Our campus caters to families seeking private high schooling, offering the Cambridge Curriculum. Processing applications for Grade 8 to Grade 13 (A levels).

Nova Pioneer Ormonde Senior School

Our campus caters to families seeking private high schooling, offering the Cambridge Curriculum. Processing applications for Grade 8 to Grade 13 (A levels).

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Our students


Nova Pioneer uses the Cambridge curriculum. We bring a rigorous and innovative approach to education that focuses on developing each individual’s full potential. Our secondary school provides students with a holistic environment filled with opportunities to become self-aware and to reflect on their learning in new ways. We know that schools are fundamentally about preparing children to lead and succeed in the future. Nova Pioneer shares in our parents’ aspiration of preparing each child to enter the world with confidence and competence, ready  to thrive and to contribute. 


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The school team

Located in the south of Johannesburg, the Nova Pioneer Ormonde campus was the first school opened by the Nova Pioneer Education Group in South Africa in 2015. The Ormonde campus is the only campus that comprises of both Primary and High School phases. The Ormonde campus, along with the rest of the network, provides students with a holistic environment filled with opportunities to become self-aware and to reflect on their learning in new ways.

The school offer a fresh approach to education that imparts our students with relevant 21st Century skills that would make them solve modern problems. The school uses the Cambridge Curriculum which is delivered by quality educators who are constantly exploring creative ways of facilitating learning, is also structured to offer parents, students and teachers a distinctive and blended learning opportunity which will lead to intellectual curiosity and a lifelong love of learning.

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Nova Pioneer Ormonde Secondary

Cambridge Curriculum

Nova Pioneer offers a range of internationally accepted qualifications including Cambridge’s A levels, AS, IGCSE, Secondary 1, ICT Starters, Primary and Lower Secondary Programmes. The Cambridge International Curriculum is designed to teach students how to learn and to go on learning. Read more about the Cambridge Curriculum

Cambridge Examination Venue

Are you a student studying the Cambridge curriculum through a home-based learning platform and looking for a Cambridge examination venues in the Johannesburg area? We at Nova Pioneer recognise that there may be a shortage of examination venues and would like to help. Read more about our examination venue offering.

Nova Pioneer celebrates its Top Achievers

Nova Pioneer Schools, a pan-African independent school group that builds and operates world-class, affordable schools, offering students grades from preschool through to senior school, with established campuses in South Africa and Kenya, proudly announces the noteworthy achievements of their students in the Cambridge A-Level, AS-Level and IGCSE examinations. Read more …

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Post School Success Team

Nova Pioneer has a Post-School Success programme. The programme provides students with exposure to diverse post-secondary opportunities, and supports them to identify the best fit opportunities to pursue in alignment with their goals for life after graduating from Nova Pioneer. Read more...

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Psychosocial support

The mental health and wellbeing of children is recognised as a critical condition for optimal learning and development. Nova Pioneer's Psychosocial Support Team, consisting of psychologists, intern psychologists and registered counsellors are available to provide social, emotional and learning support, including counselling and therapy, to students who are in need. Our therapists also work alongside teachers to maximize student support in the classroom and to create ongoing opportunities for social and emotional learning social and emotional learning.

I think the the community meetings the children have are fantastic. We as a family believe firmly that community awareness and community responsibility is one of the core fundamentals in society. Without a strong community, society in itself will fold. Therefore, the fact that Nova Pioneer encourages our children to be responsible and caring and giving, is probably the MOST noteworthy experience.

Grant Son, Nova Pioneer Parent

We decided on Nova Pioneer because we loved the concept of the enquiry-based learning as well as how the school is so committed to nurturing children into becoming young adults who think rigorously about the future of the world. My daughter has grown by leaps and bounds during her tenure at Nova Pioneer. She is very innovative and has become a go-getter which makes me so proud. Nova Pioneer is a great school.

Joco Solomons, Nova Pioneer Parent

The small classroom sizes was what initially drew us to Nova Pioneer. The idea of our child receiving individual attention was an attractive offering. We have enjoyed the Friday Exploration day feedback sessions where parents get to interact with the students and get an understanding of what they do during the sessions and what they have learned throughout the term. The Nova Pioneer learning approached has had a positive influence on my child's curiosity, always questioning and trying to understand life skills.

Shaneel Nunkha, Nova Pioneer Parent
Bridget Tau
Bridget Tau , Admissions Associate

Speak with our Admissions team

We know that choosing a High School for your child can be slightly stressful and that is why we have Bridget at Ormonde to help you through the process. Bridget oversees all admissions at our Ormonde campus. We advise you to put through an application and she will get in touch to schedule your child for an assessment.


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Contact us

map Address Fontenay Road, Ormonde, Johannesburg

phone-1 Reception 011 496 1201

phone-1 Admissions 079 821 5832

mail Email admissions.ormonde@novapioneer.com

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Want to know more about our school, fees and extracurricular? Send us your contact details and someone from our brand and admissions office will get in touch.