Students must be 14 years old.
Year 9 students can go in Terms 3 & 4, Year 11 students in Terms 1 & 2, and Year 10 students can go throughout the year. Students must make sure that they do not have exams or other commitments in the week that they are planning to go.

To organise your work/exp you need to get the paperwork from the careers adviser.  The work experience form can be downloaded (click on Student Placement Record in the section headed "Forms"), but you also need "The Parents Guide to Work Placements", "The Employers Guide to Work Placements" and a letter from the careers adviser to the employer.  Find an employer who will accept you and ask them to fill in the form.  The completed form (with your signature, your parent/guardian's signature, and the employers signature) needs to be returned to the careers adviser.  You will then be given a form for your teachers to sign, and this must be done at least one week before your work experience starts.  When this form is returned to the careers adviser you will be given three copies of the work experience form for yourself, your parents and the employer.  You will also be given an emergency procedures card, a diary and an evaluation form for the employer to make comments about you.

If you are going to be working with young children (childcare or primary school for example) you will need to have signed a further form.  See your careers adviser.

If you are going to work experience in the construction industry (builder, plumber, electrician, roof tiler etc) you must have completed an Occupational Health & Safety training course.  See the careers adviser for details.

There may be exceptions to who can go although you must be 14. If you have a special reason e.g. Year 11, Term 4 and looking to leave school for employment, talk to the careers adviser.

Some employers must be approached by the careers adviser and not by the student.  These include Blacktown Police, Blacktown/Mt. Druitt Hospitals, Featherdale Wildlife park, and Taronga Zoo.