Dear parent / carers,
We are delighted to announce that all students in year 10 are going to be on work experience for three days from Wednesday 1st July to Friday 3rd July 2026 as part of the Career Discovery Week. In this period there will be no classes – each day all students will be at the workplace of their host employer.
Work experience gives students the chance to learn about what type of job they might enjoy, and develop their CV. We know it can be one of the most transformational experiences young people have during their education.
Students (and their families) should source their own work experience placements. The careers guidance team will do their best to find placements for any students who have been unable to find their own, but because we have limited resources, we expect to only be able to help a few students. We are using Unifrog (www.unifrog.org) to manage the administration of the work experience programme – for example collecting information from the employer about their Risk Assessment and Health & Safety policy, as well as getting agreement from yourselves for the placement to go ahead.
Some important logistics:
· All students have access to their own Unifrog account, most have completed an initial log in during Virtue’s curriculum time. However, if they did not or at any point forget their password this is easily changed by logging on to https://www.unifrog.org/sign-in and clicking ‘Reset password/resend welcome email’. Using their school email address to do so.
· Students need to agree the placement with the employer first, and then students will get the ball rolling by adding the placement to their Unifrog account (they’ll find the Placements tool on their Unifrog homepage).
· The Unifrog system will then email the employer, the parent / guardian, and the school, to collect the necessary information and permissions. For the process to work, it’s essential that students add the initial information about the placement accurately.
Finding out more:
· Unifrog have created a set of guides about placements which you can find here.
· To find out more about how we’ll be using Unifrog to set up placements, take a look at the guide ‘Unifrog's Placements tool FAQs’, where you’ll find a short animation that explains the process.
For advice on how to help your child find a placement, take a look at the guide ‘How to help your child find a work placement’. (All hyperlinks to the Unifrog website are available through the electronic version of this letter sent out via the MCAS app)
Next steps:
Please read the placement guides on Unifrog, and then start contacting possible hosts for the placement
· If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Mrs Russell or Mrs Mincher at EMS-Careers@ems.bhcet.org.uk
We wish you the best of luck with supporting your child to find a placement. Please do make use of Unifrog’s guides help you.
Yours Sincerely,
Mrs K Mincher
Careers Lead
