Principal
Ms Nadine A. Molloy
J.P., MLS, MA, BA, Dip. Teach.
A trained teacher librarian, she has worked at the Brown’s Town Community College as Lecturer Librarian after leaving Bishop Gibson High School for Girls, where she taught English Language and Literature. As a library student she spent time doing fieldwork at the historic and prestigious Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem, a part of the New York Public Library network.
At Bishop Gibson High she was involved in producing the school's magazine and mentored many students through various co-curricular activities. She has been a secondary school principal for twelve years, previously serving at the Buff Bay High School. During her tenure the school experienced improvement in all facets of its development.
Ms. Molloy is a strong believer in school spirit and is convinced that through strategic partnerships and continuous training any school can register constant improvement. The core values of Ardenne High School, she believes, set an excellent stage for constant upward movement. She continues to be excited by the possibilities for education in Jamaica which she believes is on an upward trajectory, despite the recent setback in examination performance in the Caribbean region.
A service and community minded individual, Nadine Molloy has served and continues to serve on national boards. She is responsible for returning to Jamaica the first full copy of the Marcus Garvey trial documents, while she served on the Jamaica National Heritage Trust Board and Institute of Jamaica Council. She is currently a director of Radio Jamaica Limited.
As the two term president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS), she lead a delegation on a three-day observation tour of principals of the Cuban secondary education system in 2008. This marked the first time a principal from an upgraded high school held the presidency. She was also LASCO/MOEY Principal of the Year 2009 – 10.
Ms. Molloy served the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) as its president in 2010 - 2011. As president, she represented teachers at various forums locally and internationally. She travelled to Canada to observe teacher professional development at work with the Teacher Learning and Leadership Programme (TLLP), and to Thailand to represent the JTA at the Education International (EI) first international women’s conference. At the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women, (UNCSW 55) in 2011, Miss Molloy presented the joint statement on behalf of trade unions Education International (EI), Public Services International (PSI) and International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the United Nations. Ms. Molloy also headed the JTA’s delegation to the Education International 6th World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2011.
Her JTA presidency was marked by her strong advocacy for improvement to the education system, as she strongly believes that the working condition of the teacher is the learning condition of the student. Both union and professional development activities work in tandem and must be viewed as inseparable. Miss Molloy continues to serve the JTA and the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT).
Miss Molloy is currently being trained as a school inspector with the National Education Inspectorate (NEI). She credits her rural upbringing in the Blue Mountains -where home, school, church and community worked together to raise every single child- for any positive thing that she has been able to accomplish. She thoroughly enjoyed her high school years and knows that she now benefits significantly from the goodwill and professionalism of her teachers. Today, Ms. Molloy seeks to replicate that experience in its best possible form for her students.