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All Year 11 students spend two weeks on work experience after the GCSE examinations are over at the end of the summer term. Work experience is an ever increasing important part of the all round education of students in the school, and further education establishments and employers are putting more emphasis on the value of this.
Students are encouraged to seek a work placement in a company or business that interests them and this is arranged by the students themselves and co-ordinated in school by Mrs Marjory Morris who is in charge of careers. Work experience can be arranged locally, in London, elsewhere in the UK or abroad providing that students can easily get to their work place each day and parents are happy to pay the cost of transport or accommodation.
Students write their own application letters and enclose their cv and, once written acceptance has been received, the placement is secured via the school. The school has a large file of potential companies and businesses willing to take students on work experience during this two week period in the summer.
For many students work experience is a valuable chance to try out life beyond school and an opportunity to witness the working world.
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