Future Ready

Year 7 - NHS

Pupils have their first introduction to careers at The Royal through Future Ready. With more than 350 potential careers pupils discover a multitude of jobs and understand one thoroughly. They produce a job advertisement highlighting the research completed and skills/qualifications/experience the job requires and are entered into the national competition.

Year 8 - First Aid

Pupils are introduced to some core first aid principles which will make them future ready for all environments. Pupils are taught through videos and demonstrations, as well as practical scenarios that they are most likely to face in day to day life.

Year 9 - Escape Rooms

Recently, Ben in Year 9 received an academic distinction for his incredible piece of work. He had the whole class fully engaged with his interactive computer programme which he coded himself from scratch. Fortunately, with the pressure on, the class managed to escape within the timeframe! Here are some of the intellectual obstacles that Ben put in our way, would you be able to get the key?! 

Year 10 - Dragon's Den

Pupils are given a business challenge. The brief is as follows: your team is tasked with creating a future proof product/business that is customer centric and inclusive.  It must be pitched to Dragons with a view to making your idea happen. Financial costing will need to be considered and justified.

Pupils are tasked with research and idea development. Where will they draw inspiration from, can they solve a long existing day to day issue with a simple creation?  

Once they have their vision, pupils need to consider how it can be created, timeframes, associated costs, the market that they are looking to target and how they would advertise it. How will you look to ‘sell’ your product to the Dragons? How will you present it? Perhaps through an advert utilising the school's TV studio?  And of course, what will it be called...?!

Year 11 - Morrisby and Careers Workbook

Having completed the Morrisby online tool, which has been created to help pupils make choices around potential subjects to study moving forward, courses that could be worth pursuing and where might be a good place to study them, pupils have recently been completing a careers workbook. This workbook has a series of small tasks and useful information to help the Year 11s with the decisions and choices they will soon be having to make. It is a 30 page bespoke document by our Careers Advisor, Mrs Fry. 

Year 12 - University Life 

Pupils in Year 12 have been looking at all things University. How can a Student Union support and add value to University life, what clubs and societies are on offer and how can I access them? As well as budgeting, including healthy eating. 

Year 13 - Car Maintenance

A new addition to the Future Ready offering this academic year was the car maintenance module. With a good number of pupils now able to drive, this improved pupils' confidence and knowledge as regards what to do if you were unfortunate enough to break down. This was delivered through lesson based scenarios, as well as practical hands on experience with pupils investigating the workings of their own vehicles or a school vehicle. After covering car maintenance before Christmas, two pupils returned from the holidays saying they had to put their new found knowledge to the test unfortunately, but at least were in a better place to do so.