Year 10 Work Experience Evening

This was a well attended and vibrant event. The hall was full of interested and supportive parents keen to ask questions about the work experience process.

Liz Wood kicked off the evening with a review of the importance of the work experience process. This was followed up by Carley Irving outlining the actual process and showing the parents the helpyouchoose.org website which is the Norfolk Careers Portal as well as our own Careers Zone on the website. 

Peter Sewell mentioned the 'raising of the participation age' which means that all our young people will need to stay in some sort of training/education until they are 17 years of age.  He also mentioned the work of the Year 10 Parents Focus group which next meets on 1 March at 9.30am. There will be a parents blog available on the Year 10 Parent Zone in the near future as well as the KS4 Curriculum Map.

Parents and their children then moved into the computer suites where they had the opportunity to complete a current CV, covering letter and look at the websites mentioned earlier in the evening.

I think everyone that attended got something valuable from the evening.

Pete Sewell
Head of Year 10