Dolphin School is a coeducational, independent, preparatory day school and Montessori Nursery for children between the ages of 3 and 13. We have around 270 children with typically two classes of around sixteen children in each year group.
Situated in the rural Berkshire village of Hurst, just off the A4 between Reading and Maidenhead, Dolphin School offers a 'hands-on' approach to learning, high academic standards and a unique field and walking trip programme both at home and abroad which takes education beyond the classroom and brings it to life. A look at our Image Gallery will give you a flavour of what Dolphin children experience.
Happy, curious and confident. That is how I would describe our community. I believe that children have special gifts and talents, which too often remain hidden forever. Dolphin School offers an environment which encourages these gifts. Our aim is to inspire their curiosity both in the classroom and on trips here or abroad. Children are able to flourish in small classes and from the age of seven benefit from the careful guidance of subject specialist teachers. We seek to inspire in children and colleagues an interest in learning for its own sake, an open-mindedness towards new experiences and an imaginative sense of curiosity about our amazing world.
Dolphin delivers a colourful and challenging curriculum and each year our children win major scholarships to leading independent senior schools and places at prestigious grammar schools. Children leave Dolphin with confidence in themselves, a strong sense of individualism, at least one area in which they can feel pride in their own achievement and a strong sense of curiosity and enjoyment in learning.
I hope that you are inspired to learn more about Dolphin and I warmly invite you to contact us to arrange an individual tour: I’d be delighted to show you around what I feel is a truly remarkable school with an exceptionally gifted staff working with such engaging children.
Veronica Gibbs, Head