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Year 10 & 12 WORK EXPERIENCE
The Cecil Jones Academy offers its students the opportunity to complete a one week work experience placement in Years 10 and 12, which targets Gatsby Benchmark 6. This provides students with the opportunity to sample a working environment and develop new skills in order to assist their future career decisions or support their application to college and university.
Students will experience the difference between a school and job related working environments. They will work with a range of people across differing age groups, thus developing students’ self-confidence. It is believed that through completing work experience, students will gain a greater understanding of business and enterprise skills.
The school ensures that, before a placement occurs, a work experience form has been completed to ensure control measures are in place to reduce any known risks. If the school deems a placement to be high risk, then an alternative placement will be sought. Students must hand their work experience form to the careers coordinator Mr Seward to be forwarded to the BEP Group, who are organising the work experience programme, by the agreed deadlines, to ensure suitable time is available to complete these checks.
Students can find their own placements in line with their career aspirations 0r choose a placement from the BEP portal once they become available in April.
Aims
The main objectives of work experience for Year 12 students are:
- To allow students to experience and understand how commerce and industry operate.
- To experience the difference between the working and school environments.
- To help students see the relevance of school subjects to the world of work.
- To help students gain greater self-confidence and maturity.
- To enable students to find placements that are related to the career/university course they are considering and also to their subjects, while hopefully increasing their motivation.
- To allow them to prepare for their personal statement for their UCAS form for university applications/CV for the workplace.
- To practice new skills, including soft skills like communication and team working
Key Dates for 2025-26
- The work experience week will be Monday 8th June 2026 to Friday 12th June 2026
