Staff Update
Message to Staff – 14 May 2026
Dear colleague
New 5-Year Plan
Hopefully over the last couple of months you will have had an opportunity to meet with me or a Senior Team Colleague to get an idea of our next 5 year plan.
It would be great to get your help at this stage with creating a finished version of the plan to get your feedback on some of the key ideas.
You can find a one page introduction here.
Responses are anonymous and we will only use the data to help with writing the plan.
The survey will run until the end of May and should take about 5 minutes to complete.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Portland_5YPlan
Ofsted monitoring visit
Those of you working in FE, or Estates and People Team will have been aware of a recent one-day monitoring visit to look at Safeguarding and student welfare facilities.
Thank you to everyone for pulling together to meet a demanding inspection schedule at very short notice. It was a great team response.
The report is now on the Ofsted website: 50301255
Save me, Love me
I was proud to be asked to officially open our Save Me, Love Me store at the Elms building earlier today.
Portland’s very own answer to Vinted, is now open for business providing retail work experience for our FE learners. Well done to Lisa and Ellie for taking this project forward.
You can find out more on our intranet site by clicking on this link, but you have to be logged in as a Portland User for the time being. In the future we hope to open this out more widely to our supporters and the general public.
Spring Fair on Sunday 17th May
Just a reminder that this is happening on Sunday and promises to be a grand day out, with the Portland Dog Show in the morning.
Finally with the Spring Bank Holiday approaching this is a time when many of you will get a welcome break. I am keeping my fingers crossed for an improvement on the current showery weather.
Mark