Secondary School Enrolment Update

As we wrap up a term filled with pre-commencement logistics and orientation events for our new 2024 students, I am reminded of the sorts of questions and worries parents have when starting at a new school and one such as Pymble. Class placements, friendship connections, activities, resources, subject offerings, transportation and of course the biggest question – how will you get to know my daughter?

We have a comprehensive pre-commencement program starting with each student’s interview two years’ prior to starting. There are multiple touch points over the 18 months prior to your daughter’s start where we collect information and use it to provide a successful transition. Our events also provide new and existing students to link with each other before the year is out. Our 2024 students are excited to start, and their parents are ready.

Our 2026 Year 7 starters will begin their final phase of enrolment in April next year with our Pymble Mornings. It will be hard for many of you to believe it is that time to be making final decisions around Secondary Schooling. I’m sure many of you may feel your daughter has only just started school! We will be inviting students that have a provisionally confirmed place at the College to attend an interview with our Head of School. Those on the waitlist will be advised if there has been progress for their daughter’s place in July.

Scholarship opportunities for 2025 and 2026 commencement

In addition to the Foundation Bursary Program launched in 2023, the College offers various scholarships to students with an academic, music, sport or all-rounder strength. The College also offers scholarships for rural Boarding students and students that are Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islanders.

Our Sport and All-Rounder scholarships for 2025 entry, open in early December and close in early February 2024. There are different requirements for each scholarship. Please review the website for information specific to each scholarship. Students are no longer required to sit an examination for Sport Scholarships.

Information can be found on the Performance Scholarship -Sport webpage or the All-Rounder Scholarship webpage on the College website.

Academic, Music and Boarding Scholarships for 2025 have now closed.

Registrations for 2026 commencement will open on Wednesday 1 May 2024.

Year 9 Residential Program – Vision Valley

Our Residential Program for Year 9 students based at Vision Valley has been running for two years. The four-week program is imbedded into our Year 9 curriculum and students choose the term they wish to attend based on their commitments and family preferences.

The program is ever evolving based on feedback and best practice. If you’d like to read what was shared with our 2024 students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the program, please visit our microsite Year 9 Residential Program – Vision Valley.

In the year prior to the program commencing, when students are in Year 8, there are information sessions to understand the program that are relevant to them.

Year 7 Boarding House

As Dr Hadwen indicated in her piece, we can’t wait for our incoming Year 7 Boarders to fill their newly renovated home in 2024. Girls will share rooms with up-to 4 in a room. This will also provide an opportunity for our Year 8 to Year 11 boarders to be placed vertically in our Goodlet and Marden Boarding Houses. Our Year 12s will continue to be in their own Lang Boarding House.

If you haven’t toured our Boarding facilities and you’ve enrolled your daughter as a Boarder, please contact us next year and we can take you through our Houses and introduce you and possibly your daughter to the joy and structure of boarding.

I look forward to meeting up with many of you next year at either an Open Event tour or at a Pymble Morning interview.

I wish you all the best for the end of year celebrations and hope that a break as a family can be had by all.