Published 04 September 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
The Sandy Point Benevolent Society (SPBS) is proud to announce its 2018 Post Graduate Studies awardee, Ms Michelle Queeley.
Michelle is a daughter of Kittitian soil and one of Sandy Point High School’s outstanding products in many respects. Her academic journey began at the late Ms. Mussenden’s infant school before her enrollment at the St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic School, where she had six years of primary school education. She was transferred to the Grade 6 of the Sandy Point Primary School in April of 1984 and graduated in 1985 as the “Student of the Year”, now more commonly referred to as Valedictorian.
In her career as a student at the Sandy Point High School, Michelle remained at the top of her classes for the most part and graduated among the top performers, with 10 CXC subjects. As a student, she not only starred in academics, but also as an athlete, debater, and in the performing arts arena. She demonstrated strong student leadership and took this into her church and community.
With a love for teaching, Michelle returned as a teacher to her alma mater in 1991 and taught for a period of six years, two of which were spent in the pursuit of professional training at the St. Kitts-Nevis College of Further Education. At the SPHS her specialty subjects were English, Literature, and History, but her services were also utilized to fill gap in the teaching of Spanish and Principles of Business. She graduated from Teachers’ College in 1995 with the awards for the most outstanding performance in all of her subject areas, including the practical teaching of such.
Presently, Michelle serves as a Certificated Graduate Teacher at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School (ALHCS) in Anguilla where she teaches English Language and English Literature at the CSEC level, and Literatures in English and Caribbean Studies at the level of 6th form. She also functions as adjunct lecturer in the Teacher Training Programme at the Anguilla Community College, as well as teacher of CSEC English. She is also a middle manager at the ALHCS in the capacity of Head of Year.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Literatures in English (with First Class Honors) and a Master of Philosophy in Education (with a concentration in Educational Psychology), both from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. She also holds a Commonwealth Diploma in Youth in Development Studies (with distinction) from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Michelle is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Educational Leadership in Higher Education at the UWI Open Campus and is on record for being among the very small percentage of students at the top in the programme, having clocked an all ‘A’ profile thus far. As she moves into her final year of doctoral studies, the SPBS is pleased to make this valuable contribution to her. We salute this multi-talented bright star and role model from Sandy Point and look forward to the good news of her successful completion.
Michelle was raised by the Rawlins family in Sandy Point and attributes much of her academic stoicism to her Grade six teacher, the legendary William Vincent Hodge; and High School teachers: Jackie “Singing Jackie” Leader; Lorozine Williams, and Keith Frazer, all of whom she claimed to have made the greatest impact in her life as a student, and even now as an adult.
