Resource Centre

Our Resource Centre provides a focal point for learning in the school. Richly resourced, this Centre is flexibly designed to cater for the changing needs of students and staff. As you walk though our Resource Centre you will see students reading novels in quiet reading corners, others searching for texts to support them in their assignments, others working in small groups on a shared research task, others engaged in discussion with our teacher librarians, whole classes working with their teachers on a designated topic, senior students engaged in private study and students sitting at computers engaged in research and completing assignments.

Piltarilla Skill Centre

Heathfield High School is proud to host the Adelaide Hills Murraylands Commercial Kitchen Skill Centre. This $600,000 facility with modern, state-of-the-art facilities, allows us to provide fully-accredited, full-certificate hospitality training for students from secondary schools throughout the Adelaide Hills and Murraylands region.

Information Technology

The school boasts a fully-networked computing system with leading-edge software, and broadband Internet access and e-mail access for all students and staff. We continue to strengthen and extend our computing resources in our four large designated computing rooms, the Resource Centre, Art and Design workshops, our Film and Media Room, teaching classrooms, and in small computing pods around the school. A new, portable wireless-networked computer laboratory is also available for classroom use.

Physical Education and Sport

Heathfield High School is located on spacious grounds, surrounded by native bushland. A gymnasium, four ovals and tennis, basketball and netball courts support the broad-based sports program available to all students. Plans for a community Sports Complex to be built on the grounds of the school adjacent to our existing gymnasium have been approved. This 3 million dollar facility should be ready for use by July 2007.

Home Economics

Heathfield High School students undertake Year 8 to 12 home economics courses in a brand new domestic kitchen, unparalleled in design and quality. A fully-refurbished fabrics and design room complements our outstanding facilities for this area of learning.

Design & Technology

Our Design and Technology Centre is well equipped for students to participate in courses in Woodwork, Furniture Construction, Metalwork and Pedal Prix, and has a fully-equipped dark-room laboratory where students learn and develop photographic skills.

Student Facilities

Our senior school students enjoy facilities which support them as emerging adults. The Year 12 Reception Area is equipped with individual pigeonholes for each Year 12 student, maximising communication with young adults whose schooling includes a flexible day arrangement. Meetings with mentor teachers take place in this area. A Year 12 kitchen and outdoor café, complete with drop-down, clear-plastic café-style blinds and portable gas heaters for those colder winter days, provide Year 12 students with their own trendy and comfortable area during recess and lunch breaks.

Canteen

All students benefit from the quality food and service provided by the School Canteen. Healthy Eating Guidelines are promoted.

School Hall

Heathfield High School is fortunate to have a School Hall which is large enough to accommodate the whole school. At regular whole-of-school assemblies we celebrate the many and varied outstanding achievements of students, welcome and farewell our overseas guests and promote the successes of the school to our wider community.