Language Arts

Language Arts

What a term – bravo to our Language Arts students and coaches and thank you to all parents for your support.

Congratulations to:

  • Our newly elected Language Arts leaders – Imogen Kee (Year 10), Isis Li (Year 10), Grace McSweeney (Year 10), and Jasmine Tran (Year 11), our new Language Arts Prefect.
  • Maya Garg (Year 12) who was selected for Worlds Debating in Panama.
  • Maya Garg (Year 12) and Kitty He (Year 11) who debated in the winning NSW team, in the National Schools Debating Championships.
  • FED finalists, and to Year 8 ISDA who won the ISDA Grand Final and to Year 7 ISDA, who were runners up in their division.
  • Catherine Shi (Year 12) and Kitty He (Year 11) who travelled to Bond University, Queensland for the finals of Bond Mooting.
  • Students who attended the four-day Harvard Model United Nations conference at Cranbrook.
  • Those who participated in Law workshop days and lectures
  • Jenny Xu (Year 11), who gave a strong, (runner’s up) performance at The Inaugural Dame Enid Lyons’ Oratory competition (DELO) at The Opera House and has now been announced as Co-Head Prefect for 2026.
  • Pymble Model United Nations and Sydney Social Debating Competition students.
  • Archdale Debating preliminary rounds in Shield and Invitational divisions.
  • TEDx classes and the TEDx showcase on Saturday 21 June.

We look forward to seeing our Language Arts students and families at tonight’s Language Arts dinner. It has certainly been a busy term and a term of many firsts for the Language Arts program.

Enjoy the Term break.

DEBATING  

More Debating Opportunities

Social Debating coaches – Thank you to Debaters who have volunteered to assist uni coaches with social debating. This competition runs until and including Friday 27 June. See you tomorrow!

Social Debating girls – We look forward to seeing you again after school on Friday, in Jobson Lecture Theatre, KM building, to continue your online season. Attendance is compulsory. It is wonderful to see girls enjoying this Debating journey, learning new skills and honing others. Please note that Social Debating will be carried into Term 3. (There will be no Debating on Friday 1 August)

Archdale – Shield and Invitational

Round 7 Preliminary round will be held on Tuesday 29 August when we travel to St Catherine’s. Please ensure bus tickets are purchased through Co-Curricular Administration.

Senior Invitational had a Round 6 make-up round against PLC Armidale on Tuesday 24 June.

Other make ups rounds will take place on Tuesday 5 August.

Make up Round 4 – Year 10 and Seniors – held online from Pymble on Tuesday 5 August.

St Vincent’s make up dates TBA.

MODEL UNITED NATIONS (MUN)   

Pymble Model UN Club (PMUN)  

PMUN runs each Monday at lunchtime in classroom DK06. Come along and join us next term – everyone is welcome. Learn how to prepare for a MUN conference. Please see our MUN captain, Kiki Chen (Year 11), for further information and email your interest to Mrs Hubbard (bhubbard@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au).  

Winter conference will be on Saturday 26 July (the first Saturday of Term 3)!

MOCK LAW

Young Justice 

At our recent excursion to the Young Justice Day, we discovered that our lecturer was Pymble Alumni, Linden Barnes, who lectures in Ethics and the Law. We were delighted that Linden returned to Pymble for a tour and to conduct a lunchtime session in the Jobson Lecture Theatre on Monday 23 June. We look forward to welcoming Ms Barnes back to judge our Moot on Antigone.