Purpose and Values

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.

To prepare our students to flourish in an evolving and challenging world.

Embedded firmly within Henley High School, our purpose provides a guiding force with which our committed and impassioned leaders, teachers and staff use to support our students to achieve their own personal and academic successes.

Henley High School is dedicated to shaping resilient, ambitious, and contemplative individuals ready to thrive in our dynamic and complex world. Through the transformative journey of school, a profound adventure that nurtures exploration, challenges, and self-discovery, we empower students to set and navigate their unique paths.

Our school boasts highly-trained teachers employing proven pedagogical practices, ensuring optimal learning experiences. With cutting-edge resources and facilities, we continually enhance interactive learning environments to meet the evolving needs of future students. Henley High School fosters a sense of community, emphasising values that shape students into compassionate, conscientious, and team-oriented individuals.

Crucially, our school offers a myriad of educational pathways, including the largest and most diverse Sports Academy in South Australia, an International program, Aboriginal education, a Supported Learning Centre Disability Unit, Tailored Learning Provision and extensive subject choices.

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 11 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.