Courses on offer to pupils include: Health & Social care, Travel and Tourism, Performing Arts (Dance, Singing and Drama), IT for Practitioners, NVQ in European languages, NVQ Hairdressing, CISCO IT networking and Construction.

They also have a "St Wilfrid's Day" once per year (stopped during the Coronavirus Pandemic, later resumed since 2022 as normal) to celebrate and gather students together.

Vocational specialism means that the school offers a distinctive range of courses that provide opportunities for pupils to gain qualifications.

All vocational courses follow a curriculum developed by exam boards with the help of employers.

This means that in most cases pupils will be occupationally competent to carry out a job in their chosen career.

NVQ level 1 language units qualification was introduced into the teaching of the department in September 2005.