Initial letter sent to all parents of Year 11 students. 

March 2008

Dear Parent/Guardian

We are hoping to offer your son/daughter the opportunity of a week’s Work Experience from Monday 20 October to Friday 24 October 2008.  Although this seems a long time away, there are a lot of arrangements to make before it can happen.

With this letter I enclose the Parent’s Guide to Work Experience issued by Sussex Careers.  It contains some useful information and I hope you will find it helpful. There is also a Longhill School Work Experience Application Form.  Lessons are undertaken with the students in PSHE about their choice of placement but I would appreciate it if you could emphasis to your son/daughter the need to think carefully about their choices. The choices made on the application form will stand.  Once your son/daughter’s placement has been confirmed, it cannot be changed because the process of placing a whole year group is complicated and very time consuming.

The application form needs to be completed and returned to their mentor by Tuesday 22 April.  A Work Experience Job Board, with various placements available, can be viewed outside B112 and B113.  Obviously it is not possible or appropriate to offer all areas of work but we try to offer as wide a variety as possible.  If you are finding your own placement for your son/daughter the application form still needs to be returned by 22 April.  I need all the details completed as the process for Health and Safety checks are very time consuming.

In the past we have had parents who could offer the school a placement for the week for another student in the year group.  If this is the case, could you please telephone me as I am always keen to gain new places for the students.  I have already been offered placements from local primary schools so please do not approach them.  

I hope to allocate most of the placements before the end of the summer term,

If you have any queries or issues you would like to discuss please contact me at the school.

Yours sincerely


Mrs L Nash                                       Mrs R Ashton
Work Experience Co-ordinator            Work Related Learning Development Co-ordinator