Re: Year 10 Work Experience Students in Primary Schools

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:14:01 +0100, Dennis <dennis@Fake> wrote:

For the last 3, and the next 1 week, we have had at least 1, usually 2 Year 10
students in school (Primary) on Work experience for a week. These students have
come from 3 different schools. Nobody from the comps have come to see the
students, asked about them by phone or given any indication that the comp is
interested in them at all. I've completed the end of week assessment books and
given them back to the students concerned. It seems to me the students are just
being placed with us at a difficult time of the year to get them to attend
school, and sadly some of them (most in fact) don't really want to be with us at
all.
I'm tempted to raise the supervision / motivation issue with the comps involved,
but I'm sure it would not go down very well. Is my experience a typical one, or
are we unlucky ?

I wouldn't know how typical this is, but all of our students (from FE
college) were either visited or phoned or both during their work
experience. We find it useful to visit the companies who are generous
enough to take them on - a bit of networking and finding out what
happens in the "real world". We didn't place any students in schools
this year, but I can distinctly remember visiting primary schools in
previous years where our students (specially selected for an interest
in helping young children) had a wonderful time.
.

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