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Annesley News Issue 232

At this point in the school year, I want to say thank you to the dedicated teachers who work tirelessly to bring out the best in every student. I’ve never met a teacher who doesn’t strive to bring out the best in every student.

Teaching is not for the faint hearted. Pedagogical and social change means that teaching now involves increased compliance, responsibility for facilitating learning but also for fostering emotional well-being, managing behaviour, and meeting a diverse range of learning styles and abilities.

However, teaching is about the relationships teachers create with their students where knowledge and skills are passed on to be re-created for an emerging future. Working to create a better world through education is at the core of teaching.

Thank you to our Annesley teachers for the investment made in our Annesley students in every moment of every day this year.

Thank you to our Annesley families in supporting our teachers to do their jobs well.

Thank you to everyone who came along to support our Local Buy Annesley Market on November 14th, and congratulations to all the Enterprise groups who ran stalls!

In terms of number of participating students and sales, it was certainly our biggest market yet.  The variety of enterprises on show reflected the wonderful diversity of passions, strengths and skills amongst our students at Annesley.

The next step for our students is calculating their sales and costs to determine if they have made a profit. Making a positive difference through our innovations is an essential goal of Enterprise at Annesley, and groups who have made a profit will have an opportunity to donate their earnings to a charitable cause of their choosing.

They did it! The World Peace Game has been won again at Annesley! Twenty-four global crises were solved and every country finished with its budget increased past its original value. Over 5 days, treaties were written, cheques were exchanged, negotiations and declarations were undertaken, but ultimately it was their collaboration, creativity and compassion that enabled these students to achieve world peace.

Congratulations to the WPG 2024 Award Winners:

• Navarre L – Most Outstanding Player Award
• Isabella C – Eco and Human Rights Award
• Elise H – Peace Prize

These awards are given in every World Peace Game played and are solely awarded on the votes of student participants in each game. It is a credit to these students to be acknowledged for their achievements in the game by their peers.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is a literacy engagement program that was introduced by the Premier in 2004 to:

•       Encourage students to read more books and enjoy reading
•       Improve literacy levels

The Challenge requires students to read 12 books between the beginning of the school year and early September.

Congratulations to Milla, Lucy, Logan & Hari who achieved their Hall of Fame medal after 7 years of participation in the annual school reading challenge.

This year at Annesley 192 students took part in the challenge with the following achievements:

• 55 x certificates
• 48 x bronze medals
• 26 x silver medals
• 28 x gold medals
• 26 x Champion medals
• 5 x Legend medals
• 4 x Hall of Fame medals

Well done to all the students who took part in the annual event.

Last week Annesley welcomed two teachers from University Senior College to celebrate the success of Base 5’s Human Interdependence Project. Students presented their achievements and recorded podcasts with Dr Sam Franzway. These podcasts delve deeper into the process behind the actions and achievements of our 10 HIP students.

In the true spirit of Christmas, we choose to support others who are vulnerable and in need and have created an opportunity for our community to donate to the work of Baptist Care and Uniting Care.

Items can be placed under the Giving Tree in the Front Office between now and the end of term.