Work Experience
Work experience for Year 10 Students 2023/2024 will take place from Monday 22nd January to Friday 26th January 2024.
Brompton Academy firmly believes that work experience plays a crucial part in helping young people make decisions about their future careers. It also develops skills that are vital in the modern labour market. Work experience is an integral part of the school’s wider programme of careers education and work related learning.
The Work Experience process – Year 10
All students in Year 10 will be expected to undertake a one-week placement in January. The process begins during the previous autumn with an assembly and is followed up in PPD lessons. We work very closely with Medway Education Business Partnership which is responsible for the health and safety of each placement. Although students are encouraged to source their own placement, formal checks will still be carried out before a student is placed. Problems at this stage are rare, but where a placement is found to be unsuitable, the student will not be able to attend the placement and an alternative will be sought.
Students unable to find their own placement, can pick from a bank of employers that MEBP provide. Again, all will be health and safety checked to ensure they are suitable for a student to attend.
Further lessons are delivered during bespoke PPD programmes to prepare the students for their experience.
Immediately prior to the work experience placements taking place, students will be provided with diaries for recording their experiences in. This is a compulsory activity as the diaries help students to reflect on their learning in the work place, and may use some of the information in future job applications. As part of the planning process, students are expected to set realistic targets for themselves in their diaries and achieve each one of them.
During the Placement
Students must take their diaries with them every day. During the course of the week most students will receive a personal welfare visit from a member of the schools staff. Placements that are further away will receive a check up telephone call. This is to make sure everything is going well for both the student and employer.
If a student is unable to attend for a legitimate reason on a particular day during the week’s placement, they are expected to notify both the employer and the school first thing in the morning.
Evaluation
In the week following placements, students will work in their tutor groups to complete the evaluation sections of their diaries and to collectively plan and give a presentation to the remainder of their form groups. All diaries are taken in and reviewed before being returned to students. All students who attend a placement will receive a certificate of completion with the chance of working towards a Certificate of Excellence.
Important information
Students are encouraged to find their own placements, but must still inform the school of where they are going to allow vetting.
Placements that fail the health and safety check will not be allowed to go ahead.
