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Portsmouth High School and St Swithun’s Primary join to support children in South Africa

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Portsmouth High School pupils in Year 5 have collaborated with children from St Swithun’s Catholic Primary School to create learning resources for a school in South Africa. Th...

Portsmouth High walk for One Campaign and Children on the Edge

Lord Mayor of Portsmouth starts 10km walk in support of the One Campaign and Children on the Edge

March 29, 2019

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Over 400 girls from Portsmouth High School took part in a 10km walk on Friday 29 March 2019 in support of two international organisations. Girls from Year 5 to 13 walked a 10km circular route from school along Southsea seafront. This year, the walk is...

Sky TV Ocean Live

Girls link with Deep Ocean Live team Nekton

March 28, 2019

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Girls from the Prep and Senior Schools were excited to take part in a live Skype link with Nekton who have been running the deep ocean mission to explore the Indian Ocean which has been broadcast on Sky. Nekton’s aim is to be ‘positively disruptive...

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Portsmouth High School celebrates 137 years

School celebrates 137 years at a Birthday Service

February 19, 2019

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Portsmouth High School celebrated its 137th Birthday just before half term with a resounding service at Portsmouth Cathedral. The school was founded on 21 February 1882 opening at Marlborough House in Osborne Road and moving to Kent Road in 1928. In 1939, as the war...

Positive week at PHS

‘Two handfuls of parent huggles & a good night’s sleep…’ staff and girls embrace positivity

February 8, 2019

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Portsmouth High School has embraced a week of positivity encouraging both pupils and staff to reaffirm their commitment to both mental and physical health. There were a variety of events throughout the week including a singalong, magic and mystery event, Zumba, yoga and mindfulness sessions,...

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Sixth Formers at Edinburgh Fringe

Portsmouth High School girls receive 5 star review at Edinburgh Fringe

August 15, 2017

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Positive Project co-founder at Portsmouth High School

Portsmouth High School hears from Positive Project co-founder ‘Being emotionally literate is protective in itself.’

April 21, 2017

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Portsmouth High School walk for PlanUK

Portsmouth High School GDST girls take part in World Wide Walk for PlanUK

March 29, 2017

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Portsmouth High School STEM challenge

Young engineers take part in Portsmouth High School STEM Challenge Day

September 27, 2016

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Portsmouth High School sailors look to an Olympic future

Portsmouth High School sailors look to an Olympic future

August 24, 2016

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Portsmouth High School host bread baking challenge

Portsmouth High School host Bread Baking challenge

May 19, 2016

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‘Mathematics challenges give girls self-confidence’ says Portsmouth High School’s Head of Mathematics

March 15, 2016

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Third place for Jia Feng in British Chess Solving Championships

February 29, 2016

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public speaking competition

Portsmouth High School hosts prestigious public speaking competition

February 5, 2016

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Portsmouth High School girls bring WW2 history project to life

Portsmouth High School girls bring WW2 history project to life

February 1, 2016

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Portsmouth High School pupils helped inspire more women to get into technology

Portsmouth High School pupils inspire more women to get into technology

January 27, 2016

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Portsmouth High School host nine visiting primary schools for annual Festival of Languages

January 21, 2016

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Portsmouth High School pupils enjoy wellbeing conference

Portsmouth High School girls enjoy Wellbeing Conference post mock GCSEs

January 13, 2016

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Man walking

Take your daughter to work day turns into an epic adventure in Antarctica

January 13, 2016

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Actress Sarah Parish - Junior School Girls

Actress, Sarah Parish, delights Junior School girls

January 11, 2016

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Tim Peake

Portsmouth High School support Tim Peake’s blast off

December 14, 2015

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Portsmouth High School annual Carol Service

December 11, 2015

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GDST alumna Mrs Ann Cotton, OBE, visits Portsmouth High School

November 11, 2015

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Portsmouth High School Head Girls meet 27 years apart

November 9, 2015

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Girls enjoy Barbados sports tour

November 4, 2015

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Portsmouth High School hosts technology challenge on the Isle of Wight – encouraging girls to be engineers of the future

October 16, 2015

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Portsmouth High School Food Technology facilities officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth

October 9, 2015

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Gomer Junior School’s ‘Chugabug’ wins Portsmouth High School’s mini technology challenge day

October 2, 2015

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Mengham Mono-Star wins Portsmouth High School Technology Challenge Day

September 29, 2015

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Portsmouth High School welcomes back alumnae this week from the Classes of 1965, 75, 85, 95 and 2005

September 21, 2015

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‘Educating girls has to be our number one priority in the world today,’ says Nelson Mandela’s former bodyguard, Chris Lubbe

September 12, 2015

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Portsmouth High School GDST – GCSE Results 2015 – 95% receiving A-B grades with nearly 8 x national average of As

August 20, 2015

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girls buck the trend

Portsmouth High School GDST ‘girls buck the trend and receive top results’

August 13, 2015

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Portsmouth High School girls volunteer as ‘Wavemakers’ at America’s Cup and launch pop up sailing school

July 21, 2015

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Portsmouth High School girls battle wind and rain in Snowdonia to achieve Gold Duke of Edinburgh

July 20, 2015

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Portsmouth High School host a reunion for the Class of 73

July 17, 2015

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Portsmouth High School girls ‘sang like angels’ on Belgium tour

July 17, 2015

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Portsmouth High School bids farewell to Class of 2015

July 14, 2015

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Girls experience working in a veterinary surgery

July 1, 2015

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Portsmouth High School’s Art and Design Technology exhibition

June 22, 2015

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Portsmouth High School’s inaugural Daffodil Society tea

June 16, 2015

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Portsmouth High School Head Girls launch support for chosen charity

June 11, 2015

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Portsmouth High Junior School Festival of Languages

June 3, 2015

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Headmistress at Portsmouth High School, Jane Prescott in classroom

Portsmouth High School ranked ‘excellent’ in all categories of Independent Schools Inspectorate Report

June 1, 2015

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Portsmouth High School perform Scholars and Leavers concert at Square Tower, Old Portsmouth

April 28, 2015

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Portsmouth High School becomes a Directly Licenced Centre for the Duke of Edinburgh Award

April 22, 2015

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Outgoing Head Girl Ellie Webb reflects on her time at Portsmouth High

April 8, 2015

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Portsmouth High School girls take part in World Wide Walk for Plan-UK

March 28, 2015

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Audience ‘blown away’ by world premiere of Rough Seas performed by Portsmouth High School

March 25, 2015

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Mathematics Challenge Day at Portsmouth High School in Southsea

‘Mathematics – it is a pleasure to open their minds’ says Portsmouth High School’s Head of Mathematics

March 24, 2015

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Portsmouth High School host nine week Fun on Saturday programme final

March 21, 2015

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Portsmouth High School’s New Head Girl steps into her sister’s shoes four years on

March 4, 2015

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All Aboard for Portsmouth High School’s Anything Goes!

March 2, 2015

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Anything Goes is coming soon…

February 16, 2015

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Portsmouth High School pupils are tech champions

February 11, 2015

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Portsmouth High School celebrates 133rd Birthday

February 10, 2015

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Caroline Dinenage MP: ‘If I can change one person’s life for the better then I am doing a good job’

January 30, 2015

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Portsmouth High School host ten visiting primary schools for annual Festival of Languages

January 22, 2015

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Portsmouth High School storm first round of Youth Speaks competition

January 20, 2015

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Portsmouth High School’s support of mental health charity encourages girls to host Wellbeing Conference

January 19, 2015

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All aboard for ‘Anything Goes’, a classic musical at Portsmouth High School…

January 13, 2015

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Portsmouth High School girls write the lyrics to Stephen’s Story tribute

January 13, 2015

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Portsmouth High School scholar from Chekhov’s home town offered place at Oxford to read Russian

January 12, 2015

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Ski Trip returns safely from Italian Alps

December 23, 2014

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Portsmouth High School students break geography mapping record

December 18, 2014

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Pre-Prep toys create their own nativity scene

December 2, 2014

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Popular authors visit Portsmouth High Junior School

November 27, 2014

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Sixth Form Charity Week ends with the glamour of the catwalk

November 27, 2014

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How phonics help your child learn to read

November 19, 2014

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Toothpaste sandwiches; tales from an octogenarian’s visit to Portsmouth High School

November 12, 2014

Alumnae News

Portsmouth High School welcomes back Class of 84 for 30 year reunion

September 9, 2014

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Girls at PHS achieve more than five times the national average of A* grades at GCSE

August 21, 2014

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There were celebrations this morning as girls at Portsmouth High School excitedly opened envelopes containing their GCSE results. It was another year of excellent results as 65% of all grades were A*/A, more than five times the national average. The pass rate was 100% with...

Portsmouth High School GDST doubles national average of A* for girls

August 14, 2014

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There is much to celebrate today as 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 achieved over 13% of A* grades almost doubling the national...

Adventurers return from an exhilarating trip to China

August 6, 2014

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There were emotional scenes of a joyful homecoming in the senior school car park yesterday afternoon as pupils and staff returned from the trip of a life time to China. The girls have just spent 16 days being part of a summer camp at a...

Portsmouth High girls take Duke of Edinburgh trek global on a Moroccan mission

July 24, 2014

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Last week a group of girls from Portsmouth High took to the Atlas Mountains and local Berber villages in Morocco for an 11 day excursion. At the same time, Sixth Formers embarked on the most challenging Duke of Edinburgh expedition the school has tackled to...

Brand new facilities broaden the provision at Portsmouth High School

July 22, 2014

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School is out but work is continuing in earnest at Portsmouth High School at both the junior and senior schools over the summer break. As the gates closed to pupils on the last day of term, builders moved in to start their first week of...

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Girls go for gold and conquer Snowdon

July 17, 2014

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A group of Sixth Formers passed their Gold Duke of Edinburgh expedition with flying colours last weekend. They trekked in Snowdonia, Wales, for three nights and four days and walked over 75 km across hills and beside lakes and ‘peaked’ with a climb to the...

House Music in true Portsmouth High School style

July 1, 2014

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Director of Music Mr George Tinsley and music teacher Mr Jan Guthrie conducted a rigorous selection process towards the end of term with 300 auditions across the senior school for entry to the House Music competition. In true X Factor style, the ‘live show’ came...

Professor Stein urges pupils to eat more fish during exam time

March 19, 2014

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‘Eat more fish, especiallly during exam time’ urges Professor Stein

March 18, 2014

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Girls get thinking ‘out of the box’

January 13, 2014

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A new subject has appeared on every girl’s timetable from Year 7 to Year 11 at Portsmouth High School. The subject is called ‘Sophia’ and focuses on five different thinking skills that need to be integral in lessons and in homework: enquiring, evaluating, creative thinking,...

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