Annual Awards Ceremony at Farnham Castle
The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre’s annual presentation of awards was held on Friday 30 April in the Stone Hall of Farnham Castle for the academic year 2008-2009 in the presence of their founder and president, Helen Arkell.
The Graduation ceremony is the high point of the academic year both for the Centre and for all the many students whose fine achievements are publicly recognised. This year there was a record number of students graduating and two ceremonies were held. The afternoon ceremony focused on our ever growing band of students who train to become Teaching Assistants and the evening ceremony honoured students from the OCR Certificate Level 5 and Diploma Level 7 courses.
At the afternoon ceremony Judi Stewart, CEO of the British Dyslexia Association was the guest speaker and presented the certificates to the graduates and awards to the prize winners.
Sir Jim Rose was the guest speaker for the evening ceremony where he presented certificates to the students and was joined by our President, Helen Arkell when the awards were presented to the prize winners.
The OCR Diploma award winner was Nasreen Daood, the Level 5 Certificate award for the Monday course went to Karin Crane and for the Tuesday level 5 course the winner was Vicky Harvey and the Teaching Assistant award went to Vikki Thornhill from the October intake of level 3 graduands and Sue Morgan from the February intake of students.
Paula Bailey won the Janet Glynn-Treble essay prize.
Several students on the Certificate level 5 courses at the Helen Arkell Centre and the Diploma course were awarded Distinctions for consistent levels of excellence.
The current academic year has had a record number of students studying at the Centre and we are holding an Open Afternoon on Friday 8 July for those interested in finding out more about the range of courses on offer for the forthcoming academic year 2010 – 2011. There will be three sessions during the afternoon, so anyone who would like to visit us and meet the professional team is asked to email enquires@arkellcentre.org.uk or telephone 01252 792400 and register their interest in attending.