Love Wisdom TruthDOLPHIN SCHOOL
Located in the heart of the Northcote Road, Clapham Junction, we are a school brimming with life, love and learning.
The School is built on values such as individuality, relationships, moral compass, and respect. Dolphin School is unashamedly a family school and we work tirelessly within our community to provide a broad and diverse educational experience – pupils live and breathe a sense of school ownership that binds the Dolphin community in a way that I have rarely seen before.
A Great 40: Miss Janet Clark
For a quarter of a century, Miss Janet Clark helped shape the heart of Dolphin.
Arriving when the school was still in its early days, Janet worked alongside every Head Teacher in Dolphin’s history before Mrs Price, witnessing — and quietly guiding — the transformation from a fledgling school with just a handful of pupils into the thriving community we know today.
Her influence runs deep through the rhythms of daily life at Dolphin. With a profound care for the individual, a deep understanding of community, and a remarkable eye for both systems and language, she helped establish many of the routines that still anchor the school today. At the centre of this was her steadfast guardianship of our ethos — ensuring that Relationship Time remained embedded in the bedrock of school life, one of the quiet secrets of Dolphin’s success.
But Janet’s legacy was never just structural — it was deeply personal. She invested countless hours building relationships with pupils, parents and colleagues, always attentive to the small, meaningful details that make a community flourish.
Beyond the school gates, Janet’s love of the natural world, the written word and life’s quiet, beautiful moments infused her work with warmth and perspective.
To this day, she remains deeply loved by the wide and diverse community she helped nurture.
Dolphin would most certainly not be the place it is today without her extraordinary imprint.
Love. Wisdom. Truth.
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World Book Day at Dolphin School
World Book Day at Dolphin was a truly magical celebration of reading, creativity and storytelling.
We were absolutely thrilled to welcome the wonderfully imaginative children’s author Abi Elphinstone, who travelled all the way from Scotland to inspire our young readers and writers. Abi shared brilliant tips for crafting adventurous stories — encouraging pupils to create bold, believable characters and build worlds brimming with danger, mystery and heart.
She also gave us a glimpse into the inspiration behind Ember Spark, sparking excitement across the school and leaving many budding authors eager to put pen to paper.
Moments like these remind us that stories connect us, transport us and inspire us — and at Dolphin, the adventure is always just beginning.
A huge thank you to the POD Fund for sponsoring this special author visit, and to @chocolitsw4 for sourcing Abi’s wonderful books. What a marvellous reading community we have!
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We left Carroty Wood as the rain started pouring. The previous days have been lovely weather so we cannot complain.
We started today off by learning a new version of rock paper scissors. Ask us whether we remember how to play!
Our next task of the day was packing up and tidying up the cabin which has been our home for the past three days. Some of the girls rooms needed a lot more tidying as there were clothes all over the floor making it a maze to get to their beds.
This morning we took part in TDT (Team Development Tasks). For these tasks we had to use problem solving and communication skills to find solutions. We worked in groups of 8 to complete a number of challenges including getting a ball through a maze, transporting a ball between buckets and crossing a crocodile infested swamp using stepping stones. The instructors were shocked that we were Year 4 as they said we completed the tasks a lot quicker than older children they have previously taught!
We hid from the rain as we ate our lunch, sharing our favourite memories from the past couple of days. We also shared our jokes (some were not very funny!) After lunch we climbed back on the minibuses. We all felt very tired as we headed back to school but have had such a wonderful time!
GOODBYE CARROTY WOODS.
By Year 4
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