Work Experience takes place between Monday 25th June Friday 29th June 2012. Below you will find a comprehensive guide all about the work experience process.
What are the benefits of Work Experience?
Work experience gives you an insight into the working world: it allows you to gain practical knowledge and employability skills, it helps you to learn what you like and what you don’t like doing. There are thousands of different jobs that you may do when you are older and not all pupils know which career path they would like to follow when they leave school. Work Experience gives you the opportunity to learn more about the jobs available in the organisation you will be attending. Many pupils make valuable contacts within the industry they would like to work in. Past pupils have gained apprenticeships and part-time jobs from their work experience placements. A successful placement will result in a good reference for your Progress File in Year 11.
What is the procedure?
Pupils will be briefed in their coaching groups and assemblies in January 2011. They will be given a light green work experience form which gives them the opportunity to state their ideal work experience placement. This form should be returned to their coach no later than 31st January 2012: please ensure that the form is filled in on both sides as the reverse of the form informs us of vital medical information e.g. if you have asthma or suffer from allergies then a placement with animals may not be appropriate. There are several job categories to choose from and pupils are asked to rank their top three preferences. The school cannot guarantee all pupils will obtain a place at their ideal choice but we will endeavour to try our best.
There is a section where you can state which towns you will be able to travel to and from for your placement: this gives us a wider area from which to secure your ideal placement. However, many pupils prefer to source their own work experience so they get their first choice of placement.
Pupils who wish the school to provide a placement will be a allocated a position as close to the pupils’ requirements as possible. Places will be allocated by May 2012 and pupils will be given a blue form which acts a contract between the pupil, parent and employer. These blue forms should be signed and returned by mid-June.
Pupils receive a health and safety briefing in either assembly or coaching. During their placement they will be visited by someone from Ribblesdale to check their progress.
How do I organise a self-placement?
Pupils may obtain a dark green self placement form from their coach or from Student Services. This form must be signed by an employee at the organisation where the self placement is to take place who will be responsible for you during the placement. A copy of the Employers’ Liability Insurance must be returned to school together with the self placement form. The school will not undertake any health and safety visits to any establishment without a copy of the Employers’ Liability Insurance; if the health and safety visit is not carried out then we cannot allow pupils to take up the placement. The deadline for receiving self placement forms is 31st January 2012.
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