Heathfield School

Facilities

Set in 36 acres of beautiful tree-lined grounds, Heathfield’s students enjoy the extensive facilities. 

Our key facilities include a STEM building, a purpose built Performing Arts Theatre, a Sixth Form Centre (completed 2022), digital recording studio and a beautiful on site Chapel.

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

Music is a particular strength at Heathfield. Currently, there is a Senior Choir for Form III 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 New York, Vienna, Venice and Rome.

Heathfield runs a full LAMDA (Speech & Dama and Musical Theatre) programme and within the Expressive Arts faculty offers Textiles, Ceramics and Photography with its own dark room.

The School operates a full Equestrian programme and regularly plays Polo against local schools including Eton and Harrow and competes in the National Schools Polo Tournaments. The Heathfield Polo teams are regular winners of the SUPA National Girls Championships 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 18% 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 students 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. In Forms IV-LVI the girls enjoy having their own rooms.

Upper Sixth students move into Wyatt House, a separate Boarding House where they enjoy additional privelages and prepare for independent living and university life by cooking their own meals and doing their own laundry.

Heathfield International Summer School has been run as part of Heathfield School for over 40 years. Every summer, overseas and UK based girls aged 8 to 17 are welcomed from more than 25 different countries. Girls can join for one week and up to 5 weeks, either on a boarding or on a daily basis.

Scholarships

Scholarships are awarded in Academia, Art, Drama, Music, Photography 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: £14,162

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