Our history
110 years of excellence
Past Principals of Pymble Ladies’ College
1916 - 1920
Dr John Marden
1920 - 1921
Miss G Gordon Everett
1922 - 1933
Miss Nancy Jobson
1933 - 1936
Miss Grace Mackintosh
1936 - 1967
Miss Dorothy Knox
1968 - 1989
Miss Jeanette Buckham
1989 - 2007
Mrs Gillian Moore
2007 - 2019
Mrs Vicki Waters
Pymble celebrates 110 years of educating and empowering women, academic excellence, bold leadership and enduring community.
The Hunter and Vicars Centre opens, delivering six state-of-the-art dance studios, a Health and Wellbeing centre, a Junior School STEM laboratory, and new Year 5 and Year 6 classrooms to the Pymble campus.
Pymble 's inaugural Early Years School opens, extending quality education and care to boys and girls from three months to six years of age.
Pymble launches a three-year partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, delivering coaching clinics to students and the wider community in support of girls' football development.
With the launch of a Drone Academy, Pymble becomes the first school in Australia to offer a Drone Soccer competition for students.
The Junior School Dream Diploma is launched. This tw-year signature program engages students in a series of learning activities that enable them to DARE, REACH, EXPERIENCE, ADVOCATE and MASTER.
Pymble is recognised as Australia's first independent Olympic Pathway School by the Australian Olympic Committee.
Watch Us Change the World Strategic Direction is launched, setting the vision for teaching and learning from 2021 to 2030.
Pymble acquires Vision Valley at Arcadia, a 90-acre outdoor education campus and an exceptional hub for outdoor learning.
Dr Kate Hadwen
In 2019, Dr Kate Hadwen was commissioned as the ninth Principal of Pymble Ladies' College. She champions a philosophy focused on developing the whole girl through a future-focused education that equally prioritises character, wellbeing and academic learning.
2019 - Present
The Braith Williams Aquatic and Fitness Centre opens in our Centenary year, featuring an Olympic-standard swimming and diving pool and state-of-the-art strength and conditioning facility.
Pymble Robotics launches with an intake of 20 students and quickly grows into one of the world's largest all-girls STEM programs.
Pymble celebrates its Centenary year, marking 100 years of educating and empowering girls.
The Kate Mason Senior School Centre opens, designed for the growing independence and responsibility of senior students.
The Pymble Elite Sportswoman's Program (PESP) is established to support elite athletes in Years 7 to 12.
The Gillian Moore Centre for Performing Arts opens, providing world-class facilities for music, dance and drama.
The Conde Library opens, providing a contemporary learning facility designed around the research and learning needs of students and staff.
Following the establishment of the Uniting Church in Australia, Presbyterian Ladies' College Pymble becomes Pymble Ladies' College.
The War Memorial Chapel opens, with stained glass windows designed by David Saunders, including the notable Getting of Wisdom Window.
The Pymble Ladies' College Ex-Students' Union is established to foster alumni traditions and connections that continue today.
The College is formally dedicated as a school of the Uniting Church in Australia.
Pymble Ladies' College opens its doors to the first students on the Avon Road campus in Pymble on 8 February 1916. Of the 60 girls on the roll, 20 were Boarders. Marden and Lang Houses had already been completed, as had the Colonnade building and Main Hall.
