Welcome to Portsmouth High Junior School

Portsmouth High Junior School provides an exciting and stimulating learning environment, where each girl is encouraged and challenged to extend her knowledge and her understanding of herself.

We strive to achieve the best in everything we do across a broad curriculum within a happy, purposeful community. Portsmouth High Junior School was ranked 29th in the top 100 Prep Schools recently by The Sunday Times and you will find expectations are high here as we seek to secure a firm academic grounding in these critically important years. Your daughter will learn to listen, to question and to make wonderful friendships.

We teach with emotional intelligence, in that we are role models and our interactions are central to our ethos of empathy, motivation and praise. We encourage the girls to be critical thinkers and rich questioners. In this way we are preparing them for roles of responsibility, to act with resourcefulness and to be resilient in an ever-changing world. We want to send your daughter forward with confidence, kindness and a love for learning, our role is to provide the opportunities and expertise to help your daughter’s aspirations come true.

We are delighted to share with you examples of our Creative Curriculum in action and a small selection of recent events at Portsmouth High Junior School, please click here. 

Why not come and see us in action; we very much look forward to welcoming you to our happy, vibrant school.

Pippa Harris-Burland MA, BA, Montessori Diploma
Head of Portsmouth High Junior School 

Visit Us

Taster days are available for your daughter to experience the school first-hand. Contact us on 023 9282 4916 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  to arrange a visit with the Head and to meet some of our girls.

Portsmouth High School is a leading Hampshire-based independent school, offering seamless education for girls from Nursery to 18.  Since 1882, we have delivered a first-class education to generations of girls and have established an outstanding reputation for academic excellence.

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