As part of the Careers Education and Work Related Learning Programme in school, we will be organising a period of one week’s work experience for the whole of year 10. Students will be allocated their dates for work experience during the Spring Term. These will be either week commencing Monday 18 June or Monday 25 June 2012.

The students are given information on employer requirements and how work experience relates to the work of work. The allocation process will begin in February. Students will be given a letter with a parental consent form. Parental consent must be given before any student is allowed to go on work experience. Students will also receive a self-canvass form which they will need to get competed if they wish to provide their own placement.

Students will be able to apply for placements on the new S-cool system. Training on how to use this system will be given during the spring term.

http://wex.s-cool.co.uk/learner

Please be aware that whilst we make every effort to try and get students their first or second choice of work placement, this is not always possible. Work areas such as sport, electrical, construction, motor vehicle, journalism/media, veterinary and accountancy are particularly difficult to obtain. Therefore we recommend that any students wishing to work in these areas try to obtain their own placements using the self-canvass forms. All self-canvass forms need to be returned by the deadline given as all placements need to be approved by the Humber Education Business Partnership and this process can sometimes take up to six weeks.

We have built a good reputation with employers over the years and we do expect our students to be ambassadors for the school and to show excellent behaviour and attitude.