Deputy Principal at Findon High School
KATRINA AXFORD
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  • Teaching & Learning
    • Case for Change
    • PBL 101: Aussie Style!
    • Explicit Instruction >
      • I Do, We Do, You Do
      • Learning Objectives and Success Criteria
      • Knowledge Organisers
    • Learner Wellbeing >
      • VIA Character Strengths
      • Growth and Fixed Mindset
    • Problem Finding & Design Thinking
  • School
    • FHS >
      • Creative Industries >
        • What is WETA?
        • Exquisite Corpse
      • Year 7 Media Arts >
        • What is Media Arts
        • Animated Sprites and Pixel Art
        • Font-bots
      • Year 8/9 >
        • Zentangles
        • The Grid System
        • The 'Paste Me Up' Project
    • AHS >
      • Year 7 Spark! >
        • Shadow Puppets
        • The 'Can you see sound?' Project
      • Year 12 Visual Arts >
        • Visual Study
        • Practical & Folio
    • WSS >
      • Year 7 Media Arts >
        • The 4pm Project >
          • One on One Interview
          • The Whip Around
          • Story board
        • Smart Starts
        • What is Media Arts
        • Technical Stuff
        • Challenge Accepted >
          • Animated Sprites and Pixel Art
          • Font-bots
          • Identity Postcard
      • Year 7 Visual Arts >
        • A Whole New World
        • World of Water Project
      • Year 9 Digital Art >
        • Character Conception
        • The 'Wirri Safari' Project >
          • Howard Arkley
      • Year 8 Visual Art >
        • The 'First Fast Five' Project
        • The 'Let's Face It' Project
        • The 'Fantasy Heads' Project
        • Picasso Heads
      • Year 10 Design >
        • Graphic Design
        • What is a brief?
        • Newspaper Challenge
        • Monogram
        • Poster Design
    • IPACA >
      • Projects @ IPACA >
        • Year 5/6 Making
        • Year 8 Geography >
          • Jambo Kenya
        • Year 7 Geography >
          • What is Geography?
          • The World Map
          • Map Skills and Compass Directions
          • Grid References
          • Scale
          • Contours
          • Environmental Relationships >
            • Cold Environments
    • MOC >
      • Year 8 Visual Arts
      • Year 9 Visual Arts
      • Year 10 Visual Arts >
        • The "Making History POP" project
        • The 'Stencil Pops' Project
        • The "Putting the MO in MOC" Project
        • The 'All Art Deco Out' Project
        • The 'Art of Australia' Project
        • The Newtoon's Project
        • The "I stand by you' Project
        • My Elemental Superhero Project
        • The 'Boxing Equations' Project
        • The 'Pop ID' Project
        • The 'Lights for Civil Rights' Project
        • 'The Diggers Letter' Project
        • The 'Unruly Conflict' Project
        • The 'Could We Should We' project
        • The 'Wallz Rulz" Project
      • Year 11 Visual Arts - Traditional >
        • Visual Study
        • Practical and Folio
      • Year 11 Visual Arts - Digital
      • Proposed Projects >
        • One Line Wonder
        • Photography >
          • Portraiture
          • Light and Shadow Project
          • Time Project
  • Resources
    • Text Types >
      • Year 7 >
        • Artist & Artwork Description
    • Terminology
    • Ideas, Meanings & Themes
    • Media / Techniques

ABOUT ME

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Here is the infographic I created for my IPACA application. It encapsulates everything I believe education should be.
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Career timeline and highlights

Findon High School
2024 - current Deputy Principal
2023 Director of Studies

Adelaide High School
2022 Curriculum and Pedagogy Coach

Wirreanda Secondary School
2020/2021 Senior Leader of Year 7 into High School Pilot + continued Senior Leader of Middle School Transformation 
2018/2019 Appointed Senior Leader of Middle School Transformation at WSS, Morphett Vale, South Australia. 

Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy
2017 Continued at IPACA as Perryfield Head of School (year 7/8) + Head of Specialist Provision (Special Educational Needs).
2016 Appointed Head of Admiralty School at IPACA, Dorset, England (August 2016).

Mark Oliphant College
2016 Continued as Learning and Engagement Coordinator (PBL) + awarded Apple Distinguished Educator 
2015 Appointed Learning and Engagement Coordinator (specialising in Project Based Learning) 
2014 http://www.heppell.net/12/ Professor Stephen Heppell's '12 reads of Christmas'......I'M NUMBER TWO!
2014 Appointed Project Based Learning Teacher Leader
2012 Selected to participate in the Leading School's program delivered by High Tech High Graduate School of Education, traveling to San Diego,California to work with educators from Canada, India and America.
2010 Inaugural member of new super school as Arts teacher specialising in Visual and Multimedia Arts. 

Smithfield Plains High School
2008/2009 
Senior Visual Arts (Photography, Craft, Arts and Design) Specialist teacher until the school closure at the end of 2009.
2007 
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Specialist Photography and Design teacher
Print Centre Leader and Teacher of certificate Two in Printing and Graphic Arts ( due to reduced funding the Print Centre closed at the end of 2007).

University of South Australia
2002 - 2007
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Specialisation) with Honours
Bachelor of Education (Middle and Secondary) 

presentations

2019 Teachers Big Day Out Presentation
2018 PBL 101 @ Panalatinga Partnership Presentation
2018 Empowering Educators in Experiential Learning @ Art Gallery of SA
2015 Make Learning Better @ Mark Oliphant College
2015 Project Based Learning at Mark Oliphant College with Kathleen Hoare @ Fremont Elizabeth High School
2015 History Teachers Association of SA Annual Conference 
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2014 Make Learning Better @ Mark Oliphant College
2014 Project Based Learning at Mark Oliphant College with Kathleen Hoare @ Henley Beach High School
2014 Project Based Learning at Mark Oliphant College with Lynne Symons & Kathleen Hoare 
for SA principals association @ EDC Hindmarsh
2013 Project Based Learning in the Arts @ Trinity College (Blakeview campus)
2013 Make Learning Better @ Mark Oliphant College
2013 Leading Schools Program @ High Tech High San Diego
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2019 Teachers Big Days Out Presentation

i'm an artist too....

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