Students Achieve 1st Place!
Author of the Week!
📚The AOTW is: Elif Shafak
‘The Island of Missing Trees’
A moving and beautifully crafted novel set across Cyprus and London, tracing love, division, and family memory through generations.
It explores identity, belonging, conflict, and the ways history shapes our lives. 📚
Dennis Hill Painting Bursary 2026
🎨Congratulations to Aanya, the winner of The Dennis Hill Painting Bursary 2026!🏆
This is the fourth consecutive win for Parkstone! we cannot encourage you enough to visit the exhibition where you can view Aanya’s incredible work.
Aanya specialises in hyperrealism, creating detailed acrylic paintings that emphasise colour, texture, and emotional connection. Her process involves careful study, sketching, and immersive focus, often supported by music. Her work explores personal themes, including meaningful objects and memories. Influenced by artists such as Kenneth Hershenson and Danny Quirk, she values authenticity and creative freedom. Aanya aims to develop her practice further, explore new techniques, and use art to communicate ideas and connect with wider audiences.
Black Lives Matter
Parkstone Grammar School Statement:
In response to the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, the school is constantly reflecting on how it can play a positive role going forward. We realise we have a duty to send out a clear message that racism is not tolerated.
We are categorical that we will not tolerate racism and that ignorance and prejudice are never acceptable. We acknowledge that schools can play a major role in dismantling systemic racism.
We have made some progress via our curriculum, ethos and vision, but we also know that there is much still to do and it is appropriate that we reflect on how we can continue to play a positive role going forwards. We are committed to listening to our community, to drive change and to better equip our students with the knowledge they need to understand and address complex social issues as well as recognise and combat racism.
Considering A-Levels?
Parkstone Sixth Form welcomes internal and external applications. External Applicant? Apply online here: parkstone.poole.sch.uk/sixth-form/cur
Sports News
Top 0.5% of Country’s Sporting Schools!
🎉We’re celebrating an incredible sporting achievement!
Schools nationwide delivered outstanding performances to reach School Sport Magazine’s exclusive Top 200 Sports Schools list. Parkstone secured 19th place nationally, recognising exceptional success across 20+ sports and 120 competitions. The rankings prioritise achievement across a wide range of sports, particularly those with high participation.
A top-20 finish places Parkstone within the top 0.5% of sporting schools nationwide!
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Daily Echo Article
We’re celebrating the Bournemouth Daily Echo article featuring Parkstone Grammar School being ranked among the best schools in the south west of England for 2026.
The highly regarded Sunday Times Parent Power Guide 2026 reports that, ‘The top schools are preparing pupils to be curious, problem-solving and risk-taking, ready for anything that comes their way — as well as academic success.’
Read the full article via the link in our Story and on our Story Highlight.
(Sources: The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide, School League Tables 2026, Bournemouth Daily Echo, 5/12/2025)
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