Healesville Sanctuary Middle Years

Healesville Sanctuary offers engaging Middle Years programs that encourage students to discover, explore and engage with the natural world.
The programs aim to facilitate student-centred inquiry about our native wildlife to develop a deeper understanding of the world in which we live.


  • Project Platypus

    Year 5 - Year 10
    Learn how to restore the habitat of your local waterways to help our iconic Platypus

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  • Australian Endangered Species

    Year 5 - Year 10
    Meet some unique Australian animals that urgently need our help and explore some actions we can all take to help save their wild cousins and other local endangered species.

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  • Help Amazing Australian Animals

    Year 5 - Year 9
    Explore the diversity of Australian wildlife with up close animal encounters in their natural environment. Discover their adaptations and classification, and find out how you can help our local aussie animals.

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  • Dreaming the Indigenous Way

    Year 5 - Year 10
    Immerse yourself in a bushland experience in the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people.
    Celebrate the world's oldest living living culture and learn how the land and the animals support and protect all of us.

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  • Self Guided Learning Trails

    These Trail sheets are designed to be self-guiding but teachers may wish to introduce the concepts prior to the visit.

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