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Day and Boarding


The House System At DCPS the house system provides the excellent pastoral care for which the school is renowned.


There are three boarding houses, including a junior boarding house dedicated to the needs of younger children, and three day houses. All the houses are located in the Prep School grounds.


Children join together in their day houses before school starts in the morning, at lunchtime, and after school. Many children are keen to stay after school and play with their friends in their houses if they are not participating in one of the many clubs that are on offer through the week. Each of the houses is equipped with various games tables including table tennis, pool and air hockey.


Each of the day houses has a full compliment of boys and girls from Years 3 to 8. It is through the houses that children forge strong friendships with other children in different year groups, as well as their own. This is facilitated through vertical tutor groups, with pupils from each year group represented in each tutor group.


Each house has a compliment of academic staff, known as house tutors, to monitor pupils’ progress and to be available to parents for discussion, at the beginning or the end of every day.


School Meals All meals are eaten in the school dining room.


Breakfast and supper, which are both hot meals, are for boarders only.


At lunch children have a variety of choice. There are at least three hot dishes a day (one vegetarian); there is a salad bar with a choice of protein items and a variety of carbohydrates (potatoes, pasta etc) and salads. There is a choice of puddings (one hot and one cold each day), plus fruit and yoghurts.


The school’s healthy eating policy provides the basis for the menu and is supported by the use of lean cuts of meat, and lots of locally supplied fresh fruit and vegetables, with no use of genetically modified foodstuffs.


Boarding About a third of the pupils at DCPS are boarders. They come from a variety of backgrounds: some from services families, some from overseas and some from families who value the benefits of independence and self confidence that boarding brings to a young person.


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