Headquarters:

300 Sayers Road, Truganina, Vic 3029

Year founded:

1867

Number of employees:

400

Phone:

03 9731 9444

Email:

info@westbournegrammar.vic.edu.au

Website:

westbournegrammar.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/school/909208

“When other people ask, ‘Why?’ we say, ‘Why not?’”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

Adrian Camm

Principal

Teagan Collins

Deputy Principal

Nicole Bradshaw

Director of Business

Innovation Leadership

Adrian Camm is the principal of Westbourne Grammar School and an executive director of the board. As an educator, he believes in harnessing the power of the collective to achieve extraordinary things for student learning by empowering people to reach their full potential. Camm has extensive experience in the governance of not-for-profit organisations. His engagement in the wider professional discourse has seen him share his vision for leading and learning with some of the most influential innovators and thinkers in education, business and industry, including Dr Edward de Bono, Daniel Dennett and Raymond Kurzweil. A strategist and digital transformation expert, Camm holds a master’s degree in education (leadership), recently completed his PhD and has been recognised with many state and national awards.

Principal

Adrian Camm

Deputy principal Teagan Collins is an accomplished and innovative educational leader with demonstrated experience working in diverse educational settings. She seeks to inspire and empower communities by focusing on quality learning and teaching, wellbeing and the development of young people as leaders and global citizens. She advocates for lifelong learning, a commitment that was recognised in 2022 when she was featured on The Educator’s Hot List in recognition of her work leading school-wide strategic initiatives and championing student experience, character and agency.

Deputy Principal

Teagan Collins

Director of business Nicole Bradshaw is commercially astute and forward-thinking. She has accumulated a wealth of business management and leadership experience in both independent schools and the private sector. She is strategically focused and has an exemplary track record in the delivery of all aspects of corporate services. Prior to commencing at Westbourne Grammar, Bradshaw spent 11 years at Mentone Grammar as director of business and COO. She is highly respected by her professional peers and is currently a non-executive director of several not-for-profit community boards and the immediate past president of the Association of School Business Administrators (Victorian chapter).

Director of Business

Nicole Bradshaw

“When other people ask, ‘Why?’ we say, ‘Why not?’”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

“People, Place and Programs is a very clear way to articulate how we approach the advancement of our school. People very deliberately come first in this. They must”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

Innovation Leadership

“People, Place and Programs is a very clear way to articulate how we approach the advancement of our school. People very deliberately come first in this. They must”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

“When other people ask, ‘Why?’ we say, ‘Why not?’”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

Innovation Leadership

Liam Bassett

Director of Digital Learning

Liam Bassett is the director of digital learning at Westbourne Grammar School, where he leads a high-performing team in enacting the school’s digital strategy. Over the last decade, he has pioneered significant initiatives, earning recognition as an Education Rising Star of the Year excellence awardee at the 2021 Australian Education Awards and being featured in The Educator’s Hot List 2022. With experience in wellbeing and teaching and learning roles, Bassett’s leadership in pedagogical change is grounded in trust, collaboration and evidence-based innovation. By focusing on creating a shared language around vision, he builds a team’s capacity for improvement and establishes opportunities for meaningful change.

Director of Digital Learning

Liam Bassett

Amrita Ahuja

Head of Senior School

Head of senior school Amrita Ahuja is an accomplished and results-driven educator with a strong desire to empower students to become independent and lifelong learners. She is committed to unleashing student potential by engaging with resources and tools to explore learning with a future-focused mindset. As a senior leader in the school, Ahuja works to ensure that all students experience a high-quality, balanced program of learning opportunities. She oversees both learning and wellbeing in senior school by actively fostering staff and student talent in a safe and supportive environment.

Head of Senior School

Amrita Ahuja

In keeping with its long history of success, Westbourne Grammar School, founded in 1867, has a future-focused mindset coupled with the courage to explore innovation. Principal Adrian Camm says, “When other people ask, ‘Why?’ we say, ‘Why not?’” Camm introduced three key strategic priorities to underpin this approach: People, Place and Programs. “People, Place and Programs is a very clear way to articulate how we approach the advancement of our school. People very deliberately come first in this. They must,” he says. To drive innovation forward, Camm has appointed over 45 staff members to oversee specific strategic projects, with committees, working parties and accelerator networks driving key goals and accountabilities. This distributed leadership approach builds capacity and creates a culture where people are free to take risks and innovate. These groups work alongside the executive committee, driving innovation and improvements and ensuring progress is monitored and approved at the highest levels. One unique element is the democratisation of decision-making (including the inclusion of senior students), which has been a significant factor in allowing change and innovation to accelerate.

“People, Place and Programs is a very clear way to articulate how we approach the advancement of our school. People very deliberately come first in this. They must”

Adrian Camm, Westbourne Grammar School

Emma Watters

Deputy Head of Junior School

Keith Schlosser

Global Chief Information Officer

Dan Draper

Group Chief Underwriting Officer

Simon Williams

Chief Strategy & Distribution Officer, Arch Insurance International and Active Underwriter, Syndicate 1955

Emma Watters is an innovative educator, an experienced teacher-researcher and a strong advocate for the Reggio-Emilia philosophy of education, Project Zero’s Cultures of Thinking and the Maker Movement. Prior to joining Westbourne, Watters was at The Geelong College, where she was leader of learning for Years 4–8 and was previously the numeracy curriculum coordinator PP-10 at Nyikina Mangala Community School at Jarlmadangah, WA. While at MMCS, she was awarded the Kate Mullin Prize for Excellence in Language and Literacy Outcomes for her work in leading the implementation of the Walker Learning Approach.

Deputy Head of Junior School

Emma Watters

Keith Schlosser is global chief information officer at AXIS Capital, where he leads the company’s global information technology and data strategy. He is also responsible for driving change throughout the organisation by delivering high-quality, future-oriented IT services in line with AXIS Capital’s business strategy. Schlosser has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, spanning roles in information technology, business solutions, marketing and sales. Prior to AXIS, he served as chief information officer for Chubb’s Overseas General Insurance division, where he spearheaded a number of growth, innovation, digital and change initiatives. Before that, he served as CIO at The Travelers Companies international division. Schlosser was also a vice president for marketing technology and web communications at AIG.

Global Chief Information Officer

Keith Schlosser

Dan Draper was appointed group chief underwriting officer in September 2022. He had previously served for more than two years as group head of underwriting at AXIS. Prior to that, he had been group chief risk and actuarial officer at VIBE. Before joining VIBE, Draper spent eight years with AXIS, holding a number of leadership roles that included group chief actuary, chief risk analytics officer, and insurance segment chief risk officer. Before that, he held managerial positions at the Financial Services Authority, XL Capital, and EY.

Group Chief Underwriting Officer

Dan Draper

Kimi leads the Estate Planning and Wealth Protection team and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She understands the complex and delicate nature of family estate planning, the technical requirements around probate and estate administration, and the importance of preserving wealth for future generations. Her advice is accurate, commercial, strategic and tailored to each situation.

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Kimi Shah

Partner

Kimi Shah

Partner

Kimi Shah

The school is leading conversations in education related to the use of artificial intelligence and data analytics. The power of both qualitative and quantitative data to transform student learning and wellbeing, financial and asset management and admissions and enrolments has been central to this. Having real-time data visibility and accessibility for all functions across the school has enabled faster, better and more informed decisions for teaching, learning, business and operations. Camm says, “The information provided through our data visualisations provides strategic business intelligence and is having an impact on all areas, enabling informed decision-making, redeployment of staff time into more important priorities and enabling more targeted spending of budgets for effective outcomes.” Marketing is a key area where innovation has flourished. Demographic data analysis and targeted digital advertising have delivered outstanding and enviable enrolment figures with Google Analytics on the traffic to the enrolment page to refine target marketing. The entire admissions process has been digitised to enable seamless integration and ease of customer access to enrolment.

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The director of digital learning, Liam Bassett, has led the implementation of the digital strategy’s key pillars through the development of professional capacity to apply technologies in classrooms and in all services in the school. It is a central component of the teaching and learning philosophy. Innovation plays a significant role in Westbourne’s classrooms. One example has been the design and introduction of the school’s new eSports studio. It develops skills across a range of subjects. “Schools need to continue to provide a foundational education to young people in a wide range of disciplines, ensuring they are highly literate and numerate and have a grounding in history, philosophy, ethics, music and sport, for example, and they also need to ensure they are providing contemporary options and pathways for young people. eSports, competitive gaming, game design and the use of virtual and augmented realities and technologies are critical parts of our offering moving into an increasingly digital future,” says Camm.