St Martin's School
- Boarding School
- Mixed gender schools
- Religious schools
- Private
St Martin's is an independent, diverse, co-educational boarding school located in The Hill, Johannesburg, and is especially valued by parents who seek for their children an academic environment in which Anglican Christian standards are reflected. Students of all faiths and denominations are admitted. It is the school where every child is known.
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Head of school
Mr Venter
Contact person
Gillian O'Shaughessy
Telephone Number
011 435 0380
Email address
marketing@stmartin.co.za
Website address
https://www.stmartin.co.za/
Number of learners
200
Average class size
20
Fees per year
R65000 to R120000
Religious
St Martin’s has a diverse community and offers an academic environment with Anglican Christian standards. Children of all faiths and religions are welcome. Daily assemblies and weekly celebrations of Eucharist are central to school life. The chaplain spends time with every class during the week and students who wish to do so, may ask to be prepared for confirmation. There is a parents prayer group that meets and prays with the Chaplain weekly.
The Pre-Prep Phase from Grade 000 to 0 offers a happy and cheerful play-based learning environment where children participate in structured play activities to learn and develop a solid foundation to begin the Foundation Phase of School. (Grade 1 to 3). At this early age, the concepts of coding are introduced by children participating in digital learning from Grade 00.
In Grade 1, students enter a more structured learning environment where award-winning programmes are used to develop the essential skills of reading and writing. The Senior Phase introduces puzzle periods for children to develop problem solving as well as creative and strategic thinking skills. Project-based learning is a fun activity that further develops children's skills to reason and think and solve problems beyond the classroom. Grade 7 children learn robotics.
In Grade 8 the students participate in Personalised Learning Programmes that expose them to an education beyond the classroom. The elective subjects available from Grade 10 are Physical Science, Life Science, Business Studies, Accounting, Computer Application Technology and Drama. These elective subjects enable access to tertiary study.
Home away-from-home co-ed boarding is offered from Grade 7 to Matric in two separate boarding houses.
There are a number of cultural activities offered that include Public Speaking, drama, marimbas, choir and djembe drums.
Sports include, Tennis, swimming, chess, mountain biking, cricket, netball, soccer, touch rugby, basketball and social golf.
St Martin's offers prestigious academic scholarship awards in Grade 8 and is part of the Student Support Programme. The St Martin's Trust awards scholarships for internal students who achieve academic successes across the High School grades.
