Kate Sheppard who let woman vote).

There is a lot history behind our school, we have a well that was discovered when we were demolishing the building and our school was originally built across the road. It was rebuilt to be a Modern Learning Environment for all the students.

At lunch time the kids are open to play in the mini beast (a place full of native trees to climb and build huts), the playground, the courts and the field. However on rainy days we are allowed to use devices as long as we are using them appropriately. Bayfield School has what we call a brain break at ten o’clock in the morning. We have a small healthy snack like an apple to keep our little brains working up until morning tea.

Last year the teachers and our principal Sheryl Fletcher decided that they would join years five and six to become a composite year. So the two years are always working together with four teachers controlling the area.

By Poppy

Who are we? #1

Bayfield

Sporty, environmental, crafty and fun Bayfield does it all. Bayfield is different to other school we have MLE (modern learning environment) classrooms, no school uniforms and we call our teachers by their first names. Our school is located in Herne Bay Auckland the biggest city of New Zealand. Being close to the centre of the city, we can go and compete at intercity for sporting events.

Kate Shepard, Edmund Hillary, Ernest Rutherford and finally Kupe, these are our school houses that we got put in for sporting events. Some other events we do every second year like the production (a performance with acting and dancing), the art gallery and business day. Our many coir performances we top including the APPA, Kids for Kids, in our beat, etc. etc. etc.

Luckily we have some amazing teachers who don’t all ways teach the same class with our MLE classrooms we get different teachers for every subject. We have a brilliant music teacher, Mary, who teachers every class for music as well as taking APPA coir, ukubayleys (ukulele group) and Kapa Haka those are some important parts of our school. Donna is our all-round multi-talented teacher, she is our librarian and also teacher’s basketball.

Bayfield also has some art around the school like our bird mosaic, made in 2011 and every Bayfield child drew a bird that is now on our Bayfield mosaic that represents our school. So this Bayfield School we hope you enjoyed reading about us.  

By Sophie and Olive

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