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.