Nova Pioneer Midrand

1. Ensure your child NEVER forgets their water bottle because at the Midrand, Matuka campus they tell kids to go get water in the bathroom as punishment😭. The same kids will be asked to go get water for the teachers in the kitchen but must get water for themselves in the bathroom! So disturbing 😳. Even during the cholera outbreak this was true. So ensure your child leaves with their water bottle otherwise they will be directed to the loo for water in this school. This rule is so wrong on so many ways. It’s close to impossible for kids to sometimes forget to bring their water bottle and the common areas should have water dispensers for this very reason.
This school is more reactive than proactive. If you don’t believe this ask the grade 1s and 2s on this campus who have once or twice forgotten their water bottles.
2. They had only one aftercare teacher for the whole of the first half of 2023 until parents started complaining because the poor teacher was overwhelmed by the large number of aftercare kids (mind you these are kids from grade R to grade 3!). This ONE teacher was expected to supervise homework and look after all these kids by herself. A big mess! Since July there’s been two additional teachers. Again reactive rather than proactive.

3. Other three term schools have a very short midterm break. This school takes an entire week. Then they have what they call “breathing week” where the school dismissal is at 12pm for the whole week-a working parent’s nightmare! This is in the second last week of every term. It appears the school teachers need a lot of time off at this school and this is at the detriment of the parents.

4. Don’t get me started on the holiday care program 🤯🤯🤯

The whole sending kids to the bathroom to get their water thing is the most disgusting 🤢 and keeping us awake at night. This is done to Grade R to grade 3 kids mind you! It’s wrong on so many levels.

Absolutely appalling administration at Nova Pioneer Midrand.
When online classes started, it took about 4 days of following up and escalation (to the Dean), for my child to be enrolled in the online class.

A week or so later, they decide to migrate all kids doing online classes into a different class with different teachers. Then my child is not made a part of that class either. After two days of following up, on the third day, they enroll my child in the new class.

When he tries to join the new class online, then no class seems to be taking place online as per the timetable.

Absolutely appalling administration.

Excellent school with amazing values. Nova is by far one of the best schools when it comes to teaching our young one's the art of leadership and fruitful learning.