Dolphin Kids School
NS 16 A, Block E, Block B, Gamma 1, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201308, India
https://www.dolphinkids.co.in/
Dolphin Kids School was born in the fall of 2002, when a small group of young parents in Taguig City, Philippines, decided that learning should feel more like play and less like work. They rented a converted family house along Bayani Road, painted the gate bright aqua, and named the school after the resident pod of dolphins that still swims past the seawall at dawn. Today, the campus has grown to 1.1 hectares of mango-shaded ground a few blocks from its original site, yet the founding spirit—curious, kind, joyfully aquatic—still lingers in every courtyard corner.
The school currently serves 460 learners from Playroom (age 2.5) to Grade 10 (age 16). Class sizes are capped at 20 so that each child can literally hear the ocean during Circle Time: one entire wall of every room is a fold-back glass panel that opens onto terraces fringed with sampaguita vines. Beyond the core Filipino K-12 curriculum, students tackle the Dolphin Learning Journeys—three-week, cross-disciplinary projects that begin with a question such as “Why do dolphins sing?” and end with a public exhibit where Kindergarteners might demo an underwater microphone while Grade 9 students run the budget spreadsheet.
Aquatic learning is not just a theme; it is the architecture. The signature Wet Lab, modeled after a reef research station, contains touch tanks with seahorses, starfish, and locally rescued sea turtles who are rehabilitated and released. Weekly “Mangrove Math” classes take place on a boardwalk above actual mangroves; students measure salinity, chart root growth, and sell their own seedlings to neighboring subdivisions to fund reef-restoration dives for Grade 7 and up. For landlubbers, there is an organic vegetable rooftop that supplies the canteen’s once-a-week vegetarian day and an Indigenous Forest Path where Aeta elders share ethnobotany stories during Filipino language periods.
Co-curricular life bubbles just as vividly. The Dolphin Pod Band sings in three languages; the Sea Squad robotics team codes mini-submarines; and the student-run ThriftTreasure store diverts one ton of textile waste a year, earning a Regional Youth Eco-Award. All Grade 6 students learn to sail 8-ft Optimist dinghies on nearby Laguna Lake, and those who stay through Grade 10 graduate with Junior Open Water Diver certification through their partner NGO, Reef Guardians.
Filipino citizenship is emphasized through the Lingkod Alon (Wave of Service) program: every grade adopts a local barangay project. Past partnerships have included plastic-brick classrooms, coral out-planting cafés, and literacy boats that bring books to stilt-houses on flood days. To measure impact beyond grades, each student keeps a “Kindness Portfolio” that records moments when they repaired rather than replaced, gave time instead of money, or simply listened like the calm between waves. Dolphin Kids believe that when children are trusted to make ripples, they grow into adults who can move oceans.
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- Published: July 28, 2025
