Port Regis School is a preparatory school for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 13. The school is located in 140 acres of parkland on the Dorset / Wiltshire border in Southern England.
The headmaster of Port Regis is Benedict Dunhill and the deputy head is Kieron Peacock. Mr Dunhill began working life in the City and subsequently took up his first teaching post at Blundell's School in Devon. He was a housemaster at Worth School in Sussex before being appointed Headmaster of Moreton Hall Prep School in Suffolk. He became Headmaster of Port Regis in 2010.
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The Prep school and Pre-Prep together consist of nearly 400 pupils, with gender mix at around 50%. There are five boarding houses:
Stalbridge for boys aged 7–10 Talbot for boys aged 10–12 Prichard Hall for boys aged 11–13 Huxley for girls aged 7–12 Grosvenor for girls aged 11–13
Port Regis School is a preparatory school for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 13. The school is located in 140 acres (0.57 km2) of the county of Dorset in Southern England.
Dr Praetorius' School, founded in 1881 in Weymouth Street, London, moved to Folkestone a few years later, and in 1921 to Kingsgate, Broadstairs, in the grounds of which stood an ancient arch, erected by Earl Holland to commemorate a chance landing by Charles II in 1683. This provided the name of the School, Port Regis, "Gate of the King".
In 1940 Port Regis evacuated to Bryanston School in Blandford. After a brief stay at the Earl of Verulam's home at Gorhambury the School moved in 1947 to Motcombe Park, one mile (1.6 km) from Shaftesbury in Dorset, where it has been ever since.
In 1972 the freehold of the property was acquired. More recent developments include the building of the Jowett sports hall opened in 1980 by Anne, Princess Royal and the Queens gymnasium and swimming pool opened in 1990 by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, when her grandchildren (Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips) were at the school.
Centenary Hall (1984), The Cunningham Hall of Technology (1992), Farrington Music School (2003) and the JM Upward Academic Centre (2008) have all been further developments to the academic side of the school.
Two famous former pupils are Peter Phillips and Zara Phillips, children of Anne, Princess Royal, and grandchildren of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Designer Jasper Conran and actor Ralph Fiennes are also both Old Portregians.
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