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