Dover Court News

Book Week has arrived! There is a whole host of activities, including our extreme reading competition, across the week culminating in the Book character dress up day on Friday, students may notice a number of Wally characters across the school on Friday!! There is also a Book Fair in the Main Library all week. Our Primary students will visit during their regular library session and parents are wel...

Many thanks to the parents who attended the Primary Parent Teacher conferences last week, we have received some very positive feedback from both parents and teachers. This week it is Secondary’s turn and we look forward to welcoming parents of students in Year 8 and above to Cooper Hall today and tomorrow.

Gong Xi Fa Cai, Happy New Year to everyone, I hope that you had a wonderful break with friends and family. We are now looking forward to a fun packed second half of Term 2, which kicks off this week with a number of different events for our students.

As we have tied our Half Term break to Chinese New Year this year we have had a short but packed first half of Term 2. We have adjusted this for next year. Having said that, it seems a long time since we welcomed 70 new children to the Dover Court family at the start of January. It is amazing to see how well they all seem to have settled into life at DCIS.

A short but nevertheless busy half term for Dover Court Secondary beginning with the exciting sight of builders and diggers in school as our new Secondary Building begins to be erected. The  ground work is well underway and we are working as closely as possible with the project manager to ensure that this has as little impact on our school and student learning as possible.

Firstly, a big welcome to the new families that have joined us this term. I hope your children are now well-settled into school and that your family is enjoying being a part of the Dover Court Community. I know many of you came to the New Parent Coffee Mornings and I hope you have continued to make connections with other families from there.  Of course, welcome back also to our returning...

I am just back from a very fruitful week in London meeting potential candidates for next year. Apart from interviewing our new teachers we also enjoyed the rare opportunity to meet with all NAE leaders and sharing ideas and visions. Our Academic Advisory Board gave presentations and Lord Puttnam, our Chair and the producer of Chariots of Fire, talked about digital education. It surely is a re...

In our Secondary school we talk about PSHE - Personal, Social, Health and Economic education and Mrs. Hyland described how our Secondary school have regular PSHE-sessions throughout the year with different key topics specifically chosen for each year group and with the possibilty to customise the workshops, should there be any issues within the year.

The workshop was led by Mrs. Gray and based on Primary PSHCE. PSHCE is an abbreviation for Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education and the interactive session included information about how we teach and what we teach.  It also discussed how PSHCE happens naturally throughout the school day and is part of our school Vision.

I am in the UK this week, interviewing teachers for the 2019/2020 academic year. Each year NAE hosts a recruitment event in London so that our senior leaders can meet and handpick the staff who will be joining us in August. I will be back in school next Monday.

It was wonderful to have our children and students back on Campus last week. A school is an eerily quiet place when there are only a few staff around! We are very pleased with how well our new students have settled in and how welcoming our returning students have been.

Mr. Bull reflects on an action packed first term at DCIS.

Ms Lebihan looks back over a busy and exciting term.

Our Principal Christopher Short celebrates 16 weeks of amazing learning and teaching.

The Managing Exam Stress workshop was held on Thursday 13 December to discuss the reactions we may see in our students around exam time and look at some strategies to support parents in what can be a challenging time for the family.

It was great to see so many of you at the DCA Christmas Fayre on Saturday afternoon. The rain was a little more persistent that most afternoons at the moment but it didn’t seem to effect the general festive mood – in fact my sponge throwing appointment was cut short, so not all bad!

The school was eerily quiet last week as most of the Secondary students were away on their annual residential trips. I saw the Gopeng group when they returned to school and there was a tangible buzz of energy from students and staff alike. The excitement as the students started to tell their parents about the amazing week they had was electric.

I often tell people I meet at functions in Singapore that I have the best job in the world. It's not a comment I make lightly, but to spend your working day surrounded by passionate staff and energetic and enthusiastic children and young people is truly inspiring.

Last week was our Anti Bullying and Kindness Week. There were a variety of activities taking place all week to promote this important area across the school. Mr. Tallet, our Primary ICT teacher, shared some excellent guidance on anti-bullying online and the guidelines that various social media companies give out.

What a lovely celebration of Deepavali we had on Friday. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the staff and children dressed in their new colourful clothes and celebrating the festival of lights.

Last week was another busy week in school. Our children in the Primary School and Year 9 participated in the first STEAM challenge of the year creating some very innovative and creative prototypes of wearable technology.

Many thanks to all the families who supported our UN Day on Friday. I am very grateful to everyone involved for making the day such a success, especially Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Hyland for coordinating the Primary and Secondary sections respectively. I am also grateful to the DCA for their support with the UN Day t-shirts and the country stamps. 

Mr. Tallett, Mr. Kinsella and Mr. Bull gave an internet safety workshop aiming to educate parents about some of the relevant issues surrounding us today.

DC Bear and Our Students Prepare for UN Day this Friday 26th October 2018.

Our Principal Christopher Short celebrates a successful beginning to the new Academic Year.