What's On at DCS

Founders Day 2025 - A Walking Celebration

DCS Founders, Association Members, past staff and students, are invited to join us on Thursday, 19th June, for our 2025 Founder’s Day Celebration Walk and Morning Tea, a special journey through our school’s present day. As we stroll through the grounds, we will pause at various locations to enjoy presentations by current students, before gathering in the Jiloa Centre for morning tea, reflection, and celebration. 

At DCS we deeply value our heritage and honouring the Founders who embraced the vision of bringing Christian education to Devonport. We are grateful to many who continue to pray for our school and those who are able to financially sow into the school with tax deductible donations to our building fund. We are especially excited to share updates on our future new Year 9/10 Centre building project which is well underway. The near future, in 2026, DCS will be educating Kinder through to Year 10 students and have projected over 460 students. 

We will gather at the Jiloa Centre at 9:15am on Thursday 19th June. A delicious hot beverage will be available before we commence our ‘DCS Celebration Walk’ at 9:30am.

Please RSVP through the following link: 2025 Founder’s Day RSVP email admin@dcs.tas.edu.au or call 6423 1373 by Friday 13th June.

Community Meeting

We would like to invite all DCS parents and grandparents to come along to our Community Meeting on Wednesday 11th June at 9.00am.

DCS Community loves to meet together once a term to discuss all things community focused. Please come to the Staff Room straight after Worship Wednesday. It will be a blessing to have you there! 

2025 Brixhibition LEGO Schools Challenge

The Tasmanian Brick Enthusiasts Inc. invites all DCS students to compete in the 2025 Brixhibition LEGO Schools Challenge.  Students are invited to get creative and build a LEGO model to bring to school for judging.  The overall winner will then be invited to enter Brixhibition Ulverstone 2025.

LEGO Challenge Rules and Conditions:

• Each LEGO display to be no larger than 52cm x 52cm x 52cm, or no larger than four 32 x 32 lug Lego baseplates.
• Each LEGO display must be an original or freelance design and not made from a LEGO kit or instructions.
• Some adult help is allowed, but the LEGO design should mainly be the child’s own design.
• All LEGO entries must be received by Friday 13th June and can be delivered to the STEM Centre from Tuesday 10th June onwards.
• Each LEGO entry to be displayed in Alpha HQ.
• The DCS overall winner will be determined and announced by Friday 20th June.
• The DCS LEGO Challenge overall winner will be invited to compete at Brixhibition.
• All LEGO Challenge overall winners will be judged by Tasmanian Brick Enthusiasts Inc. members to determine the grand prize winners by bringing their model to Ulverstone Sport and Leisure Centre in Flora Street to be on display at the Brixhibition Ulverstone 2025 event Sat 11th & Sun 13th July.
• Grand prize winners will be announced at 3:20pm on Sunday 13th July during Brixhibition Ulverstone 2025.
• The overall winner and their family will need to deliver to, and pick up from, their winning LEGO model at Brixhibition Ulverstone.

Brixhibition Overall Grand Prize Winners Prizes:

• 1st Place: $300 Lego voucher
• 2nd Place: $200 Lego voucher
• 3rd Place: $100 Lego voucher
• 4th Place: Trophy

Please contact Miss Shurley via email at shurleyr@dcs.tas.edu.au if you have any questions.

ICAS Competition

We are delighted to inform you that Devonport Christian School will be participating in the world-renowned ICAS Assessments again this year. 

What is ICAS?  

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee, and Digital Technologies.

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for ICAS medals.

We encourage you to consider entering your children in Years 2 to 9 into ICAS this year. The assessments are suitable for students wishing to extend themselves academically and take up the personal challenge of competing in an international assessment. Your child will be presented with high-quality, expert-developed questions, allowing them to apply their learning without the need for prior study or revision.

You may nominate and pay for your child to participate in any or all of the following competitions. Please note that Writing, Digital Technologies and Spelling Bee are not available for Year 2 students and we are not offering Spelling Bee for Year 8 and 9 students.

Payment Information

Online entry and parent payment:

Once you have decided which competitions your child/ren will be entering, please go to the ICAS website to enter your child and pay ICAS fees online. Visit the online Parent Payment System to make a direct payment to UNSW Global. Online payment for DCS will close on Monday 30th June 2025.

Visit:  https://shop.icasassessments.com/pages/parent-payment/JAS299   

Access Code:  JAS299

Visit here to read the terms and conditions: icasassessments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-ICAS-Assessments-Schools-TsCs_S2023.V6-1.pdf

Partnering with UNSW Global, we are proud to offer our students the ICAS Assessments and look forward to some fantastic results later in the year.

Early Learning

At DCS we offer two fun and friendly Early Learning programmes.  Come along and connect with others over a delicious hot drink while your children play.  Please call the school office on 6423 1373 if you require further information.

Little Sprouts

Little Sprouts is a hands-on nature-based playgroup for children aged 3 and 4 years and is held every Thursday from 8:45am - 10:30am.

We ask parents if they would like to attend to please ensure your child has a snack to eat during break time and a hat and a water bottle.  During these sessions we ask all parents to please supervise your children. 

Jiloa Juniors

Jiloa Juniors is held every Friday from 8:45am - 10:45am, commencing on Friday 14th February, and is for children from birth to 5 years with their carers.  

A small snack is provided for children but we ask parents to please bring a hat and a water bottle.  During these sessions we ask all parents to please supervise your children. 

Jiloa Juniors is held in our Kinder area. Please come to the office if you need assistance finding the classroom.

We hope you can join us!