As a reminder, all students in Year 10 and Year 12 have the opportunity to be on work experience from 7th- 11th July. Due to limited resources, students (supported by their families) should source their own work experience placements.

These placements could be direct with an employer, parent, guardian, family friend or connection.

Congratulations to those who have already found placements.

If your child has not yet secured a placement, please encourage and support them as we need all pavements loaded onto the system by 28th April. We find that doing some research on business directories, popping into local businesses, making some calls and sending emails usually help find the placement.

We are using Unifrog (www.unifrog.org) to manage the administration of the work experience programme. Placements need to be added onto Unifrog once  all information has been gained.

Some important logistics:

  • Students need to agree the placement with the employer first, and then students will get the ball rolling by adding the placement to their Unifrog account (they’ll find the Placements tool on their Unifrog homepage). All placement information must be submitted by 28th April. The system need fully completed information to process – some information you will need to know:
    • School/college placement coordinator name is Miss Tranter, Careers
    • Name of business / organisation
    • Start and End dates – 7th - 11th July
    • Employer placement lead name and email address
    • Business / organisation phone number
    • Placement address
  • The Unifrog system will then email the employer, the parent / guardian, and the school, to collect the necessary information and permissions. These emails come from [email protected]. please ask the employer to reply to this email promptly to enable the placement approval. For the process to work, it’s essential that students add the initial information about the placement accurately.

Finding out more:

  • Unifrog have created a set of guides about placements which you can find here.
  • Within this set of guides, this is the best one to start with (it includes a short animation of how the whole process works).
  • Next we recommend looking at this one, because it includes advice on how to find a placement.

Next steps:

  • Please support your child to find a placement of their choice
  • Please support your child to upload the placement details on www.unifrog.org

We wish you the best of luck with supporting your child to find a placement. Please do make use of Unifrog’ s guides help you.