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A Balanced Academic Model

Through our partnership with Evolve, students will receive Cambridge lessons delivered via an online platform. This is seamlessly integrated into their daily school experience - students continue to attend school as usual, but for core academic subjects they log into the platform, where they benefit from expert instruction, interactive lessons, and progress monitoring. Parents will also have access to student progress dashboards and direct lines of communication with teachers.

The academic programme follows the Cambridge curriculum, with IGCSE, AS, and A-level examinations. Internal assessments combine application (practicing what has been learned) and mastery (formal evaluations), ensuring students are well-prepared for rigorous external examinations while also building critical skills for higher education and beyond.

In addition to this online academic foundation, students will engage fully in Nova Pioneer’s in-person offerings: Innovation and Leadership programming, coaching, sports, assemblies, robotics, and hallmark cultural experiences. This balance ensures that while students gain from the flexibility and rigor of online academics, they also develop the character, leadership, and collaborative skills that come from an engaging school environment.

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Support Structures for Success

One important element of this model is the Nova Pioneer Success Coach. The coach plays a central role in creating a warm and supportive class culture, welcoming students each day, monitoring progress, and maintaining strong parent communication. They also guide offline collaboration, lead Innovation & Leadership lessons, and provide one-on-one coaching to ensure each student is thriving.

In addition to the in-person coach, students are supported by Evolve learning coaches and subject teachers available online beyond class time. For parents, this means confidence that their child is both closely monitored and personally supported.

The model is supported by a blend of technology and hands-on learning. Each student uses their personal device to access digital resources, collaborate with peers, and extend their learning beyond the classroom. On campus, reliable internet, projectors, and other classroom equipment further enhance collaboration and enrich the learning experience.

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Innovation and Leadership

In addition to the academic offering, Nova Pioneer has Hallmark Programming that is timetabled into the day for our students from Grade 7. This programming includes Innovation and Leadership class, that incorporates Social and Emotional learning.

In Innovation and Leadership, students progress from content that is about self discovery and understanding their purpose, to progressively looking outward to where they can take their mastery of self leadership to external communities - this could be the school community, their city or the continent at large. The aim of the programme is to have a coherent and consistent place for students to be exposed to self and community leadership, as well as root students in the sense of African history to inform future innovation and action.

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Beyond The Classroom Opportunities

We believe that sports, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities can positively affect students' focus, attitude, and academic success. We offer various clubs and activities, including sports, and provide opportunities for students to compete locally and against other Nova Pioneer schools.

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Post School Success

We believe that sports, co-curricular, and extra-curricular activities can positively affect students' focus, attitude, and academic success. We offer various clubs and activities, including sports, and provide opportunities for students to compete locally and against other Nova Pioneer schools. Nova Pioneer’s Post School Success programme has been created with the purpose of facilitating each student’s exploration of post-secondary opportunities available to them.

This programme helps our students develop the life and pre-professional skills necessary to take advantage of post-school opportunities. Post-School Success programming begins in Grade 10, to ensure that each student has ample time to thoughtfully consider their next steps and take full advantage of the resources available through the Nova Pioneer network.

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Culture First

The character of a Novaneer is defined by our six Culture Principles - High Expectations, Always Growing, Servant Leadership, Joy of Learning, Greater Together and Solutions First. These are the mindsets and behaviours that reflect our values, and to which we aspire. They challenge our students to constantly stretch towards their best selves: to set high expectations, grow from every challenge, and seek to serve others over ourselves.

By exploring culture and integrating it as part of character development, our students take on daily challenges with a strong sense of purpose, service and innovation. Read more about our Culture Principles here.