The school was officially opened by then Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, John Anderson and Singapore's then Acting Minister for Education, Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
On a visit to India, Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister of Education and Second Minister for Finance, visited DPS Schools in India and this has resulted in the decision to conduct exchange programme with Singaporean schools such as Raffles Institution, Bukit Panjang Government High School, etc.
The band was invited to perform at Namly Park, with guests, Minster for Education, Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Christopher De Souza, MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC at the occasion.
Then acting Minister of Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam graced the official opening ceremony of the newly redeveloped PHS campus in May 2004.
Like Tharman Shanmugaratnam (the current Finance Minister), Ho Kwon Ping (a former journalist dissident and now the chairman of the Banyan Tree leisure group), and other former political critics, she is part of a small group of well-educated dissidents who have subsequently been appointed into high profile positions in the PAP Government, or who have otherwise become part of the establishment.