| Hopefully by now all parents of our Year 10 students are
aware that their children will be taking part in the Work
Experience fortnight which runs from 9th July until 19th July
2007 (the students are expected back in School on Friday 20th
July for a short de-briefing).
Of the 213 students in Year 10, 143 have found their own
work placements and 59 of them have had placements found
for them using the Education Bradford Work Experience database.
The remaining students have work organised for them by local
colleges. These placements are now being vetted by Education
Bradford and in the case of the ones booked direct from
the database, these employers are being asked if they will
take students from Priesthorpe. Some of the employers will
turn down the students, not because of the students themselves,
but often because they are no longer taking work experience
students or because they have had too many already this
year! All of these students will be found alternative placements.
Before the students go out on their placements they will
be given a form which needs to be signed by themselves,
their parents and their employer. Once these signed documents
are returned to school the students can attend their placement.
Some students will find that something they thought they
wanted to do when they left school is something that they
don't want to do after all, some may even get Saturday jobs
or be invited back to apply for a job when they leave school.
Overall the students should find this a very useful experience.
Mrs Bentley
Work Experience
Administrator
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