Quick Facts
- Heritage Public School is a Kindergarten to Grade 8 School with an enrolment of approximately 280 students.
- We offer full-day bilingual Kindergarten, English with Core French, and the Early French Immersion (EFI) program.
Registration
Interested in registering your child at our school? Contact us or visit the OCDSB Registration page.
We believe in the OCDSB’s mission statement and focus every day on educating for success, inspiring learning and building citizenship. Our mascot is the Heritage Hawk and our motto is “Soaring to Success”.
Our School
Heritage Public School is located in the rural village of Navan and officially opened its doors in September 2006. Heritage embodies the characteristics of a community school with the parents/guardians and members of the community working hand in hand to prepare our students to be life‐long learners.
School benefits from a very supportive School Council that is comprised of parents and staff. This group is dedicated to strengthening educational opportunities and partnerships with the community and ensuring that the school provides a safe and nurturing environment for all children.
Academic Programs
We offer full-day bilingual Kindergarten, English with Core French, and the Early French Immersion (EFI) program.
Special Education and ESL Programs
Our Learning Support Teacher (LST), Learning Resource Teachers (LRT) and Educational Assistants (EAs) provide in class support at the primary, junior and intermediate levels. Our Learning Support Teacher also assist staff by providing assistance with programming, development of Individual Education Plans, conducting educational assessments as well as acting as liaison with the multi‐disciplinary team assigned to the school. The LST also coordinates referrals with our community agencies to address students’ needs.
Our building is welcoming, clean, bright and air‐conditioned. It includes a double gym with a stage, a music room, and a large automated library resource centre.
We have a large school yard that includes a field with two goals for soccer, a running track, sanded pits for track and field, a large paved area with painted lines for various creative games and two play structures. “Children’s Village at Navan” is a privately run daycare facility that is attached to the school.
- A library/resource centre with over 7000 English and French books
- Computer technology in every room
- Gym with stage
- A large school yard with a large field, running track, sanded pits for track and field and a paved area with a basketball court and two fixed basketball nets
- Garden boxes located in both the kindergarten and general yard
- Outdoor learning spaces (i.e., Nature Nook)
- Beautiful trees backing the school grounds
- Two play structures
- One block from the school property is an arena where all classes participate in skating
A strong commitment to Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility is embedded throughout the OCDSB 2023-2027 Strategic Plan and captured within each area of focus: learning, well-being, and social responsibility. We strive to ensure that our school is a welcoming and safe place for students of all identities to feel valued and respected as they engage, learn, grow, explore, and discover.
For more information, please visit the OCDSB’s Equity and Diversity website.