VR Careers Workshop: Virtual Work Experience for Schools
Immersive Pathways
Bring meaningful work experience into the classroom with an immersive VR careers workshop. Students step inside realistic workplace scenarios with software used to train real professionals in healthcare, construction, engineering and manufacturing. From surgical precision to site safety and mechanical assembly, the workshop helps learners understand what different careers actually involve and how school subjects connect to future pathways. We bring all equipment into school and tailor the session focus around your careers programme, STEM priorities or enrichment day. Ideal for careers weeks, Gatsby Benchmark 6, STEM events and aspiration-raising activities
Where we travel to
We can visit your school in:
What activities are available during this school workshop?
Students take part in immersive VR career simulations designed to show what different jobs actually involve. Depending on the focus chosen by the school, learners can experience activities such as:
- Completing a realistic surgery task in a virtual healthcare environment
- Identifying hazards and making decisions in a construction site safety simulation
- Assembling part of a forklift mast in an engineering and manufacturing simulation
- Using specialist tools, equipment and workplace procedures in VR
- Discussing the skills, subjects and pathways linked to each career area
- Reflecting on which roles they found interesting and why
The workshop can be tailored around your careers programme, STEM focus or enrichment day. Schools can choose to focus on one sector, such as healthcare or construction, or combine several simulations to give students a broader virtual work experience across multiple career pathways.
- Completing a realistic surgery task in a virtual healthcare environment
- Identifying hazards and making decisions in a construction site safety simulation
- Assembling part of a forklift mast in an engineering and manufacturing simulation
- Using specialist tools, equipment and workplace procedures in VR
- Discussing the skills, subjects and pathways linked to each career area
- Reflecting on which roles they found interesting and why
The workshop can be tailored around your careers programme, STEM focus or enrichment day. Schools can choose to focus on one sector, such as healthcare or construction, or combine several simulations to give students a broader virtual work experience across multiple career pathways.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Computing
Artificial Intelligence Information and Communications Technology
The workshop helps students see how computing is used beyond the classroom, from VR simulation and interactive software to digital tools used in modern workplaces. Students experience how technology can recreate complex environments, support training, improve safety and help people practise job-related tasks before entering real settings. It links well to discussions around virtual reality, human-computer interaction, software design, digital systems, automation and the growing role of technology across healthcare, construction, engineering and manufacturing.
PSHE
Health and Social Care
The workshop supports PSHE by helping students explore health and social care careers while reflecting on the personal skills needed in demanding workplace environments. Through the healthcare simulation, students can discuss responsibility, communication and decision-making in a clinical setting. We also improve teamwork, resilience and problem-solving skills, giving learners a practical context for thinking about confidence, employability, and how people respond under pressure.
Careers
The workshop supports Gatsby Benchmarks by giving students structured exposure to different career pathways, workplace environments and job-related skills. It is particularly relevant to Benchmark 4, linking curriculum learning to careers, Benchmark 5, encounters with employers and employees, and Benchmark 6, experiences of workplaces.
During the session, students explore how skills such as communication, problem-solving, precision, teamwork and decision-making appear in real workplace contexts. The workshop can be used as part of a careers week, Year 10 work experience, STEM careers day or aspiration-raising programme, giving Careers Leaders a practical way to broaden students' understanding of future pathways without the barriers of travel, site access or health and safety restrictions.
Physics
Gears and Pulleys Forces Forces and magnets
The workshop helps students see how physics is used in real technical and workplace settings. Through simulations linked to construction, engineering and manufacturing, learners can explore ideas such as forces, motion, stability, precision, materials and mechanical systems. It gives students a practical context for understanding how physics supports safe structures, working machinery and problem-solving in STEM careers.
Engineering
The workshop helps students experience engineering as practical problem-solving, not just theory. Through VR job simulations, students explore how engineers use tools, systems, and decision-making to solve real workplace challenges. The engineering and manufacturing content can include mechanical assembly tasks, such as building part of a forklift mast, helping learners see how design, materials, components and safety all connect. It is a strong fit for STEM careers events, engineering enrichment, technical pathways and discussions around apprenticeships.
What size groups do we cater for?
We cater to a range of group sizes depending on your schools requirements. We can deliver to 10 - 100 students in a day.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Yes Please let us know more about your group and we will get back to you with more details about the suitability of what we offer.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
All sessions are fully inclusive to SEND students including wheelchair users. We deliver to lots of specialist schools and find that students with ASD in particular respond well during virtual reality workshops. The technology removes barriers to education, allowing SEND students to gain experiences that aren't possible in the real-world.
Anything else?
What Other Schools Say:
"The hardest part of the workshop is getting the children out of the room. They learn about the exciting opportunities that the world has to offer. Every child should get experiences like this in their education." - Louis Peabody (Bluecoat Beechdale Academy)
"Presenter was fantastic. Interacted extremely well with the students and definitely knew his stuff. The students had a chance to try careers that they would never have had the chance to do without Immersive Pathways. Fantastic experience." Mandy Weyers (Avon Valley Academy)
"One of the most innovative looks at modern work experience to date" - Tom King (Leicester & Leicestershire Careers Hub)
"The hardest part of the workshop is getting the children out of the room. They learn about the exciting opportunities that the world has to offer. Every child should get experiences like this in their education." - Louis Peabody (Bluecoat Beechdale Academy)
"Presenter was fantastic. Interacted extremely well with the students and definitely knew his stuff. The students had a chance to try careers that they would never have had the chance to do without Immersive Pathways. Fantastic experience." Mandy Weyers (Avon Valley Academy)
"One of the most innovative looks at modern work experience to date" - Tom King (Leicester & Leicestershire Careers Hub)
Who are Immersive Pathways?
Immersive Pathways are a STEM and Careers education provider who use VR to bring jaw-dropping experiences into the classroom. They are a highly acclaimed provider who have experience delivering VR workshops in schools and provisions across England.
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