Rachael is the PGCE secondary subject lead for history. She spent over 17 years in secondary education, before moving into a career in ITTE. Her experience includes teaching history since 2002 in a comprehensive secondary school in which she worked as a subject mentor for PGCE history trainees, professional mentor and helped run a successful ‘Schools Direct’ partnership at her school.
Rachael is Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead for the Secondary PGCE programme and is dedicated to ensuring that this is reflected in her PGCE History programme and across the whole course.
Rachael has worked as a subject lead for over 10 years and is also an external examiner for the PGCE History programme at UWE.