Former pupils website pages

We are currently looking into ways in which we can develop a message board facilty within this former pupils section of the school website.

It is hoped that the message board would have similar functions to discussion boards which are found on other popular websites such as Friends Reunited and Facebook. It is hoped within time we would have a forum area for each decade/year group and the system would have the option of allowing users to upload photographs of reunions and events.

We look to develop this over the coming months and would like to 'go live' with this towards the end of the Summer term. Please do keep checking the website to find out more.

20 year Reunion for the class of 1989

Former PHS pupil Lisanna Storey is organising a 20 year reunion for those pupils who left the school in 1989. The Reunion will be held at the Wine Vaults in Southsea on Saturday 28th November. If this is your era please do contact the school and we will put you in touch with Lisanna

Reunion Lunch for former pupils who left the school between 1970 and 1979

The School and the Old Girls' Guild will be organising a reunion lunch in March 2010 for former pupils who left the School between 1970 and 1979. To find out more please contact Victoria O'Sullivan at the School on 023 9282 6714 or email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

1960-1969 Reunion

Almost 100 former pupils who left PHS between 1960-1969 returned to the School on Saturday 14 March 2009 for a reunion lunch. The event was very much enjoyed by those who attended and provided plenty of opportunity to catch up with classmates and tour both the Junior and Senior Departments 

125 Birthday Reunion

Hundreds of past and present pupils joined us for a very special 125 Birthday Reunion on Saturday 17 March 2007. About 400 former pupils and staff  visited the school to see how it has changed and to catch up with old classmates.

 Why not view a collection of photographs from the125th Reunion below.

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Obituary

 Muriel Dunn 1922-2009
Portsmouth High School 1928-1940

We are sad to record the recent death of Muriel Dunn, who attended PHS from Reception to the Sixth Form.  She entered Dovercourt only a year after the school bought the house and opened it as the Junior School, and left from Adhurst St. Mary, the country house near Petersfield where the evacuated school spent the War years.  She was a Trust Scholar.

Muriel looked back on her school years with pleasure, remembering the Elizabethan Fayre in 1929 - for which her mother had to make the most elaborate costumes, the sandbox in the Infants, compulsory Saturday morning lacrosse practice, and competing with the other girls to see who could learn most poetry by heart and recite it.  She saw the Queen as a child when the school lined the streets for a Royal visit for King George VIth’s coronation. She took part in what must have been one of the first residential field trips, a botany trip to the River Meon, where they went crayfishing, and collected wild flowers.  Photographs of this still exist.

On leaving school, in wartime, she trained as a nurse in an evacuated hospital, following this with midwifery training and then service in Princess Mary’s RAF Nursing Service.  This took her to Germany, Cyprus, Aden and Singapore, from which postings she was able to visit many other corners of the world.  She was Senior Sister and Administrative Sister at the withdrawal of the British Forces in 1971 and received an honour for long and faithful service. This was followed by retirement from the Services and part-time nursing posts back in England. 

In later life, Muriel was very active in many organisations until poor health eventually found her a satisfied resident in the RAF Benevolent Fund Home in Rustington, from where she was able to keep up wither local interests and with PHS news.

She was clearly an academic high flyer at school, and subsequently had a full and varied life.  It is interesting to read her comment on the careers advice the school then offered: