Language Arts

Festival Of Speech – Pymble Placed Second Overall!

This year’s Festival of Speech was held last Saturday 21 October, at Ravenswood. Pymble came second overall from a field of 28 IGSA schools. Congratulations to our representative team on this fine achievement. The standard was exceptional. Thank you to Mrs Victoria Clancy for training and to parents and staff members for your support.

Our Festival of Speech team for 2023:

Junior Poetry: Imogen Wu – Fifth place

Senior Poetry: Evelyn Zhu – First place

Junior Public Speaking: Jenny Xu – Third Place

Senior Public Speaking: Emily Abadee

Junior Readings: Sophie Guo

Senior Readings: Lydia Heazelwood-Lee

Current Affairs: Maya Garg, Amber Wang, Kiki Chen

Religious and Ethical Questions: Emma Parsons, Mulan Xu, Angelina Lee – Fifth Place

Soapbox Junior: Leahara Wijesuriya, Grace McSweeney

Soapbox Senior: Nikita Serban, Lauren Korenblyum

A celebratory pizza lunch will be held at the conclusion of the Year 9 and 10 examination period.

International Debating Championships (IDC)

We welcomed all IDC debaters last Friday 20 October for the start of the IDC season. Well done all, we are off to a fine start. Tomorrow’s topic is Actor – please look up Actor debates in preparation.

Model United Nations (MUN)

Knox Grammar school has commenced an afterschool MUN program each Thursday from 4.00pm to 5.00pm. Pymble MUN students have been invited. Please email our new MUN Captain Catherine Shi or Mrs Hubbard, if you are interested. Mrs Hubbard or a Language Arts coach, will attend Knox each Thursday for the program. Please note that students are to make their own transport arrangements.

Pymble Model UN runs in DK05 and DK06 every Monday lunch time – All welcome

PMUN Tour

We have had a wonderful response to expressions of interest for the January 2025 Language Arts tour to London, Bruges, Amsterdam and The Hague. We plan to attend THIMUN at The Hague. Details can still be obtained from Travel@Pymblelc.nsw.edu.au

UN Voice of Youth Public Speaking

Pymble hosted a heat last Friday 20 October. Results will be announced following the conclusion of all heats.

Secondary School Debating Auditions

Please contact Amy Zhang, Debating Captain to register for a Debating audition for 2024 ISDA, Archdale, FED and Social teams. Auditions will take place from 3.00pm in the Colonade classrooms.

2023 Year 9 – 2 and 7 November

2023 Year 10 – 8 and 9 November

2023 Year 6 – 10 November (New students only)

2023 Year 11 – 27 October at lunch time in C10

Junior School Debating Auditions

Auditions for 2024 ISDA Debating will be held in Term 4 Week 5 over a series of lunchtimes.

If you would like more information or to sign up for an audition, please see Ms Itzcovitz.

Captains and Prefect

A warm welcome to our incoming Captains and Prefect:

Maya Garg – Mock Law

Amy Zhang – Debating

Catherine Shi – MUN

Evelyn Zhu – Public Speaking

Angelina Lee – Language Arts Prefect

These girls have made an impressive start with their initiatives and enthusiasm.

We wish our outgoing Captains and Prefect all the best as they continue their HSC exams. We hope to see them back as coaches.

Bronwyn Hubbard

Head of Language Arts