{"id":11024,"date":"2015-01-03T16:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T05:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2015-05-03T16:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T06:18:59","slug":"freyas-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/freyas-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Freya&#8217;s a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11026\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/No-caption-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11026 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/No-caption-6-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Freya Merrick dos Santos winner of 2014 Australian Training Award.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/No-caption-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/No-caption-6-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freya Merrick dos Santos from Victoria&#8217;s Yarraville Community Centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Freya Merrick dos\u00a0Santos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ycc.net.au\/\">Yarraville Community\u00a0Centr<\/a>e who has won the Excellence\u00a0in Language, Literacy and Numeracy\u00a0Practice Award at the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australiantrainingawards.gov.au\">Australian\u00a0Training Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Freya says she was both surprised\u00a0and delighted to win. \u2018My jaw dropped\u00a0when they announced my name.\u00a0There weren\u2019t many small community\u00a0organisations like ours represented\u00a0amongst the finalists so it was great to\u00a0get that recognition. Organisations like ours are doing it quite tough. We do\u00a0it with a lot less but we do a fantastic\u00a0job.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by her work with displaced\u00a0young people in Timor Leste, Freya\u00a0works with unemployed migrants,\u00a0refugees and internationally displaced\u00a0people at Yarraville Community\u00a0Centre, helping them develop\u00a0language, literacy and numeracy skills\u00a0that will allow them to more actively\u00a0participate in their community.<\/p>\n<p>Yarraville Community Centre co-ordinator Chris McCall says\u00a0Freya was nominated for the award\u00a0because of her creative and innovative\u00a0teaching and the value of the work she\u00a0does.<\/p>\n<p>Freya currently teaches the highest\u00a0level Skills for Education and\u00a0Employment (SEE) class at Yarraville.\u00a0Learners in the class are preparing\u00a0to make the transition to work or\u00a0further vocational study. Freya works\u00a0with the class on employability skills\u00a0but also arranges work placements\u00a0or volunteering opportunities so that\u00a0students can practise employability\u00a0skills in real life situations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Congratulations to Freya Merrick dos\u00a0Santos from Yarraville Community\u00a0Centre who has won the Excellence\u00a0in Language, Literacy and Numeracy\u00a0Practice Award at the 2014 Australian\u00a0Training Awards. Freya says she was both surprised\u00a0and delighted to win. \u2018My jaw dropped\u00a0when they announced my name.\u00a0There weren\u2019t many small community\u00a0organisations like ours represented\u00a0amongst the finalists so it was great to\u00a0get that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freya&#039;s a winner - Adult Learning Australia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ala.asn.au\/freyas-a-winner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freya&#039;s a winner - Adult Learning Australia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Congratulations to Freya Merrick dos\u00a0Santos from Yarraville Community\u00a0Centre who has won the Excellence\u00a0in Language, Literacy and Numeracy\u00a0Practice Award at the 2014 Australian\u00a0Training Awards. 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