Extended Work Experience
A wider focus on work-related learning
Extended work experience may be offered to students as part of a programme
of work related learning seeking to re-motivate those who have become
disaffected with their current curriculum. Students following vocational
courses at Key Stage 4 may also benefit from extended placements. Schools
are able to disapply individual students from National Curriculum subjects
in order to offer wider opportunities for work related learning programmes...
Enhance Work Experience
Using extended work experience to enhance work-related learning programmes
at KS4
Until September 1998 it was not possible for schools to arrange extended
work experience programmes that met the statutory curriculum requirements
set out in the 1988 and subsequent Education Acts. The opportunity for
schools to arrange extended work experience programmes is part of the
range of changes to help schools provide a more flexible curriculum at
Key Stage 4.
Wider Opportunities
for
WRL at KS4
The majority of schools using the regulation under Section 363 are providing
extended work placements with employers for some of the pupils involved.
The placements vary from half a day to three days per week. During placements,
some employers assess the development of pupils’ skills or record pupils’ achievements.
In some cases it has been possible for pupils to achieve NVQ units in
the workplace. Find
out more about partnerships and development of work-related learning...
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