School Uniform 

Why do we wear a uniform?

We hope our students feel a sense of belonging and community when they wear the Annesley uniform to school each morning.

School uniforms are credited for bringing a sense of equity and certainty for students in what they wear each day. I’m glad I don’t need to have a daily conversation with my three children about what they are going to wear to school!

Our Annesley Uniform

In our commitment to provide progressive education at Annesley, we strive to match our practices with the changing world and therefore the Annesley uniform has moved away from more traditional formal clothing items such as blazers, ties and tunics, to be more in step with the contemporary clothing now more commonly worn in the adult workforce. Annesley supplies a modern, practical, playful uniform range that offers choice for our students based on their individual style preference and what they find comfortable. In our uniform, we value that Annesley students can be active inquirers and engage in joyful play in outdoor environments, climbing on our playground and in trees and exploring our creek bed.

Mid Fee – Value for money

We proudly offer mid fee, value for money education at Annesley. This is reflected in our uniform. An Advertiser article recently compared the cost of school uniforms across a number of schools. This information revealed that the cost of a typical Annesley full uniform is around one third to half of the cost of school uniforms at several Adelaide schools.

Wearing uniform correctly

At Annesley, we do not make a child feel uncomfortable for wearing incorrect uniform. We understand that some non-Annesley uniform items have been worn to supplement student’s uniforms during the period of supply shortages from our uniform providers this year. As Annesley uniform items and sizes return to stock, we appreciate the support of parents to ensure that students are dressed in the correct Annesley uniform each day.

Unify – Reducing uniform waste

Members of our student community are working to reduce uniform waste through their second-hand uniform initiative called Unify. With many sales late last term, the Unify Team are seeking further donations of uniforms that are no longer useful to families to restock their store. Uniform donations can be placed in the dedicated basket in the Front Office.

Admin Staffing

Over the holidays, two of our non-teaching, administration staff have accepted other employment opportunities in larger, commercial organisations to further their experience and professional growth. We acknowledge the contributions of Chan Chau to the Annesley community and particularly Lisa Stuart who has served in the role of Principal’s EA and Registrar/Marketing for nearly 7 years. Lisa has been an outstanding administrator in ensuring effective enrolments processes in our ELC and Primary School. She has built numerous systems to enhance efficiency and process in marketing, enrolments and communication. We know you will join us in wishing them well in their new roles.

Many hands are filling these positions while we find fitting replacements. We are pleased to announce that Kathy Farrugia, a familiar face in our Front Office has accepted the position of Registrar and has already transitioned into this role. 

ELC Staffing

In the holiday period we farewelled Brittany Cox, Educator in the Grevillea room. She is now pursuing travel overseas and other professional pursuits. We thank her for her contributions to our ELC team and wish her all the best.

We are currently recruiting to fill various positions to support our ELC growth. Recently we also welcomed Zac, Hao and Isabella to our team. They are currently working across our centre.

Zac Li

Zac completed a Masters in Software Engineering and Management before changing his career direction. He is now working towards completing the Diploma in Children’s Services. For the past two years he has been working as an Educator in centres in Qld and SA. His love of sports and friendly manner has quickly endeared him to our students.

Hao Zhu

After completing a Bachelor in Commerce and working as an Accountant for many years, Hao then changed career direction and is currently in his third year of Bachelor of Early Childhood Education. Previously he has been working as an Educator at the Gowrie Child Care Centre. He has a particular interest in STEM learning in the early years and is fluent in several languages. His energetic and responsive manner towards the students has quickly enabled him to build effective learning relationships with the students and our teams.

Isabella Lathouros

Isabella is in her final year of Bachelor of Early Childhood Education. Throughout her studies she has been employed in several childcare centres as the Lead Educator supporting the teaching program. Her kind and friendly manner has allowed her to quickly build rapport with our students.

Annesley is proud to be an authorised IB (International Baccalaureate) World School, and part of a worldwide learning community of 5500 schools in more than 160 countries offering IB Programs.  

The IB Primary Years Program, the ‘PYP’, is a future-focused, international framework that we believe complements and enhances the Australian Curriculum, providing education that is significant, challenging, relevant, and engaging for all children.

The IB may be a contributing factor as to why you chose Annesley, or it may be something you have not thought much about.  In each of the newsletters over the course of this term we will look at a key feature of the IB’s Primary Years Program framework in a series we are calling ‘The PYP Advantage’  

 There are many benefits to the PYP, and in this series we will explore:

PART 1 – The IB Learner Profile 

• how a focus on the whole child helps to develop Internationally-minded lifelong learners

PART 2 – The Program of Inquiry 

• how our units of inquiry, build understanding of the world and support the connection of knowledge and ideas across disciplines

PART 3 – Concept-based curriculum

• how a focus on conceptual ideas develops children’s’ critical thinking, leading to deeper understanding

PART 4 – Inquiry 

• the use of structured and purposeful student-led inquiry as our main approach to learning and teaching

PART 5 – Approaches of Learning

• how we implicitly and explicitly develop the transversal life skills of Thinking, Social, Communication, Research and Self-management

PART 6 – Action

• how children can make a positive difference in their world through authentic action resulting from their learning

PART 7 – The PYP Exhibition

• the culminating experience of the PYP for students in their final year of the program

We hope that this series, will provide you with some new insights and understandings of the program that can support your engagement with your children’s learning at Annesley.

Two Year 6 student have created a business to create puzzles out of school photos, sibling or individual or even a photo of your choice. A sample and order form is currently on show in the Bouncing Bean Cafe, a great time to order in time for Fathers Day! Order and pay at the Bouncing Bean Cafe. The Puzzle Pro team plan to use profits made to donate to the Forktree Project, a sustainability, re-wilding initiative that they have visited as part of their Base 6/7 Quest program last term.