Willy Pike gained her Diploma of Teaching in Adelaide and taught for some years at Education Department schools in South Australia.
After a break from teaching to raise her children, she started at Rehoboth’s Yangebup campus as an education assistant and then as an early childhood teacher. After the closure of the Yangebup campus, she transferred to Rehoboth's Wilson campus in 2002 as an education assistant in Kindy. Mrs Pike became the Pre-Primary teacher at Kenwick campus when the primary school was opened in 2005, and was head of primary from 2010 to 2015. Mrs Pike became the principal at the Wilson campus in 2016.