All students in Year 10 will take part in a work experience week from 27th-31st January 2025. 

Work experience is a fantastic opportunity for all students to learn about the world of work, explore different career paths and develop their key skills. We know it can be one of the most transformational experiences young people have during their education. 

Students (and their families) should source their own work experience placements. The Careers team in school will make time to see students who need support finding a placement.

Last year students were involved in a variety of industry areas.

We had fantastic feedback from employers after last year's work experience week and were very proud of our students.

We are using a company called Unifrog (www.unifrog.org) to manage the administration of the work experience programme – for example, collecting information from the employer about their Risk Assessment and Health & Safety policy and getting your agreement for the placement to go ahead.  

 Some important logistics:  

• Students need to agree the placement with the employer first, and then students will get the ball rolling by adding the placement to their Unifrog account (see below)

• The Unifrog system will then email the employer, the parent / guardian, and the school, to collect the necessary information and permissions.

 Finding out more: 

• Unifrog have created a set of guides about placements which you can find here.  
• Within this set of guides, this is the best one to start with (it includes a short animation of how the whole process works).