Portfield School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Portfield School is situated in the town of Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire and provides education for pupils with statements of special educational needs (SEN) aged between three and nineteen years. The school caters for pupils with a range of special educational needs, including severe learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties and autistic spectrum disorder, as well as various genetic disorders, physical and sensory difficulties.

There are currently 158 pupils on roll. Pupils come from a large catchment area across the county of Pembrokeshire and a very few come from a neighbouring local authority. Nearly all pupils have a statement of SEN or an education, health and care plan.

Around 38% of all p...upils receive free school meals. A very few pupils speak Welsh as their first language. A very few pupils are looked after by the local authority.

It is not appropriate to compare the standards that pupils achieve at the school with national averages or to analyse the performance trends of groups of pupils over time because of the nature of pupils£ special educational needs. The main school campus consists of a primary school in the lower school building and a secondary school in the upper school building. In addition to the provision on the Portfield School campus, the school operates two satellite classes at local secondary schools.

These include a class at Haverfordwest High VC School and a class at Ysgol y Preseli which is predominantly English medium with significant use of Welsh. The school also runs an outreach support service for the local authority which supports mainstream schools and learning resource centres to support pupils with SEN. This service was not in scope during the inspection.

An interim headteacher joined the school in September 2018 and was appointed to the permanent post in March 2019. The school was last inspected in March 2013. The school is a curriculum pioneer school.

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