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