Re: Year 10 Work Experience Students in Primary Schools


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Liz burbled:

I don't think the secondary schools can force it on you.

But did they consult primary schools, or was it one-sided?

It's like any other workplace.
If you don't want a student, you say 'No.'

The politics involved in the relationships between schools don't always
make that so easy to do in practice though.

True, maybe we're lucky that we can say what we will and will not accept,
and that the secondaries are pretty supportive of that.

I still think primary schools should have been consulted before
secondary schools came up with this brilliant babysitting scheme.

It wasn't started by secondaries AFAIK. It is a scheme called Trident (round
here anyway) and I don't know if that's a government thing or a charity.
Just looked it up:
http://www.thetridenttrust.org.uk/work_experience/services.asp
And the kids choose where they want to work. My eldest went to a
hairdresser's and my youngest to an accountant's firm. Both have ended up
doing that, but often they are sent to other places to give them wider
experience.
In schools it is supposed to be *work*, be it with a teacher, TA, cook, site
manager or whatever (tricky to use the school sec cos so much would be
confidential).
If it is 'babysitting' it is as much the primary school's fault as anyone's
as they are responsible for deciding what the student is to do. And if the
student doesn't work out then the secondary should be spoken to straight
away.

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Ellie


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