Work Experience

Work experience provides a powerful tool for the development of young people, providing many students with the opportunity to excel in different and demanding circumstances doing much for many individuals’ self-esteem. Work experience provides students with the opportunity to find out what it is like having to go to work everyday rather than being a student coming to school and can help them to have a clearer idea of what type of job or career they would like to have in the future. They are encouraged to develop team-working, time-keeping and communication skills as well as using their initiative and facing new challenges. Work experience often helps students to get a job later on when they have left school or possibly a part time job while they are still at school as well as Sixth Form, College and University applications.

Students in Key Stage 4 are provided with information about a wide range of virtual work experience opportunities which they can complete to further develop their interest in particular subject or employment sectors as well a their understanding of the world of work. In person work experience for Year 10 will be returning for students in the summer term 2025 with more information to follow.

Year 12 students also undertake a week long work experience placement in the summer term to further develop their knowledge and understanding of the world of work and to help inform their future plans.