Dear Parents/Carers,
Strood Academy Year 10 Work Experience 19th – 23rd May 2025
I am writing to you to provide you with information regarding Year 10 Work Experience in 2025. In addition to this there are actions that must be undertaken in order to ensure that all of our students experience a fulfilling and beneficial placement which lays the foundation for their future pathway.
We actively encourage all of our students to source their own work experience placements so they have ownership over the process and can secure a placement which best suits their career field of choice. From our experience, employers also highly commend students who have taken the initiative to make contact with them and arrange their own placement, demonstrating a high degree of self management and organisational skills.
In order for our partners at Medway Education Business Partnership (MEBP) to facilitate self-placements and ensure all necessary background checks are carried out in a timely manner, the deadline for arranging a self-placement is the 7th February 2025. Any self-placement requests beyond this date can not be processed.
Enclosed in this email you will find a helpful document which outlines the stages students should follow in order to arrange self-placements as we know for some this can be a challenging prospect. The information shared with you will also be shared with students during form time to give students the opportunity to discuss and ask questions with their form tutor and peers.
Additionally, I have a second document below which students are required to complete and hand to their form tutor Own placement request form. Please see the finding your own placement guide here.
It provides us with details about their chosen employer so that all relevant checks can be completed. Students will be provided paper copies of this to bring home so there is no need for you to print this unless the original copy is misplaced. At this stage, students do not need access to their login details as placements organised by MEBP will not be available until the deadline for self placements has passed.
Your support in assisting your child with securing the most suitable work experience placement is invaluable and I thank you in advance for this. Should you have any queries please contact us or your relevant college team.
Yours faithfully
Mr M Williams | Assistant Principal Careers Lead & Miss S Emi | Personal Development Coordinator
