From the PPA

From the PPA

Welcome back to Term 2 at Pymble! We trust your girls have now settled into their school routine and are enjoying the cooler weather.

Mother’s Day Morning Tea

To all our mums and carers, we thank you for being a wonderful role model for our girls. You are brave, gracious and beautiful both inside and out. To celebrate Mother’s Day please join us for our annual gathering with your amazing girls on Friday 12 May 2023 from 10.15 am to 11.15 am on Main Oval. Click here to register – ticket sales close today.

The girls are encouraged to wear Mufti dress in their house colours for a gold coin donation towards our charity for Mother’s Day Wayside Chapel.

Vision Valley

We currently have the third and largest group of adventurers from Pymble and St Ignatius’ College Riverview at Vision Valley, happily completing their residential program.

It is an incredible feat for our girls to register and attend this program. For some it will be their first time away from home and for others who are used to travelling and trekking it will be second nature to them. From our the entire community, well done and congratulations to all our students who have participated.

The residential program is pivotal in helping our girls develop not only their mental and physical resilience but their emotional intelligence and cognitive and social skills in a natural environment. It is a period where they are learning practical life skills, such as doing the laundry and building shelters to developing their creative thinking by putting together plays and musicals.

Rather than learning these things on social media and entertainment platforms like TikTok and YouTube they are learning how to develop their potential in real life scenarios, with real people, in relaxed surroundings.

Click here to read a great article from The Australian newspaper as to the benefits of students participating in Vision Valley Residential Program.

PPA Trivia Night – Support and help needed

The 2023 Trivia Night for parents of daughters in Kindergarten to Year 12 will be held on Saturday 3 June at Hornsby RSL. The trivia night is the Pymble Parent Association’s (PPA) biggest fundraiser of the year and is a hugely popular event at Pymble, with the fancy dress theme for this year being “Movie Characters”.

To make it a successful evening, we ask you to kindly support this event with donations for the silent auctions and raffles to be given away on the night.

 Examples of donations are:

  • Bottles of wine/bubbles (please contact malinib.srivastava@gmail.com, these cannot be dropped off at school)
  • Candles
  • Vouchers e.g. spa, Bunnings, fun activities etc.
  • Chocolates
  • Stays in a holiday home
  • Experiences
  • Cash and gift vouchers (please contact malinib.srivastava@gmail.com and we can purchase on your behalf)

Please note that buckets will be allocated at each school office for you to drop the items, excluding alcohol.

Funds raised from the night are used to fund the Vicki Waters Prize, further development of two teachers/staff members and the Teachers and Staff Thank You Lunch on International Teachers Day in October.

There will also be winners for best dressed and best table decorations!

To join in the fun, please click here to register and for more information.

Alumni Networking Event

The Alumni Networking Event will be held on Thursday 18 May from 6.00pm to 8.30pm at the Sydney office of KPMG at Barangaroo, co-hosted by Dr Hadwen and our Chair of College Board, James Hunter, who is also a partner at KPMG. This event is a partnership with the College and the Ex-Student Union (ESU).

For our parents who work in the corporate or business sector, we would love to extend an invitation on behalf of the ESU and the College board for you to attend as a mentor. There is no formal speech requirement for mentors. On the night there will be a relaxed, industry-based ‘breakout hubs’ where mentors and mentees can chat informally following the guest speaker presentations. This is also an opportunity for you to network with others in the Pymble family who work in your industry.

Should you be able to attend, you will be joining fellow industry professionals, members of the College Senior Executive team and guest speakers, including: 

  • Hester Leung (1993), Chief Operating Officer of My Specialised Accommodation Solutions
  • Melanie Kurzydlo (2001), Executive Manager for Project Management at APP Corporation
  • Fiona Walmsley (1996), General Manager for Climate and Environment at Woolworths Group
  • Cristina Carter (2012), Senior Partnerships Manager at Westpac and Co-chair of Westpac’s Pro Bono Employee Action Group.

 Please click here for full details and to RSVP.

Sunny Hres

PPA President