Annistown Elementary School
Principal: Gwenda Nimmo-Smith
3150 Spain Road, Snellville, GA, 30039
School Highlights
The following school highlights showcase how Annistown Elementary School is fulfilling Gwinnett County Public School's four strategic priorities of Empathy, Equity, Effectiveness, and Excellence. Visit the School Profile Dashboard to find more detailed data on our school.
- Students in grades K–5 participated in Annistown's Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program, in which students spend half the day learning mathematics and science in Spanish and the other 50% learning language arts, social studies, and other subjects in English. Students start the program in kindergarten and continue their Spanish immersion experience each subsequent school year.
- Annistown Elementary is a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) school. PBIS encourages positive behaviors with recognition for students who exhibit appropriate school conduct.
- Annistown students were recognized each semester for maintaining high achievement in academics and showing improvement. We also recognized students from each class through the PRIDE award for consistently showing PRIDE expectations.
- Annistown Elementary provides students with opportunities for enrichment and intervention through programs offered during the school day, before, after, and on Saturdays. Interventions included Early Intervention Program (EIP), Reading Recovery, English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) services, and funding, Enrichment included Accelerated Math and Extended Learning Enrichment opportunities.
- Annistown welcomed parents to our classrooms to learn alongside their children for our Bring Your Parents to School Day. Parents were able to experience learning as their students do each day. This also engaged parents in strategies to support learning at home.
- Annistown Elementary hosted community events, including Family Luncheons, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Night, Literacy Night, and GMAS Parent Night strengthening home-school relationships. Over 200 parents joined the Annistown Lunch on the Lawn event. Parents and students engaged in opportunities to collaborate with peers and build relationships with other parents.
- Annistown partnered with Future Forward to provide students with tutoring opportunities during the school day in literacy and math. Future Forward also provided parents with opportunities to support home learning through parent meetings each semester.
- Annistown teachers engaged in collaborative planning and professional learning for literacy and mathematics to improve instruction while enhancing academic rigor. Teachers meet weekly in learning teams to analyze curriculum standards, create common assessments, write common lesson plans embedding Quality-Plus Teaching Strategies, and analyze student work to improve their craft of teaching.
- The Parent Center, funded by Title I, partnered with parents to help their children improve academically. Parents were provided opportunities to learn how to help their child improve their reading, math, and writing skills and given access to resources to help with homework. Parents were also offered the opportunity to engage in English classes taught by our Parent Outreach Liaison. Through our Parent Center, Annistown Elementary hosts two Play 2 Learn classes weekly. This program teaches parents best practices for readiness skills in Communication, Language and Literacy, Cognitive Development, Social-Emotional Development, Approaches to Play and Learning, and Motor Skill Development.
- Annistown Elementary offered a variety of clubs and community activities, including the Art Club, Ladies of Distinction, Peer Leaders, Student Council, Robotics Club, STEM Club, Student Safety Patrols, Chess Club, Basketball Club, Jr. Beta Club, Girls Flag Football Team, Readers Rally, and chorus.