2025 Primary Captains

Throughout Term 4, the Year 5 students participated in the selection process for our 2025 Primary Leaders and Captains. As part of this process, each Year 5 student reflected on leadership qualities and delivered a one-minute speech addressing the question: "What are the characteristics and qualities that make a good leader?" Every student spoke eloquently and it was truly a pleasure to hear their insights.

Following these speeches, students from Years 3 to 6 nominated up to three boys and three girls they believed would exemplify strong leadership and represent DCS well. Based on this feedback, the DCS primary staff met, reviewed the nominations and finalised the selection of our 2025 Primary Leaders and Captains.

Yesterday, after lunch, the Year 5 and Year 6 students were informed of the chosen 2025 Primary Leaders and Captains. During this announcement, we also recognised the vital role each of our 2025 Year 6 students will play as leaders, setting a positive example for all Primary students.

2025 Leaders:

School Captain	Vice Captain	Environment & STEM Captain
Sophie De Haan	April How	Méabh Loone
Thomas Udy	Hudson Leslie	Reuben Kamphuis

2025 House Captains:

Tsuri Captain	Nissi Captain	Rapha Captain
Avery Skirving	Isla Pearce	Sienna Harrison
Olly London	Banjo Clarke	Max Karpeles

Celebrating Year 6 Graduates

It has been a great week for our Year 6 students. They all did an incredible job on Monday afternoon as they officially graduated Year 6 and each gave funny, insightful, honouring and memorable speeches. It was a great reflection of their Primary years at DCS. The official celebration was then followed by a delicious breakfast by Brown Bear and time at The Bowl on Tuesday. What a fun morning! There was lots of laughter, encouragement, strikes and maybe just a few gutter balls.

2024 Celebration Service

Devonport Christian School is excited to gather as a community for our 2024 Kinder to Year 8 Celebration Service.

Our Celebration Service will be held at the paranaple centre TONIGHT (Wednesday 4th December) at 6:30pm. Market Square is available for families to bring a picnic and socialise from 5:00pm onwards. Doors to the paranaple Centre will open at 6:10pm and students will need to be seated by 6:20pm.

Our Celebration Service is a wonderful evening where we have the opportunity to reflect on the past year, praise and worship God for His amazing goodness to our school and celebrate our students and staff. Students from Kinder, Prep, Year 3/4, Year 6 and selected Secondary students will perform on stage on the night, with other classes being featured in some amazing video presentations.

Some important information:

Doors open at 6:10pm
Students to be seated in the paranaple centre or allocated room by 6.20pm
Students in Prep-Year 8 are to wear their formal school uniform
Kinder students wear their sports uniform

We have been made aware of the following from Devonport City Council in regards to parking and roadworks currently being conducted at the Best Street/Fenton Way intersection (near Harris Scarfe):

The Best Street/Fenton Way intersection (near Harris Scarfe) will be closed from 6pm for overnight works. Entry to the multi-level car park will be from the Best Street entry only and not via Fenton Way. Cars will need to travel up Best Street from the McDonalds end and turn right into the car park. There will be no oncoming traffic due to the closure. Cars will then exit out of Fenton way.

Council may have traffic control onsite during our Celebration Service, but we just wanted to make all families aware ahead of time.

Please see Schoolbox for a post with information on where your child needs to gather at the beginning of the evening.

Splash End of Year Celebration Day

On Thursday 5th December, Year 1 to 6 students will be walking to Splash Aquatic Centre for the 2024 Splash End of Year Celebration Day.

This day is an opportunity for us to celebrate the year together, as well as participate in some fun water activities. There will be novelty races and some age-appropriate swimming races for students in Years 3-6 who wish to participate. The program for the day will be available on Schoolbox shortly. We will need parent volunteers for the day to assist with supervision and marshalling of events. If you are a registered DCS parent volunteer and are available, can you please contact the school office.

Students are required to wear their PE uniforms but can wear a t-shirt representing their house colour (fully named please). It would be helpful if students wore their bathers to school under their PE clothes but they do need their underwear to change into at the end of the day.

All students must have appropriate sun cover.

Students should pack (all fully labelled please):
A towel
Appropriate swimwear including a rash vest or swim t-shirt (shoulders must be covered)
School hat
Sunglasses (optional)
Sunscreen (if unable to use school sunscreen)
At least 2 bottles of water (no glass bottles please)
Lunch + fruit
A coat or jumper
A bag for wet swimwear
Hairbrush or comb

The pool canteen will be available for students to purchase snacks and lunch. Students will be responsible for their money and should pack it somewhere safely in their bag. Students will be able to attend the canteen with their class during an allocated time. A timetable for the canteen is included with the programme. DCS Community is also providing students with a free sausage sizzle on the day.

Year 3-6 students will have the opportunity to access the waterslide in year groups during the afternoon free play session. A timetable for the waterslide is also included in the programme.

Students are encouraged to participate in all events but will not be forced to participate in events they do not feel able or comfortable to enter.

DCS have the outdoor pools/area and a male and female change room booked exclusively for the school. However, the toilets will be a shared space with members of the public. Classes or small groups (at least pairs) of students will be accompanied into the toilets/change rooms by a staff member.

As this is one of our annual community days parents are invited to join us for what is always a fun day!

Student permission must be completed for this event and have been emailed through Consent2Go.

If you have any questions about the Splash Celebration Day, please contact me.

Blessings

Tom Evans

Head of Primary

Splash End of Year Celebration Day Programme

Primary Sports and Academic Awards Assembly

You are warmly invited to our 2024 Primary Sports and Academic Awards Assembly on Tuesday 10th December from 8.30am in the JILOA Centre.

We would love for all our sports coaches to join us at our assembly so we can say thank you for your help and willingness to coach our students in the games they all love!

School Uniform Shop

DCS Community are pleased to announce that we will have some amazing DCS parent volunteers to help run our School Uniform shop, commencing in 2025.

Our School Uniform shop will be open for parents to purchase uniform items during term times every Tuesday morning between 8.30am-9.00am and Thursday afternoon between 2.30pm-3.00pm.

The Uniform Shop will also be open during January and the first week of February for parents who wish to purchase uniforms for the new school year on the following days between 10am-12pm:

Tuesday 21st January

Thursday 23rd January

Tuesday 28th January

Thursday 30th January

Tuesday 4th February

Our uniform shop is in the old school canteen next to the Prep classrooms.

If unsure, please come to the front office and a friendly staff member will direct you where to go.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Breakfast Club

Celebrating Students

Each week at our Friday assembly we love to celebrate our students. We would love to hear from you if your child has achieved something significant over the weekend during sporting events, dancing, baptisms, theatre, music achievements etc.

Please email one of the following DCS Team Members with the details (we would love a photo too!):

Corina Barnard: reception@dcs.tas.edu.au

Ema-Lee De Haan: dehaane@dcs.tas.edu.au

Tom Evans: evanst@dcs.tas.edu.au

Upcoming Events:

Wed 4th Dec	6.30pm	Celebration Service
Thur 5th Dec	9.30am	Primary Splash Celebration Day
		Prep Water Play Day
Fri 6th Dec	8.30am	Primary Assembly
	2.30pm	DCS Community Prayer: The Upper Room

Tue 10th Dec		Last Day of School
	8.30am	Primary Sports and Academic Awards Assembly
	3.15pm	After School Cricket Program

Term Dates: 2024

Term 4:

Tuesday 15th October - Tuesday 10th December

Term Dates: 2025

Term 1:

Wednesday 5th February - Friday 11th April

Term 2:

Wednesday 30th April - Friday 4th July

Term 3:

Thursday 24th July - Thursday 25th September

Term 4:

Tuesday 14th October - Tuesday 9th December

Extra-Curricular Activities

Please find information below for extra-curricular activities that are available for students.

Caroline Small School of Dance Gala Extravaganza

Tennis Club Holiday Camp

Sports Rosters