From the Pymble Parent Association
From the PPA
Please click here to watch a recording of the PPA meeting and here to view the agenda.
From the JSPG
Elizabeth Toh, Aimee Birch, Stephanie Pickford and Kai Jones
Welcome to 2022! We hope all families had a wonderful holiday break and your girls have settled nicely back into Pymble over the past two weeks. A very special welcome to all the new families joining us this year.
This is an exciting year for the JSPG as we now have the opportunity to host functions across our entire Junior School community, from Kindergarten to Year 6. We are particularly focused on making connections both within and across year groups, given what has been a challenging environment over the last two years. We are very hopeful that this year we can return to holding many wonderful events for your girls and your families.
As this is an evolving situation please check the newsletter each week for updates on JSPG events and activities.
Important dates in Term 1
| JSPG Term 1 Meeting | Thursday 24 February |
| JSPG Pedal Your Own Smoothie | Wednesday 16 March |
| PPA New Parents’ High Tea | Friday 18 March |
| JSPG Parent Morning Tea (K to 3) | Tuesday 22 March |
| JSPG Parent Morning Tea (Years 4 to 6) | Wednesday 23 March |
| PPA Icebreaker | Friday 1 April |
| JSPG Decorate a Cookie Fundraiser | Thursday 7 April |
Further details on these events will be distributed shortly.
Please note that our next event, the JSPG Term 1 meeting, is open to all parents and is a great source of information on our Junior School. The meetings are attended by Mrs Brown, Head of Junior School, and feature guest speakers on key areas of interest to the Junior School. We will provide more details shortly about whether this meeting will be held on Zoom or in our usual venue in the Junior School Library.
Meet the 2022 JSPG team
| JSPG Team Leaders |
Elizabeth Toh (elizabethtoh@gmail.com) Aimee Birch (aimee.birch1@outlook.com) Stephanie Pickford (stephaniepickford@gmail.com) Kai Jones (Kai_look@yahoo.com) |
| Treasurer | Sinead Forbes (sineadforbes@yahoo.com.au) |
| Record Keeper | May Tai (yeemaytai@gmail.com) |
| New Parent Co-ordinator | Tash Rowe (tashrowe@yahoo.com.au) |
| Care and Support | Shweta Deshpande (sgrich@bigpond.net.au) |
| Babysitting Co-ordinator | Leah Deutscher (leah@oatlabs.com) |
| Year 6 Co-ordinators |
Karina Kidd (Karinakidd1@gmail.com) Rosy Bayfield (rosy.bayfield@gmail.com) Cindy Tian (cindy.tian@gmail.com) |
| Year 5 Co-ordinators |
Aimy Hoang (aimyhoang@gmail.com) Annabel Blaiklock (annabel.blaiklock@gmail.com) |
| Year 4 Co-ordinators |
Monika Surana (monsisurana@yahoo.co.in) Stephanie Yu (tanie.yu@gmail.com) |
| Year 3 Co-ordinator | Matt Ware (mattware75@gmail.com) |
| Year 2 Co-ordinator | Michelle Leclercq (michelleleclercq@icloud.com) |
| Year 1 Co-ordinators |
Emma DeBilde (emma.b@raywhite.com) Leisa Whitehead (leisajwhitehead@gmail.com) |
| Kindergarten Co-ordinator | Elizabeth Greene (elizabgreene@gmail.com) |
We are currently looking for class parent volunteers for each year group and are in the process of setting up our WhatsApp communication groups for each class. If you are interested in becoming a class parent, or have any other queries, please contact your year co-ordinator or one of us.
Looking forward to a fantastic year ahead.
From the SSPG
Middle School
Carol Bai, Shiva Rich, Malini Srivastava and Sunny Hres
Dear Parents,
Welcome back to all new and existing families to an exciting year in the Middle School.
We will inform you of any upcoming events and activities through the school newsletter. Please note that parent events at the school have been postponed until March.
| SSPG Meeting (online) | 21 February |
| Middle School Parent Evening | 24 February |
| SSPG Parent Breakfast | 8 March |
| SSPG New Parents’ High Tea | 18 March |
From our Year 7 Co-ordinators
A very warm welcome to Year 7. Hope your girls have had a great start to the new school year. Carol Bai and myself (Shiva Rich) have volunteered as Year 7 Co-ordinators. We hope that many of the school events will be able to go ahead this year. Our role is to keep you informed of upcoming events and any opportunities for you to volunteer in order to have a supportive and engaged school community.
Another mode of communication is our Facebook group, ‘Pymble Ladies College Parents Class of 2027’. This is a private and closed group. Please let us know your daughter’s name when you request to join the group. We will then check the name on the Year Group List and approve your request to join the Facebook group. We have also set up a Year 7 WhatsApp group. If you haven’t already joined that group and would like to join please let us know and we can add you to the group.
A number of parents have expressed an interest to have a catch-up this month.
Year 7 Coffee morning
Thursday 17 February at 10.00am
Turramurra Memorial Park, Eastern Rd Turramurra
This will be a great opportunity for new parents to come along and make connections with other parents. Please feel free to bring along a plate to share. We also request that you perform a RAT test on yourself prior to attending so that we can relax and chat knowing that we are keeping each other and our families safe.
Please feel free to contact Carol (+61 450 855 866 or carol_baiguo@hotmail.com) or Shiva (+61 414 322 874 or shivarich@icloud.com) if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing many of you at the coffee morning catch-up.
From our Year 8 Co-ordinator
Hope the girls have had an exciting start to the school year! For new families joining Year 8, you are invited to join our Facebook group ‘PymbleLC Parents Class of 2026’ for general communication. It is a closed group; therefore, you will need to put in a request providing your daughter’s name to join.
Year 8 Coffee Morning
Friday, 25 March after school drop-off at 8.20am
Brick Lane Espresso
Philip Mall, Kendall Street, Pymble
Contact Sunny with any questions via +61 424 878 781 or email sunny.hres@gmail.com.
