Work Experience

Year 10 Work Experience 9-13 March 2026

Work experience is an exciting opportunity for students to learn about the world of work before leaving school. It also provides an opportunity to develop key employability skills, such as teamwork, communication and problem solving that are highly valued in the workplace. 

To facilitate this, support with finding and applying for work experience forms a large part of the PSHE and Tutor programme for Term 2. A detailed booklet has been emailed to parents and carers and is available to all students on Google classroom. In the booklet, you will find email templates to edit and send to employers, contact details for local businesses that students may contact and a guide to uploading a placement on Unifrog once it has been agreed. Although we do everything we can to support students with finding placements, we cannot find work experience for them and warmly encourage them to ask around their own family and community networks for help.

Around 80% of students were able to find placements for March this 2025, with some placements such as those with the British Army, University of Bristol and Bristol Zoo Project taking place later in the year. We are also very excited that 6 students will be going to our twin town of Gauting in Germany where they will be undertaking placements in a primary school, secondary school or a hotel for a week in June.

Work experience can be a chance for students to try out a career that they are interested in, but this is not the only benefit. For those who are not yet sure what career path they would like to follow, or for those where it is not possible to gain direct experience, work experience is an opportunity to find out about and develop skills for the world of work in general. Any experience is good experience! If you or the company you work for would like to offer placements in the future, please do get in touch.

For a presentation about last year’s work experience, please click HERE