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Heathfield Academy opened in September 2015 and caters for children aged 4-11. We are a dynamic and inspiring Academy where children thrive, love learning and experience personal success.
Making a difference and shaping the future
Sewing Club - Marina
Year 5
In Sewing Club we are creating a draw string bag. I love sewing, it is so fun and it gives you a chance to express your ideas.
Art - Kristeen
Year 2
We created the circles in our art lesson after we had learned about the famous artist (Kandinsky) Everyone in our school made a circle and then we put them all together to make this!
Stories from our community
🎉 A big thank you to everyone who joined our New to Reception Induction Meeting today! It was wonderful to welcome new families and share how our PTA supports school life—from events to fundraising. 💙 Looking forward to an amazing start together! #PTA #Reception2025 pic.twitter.com/4nuLCqTyLY— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) June 5, 2025
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📝 Our Reception children have begun their transition to Year 1 with some brilliant table-top writing! Today they shared what they did over the holidays — from beach trips to bike rides, their imaginations (and pencils!) were busy. 🌞🚲✍️ #EarlyYears #TransitionToYear1 pic.twitter.com/cevgLWZVi6— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) June 4, 2025
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🌍 Our Year 5 pupils are buzzing with excitement as they kick off an inspiring journey with Climate Change all Change & @StudioEgretWest ! They’ll be using creativity and big ideas to reimagine a climate-friendly future for Croydon! 💡 🌱 Climate Champions in the making. pic.twitter.com/mx01uXLZcO— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) May 21, 2025
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🌱 Year 3 have been busy growing their own plants! From tiny seeds to leafy shoots, we’ve learned about sunlight, water, patience and the joy of seeing plants grow. So proud of our little gardeners 🪴 🌸 pic.twitter.com/QBaCdfbPBC— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) May 20, 2025
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Year 1 have been exploring Family Equality Month in their P4C lessons—celebrating all kinds of families and learning the importance of respect, love, and inclusion. Great discussions and thoughtful ideas from our young philosophers! pic.twitter.com/GN4VUHWLjh— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) May 14, 2025
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🌸 Heathfield in Bloom! 🌺 Each class has potted beautiful plants to brighten up our school entrance - it’s bursting with colour and care! A huge thank you to our Friends of Heathfield for donating the plants 🪴 pic.twitter.com/uuEEgdKwsh— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) May 6, 2025
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Whitgift's spectacular Spring Concert for Primary Schools took place this morning at the historic @croydonfairfield - the atmosphere was electric with 1091 pupils in total from 19 local schools! #WhitgiftTogether #WhitgiftCommunity pic.twitter.com/CYERJZBnOS— Whitgift School (@WhitgiftSchool1) April 3, 2025
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Year 5 had an amazing geography fieldwork trip to Wandle Park! 🌳 ✨ They explored different areas, discussed improvements and shared brilliant ideas on how to make the park even better. Future urban planners in the making l! 🏗 🍃 pic.twitter.com/VfvBRzSjcI— Heathfield Academy (@HeathfieldAcad) March 20, 2025
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Celebrating success
93%
Phonics
2024
21.5
MTC
20.6 National (2024)
90%
Maths
74% National (2024)
93%
Reading
74% National (2024)
90%
Writing
72% National (2024)
90%
Combined
59% National (2024)
2018
Outstanding
Ofsted Rating
