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Timeline - Work Experience

December

6th Form

Form Tutors receive guidance booklet

January

Assembly 1, Y10 Introduction to Work Experience
Consultation with Form Tutors, Heads of House and Work Experience Co-ordinator re: vulnerable students and students that may raise concerns if participating in work experience
Letters sent home explaining work experience and Parents booklet 1
Form Tutors to speak generally during tutor time about the prospect of work experience and the sourcing of individual placements

February

Students complete “Application Form” and “Student Information for Placements” and “Contract”. Must include parents signature
Self Canvassed placements DEADLINE end of February. NO SELF CANVASSED PLACEMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED AFTER THIS
DEADLINE for all forms – END FEBRUARY

March

Health and Safety presentation for work experience to all Y10. If students absent, additional training will be required
Additional interviews for specific and high demand placements may be necessary

April

Assembly 2, Y10 Work Experience to include additional Health & Safety training
Students matched to placements
Students and Tutors informed of placements
Letter sent home with details of placement, risk assessment, Parents booklet 2 and parental permission forms.
Great Expectations and Be Safe booklets given out during tutor time. Form Tutor to assist completion of relevant pages in booklet
Within tutor time, Y11 encouraged to talk to Y10 about their placement and experiences last year.

May

Students write a CV and a letter of application to placement during English lessons. Students take responsibility for sending these letters.
On receipt of Parental Permission Slip, work experience journals given out during tutor time. Form Tutor to assist completion of relevant pages in booklet
EYMS Bus passes available to collect
Students withdrawn from placements if paperwork not returned or non attendance of health and safety sessions

June

Assembly 3, Final preparation for work experience
Form Tutor access signposted for student placements and their contact details
Highlight importance of work experience journal as a record for future use
Complete initial preparatory pages of journal
Encourage students to think carefully about their area of work
Check that CV’s and letters have been sent to placements by students. Encourage, coax and cajole!
Check that students have contacted their placement by phone. Stress they must make personal contact before they go, as some placements request and additional interview.
Check that students have made travel arrangements.
Form Tutors to visit or at least telephone the students work place to assess how things are going. This has 2 purposes; 1) to let the student know that we are monitoring them, 2) to indicate to the employers who offer work placements that we appreciate and value their contribution to our work experience programme.
Emphasise the importance of the work experience journal as a means of keeping a record of their activities

July

On completion of work experience ask Y10 to prepare a short presentation to give to the whole tutor group on the highlights (and possibly amusing bits) of their experience. This will help raise awareness of work experience with younger students too.
Complete and discuss evaluation section in journals
Online evaluation form for students
Evaluation forms to a sample of parents/employers/form tutors
Evaluative focus group for work experience

I just wanted the opportunity to thank you and all your staff for making our daughter’s first year at Driffield School such a successful and enjoyable experience. Since starting last September we have been impressed by the feedback from your staff in way of letters, postcards, praise and encouragement for our daughter. it is very much appreciated.

Parents of Year 7 student

I am writing to congratulate the Year 10 and Year 11 students who volunteered to take part in the mock interview process today which I was part of…. Students had taken time to do preparation work and the effort to look at the part of an interviewee. The students were a credit to the school and their parents. They were eloquent, enthusiastic and asked pertinent and searching questions of the interviewers.

Business Mentor

I would like to pass on our compliments to the staff for their positive input over the last term and a half. We are very pleased with our daughter’s progress and significant improvement in many subjects.

Parent of Y10 student

My wife and I were delighted to be able to obtain tickets for the Saturday performance of 42nd Street. We wish to applaud all those involved in the brilliant show – not just the main characters, tap dancers and singers, but the excellent musicians and their two teachers; the remarkably efficient scene shifters; and all of your staff responsible for a really professional production.

Parent of student

I am writing to thank Driffield School and the Sports Department for their help and support during 2007. We ran four very successful school biathlons (run/swim) in Driffield. Thank you for your continued support.

British Pentathlon Development Officer

We are delighted with our daughter's transfer to Driffield School. She is enthusiastic about everything - her lessons, teachers and the other students - she never stops talking about them when she gets home. It is lovely to see her re-discovering her enjoyment of school life. Thank you for all your help and support with this.

Parent of Year 10 student

My daughter has just completed her A Levels and has now left Driffield School. However, I couldn’t let the occasion go without writing to thank you and your school for looking after her and giving her such a fine education – and more. Her splendid ‘A’ Level results stand testimony to hard work on her part and a lot of effort, encouragement and perseverance from her teachers.

Parent of Year 13 student

I would just like to know how much I enjoyed Driffield School’s production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The singing, notably from pupils in the lead parts, was fabulous. The acting in every case was excellent as was the musical accompaniment from the orchestra. Well done to all involved for supporting and encouraging the students in this way.

Parent of a student

On behalf of the President and members of Driffield Rotary Club, I write to thank the school for the cheque for £456.63, donated to go towards the cost of rebuilding the school in Sri Lanka destroyed by the Tsunami. It was very generous of the school’s Student Council to agreed to give the proceeds from the non-uniform in July to this very worthwhile project.

The International Committee of the Rotary Club

May I take this opportunity to thank your staff for a wonderful trip to Cork with the Driffield School Swing Band. The students were impeccable in all respects and a credit to the school and their teachers.

Parent of a student

We wish to place on record our sincere thanks, and would ask you to pass on our gratitude to all the members of staff who taught our daughter, particularly in the past two ‘A’ Level years.

Parent of Year 13 student

Driffield School is a vibrant community where teachers and students work hard and achieve well.

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In this increasingly effective school, standards are rising and have been consistently above average for the last three years.

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Parents speak well of the dedication and enthusiasm of the staff. They appreciate the way in which students are welcomed into the school and give a chance to reach their full potential.

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Students themselves say that they enjoy the huge range of opportunities open to them and feel well cared for.

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Students are confident, articulate and enthusiastic. Students of all ages mix well together because of the tutor system, which puts students of different ages in mixed tutor groups.

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Sixth Form students play an important role helping younger students to enjoy and take full part in the life of the school.

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Teachers have high expectations of what students can do and make these clear.

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Driffield takes good care of its students... Students work hard to reach increasingly challenging targets.

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This is a very successful Sixth Form. Results for AS/A2 and AVCE examinations are well above average, maintaining a consistently positive trend. Students overall achievement and progress in the Sixth Form are very good; many achieve well beyond expectation.

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Teaching is lively and challenging, and foster students’ responsibility and independent learning and results in very positive attitudes.

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Teaching and learning are good overall, with a high proportion of outstanding lessons.

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The school’s commitment to the care and well-being of students is evident in exemplary arrangements for child protection, safeguarding and health and safety matters.

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