For Schools · Principals & Deputies

The biggest story in Australia
is right outside your gates.

Western Australia powers this country. Ground Up WA is how a school teaches that story — honestly, at every year level from 5 to 10, without adding a single hour to your staff's load.

This is Western Australia

Your students are growing up on ground the world depends on.

More than half of the nation's goods exports leave from this state. The largest resources operations on earth run within its borders. And yet most Western Australian students finish school unable to name a single pathway into the industry that shapes the economy around them — not because they aren't interested, but because no one ever showed them.

Teaching this is not promoting an industry. It is teaching place. A Western Australian education that never engages with what Western Australia actually does is incomplete — and the schools that close that gap are doing something the rest of the country will eventually copy.

$230B+

of resources exported from WA every year

WA Dept. of Mines, 2024

47%

of Australia's entire mining workforce is here

135,693

people directly employed — a record, and still growing

AREEA Workforce Forecast

Teachers collaborating over rock specimens

For Your Staff

Content your teachers will want to teach.

Ground Up WA was built by a teacher with more than twenty years in Western Australian classrooms — which is why it respects the one resource your staff never have enough of: time.

Every unit arrives finished — lesson sequences, slides, student workbooks, assessment rubrics.

Aligned to the revised WA Curriculum, mandated from 2026 — arriving exactly when your staff are re-planning anyway.

One page of guidance per unit. No preparation beyond it.

Real WA content — real sites, real workers, real salary data — not sanitised industry brochureware.

Students on site at a Western Australian resources operation

For Your Students

From wonder in Year 5 to a plan in Year 10.

Twenty-three units across six years, each one building on the last: awe at what lies beneath this state, honest reckoning with what extraction costs, real economics through live commodity markets, the hard questions about climate and Country faced without flinching — and finally, a documented personal pathway every student pitches to a real industry panel before they leave.

The program earns students' trust by refusing to sell to them. Year 6 asks whether land can be restored. Year 9 debates whether a resources powerhouse can lead on climate. Students respect content that respects them — and the pathways they discover along the way are ones almost none of them knew existed.

Leading From the West

The first schools set the standard.

The pilot cohort is small and deliberate. The schools in it will shape how the program grows, stand inside its evidence base, and be the ones other schools visit when this becomes what every Western Australian school does. It costs a school nothing to be part of the pilot — except the decision to move first.

Get in touch

Schools and partners — start the conversation.

Whether you are a school interested in the Year 7 pilot or an organisation exploring partnership, send a message and it comes straight to the founder.