Celebrating a year of togetherness
A warm hello from a much quieter campus than usual! Our girls have departed for the year, after having celebrated their achievements at Speech Days, final Chapel Services and Celebrations of Learning. We have also gathered with our wider community to ring in the festive season at our College Christmas Celebration on Gloucester Lawn – another traditional marker of the end of the school year at Pymble. On each occasion we have taken the time to acknowledge our gratitude for a year of togetherness.
We were blessed with a four terms of face-to-face learning on our main campus and at Vision Valley, along with an almost-pre-pandemic calendar of College events. It was a joy to welcome Pymble alumni to Foundation Day, Jacaranda Day, careers and networking evenings, the launch of our new Data Science course, and our magnificent Garden Party after a three-year hiatus.
Our Speech Day video has become the highly anticipated release of the year – please enjoy this snapshot of some of the many highlights of 2022.
Best of all, we welcomed many of you back onto our beautiful campus for reunions and tours, and we travelled to regional areas in Australia to connect with past, present and future Pymble families. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to join your reunions in London, New York and Los Angeles during my enrichment leave earlier in the year. Thank you for gifting me your time and company, and for continuing to show how much you value your Pymble connections by attending these special events.
My hope is that you will continue to be involved in the life of the College next year through the many opportunities available. In particular, I’m thinking of our College-wide program, Pymble Gives Back. In 2023, we will be encouraging our students, staff and wider community to focus on intentionally and meaningfully using our individual gifts and talents, along with our collective power, to be of service to others.
The program will launch in the first week of Term 1, with a collection of much-needed items to support the work of the Wayside Chapel, Dignity and The Smith Family. We are also in the process of gathering information about organisations or groups our girls can be of service to throughout the year. If you have an association with a charitable organisation that could benefit from the assistance of our ‘kindness army’ of student volunteers, please contact our Alumni Relations Manager, Mrs Katrina Corcoran (Hum, 1987) via kcorcoran@pymblelc.nsw.edu.au.
It gives me such joy to think of all the ways we can mobilise our ready-made kindness army of past and present students, along with staff and families, to help change the world for people experiencing great hardship and challenge in their lives. Thank you for thinking about how you can be part of our Pymble Gives Back program in 2023.
Signing off with best wishes for a safe and merry Christmas, together with your loved ones, and this heart-warming message from our girls.
Dr Kate Hadwen 