Dear Parent / Guardian

Work experience week 1-5 July

I hope this letter finds you all well and that your young person continues to thrive at College.

As you will know our first year students have their work experience week from 1 July. This is where they will either complete an in-person placement or virtual/ or both. Most students are completing 3 days during that week.

This is just a quick update on where students should be with their planning of work experience:

• By February half-term: Completed aform to let the Careers team know if they need more help or have found a placement. Careers are currently working through the responses sending them advice and ideas.
• By Easter: have started to firm up their placement ideas or virtual.
• Between Easter and May half-term: They should be using the work experience placement tool on Unifrog to log their placement. They only need to use this placement tool if their in-person placement is during term time. If it is in the holidays it is not necessary.
• By May half-term: all placements should be confirmed and logged.

WEX placement tool:

Students know how to use the placement tool. Here is a userguide in case you want to help.

The students know that they need to let the employer know that they will receive an email from Unifrog. They then upload their insurance and risk assessment. An email is then sent to you as the parent/guardian to agree the placement and then we sign off.

I hope this helps to clarify the position with placements.

Best wishes

Jo Hambleton, Assistant Principal