Portland Primary is Officially GOOD!

We're absolutely thrilled to share some incredible news: Ofsted has officially recognized us as a GOOD school in ALL areas! This is our first "GOOD" report in 13 years, and we couldn't be prouder.

This monumental achievement is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our amazing staff, our supportive families, our committed governors, and most importantly, our wonderful pupils.

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We're here to help, don’t hesitate to give us a call on:

  0151 652 5124

  port-schooloffice@coopacademies.co.uk 

Happy Eid Mubarak to all our students, staff, families and communities celebrating today!

Flourishing Friendships in Apple Class!

It's been absolutely wonderful to witness the beautiful friendships blossoming within Apple Class! Every child has been happily engaged in play, whether independently exploring, collaborating with others, or even lending a helping hand to a friend.

Miss Barr has truly loved watching these budding friendships flourish! She was especially impressed by how attentively they listened to one another and worked together as a team to complete their activities.

Kicking Off an Inspiring World of Work Week!

What a fantastic start to our World of Work Week for Year 6! We were incredibly fortunate to host a lineup of truly impressive visitors, and we're so thankful to each of them for sharing their time and expertise with our students.

Our Year 6 pupils had the amazing opportunity to meet a police officer, a video editor, a student from Everton FC, a dedicated nurse, a talented hairdresser, and a passionate trade unionist. It was especially wonderful to welcome back former Portland pupils, Charlie and Lewis, and we're so pleased they agreed to return and work with us.

Every single one of our visitors was incredibly inspiring, making for a truly memorable first day for our children.

A Bittersweet Farewell to Miss Smith..for now!

Today marks an incredibly exciting day for Miss Smith as she begins her maternity leave! Her little one is due in just three weeks – how amazing is that?!

Please join us in wishing her the very best of luck. We hope she gets plenty of rest before her much-loved and much-awaited baby joins #TeamPortland!

We absolutely can't wait to meet her little one in just a few short weeks. Don't forget to say your goodbyes to Miss Smith today!

Year 6 Shines in Career-Related Learning Week!

What an incredible day for our Year 6 students! Every single child had the invaluable experience of being interviewed by either Mollie, Megan, or Heather. A huge thank you to these wonderful ladies who were so patient and kind, offering insightful feedback to each child that truly boosted their confidence. The children were beaming with pride!

As part of this fantastic career-related learning week, every student wrote a letter of application and participated in a formal interview. The feedback was outstanding, with our Year 6s described as articulate, polite, well-mannered, and confident—what a testament to their character!

Mrs. Smith has poured so much effort into creating this enriching week for them, and it's clear every child found something they genuinely enjoyed. She's absolutely loved teaching Year 6 this week, and their hard work and engagement have certainly made it a memorable one!

Year 6 Explores the World of Work at North Birkenhead Development Trust!

Day 3 of our World of Work week brought an incredibly insightful visit for our Year 6 students to the North Birkenhead Development Trust - St James Centre, where they met with Becks.

They gained fascinating insights into a wide array of roles, learning what it's like to be a Charity Manager, an Early Years Advisor, an advocate, an author, an illustrator, a support worker, and many other vital positions all housed within the same building.

A huge thank you to Becks for a truly informative day that showcased the diverse career paths available right within our community!

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Check out a new safety update from Merseyside Police

Dont forget our community shop is open for all your needs. Whether its supplies or uniform, you can find Mrs Smith in our Community Hub to support you. Check our social media for updates on opening times.

We are partnering with FairShare and will be receiving weekly food deliveries in our shop.

June

19th - Sports Day

F1 - Y2 is 19th June from 2pm.

20th - Sports Day

Y3 - Y6 is 20th June from 2pm.

30th - SEND Parent Coffee Morning

July

To be confirmed

 Rewards

Meet this weeks set of Golden Ticket winners. A lovely bunch who have proven themselves to be worthy winners.
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Look at our wonderful new wall.

All of the adults and children at #TeamPortland have contributed and our local artist Leanne has put the finishing touches to the design!

⭐️ Mrs Barnes had a fantastic morning with Year 6, diving into their Taskmaster-style transition activities!
⭐️ The focus was all on teamwork and communication, and the challenges definitely put those skills to the test! From drawing our friends with our eyes closed, to building the tallest freestanding tower using just paper and tape, to even figuring out Mrs Barnes’ age in minutes—it was a morning full of laughs, learning, and creative thinking!

🥧 Year 5 Whip Up Delicious Rhubarb Crumbles!

As part of their DT topic on seasonal produce, Year 5 put their culinary skills to the test by making their very own rhubarb crumbles! They showed great creativity by adapting recipes to pair rhubarb with complementary flavours—and the results smelled amazing!
Miss Gurney is incredibly proud of how brilliantly everyone worked together.
🥧 Well done, Year 5—we hope you all enjoy your tasty puddings tonight!

We are incredibly proud of our Year 6 children— they’ve shown such resilience, determination, and focus throughout SATs week, and all their hard work truly shines. Well done, Y6!

📚 F2’s Trip to St James Centre Library

Today, our fantastic F2 class visited the North Birkenhead Development Trust – St James Centre Library, and they made quite an impression! The staff were very impressed with Portland’s brilliant behaviour and excellent listening skills.
🥰 As they left, our lovely little ones even gave a cheerful wave and said “good afternoon” to everyone in the café—such a heart-melting moment!

 Kindness Shout out!

Mr Ogilvie witnessed an incredible act of kindness between 2 boys in year 3 this morning.

One knew that the other loves Spider-Man more than anything in the world so he brought him in a Spider-Man book.

It made his day. What a great start to a Friday

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Dont forget our community shop is open for all your needs. Whether its supplies or uniform, you can find Mrs Smith in our Community Hub to support you. Check our social media for updates on opening times.

We are partnering with FairShare and will be receiving weekly food deliveries in our shop.

📣 A huge congratulations to Miss Barr, Miss Charlesworth, and our amazing Eco Club!
We’re incredibly proud to share that they’ve been awarded the Eco-Schools Green Flag – with distinction! 🌿👏
This fantastic achievement recognises all their dedication and hard work in promoting sustainability and caring for our environment.
Now, we can proudly fly our Eco Green Flag once again—well done, team!

May

May 22nd - Eco Conference Manchester 

May 26th - May 30th Half Term Break

School re-opens Monday 2nd June 

June

19th - Sports Day

Year 3/4 10 - 10.30

Year 5/6 1 - 2.30

20th - Sports Day

Year 1/2 - 10 -11.30

F1/F2 - 2 - 3pm

30th - SEND Parent Coffee Morning

 Rewards

All children with 100% attendance this week received a raffle ticket and during assembly, the excitement was buzzing as we drew children to go trampolining. There is an alternative prize for EYFS pupils who win. 

How does it work?

Every day your child is in school, they will receive a raffle ticket, five streaks (five days) and they will get the chance to double their luck and receive double raffle tickets! Every Friday in assembly, they will enter the prize draw where the lucky random winners will win different prizes every week!

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Remember its a bank holiday on Monday. We look forward to seeing you back on Tuesday 6th May.

We're here to help, don’t hesitate to give us a call on:

  0151 652 5124

  port-schooloffice@coopacademies.co.uk 

Year 1 absolutely loved their award for winning the attendance last half term!

😍 A huge shoutout to our incredible Year 6 team!

🥰 Their kindness, dedication, and teamwork never go unnoticed.
👏 They've worked tirelessly all year and continue to go above and beyond.
🌟 True ambassadors of our school, they lead with heart and set an amazing example.
💖 Simply put, they’re exceptional people – and we’re so lucky to have them!

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We love it when our three academies come together! Tonight we joined forces again!

Our Marvellous Maths Director delivered maths training to our teaching team.

#teachlikeachamp  #hillywoodland

A Fruit-Filled DT Adventure !

As part of their DT lessons - Beehive and Year 1 enjoys describing and tasting 10 different types of fruit.

🍋‍🟩They had a great time - everybody tried the fruit - a huge achievement. 

We wanted to celebrate our ‘Always children’ from some of our classes.

These are the children that are always kind, always try their best and always act as the greatest role models. 
We appreciate you all so much!

Dont forget our community shop is open for all your needs. Whether its supplies or uniform, you can find Mrs Smith in our Community Hub to support you. Check our social media for updates on opening times.

We are partnering with FairShare and will be receiving weekly food deliveries in our shop starting within the next fortnight. 

Superstar Student

We love it when our children learn new skills! We’ve just received this message from her mum. “Just thought I’d share as I’m super proud, Peyton did her first dance show tonight to a sold-out Floral Pavilion, she might be very tired tomorrow ”

Well done Payton we are also super proud of you

This year we will be celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day.

We will be having a whole school tea party lunch to commemorate this special event.

We are hoping to raise some money for The Royal British Legion by holding a non uniform day - when everyone will wear red, white and blue clothing.

We cannot wait to celebrate this important moment in history with our Community.

May

May 8th - VE Day

May 12th - SATS week

May 22nd - Eco Conference Manchester 

May 26th - May 30th Half Term Break

School re-opens Monday 2nd June 

Dear Parents & Carers,

Firstly, I want to say a big thank you for the wonderful welcome and response that I have had during my first term as Head of Co-op Academy Portland. I am so incredibly proud to work in partnership with such an amazing community and feel so lucky to spend time with your children every day. The team at Portland is nothing short of remarkable and I’m sure you will all join me in thanking them for all of the hard work that they put into enhancing your children’s lives and experiences.

Reflection

This last term has been a busy one indeed. I just want to list some of the wonderful experiences that the children have had and celebrate some of the amazing work of our school and team:

• Classes have visited the St. James Centre library

• We’ve had an Eco trip to the Recycling centre in Liverpool

• The Community Hub at the front of the school has officially opened

• Volunteers from local Co-op stores have painted our outside walls

• A local business has provided iPads to some of our classes

• Parents Evenings with a whole host of support services from ADDvanced Solutions, Koala Northwest, the Hive, our community team, SEND team, phonics team and Mental Health lead

• An award for our mental health work through My Happy Mind

• Four newspaper stories for our Eco tree planting, Wirral Big Dip (to promote positive mental health and wellbeing) and our three Wirral Co-op Primaries joining forces to raise money for Mind charity by completing a sponsored Spinathon as a staff team

• Two Co-op Academy Trust competitions where our children represented Portland in a Spelling Bee and GoIT event over in Manchester

• Volunteers from our site management company repointing walls, digging out bushes and repairing play equipment

• Weekly support from the Mental Health Support Team for our children and classes

• Regular sporting events in partnership with local high schools

• Exotic animals and Spring animals in school with the children

• An incredible World Book Day with our very own Chocolate Factory

• A Pupil Parliament trip to raise funds for our school

• Every child has received an Easter egg to take home with them at the end of the day

Next Steps

After the break, we will have brand new flooring throughout our Early Years and freshly painted walls; as well as History and Geography murals spanning the KS2 corridor. There is a plan in place for all KS2 classrooms to be decorated and we cannot wait for the difference this will have on the environment for our children. 

We have had 16 new children join us since January and our pupil population is growing every week. Looking ahead to September, we are set to have our first oversubscribed Foundation 2. Please await phone calls from Mrs Shannon regarding places for September for F1 starters (Apply here if you haven’t already: complete our enquiries form).

Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Children will return to school on Tuesday 22nd April and it is essential to have all children on the playground from 8:30am as Spelling and Phonics lessons will be starting straight away.

I will publish term dates over the next couple of weeks for the next academic year but we are still upholding our two week half term as an extension to the usual October break.

As always, if you have any questions, please come and speak to one of the team. You will find one of us on gate duty at the beginning and end of every day and we are always happy to support you.

Thank you for an incredible half term, have a wonderful break with your brilliant children and see you in two (and a bit weeks)!

Mr. Leathers

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We're here to help, don’t hesitate to give us a call on:

  0151 652 5124

  port-schooloffice@coopacademies.co.uk 

Exotic Animal Fun: A Day of Learning and Adventure!

Today, the children at school had an unforgettable experience with an exotic animal visit that was both fun and educational!The event was interactive, allowing the children to get up close and personal with the animals, while the animal handler shared interesting facts about their habitats and behaviors.

Beehive's Masterpieces: Exploring Watercolors and Creative Expression!

🎨 This half term in Art, Beehive has been exploring the art of using watercolors, learning how to mix shades, create texture, experiment with different lines, and layer colors. 🐝 Their artwork was nothing short of spectacular, and the room was so quiet with concentration that you could have heard a pin drop as they poured their hearts into creating their final masterpieces!

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Easter Egg Decorating Competition: A Colourful Celebration of Creativity

The Easter Egg Decorating Competition was a colourful and creative showcase of the students' artistic talents! It was a joyful celebration of creativity, bringing the whole school community together to enjoy the Easter spirit!

Year 5: Angle Exploration

Year 5 have been exploring how to measure angles today in Maths!

A huge thank you to the Life Church who have provided an Easter Egg for every single child in our school, free of charge. Such a generous thing to do.

⚽️ If you're looking for a football camp this Easter, please note it's not organized by us, but we've been asked to share this opportunity with our families. All the details can be found on the leaflet.

A huge thank you to our #PortlandCommunityTeam for providing every member of staff with an Easter gift to say thank you for all their hard work this term.

Thank you to Margie and all the staff at @OneStopLairdStreet who have very generously donated Easter Eggs and goodies AGAIN!

A lovely shop with lovely staff - they are great asset to our community.

April

April 4th - Annual Easter Egg decorating competition

Easter Break Monday 7th April - Monday 21st April

School returns - Tuesday 22nd April

May

May 12th - SATS week

May 22nd - Eco Conference Manchester 

May 26th - May 30th Half Term Break

School re-opens Monday 2nd June