Junior School Enrolment Update
It’s been a spectacular first term of 2025 in the Junior School ending on a high for our girls in Kindergarten to Year 2 with the Easter cookie decorating bonanza and Easter Hat Parade, two much-loved experiences on the annual Junior School calendar. There have been so many highlights this term, not to mention an incredible amount of learning, achievement and growth particularly for our Kindergarten cohort having completed their first official term of ‘big school’.
Term 1 also saw a flurry of activity for our girls in the world of STEM at Pymble!
Our Year 6 students have been preparing for Australia’s first Formula Goblin competition coming up in May, when they will race other teams in electric cars built from scratch. Based around Formula 1, the Greenpower Formula Goblin competition encourages students around the world to become involved in STEM by challenging them to design, build and race a green-powered, electric car. Our girls are the first team in mainland Australia to join the Greenpower racing community.
The team will head to the UK in June for three competitions and have been working hard to finalise their build. An exciting milestone during the build was reached with the girls driving their race car for the first time to test the car; to record and analyse performance data, fit the drivers, learn safety start and stop procedures and brake testing. A problem with a slipping axle didn’t stop our girls as the pit crew took the car apart and problem-solved so the drivers could resume testing performance.
The marketing division of the team are working just as hard as they look for, and pitch to, potential sponsors, not forgetting these girls are only 11 years old!
Meanwhile, it is with a great deal of pride and excitement that we received the news Pymble has qualified for the World Robotics Championships in Houston, Texas. This is a highly competitive environment and an outstanding acknowledgment of the quality of our program to be invited to compete against top robotics teams from around the world, including NASA. Best wishes to our Pymble Pride Robotics team, who are looking forward to building on the success they have experienced throughout the year on the world stage.
It is a long-standing strategic intent of the College to promote STEM subjects and careers for our girls. This work bridges both our Academic and Digital Intelligence pillars and is important for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that jobs in STEM fields are growing twice as fast as non-STEM occupations and women are still underrepresented (and underpaid) in STEM fields compared to men.
We continue to invest heavily in researching, identifying and innovating to bring a myriad of new STEM opportunities and partnerships into the College. Our aim is to enable students to develop the knowledge, skills and character traits required to thrive in our ever-changing world, whatever that may hold for them, when they leave Pymble.
In the Junior School, our comprehensive STEM learning program is summarised by our Head of STEM K-6 Mr Dan Brown in this report, which I warmly encourage you to read.
As Mr Brown writes, “STEM is not just a subject taught in isolation – it’s a mindset cultivated from the very beginning. Across every year level, from Kindergarten to Year 6, students are immersed in purposeful, creative and challenging STEM experiences that build curiosity, capability and confidence. Because at our school, STEM isn’t a moment. It’s a movement.”
Here at Enrolments, the pace is equally fast as we busily plan our welcome events for our incoming 2026 girls and their families. These details will be sent to all 2026 commencing families in July.
We have now reached the end of our enrolment interviews for our families with a provisional place in 2027. These families attended A Junior Pymble Morning which gave girls and their parents the opportunity to meet Mrs Kate Brown, Head of Junior School and attend an interview. Families also had an opportunity to tour the Junior School with current Year 6 girls who shared their unscripted Pymble experiences.
In the meantime, you may be interested in the following upcoming event:
Junior School (Kindergarten to Year 6) Open Morning– Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 9.00am (registrations required)
Should you anticipate a change in your circumstances, please notify the College by contacting the Enrolments Department on +61 2 9855 7613 or email enrol@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au
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