In profile: Annie Daley

What do you like best about your current role?

In the couple of months that I have been at Radford, I have found the staff and students are very friendly and welcoming. I have enjoyed the students’ love of cooking and learning about food.

What can you tell us about your role and current projects?

I am currently teaching Food Technology and Innov8. This collaborative Design and Technologies project involves our Year 8 technologies classes incorporating all the different subject areas (Graphics, Digital Technology, Food Technology, Textiles and Wood Technology) to design and create a board game. I am excited to see the students’ different board games in action. I am also looking forward to attending Year 10 Camp in Term 4!

What did you do before joining the Radford community?

I worked as a Food Technology and Hospitality teacher at JPC for 6 ½ years, and at Merici College for 6 years prior to that. I also worked part-time at St Joseph’s Primary School for a couple of years.

What do you enjoy outside Radford?

Marking… Just kidding! I enjoy gardening, cooking (especially with native Bush Tucker ingredients), hosting dinner parties, and spending time on my parents' farm in Queensland with my horses during the breaks. I will be playing for the ACT in the Women’s Masters National hockey championships in Cairns in the upcoming holidays.

Anything else interesting you might like to add?

I grew up in WA and travelled across the Nullarbor many times as a child, in horse trucks. In a “former life” I worked as a Jillaroo in outback Queensland. I also cooked for the Prime Minister at Parliament House in my twenties during my chefy career. I lived in China, Beijing, for three years working for DFAT, working with passports and managing the Y2K Australian citizen registration database. I am married with two children and have two small dogs called Lily and Kevin, and I am a tragic Carlton supporter…