Work Experience & Placements 

Head of Department: Mrs Jolene Mullan       

E-mail: jmullan179@outlook.com 

Careers Guidance 

This comprises advice and guidance for individuals through interviews and small group work and involves:​

  • Clarifying present student position

  • Exploring other options

  • Evaluating and Challenging Inconsistencies

  • Action planning and identification of what needs to be done

Careers Information

Comprehensive and reliable information is accessible to students of all ages and abilities to help them make well-informed and appropriate choices and decisions.  

Experiences of Work

Learning about work first hand helps students to develop their understanding of the meaning of work and of the skills that will be most useful to them.  This can be developed through projects, business games, mini-enterprise, guest speakers, interviews skills, career conventions, videos, competitions and work experience. Time for work experience. Students take responsibility to locate suitable work experience situations, they will be facilitated by the careers department on request. Our Interview Skills programme involves Years 11, 12 and 14. The support of the local community and Alumni in helping to provide these programmes has been tremendous giving a very real experience to the pupils.