In Year 6 we have been celebrating International Womens Day by writing a note to the women in our lives, around the world or throughout history who empowered and inspired us! #InternationalWomensDay #EmbraceEquity

Some incredible diary writing from Y5 this week. Writing as Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson - The Hidden Figures #ASPIRE #portlandspencer #writing

The awe and wonder of being in nursery 🤍

Absolutely appalling. I am now even more angry then I was last week. Our poor children. 💔 Have you seen this Chris Dyson FCCT ?

Fabulous! Thank you Miss Tomkiss 💚

A huge achievement thanks to the hard of the staff and our amazing Science lead, Miss Evans 💚

For Spencer Superstars Day we dressed up as people we #ASPIRE to be when we’re older. We even had a Mr Handy doppelgänger! We would also like to wish all of our families a wonderful half term break. We will see you all back on Monday 5th June. 💚 Spencer Academies Trust

A fabulous achievement for our school and a reflection of the fabulous work that goes on at Portland. Super proud of all the children who submitted work as well as the hard work of Mrs Pidduck and Mrs Birch 💚 #ASPIRE

First Ofsted as a Head ✅ #ASPIRE

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Any fun Christmas ideas to do with staff? We did a “guess whose Christmas tree this is” quiz last year but that’s a bit redundant after one go. What do other people do? #christmas #primary

The best team 💚 one more day before a well earned break!

Jealous that I missed this! #ASPIRE

We’ve really enjoyed planning lessons for The Final Year. We think as many children as possible should be able to get their hands on it. So, we’re giving away a class set! Simply like this post, repost it and follow Literacy Shed on X. We’ll draw a winner at random on 13/2/24

The best day! Giving our children a day they will never forget makes this job the best one in the world 🌍 🚀

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Wow! What a day and what a send off. It’s been a genuine pleasure seeing a whole community thank and celebrate someone so special. Portlands next chapter starts now but she’s made an impression that’ll last a lifetime 💚

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