1939-present day

1939 - The new school building opened in September and welcomed students from Taunton's                School in Southampton, who had been evacuated.

1940 - 800 French soldiers, evacuated from Dunkirk, are billeted in the school. When they left,                400 British soldiers arrived. Lessons continued on the upper floors.

1943 - 5,576 hours of work were provided by students at the Harvest Camp to help alleviate the               shortage of manpower.

1944 - No copy of The Bournemouthian  in spring due to a paper shortage.

1950 - New technology - the Combined Cadet Force acquired a wireless link with Peter  

           Symonds' School in Winchester.

1951 - On 22 January, at the exact hour Dr Fenwick opened the school 50 years earlier, a portrait            of Dr Fenwick was presented to the school.

1969 - Students were allowed to arrive at school late so they could watch the moon landing. 

1974 - Dorset County Education Authority became responsible for the school.

1979 - A computer club is formed with a RML 380Z computer.

1980 - A video recorder was used in classrooms.

1984 - Computer Studies 'O' level was offered for the first time.

1990 - The school became a 'Grant Maintained Grammar School'.

1990 - Bournemouth School became a specialist language college teaching French, German,                 Latin, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.

1993 - The school houses were re-named Scott, Elgar, Turner, Newton and Darwin.

1998 - Grant maintained schools were abolished and the school became a 'Foundation School',              directly responsible to Bournemouth Local Education Authority.

2019 - A new intake class created the need for a new house, named Moore after Bobby Moore                and building work began to cater for the new intake moving through the future years.

2020 -

"No matter what the national funding picture, the way in which the school’s success is being measured, or the building programme that is being undertaken, our first priority will be to ensure that we serve our young people in the best way that we can, so that they are happy and may realise their dreams." Dr Dorian Lewis, Headmaster.