Hi guys,
I am a student in Year 10 at an all-girls school in East London. Every year 10 cohort for the past 8 years or more has had the opportunity to go on Work Experience. Yet my cohort does not. Instead, we are having an in-school Industry Week (3rd-7th July), involving trips, visits and workshops etc., but I feel disheartened at this. I had a placement as a music teacher's shadow and now I cannot do that - plus I have also been looking to Work Experience since year 9. I also have a ABRSM Cello Grade 5 exam and Piano Grade 2 exam on Wednesday that week and I feel that week will go to waste unless I practise all day until the day it comes. I have complained to my Head of Year about this and she only said, in a nutshell, that there is nothing she can do.
How is it fair that we cannot have Work Experience but every Year 10 cohort before us did? Is there anything else I can do to alleviate my boredom that week?