Portobello Institute, founded in 1981, offers unrivalled experience in delivering full time, part time and distance learning training in Fashion, Business, Sport, Beauty, Creative Studies, Montessori and Childcare, Special Needs and Health Education in Dublin and over 50 locations nationwide.
We at Portobello Institute travel several times a year to orphanages and girls reformatory schools in Belarus. We travel with a charity called “Zest 4 kidz”. The ethos of this charity is to bring light into little lives. I have taken part in these trips since we began going three years ago and I can tell you not only do …
Dr.Mirjam Stefels and author Els Westra gave a fantastic workshop on observing children with special needs in a Montessori environment during our recent visit to the “Every Child is Special” conference in Krakow Poland. The children being observed were from a rehabilitation centre in Lviv in the Ukraine and their Montessori teacher was present at the workshop. She showed clips …
I attended the “Every child is special” Montessori conference in Krakow Poland this weekend and gained some amazing insight into the use of the Montessori prepared environment to its maximum when working with typical children and children with special needs. Clare Healy gave a lovely workshop on this very area. She suggests we stop focusing on the problems and focus more …
The Christmas season has begun! In the world of visual merchandising this is the most hectic and creative time of the year. Therefore the Fashion Buying & Merchandising students are on hand to help the creative team of House of Fraser. No tree will be undressed, bauble left unstrung or fairylight unlit!
With the launch of the Jimmy Choo collaboration with H&M only weeks away the countdown has begun! We will all be waiting in line and making a stampede for these hotly anticipated accessories. Although we will have to wait for the official launch of the collection the Portobello Fashion students will have the unforgettable experience of working behind the scenes. …