Safari Kid Nursery

The first Safari Kid in Dubai, our flagship premises, is located in 15,000 square feet of customised villa premises behind the Four Points Sheraton on Sheikh Zayed Road. It is in close proximity to Downtown Dubai, Business Bay, DIFC, Jumeirah and City Walk. 5 minutes away from the urban hub of Dubai, our specially designed premises offers children the ability to fully express themselves in both an indoor and outdoor environment.

Safari Kid is an international chain of preschools and kindergartens, founded by Ms. Shy Mudakavi in the heart of Silicon Valley in Newark, California; initially with two children in 2005. Ms. Shy created the core curriculum of Safari Kid in response to the needs of the parents in Silicon Valley by introducing a structured program that draws inspiration from the Montessori, Reggio Emilia and Waldorf Steiner approaches; classical Eastern approaches to memory development, writing and math; Dr. Howard Gardner’s theories of multiple intelligences and a strong science and technology component inspired by the environment in the Valley. Over ten years, more than 10,000 children going through the program have shown consistent excellence in primary school (being usually one or two grade levels higher than their peers), significantly enhanced leadership and communication skills, and high degrees of self confidence.

Safari Kid’s research driven emergent accelerated learning program ensures that children excel at any school system when they enter primary school. Our students stand out as academically advanced, natural leaders in a group and are able to communicate effectively with peers and elders. Safari Kids are creative problem solvers and demonstrate more imagination and creativity than their peers.

Since 2011, Safari Kid has grown from three schools in California to over 30 globally. There are now 25 centres in the United States alone, with a further 15 planned to open in 2016/7.

Safari Kid made its debut in Canada in 2012 in Toronto (now 3 schools); in Asia with Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur in 2014 and now in India with 3 schools. With the addition of Safari Kid Dubai in 2015, we are now present in six countries.

The Safari Kid curriculum and program, true to its origins, is not static. Instead it develops and improves by integrating insights from new research in early childhood development, introduction to new technologies and by continuously being sensitive and responsive to the needs of parents.

Facilities include a huge outdoor play area, swimming pool, an art studio, sand pit, and hand selected play equipment. There is a large indoor play area for physical and motor skills development when it\'s too hot to play outside. Safari Kid Dubai also features a purpose built Creative Lab, where children explore dance, drama, music and free role play. The design of the school and the classrooms is intended to excite the imagination of the children, and provide a stimulating learning environment. The learning environment encompasses reading corners in every classroom, specific areas for role play, sensory development and skills development, creative spaces and science and tech corners. Our spacious classrooms are fully equipped with the range of state of the art toys and play equipment that facilitate the development and education of our young charges.

Our facilities for our youngest children (4 months to 18 months) elevate care-giving to the next level with a purpose built Baby Room and play areas where specific developmental toys and resources are employed for enhanced development at this tender young age. This also includes the award winning Dream Coracles from Community Playthings.

Safari Kid partners the parents in the developmental journey of your child. Our premises include a parents\' lounge for informal interactions between parents and the school, to get to know the other parents, or just to relax while your chil.

At Safari Kid, we incorporate teaching in the local language of the region for all children at an early stage (Arabic in our Middle East centres, Bahasa in Malaysia, and Chinese in Hong Kong). All our centers in Asia and the Middle East also offer intensive Mandarin as an option to students, and our centers in the Middle East offer French, in addition to Arabic. We will be bringing further languages to our program in all locations, too.

Our main, English program, speeds up reading, writing and communication skills in children from the beginning. By the age of three, most children at Safari Kid schools can read three letter words. By the age of five, it is not uncommon for Safari Kids to be writing one-page stories; and our curriculum at that level incorporates reading comprehension, too!

We follow the same principles as our main programs for other languages that are taught in our centers. Our Mandarin program, for example, has students learning to read and write in Chinese (traditional in Hong Kong, simplified elsewhere, and pinyin everywhere) from the time they enter Level One (around 2.5 years). This ensures that students attending Safari Kid anywhere are ready for both local and international school systems and excel in comparison to their peers.