Bloody work experience!

[OrmIrian]

DS1 lost out on all the placements he wanted due to being a bit slow getting off the starting blocks. Entirely his fault I accept. But eventually he and his HOY found him one - she rang the company and they verbally agreed that he could go there for the week. But he had to send an email with an application letter. He did so. No response. HOY rang them. No, they hadn't had the email. He sent another one. Still no response. She rang, no answer but phone message saying they had moved premises and giving another number. She rang the other number and no-one answered. HOY then emailed them. No response

Eventually I got DS to type the letter out, he signed it and I took it to deliver in my lunch hour. When I tried I found they had moved. I went to the new premises and hand-delivered the letter. NO RESPONSE for 4 weeks. HOY rang them - they said they would reply. Yesterday DS got a letter saying the due to the delay in his applying to them they had filled all their work placement places so he was unsuccessful.

So what is he supposed to do now. HOY is likely to ring them and tell them what she thinks as she doesn't tend to mince her words but that still leaves him in limbo.

ha! my DD1 just had a placement - great opportunity, what she's interested in etc etc (performing arts uni). EXCEPT when she got there, they had literally NOTHING for her to do because it was exam week for the students and they were teching performances etc. The first day was 9-3, the second day she was told to come in at 10 and was home by 2.

She has GCSE english and maths coming up and I preferred that she would be in school - so spoke to school, she has been pulled out, and will do another week's work experience in July (not in anything she's particularly interested in, but I suppose the theory is that the discipline is a good thing).

Can HOY find another placement for him?

In my DCs school anyone who doesn't organise a placement has to shadow the school caretaker funnily enough that gets them to be quick off the mark with organising themselves.

To be honest OrmIrian the company he was approaching sound so flaky I'm not sure I'd want anything to do with them. It looks like the HOY has been quite involved so will know it isn't your DSs fault that it hasn't worked out perhaps they will have some ideas for what he can do.

I am guessing HOY will find something. I just think the company have behaved really badly. The letter was quite abrupt and rude as well as if it was his fault.

What webwiz said.
It's really up to him well, OK, lets be honest, you to go into all local businesses, services, charities, etc., and ask friends and family if he can do a week there/ where they work. It might not be his first choice of placement, but if he was that keen to do a specific thing then he might learn for the future, he needed to get on with it last September.

My DS was useless at organising anything. The week before he was due to do work experience, he emailed anything in my contacts book that he liked the look of and ended up with five days in five interesting places. Organise it yourself, that way you will have more control over it.