Welcome to Portsmouth High School for Girls
Next Steps
Visit us
Open Morning Saturday 5 October
The Pre-School, Prep School, Senior School and Sixth Form will be open to welcome visitors from 9.00am to 12.30pm.
Admissions
Contact our Admissions Registrar Charlotte Thomson, request a prospectus and find out more about the admissions procedure at Portsmouth High School
News
‘Don’t walk by’ homeless charity leader urges Portsmouth High School
September 20, 2019
Sixth Form
Portsmouth High School senior girls were motivated to collect tins and chocolate at their upcoming Harvest Festival, in a moving assembly given by the mother of a recent leaver. Mrs Donna Ockenden, mother of Caitlin who left PHS last summer and about to start at...
Read More
‘Beware seagulls – looting is over’ Portsmouth High School girls devise new technology
September 16, 2019
Senior School
Portsmouth High School girls in Year 8 took part in the IBM Smarter Schools Challenge in a half day workshop at the Southsea school. The day saw a team from IBM, Hursley introduce students to the information technology company and gave examples of the ways...
Portsmouth High School GDST reunion: ‘so many changes and such incredible progress but still the sense of a school that is proud of itself prevails.’
September 16, 2019
Alumnae News
Up to sixty years since they had left Portsmouth High School, ladies from the Classes of 1959, 1969, 1989 1999 and 2009 returned for lunch and tours of the Senior and Prep schools last weekend. The day was hosted by Headmistress, Mrs Jane Prescott, with...
Girls’ Day School Trust CEO tells Portsmouth High School; ‘You will be the names making tomorrow’s headlines. 100% the future’
September 13, 2019
Senior School
Portsmouth High School, GDST, senior girls, from Years 10-13, were the proud recipients of achievement awards and cups this week as friends, family, pupils and staff from the school gathered for an evening of celebration. The evening was attended by many VIPs including the Lord...
Read More
‘Instead of opening my GCSE results, I got the chance to kiss a giraffe,’ says Ruby, 16
September 6, 2019
Sixth Form
This summer, Portsmouth High School pupil, Ruby Dale, 16, embarked on a charity initiative through Hampshire Scouts. She carried out aid work, cleaned and painted classrooms at a local Ugandan school and donated mosquito nets to a local hospital. She was in Africa for three...
Portsmouth High girls achieve 97% A*-B in mathematics
August 22, 2019
Senior School
Girls at Portsmouth High School GDST were celebrating this morning after receiving their GCSE results. The new 9-1 GCSEs did not hold back the young women of Portsmouth High as they achieved 97% A*-B (or equivalent) in mathematics and 90% A*-B in all other subjects....
Read More
Youth World Champion sailor gains top grades at A level
August 15, 2019
Sixth Form
Teenage sailor and race ace Matilda Nicholls, 17, from Portsmouth High School GDST, is celebrating today with a tremendous set of A level results. Matilda received grades of A*A and B and has proven why she’s been earmarked as ‘one to watch’ as she sailed...
Read More
Portsmouth High School GDST – over half of grades A*-A
August 15, 2019
Sixth Form
In another tremendously successful year at Portsmouth High School GDST Sixth Formers excitedly received their A Level results marking yet another year of excellent academic and personal achievements for students at the school. Girls at Portsmouth High School (part of the Girls’ Day School Trust...
Read More
