ARK Ayrton Primary Academy, Portsmouth | Fees, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

I am in this school and its good. There are strict teachers but thats ok as they are making you ready for the next year. I will miss a ton of teachers here and i wish all of the younger years good luck.

I am making this review as i am leaving very soon and i think it’s appropriate to finally share my opinion of the school to the school.

Good luck with everything you small kiddos in year 5+ and for the children in year 5 and year 1 right now i wish you good luck in your SATs.

-BrookeS
A year six child

I sent my child to there nursery a few years ago now. Staff are very rude. Also some days I would pick up my child I would peek though the window, and see teachers on there phones whilst my child wonders around looking bored. I toke her out of that place. Put her in the best school Portsmouth arundel Court. Also I had a friend her son was also in there nursery she told me a member of staff was very ruff with her son. She was toke him out. I remember going there when I was like 6y old. I remember the staff being vile to me then. Bad bad memories.

I am an ex-pupil from this primary school, after moving primary schools 6 years ago. (I left before it turned to ARK Ayrton, when I was in Year 2, so I was there for the Somers Park era!!!)

From what I have experienced at my time there (from nursery to year 2, that’s how long i had been there for, so around 2 years???), There are some pros and cons that I would like to say here.
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PROS:
– Some teachers are nice, I even had a 1-1 (Just in case you ask why, I have Autism, so it was a bit complex for me)
– The work there was a bit meh, but mostly easy.
– The students there are caring, I even had a very close friend who did go to this school (will not mention who due to privacy reasons) and kinda followed on to my schools that I have been to!
– There was an inclusion room(?) and it had a sensory tent, a small ball pit, you could play with toys, etc etc. (That was what I could remember)
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CONS:
– When I was there, the fire alarm went off ALMOST ALL THE TIME due to mischevious people pressing it, and like I mentioned, I have autism so it didn’t really help because autism enhanced my hearing a bit, including my personality (it was like ear-piercing loud–)
– Year 2 was a bit up and down (i’d say the worst year i had there), welp…
The teacher I had was very strict, I was sent to buddy class (basically parking you to a different room to work if you have been “naughty” in class. One time I was put in buddy class because I wanted to play with a digeridoo (long pipe like instrument) but some other kid was using it (I was very needy, so do not even say: “but that was fair of them to do that, you deserved it! you need to share things”)
– I was taken out of class by my 1-1 sometimes to do what i call: “unwanted extra maths”. It was very unneccesary, and i was missing out on work that my Year 2 teacher was teachin’ the class about.
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TL;DR: If you want to send your autistic/special needs child to this school, I reccomend you don’t. This school was fun while i lasted there…

Im an ex pupil from this school. Have fond memories till this day i live in london now and attended this school when it was called summers park primary school. Ahh such good memories. Im 23 now. I remember when there was a pond with ducks which I believe is now gone and I remember the cakes we used to buy on break. I remember we had a club at lunchtime where we would help the caretaker cut bushes and vines that had overgrown. I remember the small frogs we raised from tadpoles in reception and our beans and sunflowers we grew. I remember we had a line of taxis one day lined up outside the school which took us to paultons park. We moved to london when i finished year 3 and it had always bugged me that i never got to live out summers park till year 6. But anyway I digress, Summers park (Ark Ayrton) was and still will forever be the absolute best school in my heart forever and if i ever lived in Portsmouth again i would send my kids here.

such an amazing primary school i went here since i was four years old (15 now) i was here when it was summers park and i was year 5 when it switched to ark ayrton and i loved the years there the students are well cared for and was such fun!!!!!!!