Farewell, Class of 2017

PYMBLE LADIES’ Farewell, COLLEGE DECEMBER 2017 Class of 2017 VOLUME 42 Contents Pymbulletin | Volume 42 Principal’s Message People and Culture Our greatest achievements .......................3 Experience a new world .............................37 A taste of life at Cambridge .......................38 News Girls get down with social media .............39 Building the future .......................................4 Words from the heart ..................................40 Farewell, Class of 2017 ...............................5 Welcome to Pymble ....................................41 Outstanding 2017 HSC results ..................8 Staff news .......................................................41 Four top ATARS in Class of 2017 ...............9 Creating a culture of care ..........................41 Our top achievers.........................................10 2017 HSC results: an overview..................11 Sustainability Meet our new Student Leaders ................12 Our kids are teaching kids! ........................43 Service with a smile ....................................44 Personalised Learning Service learning in Tanzania ......................45 Front cover Stars in our eyes ...........................................15 Time for change ...........................................46 Following their Final Assembly and Discovering a love of literacy ....................16 Moving in the right direction.....................46 Chapel Service, our departing Year 12 students assembled on the steps of the Springing into Senior School ....................17 Bridging the gap in NAIDOC Week ..........47 Chapel and on Gloucester Lawn for the Greece is the word! .....................................18 Everything old is new again .......................47 symbolic releasing of 30 doves. Striking a chord.............................................18 Classics in the modern world ...................19 Sport and Activities About Pymble Ladies' College Inside Latin camp .........................................19 Rugby at Pymble ..........................................49 Celebrating 100 years of education in All the world’s a stage .................................20 Movers and shakers ....................................50 2016, Pymble’s history has been marked with excellence. The College has gained Global networks ...........................................21 Our girls are IGSSA champions! ..............51 a reputation for offering extraordinary Ideas can change the world! .....................22 Swim stars take the plunge ........................52 opportunities with outstanding teachers Market Day reaches fever pitch ...............23 Pymble receives Lifesaving Awards ........53 and facilities. Pymble students aspire to the College motto, ‘All’ Ultimo Lavoro’ Our girls are going places! .........................24 Easy ways to upskill .....................................53 – Strive for the highest, graduating with Ernst & Young, here she comes ................25 Challenge: accepted! .................................54 confidence and maturity to embrace the Legal eagle wins Cambridge essay prize ...25 Let it snow ......................................................55 challenges that lie beyond the College gates. A school of the Uniting Church in Good sports! .................................................56 Australia, Pymble welcomes girls of all Community Just keep swimming ...................................57 faiths in Kindergarten to Year 12 and as Garden Party fun! .........................................27 Best in show ..................................................57 Boarders from Year 7. Adventure time! ............................................29 Helping hands ...............................................29 Black Watch Ties EDITOR Our dads are making a difference ...........30 President’s Report ........................................58 Mrs Mara Lee Celebrating Boarding at Pymble ..............31 Events ..............................................................59 A showcase of talent ...................................32 Reunions ........................................................60 DESIGNER Talking tech! ..................................................32 Announcements ...........................................61 Ms Amelia Hull Ready for the runway .................................33 Ex-Students’ News .......................................63 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Music student masterclass ........................33 Mrs Vicki Waters, Mrs Kelly Mancey College staff give back................................34 and Mrs Katrina Corcoran. Sony Camp changes lives ..........................34 Happy Jacaranda Day! ................................35 Long-distance learning ..............................35 2 | PYMBULLETIN | VOLUME 42 Stay in touch with us on social media Principal’s Message Our greatest achievements Another rewarding year of personalised Co-Captain of Music and The Arts 2018, learning at Pymble has come to an end. Sophie Macourt with two accomplished women in academia, Professor Diane In Term 4, we officially recognised our Mayer, Dean of Education and Social girls’ achievements, starting with our Work at the University of Sydney and Preparatory School Celebrations of Professor Barbara Messerle, Executive Learning and culminating in our Junior Dean of the Faculty of Science and School Speech Day and Secondary Engineering at Macquarie University. The School Speech Night. professors encouraged students to follow The Celebrations of Learning took place their passions and to be trailblazers, to in our Chapel, where each girl received seize opportunities – even daunting ones an individualised citation acknowledging that make them feel nervous – and to and celebrating her unique learner not worry if things don’t work out, as they disposition and goals, and her growth. will have the resources within to make a plan B, C, D or even Z. Secondary School Speech Night “The girls have developed as courageous and caring individuals who have a Indeed that was the overriding message growing ability to identify their own of Speech Day and Night. As a College, achievements and those of their peers,” we are strategically and intentionally said Head of Preparatory School, Mrs guiding and challenging our girls with a Karen Ahearn. myriad of opportunities in order for them to develop a deep and rich toolkit of “Each girl has taken responsibility for learning capabilities to be future-ready in her learning through goal setting and our rapidly changing world; for jobs that questioning, and has developed an may not even exist yet. We are leading a understanding that integrity is about new economy of education where the pursuing what you believe is right.” currency is Personalised Education and Our annual Junior School Speech Day the reward will be our girls’ success. and Secondary School Speech Night in Congratulations to all the girls who the final week of Term 4 acknowledged received awards in 2017, and especially to our highest academic, sporting and our 2017 Dux of the School, Sally Cao. performing arts achievers; students who Junior School Speech Day demonstrated outstanding commitment Finally, it was with great delight that and citizenship; and recipients of our we received notification of the HSC annual awards, medals and scholarships. results of our Class of 2017. In addition to their many collective achievements At Speech Day, our Head of Junior throughout the year as leaders, role School, Mr Nigel Walker summed up models, sportswomen, entrepreneurs, our Junior School students’ developing musicians, artists, dancers, actors, learning dispositions perfectly: “Our debators, roboticists and as kind and girls don’t limit their challenges, they engaged members of the wider Pymble challenge their limits.” community, our girls achieved HSC He also acknowledged the role of marks of distinction, including four Pymble educators in ensuring students perfect ATARs. Congratulations to our are “stretched at their point of challenge brilliant Class of 2017. You can read about so they move into that uncomfortable their HSC results in detail on pages 8-11. zone where they make mistakes and learn something new.” Vicki L Waters At Speech Night, a highlight was the PRINCIPAL Kindergarten Celebration of Learning on-stage interview conducted by our Stay in touch with us on social media VOLUME 42 | PYMBULLETIN | 3 News Building the future “Undertaking the Towards the end of Term 2, we announced the exciting news that we will welcome a fourth Kindergarten class to the Preparatory School in 2018. The increased intake extensions as one project is testament to the outstanding learning, teaching and facilities on offer at Pymble. allowed us to maximise the To facilitate the gradual increase from three to four classes across K-2, and to use of the shorter Term 4 enable the College to meet growth projections of numbers of school-aged and the longer Christmas children residing on the North Shore in the coming years, the decision was made to build three new classrooms – one for each year group. break to complete the work The extensions capitalise on previously unused space in the Preparatory School. faster and more efficiently.” One new classroom will extend outwards from the existing Kindergarten practical Campus Manager, area, over the Year 1 roof; the second will extend outwards from the existing Year 1 practical area; and the third new classroom will extend outwards from the existing Mr Malcolm Boyes 2C classroom. Midson Construction

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