Bayfield High School, Dunedin

Infobox NZ school
name = Bayfield High School
badge =
motto = _la. Quaerere Verum
Seek the Truth
type = Secondary (Year 9-13)
established = 1961
address = Shore Street, Dunedin
coordinates=coord|45.895653|S|170.523021|E|display=inline,title
principal = Denis Slowley
Mike Beagley (Acting)
roll = 761
decile = 8
MOE = 382
homepage = [http://www.bayfield-high.school.nz/ www.bayfield-high.school.nz]
[http://intra.bay.net.nz/ intra.bay.net.nz]

Bayfield High School is a co-educational high school in Dunedin New Zealand. It was established in 1961 and is located on the corner of Musselburgh Rise and Shore Street, adjacent to the Otago Harbour. The school currently has 761 students.

It has a special needs center called the Support Centre for pupils who have learning disabilities and behaviour problems. It also has an anti-bullying policy and learning to learn curriculum. There are five houses with approximately 160 students in each house. The houses are Anderson, Begg, Herron, Ross and Somerville. All houses except Herron are named after the founding fathers of the district; Herron is named after the first principal Jack Herron. Each house has five tutor groups with a tutor teacher and associate teacher. Each house has a dean that looks after the house.

The school is well-known throughout the local community for having a strong music department. It has performed in the wider school community, and in 2006 the school Orchestra, Jazz Band and Madrigal Choir flew to Sydney, Australia to play in the Sydney Opera House with a company called United World Concert Tours. The Colorado Springs Youth Symphony and the Honolulu Community Concert Band, from Hawaii, also performed.

Bayfield's canteen was featured in the Otago Daily Times on the 27 April 2007. The canteen was run by catering students of the school, who aimed to make the canteen food healthier: “We’re trying to bring in healthier food — sushi, wraps, filled rolls, soup and salads. We’ve already started to phase out some of the fatty foods like chips and lollies because we want to be healthy. We want to make our name as the healthiest canteen in Otago.” The canteen is no longer run by the students, and the "fatty foods" are being sold once more.

Stage one of a new gymnasium was opened on 22 August 2008, after teachers approached the Ministry of Education in 2007 requesting an upgrade to undersized facilities. [cite web|url=http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/19122/bayfield-gets-try-its-new-gym|title=Bayfield gets to try its new gym|last=Lewis|first=John|date=23 August 2008|publisher=Otago Daily Times|accessdate=2008-08-23]

Notable alumni and staff

*Danyon Loader, Olympic Gold medallist
*David Bain, awaiting retrial for murder
*Len Cook, former National Statistician of the United Kingdom
*David Benson-Pope, former cabinet minister, was a teacher at the school. [cite web|last=Fisher|first=David| title=New questions for Benson-Pope|publisher =New Zealand Herald|date=2006-02-26|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10370099|accessdate=2008-08-23]

References

External links

* [http://www.bayfield-high.school.nz/ www.bayfield-high.school.nz]