What's On at DCS

Barista Basics Course is Back!

Hello Amazing Coffee Enthusiasts! Have you ever wanted to craft a barista-style beverage? Maybe you’ve got some skills already, but would love a refresher on how to make the perfect brew?

DCS Community is looking for passionate volunteers to help out in the Jiloa Café on Assembly days, serving up great coffee and warm smiles to our wonderful community. If you’re keen to step into this space but just need a little boost in your barista confidence, especially when it comes to stretching milk like a pro, this refresher session is for you! 

We are opening our doors and offering a Barista Basics Course on Friday 19th June 9.00am. Come along, learn, connect, and caffeinate!

Devonport Christian School Inc. AGM

This year, the Devonport Christian School Inc. AGM is being held on Tuesday 23 June in the 9/10 Learning Centre.

The evening will commence with a time of connection from 6:45pm – 7:00pm. This is an ideal time for Association Members to catch up and chat over a hot drink and supper prior to the AGM commencing at 7:00pm. 

Members of the DCS community are welcome to come along, with Association members able to participate in the election of Board members.

2026 Brixhibition LEGO Schools Challenge

The Tasmanian Brick Enthusiasts Inc. invites all DCS primary students to take part in the 2026 Brixhibition LEGO Schools Challenge.  Students are encouraged to let their creativity shine by designing and building their own LEGO model to bring to school for judging. The overall winner will then have the exciting opportunity to enter Brixhibition Ulverstone 2026.

There are some fantastic prizes up for grabs, including LEGO vouchers, trophies, and local attraction passes—both for the school’s overall winner and for the top four finalists at the Brixhibition event.

This is a wonderful chance for students to showcase their imagination, have fun, and be part of a bigger community event celebrating creativity and building!

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 12th June and can be delivered to Alpha HQ (STEM Centre) from Tuesday 9th June onwards.

• Each LEGO entry to be displayed in Alpha HQ.

• The DCS overall winner will be determined and announced by Friday 19th 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 2026 event Sat 18th & Sun 19th July.

• Grand prize winners will be announced at 3:20pm on Sunday 19th July during Brixhibition Ulverstone 2026.

• The overall winner and their family will need to deliver to, and pick up from, their winning LEGO model at Brixhibition Ulverstone.

Brixhibition Ulverstone 2026 Event:

Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th July 2026

9:30am - 4:30pm

Ulverstone Sports and Leisure Centre

Flora Street, Ulverstone

Please contact Miss Shurley via email at rebekah.shurley@dcs.tas.edu.au if you have any questions or see the FAQs sheet information on Schoolbox.

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 10 into ICAS this year. The assessments are suitable for students wishing to extend themselves academically and take up the personal challenge of competing in a world-renowned 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 is not available for Year 2 students and we are not offering Spelling Bee or Digital Technologies for Year 8, 9 or 10 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 6th July.

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

Access Code:  JAS299

Click here to read the terms and conditions.

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.

Privacy Collection Statement  

The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure. ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our). To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

• collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam. 

• transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia. 

• share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving). 

• use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes. 

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/.

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.