Year 10 Work Experience
There has been a range of different jobs to experience this week. Some have been in School, such as the ones that people have in the kitchens or in textiles or even ones in the careers or marketing offices.
Most students found work placements outside of School, ranging from professional companies to primary schools, engineering companies to hospitality and more. Overall, everyone, this week has had the chance to experience what it is like to work in a position for a week and to help build the skills they need for their future working world.
Many people have advanced in communication skills as they have had to talk to colleagues or customers when working in a service position. Overall feedback from employers has been clear in the fact that the students are all organised and have been developing their skills and becoming more confident.
Before the week started, students were given a work experience booklet to fill out and to track their experience to check what they are learning and how they have been getting along. Over the week a member of staff has either phoned or in-person checked in on each student to fill in a work placement check to see how they have been getting on and to see from the employer how the student has been doing in their position, it has been nothing but helpful feedback so far.
Students in a more practical line of work such as in the Art department here in School or from outside in places such as estate agents and doing viewings have all had feedback saying that they have been organised and ready to get on to their tasks.
Of course, with work has come some boring tasks every now and again, yet the students have persevered, and no one has given up as they have returned and given it another go in the future.
Overall, it has been a very successful week for students, and they have learnt a lot of skills that they can now bring into their own lives or even in the classroom such as communication, organisation, filing, or other life skills.
They have also learnt how to do tasks that they may have never had a go at before, for example, in the equestrian centre, a student has learnt how to care for horses and in places such as the library, a student learnt how to file books in the correct order and how to go about it.
It has been an experience for Year 10 this week (and very quiet in school) that hopefully will transfer into them learning what their interests are for the future and how that translates into a job.
Noya Sayers (Year 10)
