Bayview Middle School

Since the school's beginning in 1958, Bayview Middle School has had a well-deserved reputation for planning and delivering balanced programs in the academics, arts and athletics.

We have specialty facilities such as sound-proof music practice labs, design and technology science labs, a large library resource centre and computer labs and a fully equiped Visual Arts room.
Literacy Support

Our library is staffed by a qualified teacher-librarian working with our students and staff to build on the curriculum being taught in the classroom.
Academic assistance for our second language learners is provided through English As a Second Language (ESL) self-contained and integrated classes.

Additional student support

We have teachers who are subject specialists delivering a variety of subjects.
Bayview is lucky enough to have in-class, small group and individual counselling made available by a teacher-counsellor.
Support for our new Canadian families is provided in Cantonese, Dari, Farsi, Korean and Mandarin through the Settlement and Education Partnership (SEPT).
Character Development that infuses into the curriculum and practices the ten TDSB identified character attributes.
We offer a range of exciting co-curricular clubs, teams and intra-mural sports, as well as a vibrant Performing Arts Series that includes drama, dance and music.

Character Education

Here at Bayview we continue to focus a lot of our efforts on Character Education. Our grade 6 and 7 students wrote some acrostic poems at their first assembly of the year, describing what Respect, Responsibility and Empathy mean to them. Please see below for some examples of their work!


Respect Poem

Respect each other
Everyone can live together
Share
Put yourself in others’ shoes
Equality
Consideration
Teamwork

Empathy Poem

Empathy
Make others feel good
Peace
Anyone can have empathy!
Truthful
Helpful
You have to think about others’ feelings

Responsibility Poem

Realizing your faults
Earning other people’s trust
Saying sorry for mistakes
Proving yourself worthy
On time
Never lying
Sticking to your promises
In control of yourself
Be organized
Look out for others
Everybody deserves to be treated the same