Rachel Clark

Head of Arts Faculty

• Provide courses and other relevant documents appropriate to the learning needs of students, including those with special needs and those with special abilities.
• Apply effective and positive classroom management techniques
• Manage assessment and reporting.
• Provide professional leadership and effectively delegate responsibilities within the faculty.
• Motivate and enhance staff performance and professional development.
• Manage the faculty budget and resources.
• Induct new staff fully and effectively.
• Demonstrate a willingness to contribute to the total functioning of the school.
• Demonstrate a willingness to respond effectively to the school’s cultural context.
• Write the Faculty of Arts annual report for the Board of Trustees.

Head of Visual Art

• Lead the teaching of visual arts.
• Seek out and enable opportunities for students to participate in art events outside of school.
• Foster student leadership within the department.
• Oversee the visual art budget.
• Create a culture of shared practice and shared professional learning.
• Be accessible and approachable.
• Develop annual department goals aligned with wider faculty goals and the school’s strategic and annual plans.
• Maintain effective and appropriate relationships within the school and with its community.
• Provide an efficient and clear administrative framework within which staff and students may function effectively.
• Provide support to other art teachers in the department
• Provide support and clear guidance to the Arts coordinator
• Ensure that learning environments are positive and orderly,, built on restorative and relational practices.
• Manage the department budget
• Lead teaching and learning by modelling effective, inclusive practices in the department.
• Foster a shared understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its implications in the department.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of social and cultural influences on learning.
• Create and lead robust, inclusive assessment practices in the department.
• Keep up-to-date with curriculum changes.
• Ensure that the department has appropriate assessment, evaluation and moderation procedures.
• Report accurately on student performance.
• Review assessments regularly for each subject and level.
• Analyse students’ results for the faculty, SLT and Board as required.

Provide guidance, advice and leadership for the Department on:

• Aims and objectives in alignment with the schools strategic plan.
• Schemes of Work.
• Modelling effective teaching and learning pedagogy.
• Managing assessment, recording and reporting systems within school guidelines.
• Modelling effective classroom management practice and building a strong culture of learning across the department.
• Departmental Budget.
• Annual data analysis and Board Report.

• Specialist Art Teacher, painting and printmaking
• PB4L Restorative Practice team
• Managed art room supplies, equipment and resources.
• Junior Programme Lead
• Managed a diverse range of learners, adapting programmes to accommodate different needs, interests and abilities of Māori and Pasifika students specifically
• Developed and implemented engaging programmes of learning

• Supported pilot schools to implement restorative practices
• Built and maintained relationships with 21 with schools in Central South

• Held the pen on the PB4L Restorative Practice Kete Resource Books for schools
• Led change management initiatives for secondary schools to implement restorative practice programmes
• Fostered professional development in schools

• Specialist art teacher.
• Teacher in Charge of Photography
• Junior Dean
• Restorative Practice Coordinator