The desire to provide a complete pupil has driven DPHS to enthusiastically pursue away fixtures, tours and festivals.
Two highlights of the shool year are the annual rugby and cricket tours. Each year Prep takes a selection of open and under 11 teams to play against school in Cape Town, while cricket teams from under 10 up to the open age group participate in a tour to Johannesburg every second year. On the years when the boys do not travel, they host visiting schools.

“For a primary school, we engage in more trips than most but we believe that this gives the learner more in return,” say Michael Dick, DPHS Director of Sport. “Travelling educates the players on a range of different levels. Not only do they benefit from the sporting experience, but they also gain valuable life skills from being exposed to different environments, and from being out of their comfort zone. It’s a great way to meet and learn about people, and places, and it makes for greater understanding, even at younger ages.”

Gaining experience through sport, particularly by playing away from home, is a practice that is encouraged across all team sports and one that saw tennis, water polo and hockey all make expeditions throughout South Africa to play against the best.