Dolphin School (Incorporating Noahs Ark Nursery Schools)
Catchment Area, Reviews and Key Information

Dolphin School (incorporating Noah’s Ark Nursery Schools) is an independent coeducational primary school with a Christian foundation, catering for pupils from two to eleven years of age. The school is registered for 262 pupils and there are currently 262 boys and girls attending, who are from a range of ethnic heritages. A total of 145 pupils, of whom 91 receive government funding, attend the Early Years Foundation Stage settings, including 35 aged 2−3 and 76 aged 4 – 5 in the nurseries and 34 aged 4−5 in the Reception classes. The school was established in 1986 and operates from four sites. Dolphin School occupies the greater part of the Northcote Road, Baptist Church building in South West London and the nurseries are located in three other local churches. One pupil has a statement of special educational needs and a further 23 are identified by the school as requiring additional support for varying degrees of learning difficulties. Eleven pupils speak English as an additional language. The school aims ‘to find and release children’s potential in academic study, creative endeavour and sporting pursuit and to develop their character according to a Christian understanding of what it means to be human’. The school was last inspected by Ofsted in February 2007.