Secondary School Enrolment Update

Welcome to our first Secondary School newsletter for the 2024 academic year.

Term 1 saw the Middle School welcome 124 new Year 7 students. Forty seven of these new students had no one come with them from their current school. In typical Pymble fashion, our current girls brought their Junior School values of kindness to help all of our new Year 7s settle into their routine, build new friendships and become familiar with the campus. Many of our students share common interests and backgrounds and we celebrate these whilst embracing the diversity amongst our students whether it be different cultures, family rituals and dynamics, student interests and diversity of past experiences. This is reflected in our daily social media posts and our College publications such as Pymbulletin and our HSC Booklet.

Just as our new students forge friendships and share more about themselves, some of our new parents have also shared their experience as new Pymble parents. It is always wonderful to receive feedback from incoming parents and as future new parents I thought these couple of notes may resonate with you.

“THIS! This is what the difference is. Absolute kindness with help AND solutions. Just wonderful!” – an email from the parent of a new Year 9 student who had received an email from her maths teacher offering support and assistance following an initial test where she was disappointed in her results.

“We would like to thank you for your patience, guidance and support throughout the entire enrolment process. We are especially grateful for arranging additional time to meet with Mr Riley last week and for choosing such an amazing buddy for her. Thank you to your team for making the appropriate arrangements. She thoroughly enjoyed Transition Day and was able to get a strong sense of life at Pymble. She was made to feel welcome by all of the staff, and was so impressed and excited about the opportunities, the facilities and the overall feel on campus. She also met some wonderful new friends and received great advice and insights all the girls she met.” – Year 9 parent email

“We cannot wait for our daughters to join and contribute to the Pymble community in 2024.” – email from a future parent

Boarding has its own rhythm

It has been an epic term starting with the opening of our new Boarding House, Avonmoore, exclusively for our group of 16 Year 7 Boarders. The girls are delighted to have their own space in which to bond with each other whilst adjusting to life at Pymble. We also changed our house structure to a vertical system from Year 8 to 11 in two of our larger houses. We welcomed wonderful new members of staff and 30 new Boarders. We enjoyed a tremendous community weekend, a Boarders Parent Group (BPG) meeting, welcome drinks, a BFF event and a terrific initiative around representative sport. We got the girls home for a long weekend and back again, and then moved rooms. We celebrated outstanding HSC results, the many successes of our multi-talented Boarders and so much more.

Our School Principal, Dr Kate Hadwen, has always been a shining supporter of our Boarding family, and this term she demonstrated this by travelling, with her husband Matt, 2,500kms around country NSW visiting new, current and past Boarding families. I know the families appreciated her time and company and it was gratifying to hear the feedback about how delighted families are with the care that our staff give so generously and consistently every day.

I’m happy to share the joy and friendship amongst our boarders in our Day in the Life of a Year 7 Boarder video. You may watch here. Enjoy!

2025 Orientation Dates

We will begin our pre-commencement program in October and all new 2025 families will receive formal information about this in August. For Year 7 parents in particular, this will include information on choosing your daughter’s laptop device (Mac or PC), language preference along with instructions for purchasing uniforms and textbooks.

Dates for your diary

Wednesday 19 June – Year 11 Subject Selection Evening
Thursday 12 September – Years 8,9,10 Subject Selection Evening
Monday 14 October – Year 7 2025 Parent Information Evening
Friday 25 October – Year 7 2025 Links Day with our current Year 6 students
Friday 25 October – Year 7 Boarder sleepover.
Saturday 26 October – combined Year 7 2025 Spirit House and Assessment Morning
Friday 8 November – Boarders ‘hit the town’ and sleepover
Thursday 30 January 2025 – Orientation Day Years 1 to Year 11
Wednesday 29 January 2025 – Boarders’ orientation Years 7 to Year 11

2025 Term Dates

The term dates for 2025 have been released and are available on our website.

Should you anticipate a change in circumstances, please notify the College by contacting the Enrolments Department on +61 2 9855 7613 or email enrol@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au 

There is so much to look forward to here at Pymble and we look forward to welcoming families who are joining us next year and in the near future.

Scholarship opportunities at Pymble Ladies’ College

Registrations open for 2026 scholarships on Monday 6 May including:

Year 7 and Year 11 Academic Scholarships

Year 7 Performance Scholarship – Music
Year 7 Alanda Clark, Jane Gay and Prudence Papworth Boarding scholarship
Year 7 to 10 Boarding Rural/Regional Scholarship and
Year 11 Ex-Students’ Union scholarships

A limited number of full or part-scholarships are offered. If you are interested in applying, please refer to the College Scholarship webpages here.

I look forward to meeting up with you or talking with you at the many opportunities we have over the coming year. To stay connected to the College, please see Pymble’s Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn pages.   