Junior School Enrolment Update
Here at Pymble, our unique offering combines strong academic rigour with an array of exciting and varied learning opportunities to maximise every interest. Principally however, the Junior School is a place where our girls understand they are known and loved for who they are. Our girls get to know their strengths and discover and explore their passions. They are encouraged to be ‘have a go heroes’, to be brave in their learning, tenacious when it’s hard and to take risks, make mistakes, and be themselves.
Whether it be through Pymble’s strong STEM focus or Performing Arts programs or our many sporting opportunities, Outdoor Education Programs, service and mentoring via Pymble’s Strong Sisterhood program as well as through leadership opportunities and Chapel time, education of the whole girl is ensured with these programs and opportunities connecting across curriculum, across cultures and across languages.
Underpinning everything our Junior School offers is kindness. Term 1 saw Kindness to Self as a focal point and in Term 2, the spotlight focused on Kindness to Others. The Environment will be at the heart of the Junior School’s collective kindness endeavours in Term 3 and in Term 4 our girls will reflect on the differences they have made through their efforts of kindness and the differences they want to make moving into the summer break and into the new year.
The end of Term provides an opportunity to reflect on the other learning opportunities that have taken place during the term. Our Year 4 cohort and their dads recently challenged themselves after school hours with the launch of the Junior School’s Tech Connect series. The girls and their dads collaborated on creating and coding an inchworm to compete in a highly entertaining and hotly contested Formula 1 inspired race series. Our second session in Term 3 will give our Year 3 dads and their daughters the chance to come together to design, make and code a string puppet in an evening of fun and STEM after school.
Further, the last week of Term 2 saw our first ever inter-house Robotics Competition take place for all girls in Kindergarten to Year 6. Pymble proudly boasts the largest school-based robotics program in the world with waiting lists for these sought after Co-curricular sessions.
The Junior School is committed to building STEM thinking into all learning areas so our girls will be independent, critical and creative thinkers, collaborative problem solvers, resilient learners and above all else – kind people.
We look forward to welcoming families who are joining us throughout the year and the coming years. For those families joining in 2024, pre-commencement information and event information will be shared with you in more detail later this year and in the meantime, please save the following dates:
2024 Kindergarten: Meet the Learning Team – a 30 minute session for new Kindergarten students and their parents – Monday 11 September – Friday 15 September & Monday 18 September – Tuesday 19 September. You will receive a booking link to reserve your meeting on one of these days.
2024 Kindergarten: 1 hour and 15 minutes classroom experience (Kindergarten students) and parent session – Wednesday October 11 – Friday October 13. You will receive a booking link to reserve your session on one of these days.
2024 Kindergarten: 1.5 hours Student & Parents Welcome Morning – Saturday October 14
2024 Kindergarten: 2 hours Information morning and classroom experience (all Kindergarten students and parents) – Friday October 27
2024 Year 1 to 6: New Parent Online Information Session
2024 Year 1 to 6: LINKS Day – New students connect with current students – Friday October 27
2024 Year 1 to 6: 1.5 hours Student & Parents Welcome Morning – Saturday October 28
2024 Year 1 to 6: New student orientation – Monday January 29, 2024 (time tbc)
Please contact Enrolments for any support you may need in the meantime and for College news and updates, please see Pymble’s Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn pages.
