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Work experience 2026
Work experience 2026
Dates: 7th- 11th September
Work experience is an incredibly valuable opportunity for students to try out an industry or role and develop key transferable skills. It will:
· Help to prepare students for life at work after they have completed their full-time education, by learning about work, through work.
· Enable students to carry out relevant work, establish relationships with employers and fellow employees, and experience the difficulties and satisfactions of going to work.
· Provide students with an opportunity to learn how a workplace operates, how to work with other colleagues, and perhaps the public.
· Give students the opportunity to appreciate the importance of all kinds of specific job skills and develop some of the qualities needed in the world of work.
Guidance
Guidance
For many students this will be their first time going into a formal workplace. There is a lot to think about. The guide on the right provides information and guidance on how to make the most of the experience
Work Experience - Guide for Students.pdfFAqs
FAqs
WEX FAQs 2026.pdfContact Employers.pdfuseful resources
useful resources
Click on the logo to the left for Hampshirebased.co.uk, a directory of Hampshire based businesses. You can search by category
Click on the logo to the left for the National Careers Service guidance on work experience
Click on the logo to the left if you are interested in one of the many careers in healthcare, the NHS have provided some guidance to gaining work experience with them
Click on the logo to the left for 145 work experience ideas broken up into different industries
u-explore provide a range of virtual work experience programmes with well known businesses
Contact
Contact
We are always looking for employers to host our students on work experience. Our students are young so there are some restrictions:
Employers should have public liability and employee liability insurance.
Students should not undertake a placement that would involve them working with a close relative as the placement may not provide all the benefits of work experience. A placement within the same company but a different department/area would be fine.
For safeguarding reasons students should not undertake a placement with just one member of staff or within a private household
If you are able to help our Thornden students by offering a work experience placement, please contact:
Virtual work Experience
Virtual work Experience
These should not be taken in place of the physical work experience week, they should only be used to enhance your understanding of a particular industry and/or career
SPringpod Virtual Work Experience opportunities
SPringpod Virtual Work Experience opportunities
Springpod are the UK's largest career and university experiential learning provider for young people, they work with multinational companies and universities. Springpod enable young people to try a career or course before they apply.
Click below for a range of virtual work experience opportunities. A certificate of completion is provided at the end of each experience
See below for Springpod's virtual university course list where students can try course topics before they sign up for a full degree.
NHS 350+ Careers
NHS 350+ Careers
NHS 350+ are offering a range of online work experience courses in a range of different areas within the NHS. Each course is around 50 mins long and contains tasks and quizzes. Areas covered include: catering, communications & PR, facilities & estates, medicine, paramedicine, physiotherapy, speech & language therapy , radiography, nursing, occupational health & prosthesis and orthotist
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