THE LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

‘The Beacon on the Hill has undoubtable taste’

‘Each Department, an essential part of the race’

'All those other Departments try to join the fight’

‘But we know the truth is that Language TEACHERS always ‘write’.

The Language Department of Signal Hill Secondary School has made inroads and connections that have allowed “The Beacon on the Hill” to shine even brighter. Our school has always been exceptional, but there is much within our Language Department of which we are proud. The Language Department is ably led by Ms. Natasha Stewart and her competent team of dedicated teachers. The subjects taught by the teachers of the Department are as follows:

TEACHERS AND SUBJECTS

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

🟤 Farisai Isi

🟤 Lynda Mcintosh

🟤 Maureen Oyakhire

🟤 Nakita John Baptiste

🟤 Charlene Joseph Holmes

🟤 Nakita Sookanan

🟤 Natasha Stewart

🟤 Kari Manswell

SPANISH

🟤 Glenda Craig Charles

🟤 Rochelle Dalrymple

🟤 Desiran Henry

🟤 Arieana Miller

ENGLISH LITERATURE

🟤 Charlene Joseph Holmes

🟤 Kari Manswell

🟤 Nakita Sooknanan

LITERATURES OF ENGLISH

🟤 Charlene Joseph -Holmes

🟤 Natasha Stewart

COMMUNICATION STUDIES

🟤 Nakita John Baptiste

🟤 Natasha Stewart

VISION

Our vision is to ensure that we provide, develop and improve literacy for each student of Signal Hill Secondary School, while improving students’ communicative skills of listening, speaking and writing, in a changing global environment.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Our accomplishments range from developing literacy programmes and spoken word groups, to outfitting our communities with some of the most competent, expressive, vibrant and gifted persons in not only our country, region, but internationally. The Language Department has become the ‘seasoning’ that gels all departments together. We are a community of men and women who not only mean well, but invest our hearts, blood and literal tears in our students and colleagues. We are truly delighted with what we have accomplished. Some of our proudest achievements are as follows:

🟢 One of the departments that continues to exceed and surpass our previous year’s pass rate and quality of passes in English and Spanish

🟢 Development of Literacy programmes for both Spanish and English

🟢 2nd Place prize for Spoken word Poetry Slam 2019

🟢 Speechwriters for formal programmes: Youth Parliament, Graduation, Achievement Day

🟢 Integration of Spanish Based programmes, resources and innovative ways of learning Spanish and the

🟢 Creation of outreach programmes for challenged students

Our entire Department is engaged in the process of school improvement, through student development, by ensuring that each student continues to grow into his/her best self. Two of our major goals are to continuously improve curriculum delivery and to improve our learning environments such as creating a Language Lab. Once these two goals are kept in focus we have no doubt that we will continue to reach the needs of our multi-faceted students. The Language Department has a proud, happy, loving and never-ending passion for Signal Hill Secondary and we are proud members of its family.

As our Spanish brothers and sisters would say: ‘Somos los mejores pero nos vemos mejores que nadie’ which states: ‘We are the best,but see ourselves as better than no one.’.