The Department of Health (DH) has launched the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Catch-up Programme in the 2024–25 school year to offer a one-off catch-up HPV vaccination to eligible female Hong Kong residents born between 2004 and 2008.

As the influenza (flu) season is upon us, we would like to ask for vigilance in regard to cold and flu symptoms.

2024-25 Term 2 Primary ECA Sign-up Notice. Sign-up is open from 20th November at 12pm to 4th December at 3pm.

Please complete the linked form if you are interested in joining the 2024–25 Secondary Parent Focus Groups.

2024–25 Term 1 Early Years Foundation Stage 2 ECA sign up information

2025–26 Week Without Walls Presentations Update

This year’s DBIS International Food Fair will feature food from 23 countries. If you are unable to help with a stall but would like to make donation to a stall of your choice, please email the PTSA.

Information about Year 5’s upcoming trip to The Crossroads Foundation on Wednesday 11th September (Y5SM and Y5TS) and Thursday 12th September (Y5CD and Y5CG). Jotform permission slip linked.

Final information for Primary International Sports Week.

Students attending the Bali trip will be departing on the morning of Sunday 10th November and arriving back in Hong Kong in the late evening of Friday 15th November.

We are excited to announce the return of our Bamboo Buddies programme. This fun programme is open to children aged 24 to 36 months and is ideal for those applying to Foundation Stage 1 (FS-1) who have paid the application fee and will be joining in August 2025.

Book donations needed for our outdoor library.

If you are looking to free up some space on your bookshelves, we would love your good-quality books to sell at the International Food Fair.

How Secondary students can get involved with Box of Hope; collection dates: 4th – 8th November 2024.

As part of our ‘Brilliant Botanists’ Discovery unit, we will be welcoming botanical artist Sally Grace Bunker to our classrooms on Thursday 17th October for a session of art inspired by nature.

Please find information about a cardboard box needed for your child, to be brought into school on Monday 3rd March.

Information regarding upcoming Learning for Life Assemblies and how to share your child’s achievements so they can be celebrated in the assembly presentation.

We will be celebrating Diwali across the EYFS, Primary and Secondary phases of the school, on Friday 1st November, with the children being encouraged to wear traditional dress or bright colours to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights.

This year’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme is ‘Know Yourself To Grow Yourself’ and we will be offering a range of activities over the week for students to celebrate and explore their own wellbeing and mental health.

We invite you to save the date for our Christmas Concert on the Pitch – Wednesday 11th December from 4pm.

Christmas Jumper Swap Shop – drop-off and event details.

Details regarding the Class of 2025 graduation dinner.

As the temperature increases, we would like to remind families that it is compulsory for students to wear their DBIS sun hats during PE lessons.

This year, we have prepared three days’ worth of CNY celebration events and activities that will take place across the EYFS and Main campuses.

An update regarding DBIS Live, including the audition upload link.

We are looking forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 12th February at 4pm in the Globe to enjoy a wonderful evening of music.

Information for ordering 2024-25 student photos. An early bird discount is available until 15th November. For prints to arrive by the end of Term 1, orders should be placed by 20th November.

The DBIS time capsule, buried over 25 years ago, will be excavated on Monday 24th March.

Information about the forthcoming Discovery workshop for Primary parents.

Our Secondary Student Wellbeing Council have organised a ‘dress to express’ day on 10th October.

I am delighted to inform you that Early Years International Sports Week will run from Tuesday 19th November to Friday 22nd November.

The English department is pleased to announce two important events designed to help your child develop essential exam techniques in a low-stakes and supportive environment.

Recording of the Primary English Parent Workshop.

Information about our Box of Hope collection for the EYFS & Primary phase.

Information on how to volunteer to be a Class Parent.

Information regarding our Parent Focus Group for 2024–25.

Information on how to book your child’s PTC for the week beginning Monday 7th October.

Information on how to book your Term 2 PTC.

This year’s EYFS student photos (both class group photos and individual portraits) will take place from Thursday 19th to Friday 20th September.

Important information regarding the arrangements for our whole-school photograph.

Information on how to book your end-of-term-1 PTC.

The new EYFS House PE tops are now available to buy from the uniform shop.

EYFS Sibling Photo Opportunity – Friday 7th February

We will be visiting the beach to share and listen to a variety of different stories.

Information regarding the FOBISIA Advanced Music Festival taking place in October 2025

Initial Information about the FOBISIA Music Festival.

Details of the audition process for FOBISIA Primary Music Festival.

To ensure the safety of our students, the EYFS campus will no longer be available for families to access after school.

Information about our Foundation Stage Temple Fair that will take place on Wednesday 22nd January between 1.30pm and 2.40pm.

A thank you to all of our families and a request to update your child’s chattertubes over the holiday.

Our coffee and connect event has been moved to Tuesday 17th September for our FS-1 aunties and uncles.

Some reminders for our FS-1 families about the Theatre Trip and our Temple Fair that is coming up.

Some information about the celebrations of Diwali and Halloween that will be explored after the October break.

Information about an upcoming theatre trip to watch The Way Back Home.

Information about making a Chatter Tube for your child’s new FS-1 class.

As part of our Christmas celebrations this year, FS-1 would like to invite our families into school for sing-alongs in the EYFS hall.

FS-1 will having a family beach trip together on Friday 29th November and we ask that one adult accompanies each child.

Information regarding our literacy open mornings on Tuesday 18th March and Wednesday 19th March.

FS -1 are inviting families into school on Tuesday 12th November and Wednesday 13th November, between 8.55am and 9.40am.

Information about the PANTS programme that the children will be exploring in the week beginning 17th February.

FS-1 would like to invite our families to a reading workshop taking place on Thursday 13th March between 9.15 and 10am.

Thank you for your continued support in settling our FS-1 children into their new routines. Here are a few reminders for the week commencing 2nd September.

Some important dates for our FS-1 families before the end of Term 1.

A few reminders for our families in FS-1 for w.b 16th September

We are delighted to invite you to this year’s Physical Development Morning, taking place on 11th March.

Please find here a reminder regarding the upcoming parent orientation meetings.

Information about an upcoming Beach School session for FS-2 children.

Information about our upcoming Beach School sessions taking place on 25th and 26th February.

The end of term is fast approaching. Please take note of upcoming events over the next two weeks.

We kindly ask each family to send in a family photo for their child to facilitate learning in our new Discovery unit.

Information about home reading books in FS-2.

Please find the slides from the literacy presentation attached here.

Please find the slides attached from the FS-2 Meet the Teacher presentation.

Information about an upcoming open morning and parent workshop for FS-2 families.

Information about an upcoming Open Morning in FS-2.

Information about the PANTS programme that the children will be exploring in the week beginning 17th March.

Some important reminders for the week ahead.

A few reminders for the coming weeks in FS-2.

Some important reminders for the week ahead.

An important date to mark in your diaries!

We are delighted to invite you to this year’s Physical Development Day, taking place on 11th March.

Halloween Swap Shop on 30th October, hosted by the UN Global Goals ECA.

Hammerheads kits can be purchased as optional training kits for particular sports ECAs and will also be worn by selected students when representing the school at competitions and fixtures.

The Hammerhead sports kit website will be re-opening for more orders from Monday 2nd September (at 9am) to Friday 13th September.

Orders can be placed on the Hammerhead kit website from 7th to 24th March 2025. Orders will be distributed by the school by 28th April.

The CHP has informed us of an increase of HFMD-EV71 in the community and we wanted to pass along some information for families.

Important Information Regarding Week Without Walls Attendance – Year 9

Information regarding the changes to the Music curriculum in Year 5 next year, which requires a response from all Year 4 Parents/Guardians by 12th March 2025.

The Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Scheme will not be offered this year for students at DBIS. Please read for alternative suggestions.

Invitation to attend information session about Instrumental Programme in Year 5 next year.

We are delighted to invite our current Year 6 parents to an information event on Wednesday 25th September to introduce our Secondary phase and Year 7 at DBIS. There are two sessions to select from: 8.30am – 10.45am and 6.15pm – 7pm.

We are excited to introduce you to the Jigsaw PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) programme that has been integrated into our existing ‘Learning for Life’ curriculum this academic year.

Link to the Introduction to Secondary – Year 4/5 information & tour slides.

We will be hosting two events on 3rd October for parents of our current Year 4 and 5 students. Please complete the linked jotform to indicate your preferred time and confirm your attendance.

We are looking for junk modelling donations at our Early Years Campus.

Key Stage 1 (Year 1 & Year 2) class teachers will be delivering the PANTS programme week commencing 28th October. 

Link to a collection of useful resources that were referenced during the recent Primary Learning Technologies workshop.

A reminder for the Learning Technologies parent workshop – Connected but in Control – taking place on Tuesday 18th February between 8.30am – 9.30am in the Globe Theatre.

Information regarding the Learning Technologies Parent Workshop (Key Stage 2–3).

We are excited to invite you to a Learning Technologies Parent Workshop on Thursday 7th November.

Link to the recent LT parent workshop presentation and information about additional online safety resources.

Macbeth will be playing at the Rita Tong Liu Drama Theatre during the upcoming half-term break; this is a fantastic chance for those staying in Hong Kong to immerse themselves in this classic Shakespearean play.

Opportunity for students to register for the Australian Maths Competition taking place on Monday 30th September.

Links to the slides and video recording from the Maths in the Primary School parent workshop.

Meet the Team – 2nd September 2024

Students have the option of wearing casual clothes to mark Mental Health Day on 10th October, through an initiative from our Secondary Student Wellbeing Council.

Details of the updated process for notifying the school about planned and unplanned student absence.

The competition, which takes place on 22nd and 23rd February 2025, is open to everyone from the age of nine years old and up.

No ECAs between Monday 9th – Friday 13th December.

DBIS is a nut-free school. Please familiarise yourself with the information in this bulletin.

Link to the menu and lunch enrolment for November and December 2024.

Student video and website link for the new Hammerhead kit. The online store will close on Friday 13th September.

Dear Parents and Guardians,   This message is to inform you of an ongoing IT outage affecting iSAMS. What’s Affected: Access to the iSAMS parent portal. Current Status: We are aware of the issue and are actively working with the iSAMS support team to restore service as quickly as possible. Expected Resolution Time: 8–24 hours […]

Please sign up for free to access hundreds of courses, explainer videos and online safety guides to support your awareness of the online world.

Join us for a panel discussion with experts from the mental health sector in Hong Kong to explore how we can support our children’s wellbeing and mental health, with a key focus on the importance of raising our children with resilience.

Primary Mandarin Workshop – details and sign-up link.

Secure your spot to perform at the International Food Fair on 8th March!

Students in Year 3 to Year 6 with permission to walk home alone have been issued with a green luggage tag to attach to their school bag, for easy identification.

International Food Fair tokens and activity passports will be available to buy from Monday 3rd to Thursday 6th March. Get yours early to enjoy hassle-free access to activities and food on the day.

We are pleased to confirm that this year’s Year 1 to 13 student photos will take place between Wednesday 2nd October and Wednesday 16th October. Please see the linked schedule.

Dates, times and key information for Primary International Sports Week (11th – 15th November).

Information on the Primary English Workshop for parents, including the sign-up link.

Information on the Primary Maths Workshop for parents.

Information about swimming lessons during inclement weather.

Our Primary Young Entrepreneurs will be selling handmade Valentine’s cards for HK$10 and HK$20 at break and lunchtime on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th February to raise money for our four school charities.

Link to the provisional school dates for next academic year.

Students are encouraged to bring any Lekker Laa bags they have to school on Tuesday 17th September to recycle them. House points and PTSA funding will be given for each bag returned.

Our next 2nd-hand uniform sale will take place on Tuesday 19th November.

Our first 2nd-hand uniform sale will take place on Thursday 5th September 2024 from 9am to 10am at the Main Campus.

Details of the first PTSA coffee morning of the year, with guest speakers.

The PTSA will be selling Christmas t-shirts and poinsettias for the holiday season ahead. Each item can be purchased by pre-ordering.

We are so pleased to announce the return of the CNY flower market at the main DBIS campus. Pre-ordering is available – click to find out more.

Copies of visiting author and DBIS alumni member Siobhan McDermott’s debut novel, Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm, can be ordered through the school library until Wednesday 12th March.

Please find further information about the rearranged Primary Swimming Galas

Please find information regarding the upcoming Year 3 recorder Music lessons.

Remembrance Service Link

Remembrance Service 2024 arrangements.

Please collect annual school portrait print orders from our main reception desk before the Chinese New Year break.

Please be reminded that the print orders from this year’s annual school photos are available to collect from our Main Campus reception.

Please save the date for our wonderful DBIS Live event on Wednesday, 12th February 2025!

Our International Food Fair will return on the 8th March 2025. The December break is a great time to pick up key ingredients from our home countries. If you would like to be part of the fun, please sign up by Friday 13th December 2024.

Print orders placed by 20th November 2024 with our school portrait photographer, Jenna Louise Potter Photography, will be available for collection from Thursday 12th December 2024 from our Main Campus reception desk.

Important information about our expectations for school uniform.

Details of our Secondary Production – A Monster Calls – including ticketing information. The show runs from 26th – 27th February.

The photography studio shooting this year’s annual school portraits, Jenna Louise Potter Photography, is now taking bookings for sibling and friend photos.

We are extending the sign up for our International Food Fair. Currently we have 8 countries out of the 53 represented by our community. Please sign up to help make this year’s Food Fair the best yet!

A limited number of spots are available for the football tournament taking place on 22nd and 23rd February. Register now using the QR code or link.

We are pleased to invite current and prospective families to our latest DBIS Sixth Form Open Event. Join us on Wednesday 26th March at 6.15 pm at our Sixth Form campus in DB North Plaza.

Important information regarding the student grant 2024–25.

Information about Student Grant Application 2024–25

Student Grant Information for 2024-25 School Year.

Information about the Student Health and Dental Care Service 2024 for Primary students.

Student volunteers required to support the Year 3 charity sale on 12th December.

The PTSA have been working with the Sustainability Council Prefects on an initiative to encourage our community to bring their own reusable plates, cups, bowls etc. to the International Food Fair on Saturday 8th March. 

Secondary students are planning a fun and engaging week to acknowledge the importance of sustainability, using form time from Monday 14th to Friday 18th October.

Link to the menu and lunch enrolment for Term 2.

Students attending the Thailand trip will be departing on the afternoon of Saturday 9th November and arriving back in Hong Kong on the evening of Friday 15th November.

Information about the Tigers and Sea Otters upcoming class assembly. Please note that the Snow Leopards and Cheetahs assembly will be in Term 3.

Calling Volunteers for TransLantau by UTMB race at DBIS checkpoint.

Dear Parents and Guardians, The Education Bureau (EdB) has directed all schools to close on Friday 6th September 2024 because of the track of Typhoon Yagi. All phases of the school will, therefore, be closed on Friday 6th September, and Heads of Phase will be in touch with further information about learning opportunities for the […]

Thank you for your support with the ongoing U11 FOBISIA selection process. The PE department would like to share the process we will be following for announcing the final results and team.

UN Global Goals ECA Bake Sale for The Elephant Foundation – Thursday 13th March, at 3.15pm

Details of the University Fair at Discovery College on 11th September.

Find information here about our upcoming trips in Year 1. Please note Year 1 and 2 Sports Day will now be on Thursday 13th January 2025.

Please find attached an updated key dates document for FS-1.

Please find attached an updated key dates document for FS-2.

Information about the upcoming trips to the Hong Kong Museum of Art on Tuesday 29th October and Wednesday 30th October.

We would like to invite our families to connect over coffee and get to know each other a little bit better.

The Year 1 and 2 Sports Morning will be held on Thursday 13th February (updated date). We extend a warm invitation to all our Year 1 and 2 families to come along and support the students on the day. 

Important reminders about the upcoming Year 4 camp.

Information about Year 6’s upcoming trip to Chengdu, China from Monday 4th November 2024 to Thursday 7th November 2024. Jotform permission/waiver slip and additional information slides are linked.

Join us from 8am this Sunday, 23rd February, for the first-ever DBIS PTSA/Tekkerz football tournament at our main campus!

Information about the Walking School Bus taking place on Friday 18th October.

Information on ticket sales for We Will Rock You, presented by The Performer’s Studio and featuring DBIS students.

Links to the ‘Year 5–8 Sports Day Parent Letter’ and the ‘Sports Day Event Programme’. We look forward to welcoming parents to Kwai Chung Sports Ground on Wednesday.

Students attending the Year 9 Vietnam trip will be departing on Sunday 10th November and arriving back in Hong Kong in the late afternoon of Friday 15th November.

Week Without Walls presentations for the 2025–26 academic year will be held on the evening of Thursday, 13th March in The Globe.

The Head of year 7 will be hosting an online information session re. Week Without Walls on Monday 4th November at 6.30pm.

Year 10 Term 2 bulletin with key dates and notices.

Our first Sixth Form newsletter of Term 1 2024/25.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for FS-1, along with the Key Dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for FS-2, along with the Key Dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 1, along with the Key Dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 2, along with the key dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 3, along with the key dates.

Welcome back to Term 2! Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 4, along with the key dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 5, along with the key dates.

Welcome back to Term 2. Please find additional information about Term 2 for Year 6, along with the key dates.

Welcome to Year 10 – tutor introductions and important information for the term ahead.

Important information for Year 11 2024–25.

Tutor/Head of Year introductions and important information for Term 1.

Tutor and Head of Year introductions, and important information for the term ahead.

An introduction to the Year 9 team and information about upcoming events.

Students should wear full, formal school uniform for the whole-school photo on Thursday 5th December

Winter uniform items are available at the uniform shop now. 

This is a friendly reminder that the DTap-IPV forms are due this Friday, 15th November, for Year 1 and Year 6 students. Please ensure that you complete either the consent or refusal form and submit it with the original vaccination records. 

Important information regarding the IAL January modular examinations, including study leave arrangements.

Information regarding the Year 2 trip to see the stage version of The 13th Story Treehouse.

Please note that the Y2GC photos (both class and individual) will now take place on Tuesday 15th October.

We invite you to save the date for our festive house competition ‘Clash of the Carols’.

The Year 3 open morning will be rescheduled to Friday 6th December.

Registration and payment information for the Y3 Tai O Day Trip.

The Y3MB class group photo will now take place on Wednesday 16th October. Individual student photos will still take place on Tuesday 15th October.

Please fill in the Jotform for a beach trip and find information here about wearing old clothes for painting sessions.

Please find the links to sign your child up for the Year 4 camp. The first payment is due now.

Links to the Year 4 camp presentation video and slides.

Year 5 will have their Creative Arts Morning on Wednesday 4th September. Please can all students wear PE kit that day.

We are delighted to announce that Y5SM will be performing the first class assembly of the 2024–25 school year, on Friday 6th September at 8am.

Information about our upcoming map making beach morning on Monday 17th March 2025.

Please see the attached booklet with information on timings, groupings and activities for the Year 1 and 2 Sports Day on 13th February.

Year 1 would like to invite you to their special Christmas Sing-along!

Year 1 will have their creative arts morning on Wednesday 26th February 2025.

The Department of Health will come to our school on Friday 29th November 2024 to administer a vaccination with Combined Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular Pertussis and Inactivated Polio (DTaP-IPV) to eligible Y1 students.

Please find the slides attached from the Year 1 Meet the Teacher presentation.

We would like to invite you to a Year 1 Open Evening to help you learn more about your child’s next steps when they complete their time in the EYFS.

We are delighted to welcome you to our upcoming Year 1 Open Morning.

Please find information here about our upcoming Year 1 Open Morning.

Please see our remaining key dates in Year 1.

Year 1 will being visiting the Hong Kong Space Museum to bring their ‘Count Them While You Can… Endangered to Extinct’ learning to life!

Please find information here about our upcoming trips and sports day.

Year 10 Meet The Team Slides – PDF

Key dates for the term ahead.

Year 11 Meet The Team Slides – PDF

Year 11 Mock Examinations Timetable Thurs Nov 21st to Fri Nov 29th 2024.

Year 11 Options Evening – 16th October – please complete the linked form before the event.

The Year 11 parent–teacher–student conference will take place on Thursday 16th January, from 4.30pm to 5.30pm online and 5.45pm to 7.45pm in person.

Welcome to Term 2 in the Sixth Form, review of Term 1, plus key dates etc. for Terms 2 and 3.

Year 12 and 13 Mock Examinations Timetable (25th to 27th November 2024)

Year 12/13 PDF Slides from the Meet the Team parent event.

Information about the Year 2 trip to watch the stage performance of The 13-Storey Treehouse on 19th February 2025.

Families are invited to the Year 2 Celebration of Learning on the morning of Wednesday 4th December.

On Wednesday 16th of October Year 2 students will participate in a Creative Arts Morning.

On Wednesday 16th October Year 2 will enjoy their Creative Arts Morning.

On Wednesday, 5th March, Year 2 will have their Creative Arts Morning.

On Wednesday 5th March, Year 2 students will participate in a Creative Arts Morning. Please can all students wear their PE kit on this day.

On Wednesday 8th January Year 2 will have their Creative Arts Morning. Please can all students come to school that morning in their PE kit.

As we come to the end of a wonderful first term in Year 2, we wanted to share with you the key remaining dates for Term 1.

Information regarding the upcoming Year 2 Celebration of Learning. Please send a festive item into school for your child to wear.

Please find further information about the upcoming Year 2 school trip to Kadoorie Farm on Wednesday 6th November. 

Please find here links to the recent Year 2 Meet The Teacher presentation, which took place on Wednesday 4th September.

Our Year 2 students will visit the Hong Kong Science Museum as part of their Discovery unit ‘Fantastic Firsts’. They will visit the different exhibits on offer and look at different inventions and scientific discoveries.

Information regarding the Year 2 Science Museum trip taking place on 26th February.

On Wednesday 6th November, Year 2 will visit Kadoorie Farm as part of our Discovery unit ‘Brilliant Botanists’.

The Year 2 children will have the opportunity to design and make some fruit kebabs week commencing 2nd September.

Key dates and events for the final two weeks of Term 1 in Year 3.

Year 3 Parent Notice for Discovery – please send a photo in with your child.

Link to the parent programme for Year 3–4 sports day.

Details about the Year 3 Celebration of Learning on Friday 6th December.