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Henley High School is a local Government School for 1,500 students in Years 7 to 12, including 60 to 80 international students and students with significant learning difficulties in our Supported Learning Centre Disability Unit.

Our difference

The school provides a comprehensive curriculum that meets the learning needs of the diverse range of students from our local Western Adelaide community.

Henley High School is focussed on the provision of high-quality teaching and learning by:

  • Having a strong focus on Visible Learning in particular High Impact Teaching Strategies and High Impact Wellbeing Strategies.
  • Developing student leadership, voice and agency in the classroom and across the school.
  • Developing strong connections between the school, the home and families and developing partnerships for learning.
  • Ensuring the environment is conducive to high quality teaching and learning.
  • Using ICT tools to support and enhance high quality pedagogical practice.
  • Ensuing the equitable provision of support and intervention for identified students.
  • Using data to inform our practice and our strategic directions.
  • Developing, implementing and maintaining a Positive Behaviours for Learning framework and strategy.
  • The ongoing development of our Specialised Entry Sporting program that focusses on 10 different sports.
  • Focussing on Internationalism with about 60 students visiting for various lengths of time from across the globe.
  • Supporting students significant intellectual and/or physical disabilities within our disability unit.

Flourishing at Henley High School

Our vision is to prepare our students to flourish in an evolving and challenging world.

At Henley High School, flourishing means:

  • Being at your best
  • Growing positively
  • Responding to challenges, unpredictability or change
  • Contributing and being a team player
  • Being ambitious.

Our disposition

We aim to guide all students to know and use their strengths to make informed decisions about becoming active and engaged citizens while developing future career pathways that promote a flourishing life.

Find out more about Henley High School

A welcome to our school from our Principal, Mr Tony Sims.


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