Heatley Secondary College embraces the vision “Your Future, Our Focus”. It is a vision that drives all aspects of College life. Students exit the college as active, responsible and informed citizens, with the skills to enable a rich and fulfilling future, with career choice opportunities and positive family and social relationships.
The school’s core business is to provide and deliver a quality curriculum that prepares students academically, vocationally and socially for future pathways.
Heatley Secondary College provides more than the usual secondary education. It is a unique educational campus which offers both Secondary education and Vocational training across a range of academic, trade and digital areas to adolescents, young and older adults.
Heatley Secondary College incorporates a traditional high school, an adult college with day and night classes, and a digital trade training centre (the Townsville Creative Technologies College).
Facilities: State-of the-art facilities, Digital Trade Training Centre, Multi Media Learning Centre with an auditorium, video editing facilities and a blue room for filming, multi-purpose sports hall and gym, aquaponics facility, new science laboratories and a cyclone shelter which boasts a second sports hall and a specialised sports laboratory.
Special features: Academic Extension Program (ACE), Special Education Program (SEP), Learning Support Program, extensive Vocational education training (VET) program, including the Heatley Automotive training program. The Townsville Creative Technologies College offers a number of Certificate I, II and III Courses including Digital Media, Music, Animation, and Gaming, made possible by state of the art facilities and our links with industry. The Heatley Adult Secondary College offers a range of Queensland Studies Authority (QSA) subjects both during the day and at night to support adult learners to gain access to University, the Defence force, the Public Service or gain job advancement.