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Structured Workplace Learning Programs aim to provide students with workplace experience during their secondary education. This paper focuses on the challenges involved in integrating school-workplace learning programs into the curriculum and the need for school timetables to become more flexible. The author highlights that the timetable is frequently used as an excuse for resisting reform within schools and becomes a significant modeller of a school's culture. The range of factors considered when producing a timetable are presented, pointing to the complexity of school timetabling. For Structured Workplace Learning Programs to become fully integrated within the school curriculum, they must be actively embraced, rather than resisted. This paper provides an overview of the traditional school timetable format, a simplified decision-making path in timetable construction and analysis of variable factors in timetable construction. It also presents four examples of timetables showing the integration of Structured Workplace Learning Programs.