From the Director of Community Engagement and Advancement

Upcoming Events – End of Year Festivities

We are racing towards the end of the year and the Community Engagement team is busy preparing events for speech days and Christmas celebrations. We have quite a packed schedule to finish off the year, but there is plenty of fun to be had for students and parents; to see our full calendar of events, please click here.

Speaking of teens: Holding onto love – links for further information

After receiving a great amount of interest from parents, we have decided to extend the online availability of the video recording of our parenting forum Speaking of teens: Holding onto love. The recording will be available to watch on YouTube until Friday 4 November, so get in quick if you would like to see what was discussed. Click here to view the recording.

Additionally, if you would like to learn more about our panellists, access discounts and links to their publications and see a summary of the content from the forum, the program can also be viewed here.

Feedback – Focus groups investigating the technological assets used at Pymble

Feedback from parents and carers is one of our most important tools to ensure our communication processes are continually improving and meeting the needs and expectations of the Pymble community. This term, we are focused on the technological pathways we use to distribute information in terms of the end user experience, and we want to hear your opinion.

We have learned so much from our previous surveys and focus groups; your feedback has been invaluable. We are therefore looking for another group of members from the Pymble community to attend a series of focus groups and let us know any issues you have with the MyPymble app and our notification processes, as well as any suggestions you may have to improve them.

If you would like to participate in these focus groups later this term, please contact communityengagement@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au

Thank you to our volunteers – Parent cocktail party and Junior School Annual General Meeting

A big thank you to all the parents who took time out of their busy schedule to attend this morning’s Junior School Parent Group (JSPG) Annual General Meeting. We are thrilled to welcome the new JSPG committee:

Relationship Leaders 2023:

Mrs Shweta Deshpande
Mr Hanson Han & Mrs Colleen Zhang
Mrs Stephanie Pickford
Ms Annabel Blaiklock
Mrs Lesia Whitehead
Mrs Emma de Bilde
Ms Jessica Jingjing

Babysitting Co-ordinator/Care & Support:

Mrs Leah Deutscher

Finance Co-ordinator/Record Keeper

Mrs Aimee Birch

Our volunteers and members of the Pymble Parent Association (PPA) are the lifeblood of our community and we look forward to working with you all in 2023! To recognise the contributions of our volunteers from not just the PPA but the entire Pymble community, we warmly invite any parent or carer who has contributed their time and effort in 2022 to the Pymble Parent Volunteers Thank You Evening on Friday 18 November. You can book your ticket by clicking here.

End of Year Events

Preparations for the Year 3 to 6 and Year 7 to 10 Speech Days are currently underway, and we hope to see as many families as possible in attendance. We are really excited to celebrate the achievements of our girls with the wider Pymble family.

We also have the Christmas College Celebration coming up in the last week of December – this is always a great event and will be a fun way to farewell 2022. We look forward to sharing the festive season with you all.