Heathfield School

Facilities

The STEM building provides an impressive hub for the girls to study Science. Other key facilities include a purpose built Performing Arts Theatre, a new Sixth Form Centre, digital recording studio and beautiful Chapel. Heathfield runs a full LAMDA (Speech & Drama and Musical Theatre) programme and within the Expressive Arts faculty offers Textiles and Photography with its own dark room.

Music is a particular strength at Heathfield. Currently, there is a Senior Choir for Year 3 upwards, a Form I Choir and a Form II Choir, an Orchestra, a Flute Ensemble, a Brass Ensemble, an A Cappella Group and a Band. There is an impressive range of lessons taught by visiting peripatetic teachers, including piano, strings, woodwind, brass, percussion and harp. The senior Choir goes on biennial European Choir Tours; destinations have included Vienna , Venice and Rome. 

Sports facilities are excellent and include 5 Lacrosse Pitches, 6 Netball/Tennis courts, 25m heated indoor pool, Dance studio, Fitness suite, Spinning studio, Squash courts and Cross country track. As well as running teams and clubs in all major sports, the Department offers girls clubs such as Badminton, Fitness, Football, Polo, Riding and Trampolining. There are regular sports tours to the USA and the school also competes in the British Schools’ Ski Championships in Flaine.

The School runs a full Equestrian programme and regularly plays Polo against local schools including Eton and Harrow and attend the National Schools Polo Tournament. Heathfield won the SUPA National Girls Championships in 2019 and British dressage has selected two Heathfield girls for their British junior and young riders’ training squads. Teams and individuals compete at various levels in the disciplines of show jumping, dressage, hunter trials and one-day events throughout the year.

Around 12% of girls are international students. Currently, there are girls from Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan and China, along with British pupils whose parents live overseas and international students whose parents live in the UK. Specialist help is offered to girls from overseas for whom English is a foreign (EFL) or additional (EAL) language.

Boarding is an integral part of Heathfield’s way of life and community. Girls board in their year groups in dormitories from Forms I to II, Forms III, IV and V board in another House and in Forms IV-LVI the girls have their own rooms. 

Upper Sixth girls move into Wyatt House, a separate Boarding House where they have the opportunity to prepare for independent living and university life.

Heathfield International Summer School has been run as part of Heathfield School for over 40 years. Each summer, overseas girls aged 8 to 17 are welcomed from more than 25 different countries.

Scholarships

Scholarships are awarded in Academia, Art, Drama, Music and Sport.

Entrance Requirements

11+ and 13+: Assessment in numeracy, verbal and non-verbal ability. This is designed to evaluate potential rather than knowledge, tutoring or preparation is therefore unnecessary. Candidates will be invited to an interview, to participate in workshops and be expected to perform well in their subsequent Common Entrance examination, where taken, although Common Entrance is not the main determining factor in the formal offer of a place.

Sixth Form: assessment and interview. Offers are made conditional on GCSE results, impression at interview and a school report.

Fees

Termly fees from January 2025, excluding 20% VAT,

All fees per term.

Forms I – II. Day: £8,771;  Weekly Boarding ( 1 – 5 nights): £9,837 – £13,454;  Full Boarding: £14,163

Forms III – UVI. Day: £ 8,959;  Weekly Boarding (1-5 nights): £10.045 – £13,767;  Full Boarding: £14,491

Means tested bursaries are available. Please contact the school for details.

Affiliations/Memberships

AEGIS, AMCIS, BSA, GSA, ISC

Downloadable Resources

• ISI Inspection 2018