Future Ready Skills

"Building Future Ready Skills and Innovator Mindsets"

Future Ready Skills are a mix of cognitive and interpersonal skills that primary and secondary students need to develop alongside fluencies in technologies, literacy and self-management as they prepare for success in rapidly changing society, work roles and daily life. The skills we include are Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity and Community. These skills map to the Australian Curriculum General Capabilities, Government and Industry priorities.

The resources in this site are designed to help teachers from Foundation to year 10 to teach and record progress in student development through skills progressions. The group of educators that have developed this framework gathered with Australian Schools Plus support to develop Robotics Clubs in Gosnells Western Australia. We quickly realised the importance of these skills for competition success and began capturing the skills progressions. Interest from other teachers has led us to develop supporting resources for the progressions and our schools district adopting our framework as a part of whole school pedagogies. 

Gosnells Robotics Clubs (GRC) is network of 9 public-school robotics clubs in the City of Gosnells, Perth Western Australia, dedicated to providing primary and secondary school with a pathway to learn STEM skills through robotics competition during their schooling years. The project goal is to empower participating schools and teachers to develop Future Ready Skills in their students.  The project is supported by Australian Schools Plus and runs from 2024 - 2026. GRC is led by Southern River College and Thornlie SHS. GRC partners schools are Ashburton Drive PS, Gosnells PS, Huntingdale PS, Seaforth PS, Yarralinka PS, South Thornlie PS, Yale PS and Wirrabirra PS.

GRC will support each school with resources, and teacher professional learning to develop their own Robotics Club as a co-curricular extension activity for their students to learn Future Ready Skills and experience belonging whilst competing in FIRST Robotics programs and competitions.