WORK EXPERIENCE WAS TRULY WONDERFUL!
One week. Dozens of employers. Endless learning.
Our Y10 students completed their work experience week — and what a week it was!
From first-day nerves to final-day confidence, we were proud to see students grow in resilience, professionalism, and curiosity.
Students were helping in gyms and supporting reading in primary classrooms, pitching marketing ideas in advertising agencies and leading workshops in museums, baking bread, testing new cake recipes and prepping for the lunch service in a busy restaurant, servicing bikes, booking appointments, curating exhibitions, editing video reels, working in the dark room developing pictures, preparing legal bundles and acquisition reports and even sitting in on meetings.
Every single experience has added a piece to their picture of the working world.
Read some of the students’ feedback and see them at work here...
WHAT DID YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT YOUR PLACEMENT?
“Doing my work experience at the museum taught me that I do want to work with children and enjoy supporting their learning. I loved moving to different sites for activities and being independent in how I carried out activities. I enjoyed communicating with adults and having my views and ideas valued.”
“Loved everything …developing images, screen printing and being in the studio.”
“WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE STUDENTS GOING ON THEIR WORK EXPERIENCE NEXT YEAR?
"Would advise students to do their research before they go and be clear about where they need to be and by when and how to get there.”
To our incredible employers: THANK YOU.
To the amazing parents and carers doing the morning drop-offs and keeping students going with packed lunches, home-cooked evening dinners and words of encouragement when tiredness crept in: THANK YOU!
To our GREAT students who said “yes” to something new (even if it meant wearing a name badge all week): THANK YOU.
We have loved hearing your stories — and we are excited to see how these experiences shape your next steps.
Thanks for all this Ms Nembhard and all that you did for our students, staff and parents throughout the whole programme.
