Our Vision

At Co-op Academy Portland, our plans for the development of Career Related Learning is to provide wide and varied opportunities to enable our pupils to broaden their horizons, to meet new people and, in turn, to raise their aspirations.

At Portland, we want our children to be able to make purposeful and deliberate links between their learning experiences, visiting speakers, seeing a range of workplaces and their own future.

Through CRL we aim to promote equality of opportunity, give exposure to the world of work, celebrate diversity and give our children an insight into the world of Science Technology Education Maths - as well as look at our locality and the jobs within it, for example, ship repair at Camell Lairds.

In June 2024 we held our first Portland World Of Work Week - an entire week of planned learning activities and opportunities. We organised many visitors from a wide range of careers and between April and July, our visitors came from the RAF, NHS, Ministry of Justice, The Aviation Industry, filmmakers and a female scientist from The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. We even won the Enterprise Intiative within all the academies within the Trust - winning prizes totalling £400 in book vouchers.

Our Career Related Learning Lead is Mrs Smith.