Thank you Pymble, for giving back
t has been wonderful to see our students, staff and families engage in Pymble Gives Back throughout Term 1. Our collection bins were full of donations of adult clothing, children’s clothing, manchester, accessories and canned food. Dignity, Wayside Chapel and Anglicare at Hornsby were most appreciative of the items we delivered to support their work in the community.
Pymble Gives Back in the Junior School
Great work in Term 1
Our kind-hearted Junior School students joined students from around the world on an adventure of learning, empathy, kindness and art. Channeling their creativity and House spirit, the girls created welcome postcards that will be sent to young refugees around the world who have been displaced by war and other crises. The Bezos Family Foundation is donating $5.00 to refugee-aid organisations for every postcard created, so our girls will see firsthand the difference they’re making.
In Term 2, students will work together in Year groups on various service initiatives to celebrate Kindness Day on Wednesday 15 June.
Kindergarten students will make bird feeders for the school community and a display showing how “We put the KIND in KINDergarten”. Girls will then create hearts with a message conveying how they put kindness in action each day at school.
Year 1 students will be decorating terracotta pots and planting sunflowers to take to the Aged Care facility Year 6 are visiting. To accompany the sunflower pots, girls will also create paper sunflowers showing how they can “Grow with kindness”.
Year 2 girls will create artwork and cards to be sold at the Garden Party (with funds raised for The Smith Family) and little hearts and kind notes to place randomly into library books.
Year 3 will be taking part in the upSchool Project and creating an affirmation jar. Each girl will write a positive message on a paddlepop stick so everyone can start their day by choosing a positive daily mantra. Students can also collaborate to create an overall class mantra if they wish.
Year 4 will participate in a Knit-a-thon to make blankets for the Wrap with Love charity. Parents, grandparents and family members will be invited to assist with knitting the squares and sewing them together to make blankets, and girls will show their appreciation for this help by baking scones and making rocky road to share with their adult helpers.
Year 5 will be completing their quilling creations, Artwork for Others, and sending them to local hospitals to create warm, inviting spaces. In addition, they will have opportunities to create affirmation cards to be posted randomly to student lockers in the last week of term.
Year 6 will be visiting elderly residents once a fortnight at Bowden Brae Uniting Care and creating hearts for the 1000 Hearts foundation to distribute to aged care facilities. In addition, Year 6 will be working on their Feast Program for OzHavest.
Pymble Gives Back in the Secondary School
Great work in Term 1
We are proud of our Secondary students and how they have embraced so many ways to give back in Term 1, including:
- The Smith Family Student2Student reading program
- Dom’s Place
- Our Big Kitchen
- various fun runs and ocean swims (who can forget watching our Boarders on The Today Show participating in the Balmoral Swim!)
- Middle School donated proceeds of cookie decorating to the Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Women’s Shelter
- Upper School (Year 9) launched a Big Sister lunch time activity with K-2 students
- students were involved in monitoring and sorting the Pymble Gives Back donation bins
- at Vision Valley, Year 9 residential students participated in environmental service activities embedded in the program
- many students ‘gave back’ to the College through the gift of time at events such as volunteering at our Careers Expo and baking cupcakes for our House Day fundraiser.
In Term 2, Middle School students in Years 7 and 8 will participate in Compass Clean Ups, which involves two Compass groups per week dedicating a portion of Monday to cleaning up the College. Students will also create Happy Boxes for First Nations girls in remote communities.
Our Upper School students in Year 9 and 10 students will be supporting Days for Girls, undertaking Vision Valley Environmental Service (for students on the Residential Program), and contributing to an Undies Drive for Days for Girls and Wayside Chapel.
In Senior School, our Year 11 students will be fundraising for the Tanzania Service tour involving 16 students and three staff members undertaking service projects at East Meru Community School, School of St Jude and Maternity Africa (supported by the Barbara May Foundation) in the upcoming September holidays. They will also be volunteering at Sony Camp, peer mentoring and taking part in the Salvos Red Shield Appeal.
