Posts from the Principal

  Bayfield School Newsletter - Wednesday 30th of June Inspired Today-Prepared for Tomorrow Dates to remember Friday 2nd of July - Matariki breakfast ( Year 5&6) Diversity Assembly 9am Matariki House Day (all children to bring a vegetable for soup) Thursday 8th of July - School Disco in the hall Friday 9th of July - last day of the term A word from Kerri  Collaborative Learning Spaces  (Modern Learning Environments) There are some common misunderstandings about how collaborative spaces work and as most of us never went to school in a building like Bayfield, we can feel a little out of the loop or perhaps have some preconceived notions about how the school day may be structured.  Whilst we have the luxury of allowing children to learn in a large open and comfortable space, we do have the same very clear and tight expectations that are in place in other “traditional” environments. In some spaces, children have allocated work areas, much like an allocated desk that you may have had at