This document provides instructions and guidance for students participating in a work experience placement. It outlines tasks for students to complete before, during, and after their placement, including filling out placement details, making a pre-placement phone call, keeping a daily diary, completing a skills self-assessment, asking for employer and teacher feedback, and writing a thank you letter for their employer. The goal is for students to gain employability skills, demonstrate their skills development, and get feedback to support their future career development.

1. Frome College
Optional Yr10 Work Experience 2015
Pre Work Experience Session

2. Congratulations!Congratulations!
Well done on getting yourself a work experienceWell done on getting yourself a work experience
placement.placement.

3. Before you go out, there are a few things youBefore you go out, there are a few things you
need to complete in order to maximise theneed to complete in order to maximise the
experience.experience.
Let’s get started!Let’s get started!

4. Complete all placement details.
Use your iPads if you need to look up phone
numbers or addresses.
Placement Details pg 2

5. Before you start your work experience, make sure
you know exactly what time to arrive and what to
wear, along with all the other details involved in
your working day.
Make a phone call to your employer before you
start work experience on July 6th
.
Pre-placement phone call pg 4

6. You should already know most of the information
about your placement from when you arranged it.
Fill out the details on this page now.
If you don’t remember the details, complete the rest
of it after your pre-placement phone call.
Information about my placement pg 6

7. Work experience is a brilliant opportunity to
demonstrate and develop your employability skills
for your application to Post16, your CVs, applying for
part-time work or for your Rotary interview in July.
Write how you have already shown your skills and
how work experience might help you to develop
your skills further.
Skills pg 8

8. Read this. Using social media at work can get you in
to a lot of ‘hot water’. Consider what you are posting
and how it will reflect on you as an individual and a
future employee.
The best advice is not to use social media on your
work experience placement.
Using social media at work pg 9

9. Read this too. Accidents can happen anywhere, at
anytime. You should be given a health and safety
briefing on the first day of your work experience.
If you don’t get a health and safety talk, ask for one
– it could save you from getting hurt.
Health and Safety pg 10

10. It is important to keep a record of what you do each
day – it’s very likely this will feed directly in to your
application to Post16, CVs and Rotary interviews.
You will have developed so many skills in the time
you are out. Celebrate your achievement!
Diary entries pg’s 12-17

11. At the end of your placement, complete the skills
assessment to evidence your progress.
This information will feed in to work you will be
doing in Yr11. It will also help us to support you on
your career journey.
Skills Self-Assessment pg 18

12. You will have made a very positive impact on your
employer by the end of your work experience. They
will be more than pleased to give you some good
feedback.
Ask the employer to complete the Employer
Assessment on your last day of the placement.
Employer Assessment pg 19

13. Please take the time to say a massive thank you to
your employer. They have taken time away from their
business to help you develop your skills and
experience the world of work.
You never know, you may end up working for them
one day.
LAST DAY OF PLACEMENT

14. Use the proforma on this page to write a thank you letter
to your employer.
Bring your letter in to school with you on Monday July
13th
, give it to your tutor and we can send it to your
placement for you.
If you need help formatting a formal letter, look here
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/general_resources/literacy/formallet
THANK YOU LETTER pg23

15. Your parents or guardian will certainly have noticed a
change in you since you entered the world of work.
We’d like to hear what they have to say as well.
Please ask your parent(s) / guardian(s) to make some
comments on their experience of your work
placement.
Parent / Guardian Comments pg 21

16. Your parents or guardian will certainly have noticed a
change in you since you entered the world of work.
We’d like to hear what they have to say as well.
Please ask your parent(s) / guardian(s) to make some
comments on their experience of your work
placement.
Parent / Guardian Comments pg 21

17. Your tutor or another member of staff at the college
will have spoken to your employer during your work
experience week about your success.
They will give you their feedback. Please attach it
here.
Teacher Comments pg 22

18. ENJOY YOUR WEEK!
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