Work Experience
If you are in a position to offer a work experience placement to one of our students please get in touch with our Careers and Work Experience Manager - contact details are on our main Careers page.
Our students undertake a week of work experience in Year 10 and another in Year 12. These are key learning opportunities as young people explore future career pathways.
Our students benefit hugely from the relationships we have built up with local employers, who generously collaborate with us to set up opportunities in a wide range of workplaces.
Year 10 and 12 Students Guides 2025-26
virtual work experience
Virtual Work Experience can be an invaluable tool in helping you identify where your interests connect with career opportunities, or a way to explore career fields where an in-person work experience placement is not available or practical.
Please note the below online platforms that our students use to find useful virtual work experience. These platforms allow students to research work experience opportunities by topic, geographic location, or virtual vs. in-person options (some virtual work experience options can qualify students for in-person placements).
Interested in Being a Work Experience Provider?
At the heart of our Careers Education offer are the strong partnerships we enjoy with a host of local employers and education providers. We are hugely grateful to those organisations and businesses who offer our students work experience placements. They benefit hugely from these opportunities, and when we visit our students on their placements, we are frequently impressed by the efforts that have been made to make their experiences meaningful, impactful and engaging.
We welcome input from providers of apprenticeships and post-16 courses of study and are keen to work with them to ensure that our students receive the best possible information, advice and guidance on their future options. We are delighted to announce that we are now members of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce, which will support us in providing local information to staff, students and parents/carers.
For information on offering a work experience placement or on promoting your educational offer, please contact Karen Drexelius, our Careers and Work Experience Manager on kacareersadmin@kas.cambrianlt.org or on 01235 225700.
Our Trust Provider Access Policy can be found here.
IndUSTRY Feedback from Previous Placements
“Riley and Ethan were exceptional and a real pleasure to work with. They were very keen to work alongside us, and they worked very well together whilst being very polite and diligent. They constantly asked ‘what's next’ after they successfully completed each task. Definitely two of the best we have ever had. Please pass on our thanks.”
“I just wanted to let you know what an absolute privilege it was to have Aliya working in my Reception class at Wantage CE this week. She has been an absolute credit to your school and her family. Aliya has been punctual, well presented, and shown a huge level of maturity and flexibility as well as an abundance of initiative when working more independently with the children! If I could keep her, I would!”
“I just wanted to give some extra feedback as we were all so pleased with Katie. She has been a great help: she would see something that needed doing and would get on and do it without being asked and showed interested and good understanding of everything that went on. I really hope Katie had a good week, she seemed so natural with all the animals we had in. I said to her that if she would like to pursue Veterinary Nursing she’s very welcome to come back again for more work experience. We wish her all the very best for her future.”
“We would like to let you know that we were all very impressed with Harry last week. So much so, that we have taken his details, so that we can see if we can offer him an apprenticeship next year. I thought you would like to hear some positive feedback, as he was by far the best work experience student I have seen in my 24-year career.”