PASTORAL CARE

DBCS, as a boy’s school, is a school founded and designed for boys to the very core of its being. As a school we have specialised in educating boys for over 40 years, and as such, we understand the unique developmental needs of boys and we constantly seek to design and implement procedures, policies and practices that meet these needs so that we might produce happy, well-adjusted, successful, relationship-enabled and inspired men. The teachers here have consciously elected that calling, and know how to challenge boys academically, care for them pastorally and engage with them in a fulfilling range of cultural and sporting pursuits. Among the teachers, tutors and coaches there are powerful role models and indeed many models of manhood on which the boys of DBCS may draw. The focus at DBCS is on a “well-rounded” education and an exposure to the full range of academics, arts, sport, extracurricular activities and community service. Our key priority is to provide a rigorous academic programme for each boy. We also acknowledge their physicality and offer a sporting programme with summer and winter sporting opportunities to boys of all abilities. The cultural opportunities at DBCS have grown enormously in the past few years and for many boys they occupy a substantial element of a boy’s day.   Perhaps the lasting test of a boy’s time at DBCS in the calibre of friendships that are developed, cherished and maintained for decades after school. Boys learn to be team mates, soul mates and brothers, and forge strong loyalties and bonds in a fragmented world that has long since given up on such ideals.