About

About Us

Portal Training is a new dynamic and innovative Training Consultancy specialising in delivering expert ‘real world' Behaviour Management and Motivational Training to teachers and other professionals working within a wide variety of educational settings. We are unique in the sense that we offer all our courses through the medium of Welsh.

Portal Training prides itself on delivering the highest quality training to educational practitioners who work with challenging and difficult young people, who for a wide variety of reasons display challenging and unwanted behaviours and who lack motivation. Portal Training also offers training to educational establishment based on a variety of current issues, which are listed below.


What does Portal Training have to offer?

We offer a wide range of training courses for professionals focusing on issues and barriers faced by children and young people throughout the UK today, which directly impacts upon their behaviour. We also offer training on quality management within educational establishments.

The training courses include:

The innovative training delivered by Portal is ideal for all professionals working within educational establishments across the UK including Primary, Secondary and Independent Schools, The Youth Justice System, Connexions, CareersWales/ Scotland, F.E. Colleges and Work Based Learning Providers (E2E). Hundreds of educational practitioners have already taken part in Portal's cutting edge training which has received excellent feedback and praise from all those who have participated.

Importantly, we not only focus on dealing directly with children and young people presenting challenging behaviour but crucially we focus on how to re-engage and motivate those who are ‘NEET'. This will increase their chances of sustaining education, employment, or training. All training and consultancy delivered by Portal provides ‘real world' solutions, tactics and guidance. These have resulted in participants of Portal's previous training courses reporting significant improvements in learner behaviour, motivation, engagement, attendance and attainment.

 

Who are we?

Portal Training is based in Cardiff, South Wales and has recently delivered Continual Professional Development (CPD) contracts to the Welsh Assembly Government (Department of Children, Education, Life Long Learning and Skills - DCELLS). This has included the National Training Federation for Wales, 14-19 Learning Networks and a large number of independent Work Based Learning Providers, throughout Wales. Portal does not only deliver CPD Training but also offers consultancy packages focusing on improving learning environments, curriculum development and bespoke project management. We intend to expand our operations throughout the UK and Europe. 

The company has 2 Directors, Gareth Davies and Gwawr Booth, as well as an extensive team of consultants and support staff who ensures quality of delivery and procedures.

Gareth Davies has over 15 years experience of working directly with Young Offenders and NEET young people throughout South Wales, in an advisory capacity and at strategic management level for Careers Wales and Cardiff Youth Offending Service. During this period Gareth has developed a wide variety of strategies and tools that can motivate the most challenging and disengaged young people, with the aim of re-engaging them in Education, Employment or Training. Importantly, the training delivered by Portal is equally relevant to those working within mainstream settings such as schools, as it is to those working within Young Offenders institutions.

Gwawr Booth has over 15 years experience of teaching within several large Comprehensive schools across Wales with her last post being as Assistant Head. Previous to this position, she was Head of the Welsh Department and Bilingual Faculty at Treorchy Comprehensive School. Gwawr's first language is Welsh and she delivers her courses bilingually.