Work Experience

Monday 30^th June 2025 to Friday 1^st July 2025

All the relevant documentation can be found on this page to enable you to get the best out of your work experience. Below are the key dates for 2024-2025. Please ensure you adhere to these deadlines otherwise you risk losing your placement. 

For all Work Experience queries please email careers@goffs.herts.sch.uk. The updated 2025 booklet can be found at the bottom of this page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How Work Experience Placements Are Arranged

There are two types of work experience that your child can attend:

1. Private placement (organised by the student in line with guidelines)
2. SFYP placement (organised by Services for Young people)

What to consider when choosing any placement:

STUDENT

• TRAVEL - Make sure that you can get to employer premises, considering both time needed and the cost involved.   Please see link below to the 'Traveline' website this allows you to research your journey to your work experience placement:

ww.traveline.info

• WORKING HOURS – Remember to check what hours the employer will expect you work.  This can be a maximum of 40 hours a week but must be a minimum of 5 days.

• DRESS CODE – Make sure you enquire what the dress code is for your work experience so you know what to wear and to ensure you have/or can provide the correct clothing.

• PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE) – For certain sectors you may be required to wear PPE to carry out elements of the work you are doing.  This is usually supplied by the employer but remember to check if there is a requirement for you to provide ‘safety boots’ or other specialist items.

EMPLOYER

• INSURANCE – Employers offering work experience must have Insurance – both Employers Liability Insurance (ELI) & Public Liability Insurance (PLI).  Without insurance they will not be considered suitable for a work experience placement.
• HEALTH & SAFETY CHECK – Services For Young People will contact the employer to arrange an appointment to carry out a Health & Safety check prior to your work experience.

 

What Students Need to Do

Private Placement

1. If you wish your son/daughter to take part in Work Experience, please return the slip below, no later than Friday 6th December 2024. 
2. You should have already completed and returned an Annual Consent Form for your child.  If you have not done so, please contact Mrs Sparrow via email at careers@goffs.herts.sch.uk for a paper copy.  Please note your child will be unable to take part in any Work Experience without this.
3. Students requesting a private placement need to collect a form from Student Reception.  This must then be completed by the student and the prospective employer.  The form, once completed, must be returned to Student Reception as soon as possible, and at the latest by 14^th March 2025 (additional charges will apply after this date).
4. For private placements, once the Health and Safety check has been carried out successfully, the student is committed to taking that place. Students will not be offered an alternative unless the employer withdraws their offer prior to the Work Experience week.

SFYP Placement

If students have not been successful in securing a private placement, a list of placements available via SFYP will be available from 17^th March 2025 on the Link 2 site.

1. SFYP in partnership with Goffs Academy will endeavour to provide the students with one of their choices.  Owing to the limited placements available the situation may arise where a student may not get one of their choices, in this case the school will do its utmost to match the student with an alternative suitable placement.
2. Please click on the link  https://forms.microsoft.com/r/EFdT6xvEeV or QR Code below to complete the survey to help with choices for placements provided by SFYP.
3. During week commencing 12th May 2025 students will be advised of the placement allocated to them. Students will receive a placement sheet outlining important information about the placement; contact name, hours of work, lunch details, special clothing etc.

 

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Employer feedback

Freya Hackett Ford – Sunshine Nursery and Preschool

Supervisor was extremely pleased with Freya and commented that she had been excellent at working with the students, getting involved and communicating with the young ones of different ages/uses different languages. “Excellent time keeping, great language skills, very enthusiastic, great communication with staff”.

Alfie Wayman – Creswick Primary and Nursery School

“Placement going well Alfie seems to be enjoying it and is doing a great job!”

Emily Trupia – PayPoint PLC 

Great feedback on Emily from employers and Emily would really recommend the placement to others.

Samuel Ripley – JR Property Services

“Sam surprised them all with how confident he has been, he has been able to get really involved this week with viewings and the legal side of a house being under offer.”

Nell Edwards – CHEXS

“Nell has been involved in meetings and has put her own ideas across and also been able to go out to visits as she has been doing so well.”

Lyndsey Englebrecht – St Augustine's

The Employer is very impressed by Lyndsey and how she has engaged with the placement, her attitude and interaction with the students has been great.

Arthur Zaghlul – Birch Community (Previously Theobalds Estate)

“Arthur listens, he takes what is said on board, really lovely young man great attitude, has been given tasks above and beyond and has just got on with them.”

Katherine Bunch – Harper Collins

The employer has described Katherine as a “breath of fresh air” and “a credit to the school”.

Michaella Boakye – HCC Broxbourne Day Service

Supervisor was very positive about Michaella and her great people skills/ability to communicate with the adults, “she is very good at assisting in games”.

Harry Brunton - Giambrone’s Italian Deli & Coffee Bar

“Harry has been excellent – we have offered him a Saturday job!”

Grace Curtis – Goffs Academy – English Department

“What a lovey student, always polite and keen to support in any way I have asked her to, she has worked extremely well with the students, Grace has been confident and positive towards the students. She has been a great asset to me, I would love a TA now and again. Grace has a good rapport with the students, and they seemed to enjoy working with her, she came to me a couple of times when she had her free periods, that was thoughtful of her.”