Rathkeale College - Senior Management Team

Willy Kersten – Principal

Principal of Rathkeale College since 2008. Formerly Associate Rector of Palmerston North Boys' High School. Teaching background in Science and Chemistry and a recipient of a Woolf Fisher Fellowship for contribution to Science Education. Extensive history of personal involvement, coaching and management in cycling and hockey.

Grant Harper – Deputy Principal

After teaching at Rathkeale in 1975, and at Ashburton College and Bromsgrove School, Worchestershire UK, he returned to the Rathkeale staff in 1982. Since then he has had numerous College positions including Housemaster of Cranleigh House, middle and senior school deanships, Assistant Principal and acting Principal. He has been Deputy Principal since 1997.

Arlene du Cann - Assistant Principal

After teaching in England and Bermuda as Head of Physics and Science she took up a mathematics teaching position at St Matthew’s in 1984. In 1988 she moved to Rathkeale as the Year 12 Dean and Head of Computing for the first year of the Trinity Senior College. In 1994 she was appointed Assistant Principal and later moved to teaching Mathematics instead of Computing.