Pymble Ladies' College

Pymble Ladies' College is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Pymble, a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Pymble Ladies' College
Location
Pymble
,
New South Wales

Australia
Coordinates33°44′54″S 151°08′05″E
Information
TypeIndependent, day and boarding
MottoAll' Ultimo Lavoro
(Strive for the highest
—Dante)
DenominationUniting Church
Established1916
ChairmanJames Hunter
PrincipalKate Hadwen
ChaplainLorenzo Rodriguez Torres, Punam Bent
Employees~210[1]
GenderGirls
Enrolment~2,100 (K–12)[1]
Colour(s)Scarlet, navy blue and white
     
AffiliationsAHIGS
JSHAA
Websitewww.pymblelc.nsw.edu.au

History and description

Pymble Ladies' College was founded in 1916 by Dr John Marden.

Twenty hectares in size, the grounds of the College feature a 50m swimming pool, gymnasium, several fields, tennis courts, an agriculture plot, library, buildings dedicated to specific subjects: an art building, a technology and applied studies building, a languages building, and a science block. There is also a music building, a chapel, healthcare centre, three boarding houses (Lang, Goodlet and Marden) and the most recent additions - the Gillian Moore Centre for Performing Arts in 2005, the Senior School Centre - Kate Mason Building in 2011, and the Centenary Sports Precinct in 2016.[2]

The college, formerly a school of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, is now administered by the Uniting Church in Australia, and is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools (AHIGS). Girls of any faith may attend the school, although they are expected to also attend a fortnightly chapel service. The school caters for all classes from Kindergarten to Year 12.

There are eight houses in the secondary school, including the original three, Lang, Goodlet and Marden, and five more added in 2009, Wylie, Bennett, Ingleholme, Hammond and Thomas.[3] There are three houses in the Preparatory and Junior Schools named after famous Australian authors, Gibbs (after May Gibbs), Mackellar (after Dorothea Mackellar) and Turner (after Ethel Turner).

Activities

In 2014 the school participated in the Community Development and Leadership Summit in India, hosted by the Modern School, New Delhi.[4]

Principals
Period Details[5]
1916–1920 John Marden, Principal of Croydon 1887 – 1920, Principal of both Colleges from 1916
1920–1921 G. Gordon Everett
1922–1933 Nancy Jobson
1936–1966 Dorothy Knox
1967–1989 Jeanette Buckham
1989–2007 Gillian Moore
2008–2019 Vicki Waters
2019 - present Kate Hadwen[6]

Notable alumnae
Entertainment, media and the arts
Politics, public service and the law
Sport
  • Sophie Ferguson – Professional Tennis Player
  • Ellyse Perry – member of Australian women's national football team and cricket team
  • Edwina Tops-Alexander – equestrian athlete representative to 2012 London Olympics[12]
  • Brittany O'Brien – Australian Olympic Diving Team 2016[13]
  • Chloe Dalton OAM – Australian Women's Rugby Sevens Team (2014–present), Olympic gold medalists

Notes
  • ^ P.L.C council had acquired further land between 1916 and 1924. The reason for the sale is unknown.

See also

References
  1. "Pymble Ladies' College Annual Report 2005". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2007.
  2. "PLC - New Senior School Centre". Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  3. 2009 - Year in Review, p. 9, archived from the original on 2 March 2011, retrieved 19 April 2011
  4. "Community Development and Leadership Summit". Pymble Ladies' College. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  5. "Heads of New South Wales Independent Girls' Schools". Archived from the original on 16 March 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2007.
  6. "New Principal for Pymble Ladies' College". Pymble Ladies' College. 16 November 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  7. Papers of Dame Joan Hammond (1912- ). National Library of Australia
  8. McNab, Alexander Cecil (24 February 2018). "Kung Fu Foreigner". The World of Chinese. Retrieved 10 December 2019. [...]Lyons graduated from Pymble Ladies’ College, in a suburb of Sydney, with a degree in marketing,[...] - The article misidentifies Pymble as her university (as "college" in American English means a university).
  9. "Sydney's Amy Lyons is raking it in as a Chinese social influencer". news.com.au. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019. As her fan base grew, the former Manly Seabirds cheerleader and Pymble Ladies’ College alumnus[...]
  10. "Anita Jacoby: Why my success would surprise my former teachers". Women's Agenda. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  11. "Marie Byles: A Spirited Life" (PDF). National Trust Online Exhibition. The National Trust of Australia (NSW). 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 November 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
  12. "London 2012 - Edwina Tops-Alexander Athlete Profile". Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  13. "Sydney Schoolgirl Brittany O'Brien dives into first Olympics after late call". The Daily Telegraph. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.

Further reading
  • Coleman, M. 1991. This is Pymble College: The First 75 years, 1916-1991. Pymble Ladies' College.
  • McFarlane, J. 1998. The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888-1988. P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney. ISBN 0-9597340-1-5.
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