Wingham High student receives top TAFE award
Thursday 1 June 2006
A student from Wingham High School has shone in the 2006 TAFE NSW – North Coast Institute Student Achievement Awards. Sally McNamara, who studied Retail Operations Certificate II in her Higher School Certificate last year has won the TVET Student of the Year Award.
The Student Achievement Awards were announced at an Awards dinner held at the Osprey Restaurant, at Coffs Harbour Education Campus on 1 June. The awards recognise outstanding achievements in academic effort, community involvement and career commitment and go to students in individual Institute Faculties and in five other major categories.
The TVET (TAFE-delivered Vocational Education and Training) Award recognised Ms McNamara’s academic, professional and community achievements. As well as a final HSC score of close to 100 and being in the top 5 in the state, Ms McNamara “demonstrated maturity, professionalism and thorough knowledge of the employer’s policies and procedures in the workplace” according to Debbie Polson, Retail teacher at Taree Campus.
Heavily involved in many aspects of community work, especially sport and fund-raising, Ms McNamara is variously described as ‘self-directed’, ‘motivated’, ‘organised’, ‘mature’ and ‘an exemplary trainee’.
