[49] This crew was also successful at the 2008 Australian Rowing Championships, winning the A Final of the Schoolgirls Eight race (the Sydney Cup), ahead of St Catherine's School, Toorak and Pymble Ladies' College, thus ranking them as the best schoolgirl eight in Australia. [25] Evidence of PLC's wartime occupation remain, with tunnels and bomb shelters accessible from below the stage of College Hall. [10][11][12][13] PLC is one of two Sydney schools in the Round Square organisation.[14]. An Ex-Students' Orchestra and Dramatic Club were formed, and tennis and croquet matches were held between current and former pupils. Sports available to students through IGSSA include swimming, diving, rowing, cross country, athletics, gymnastics, softball, tennis, basketball, soccer, Field hockey, netball, cricket and water polo.
The motto had been adopted by the school on 23 August 1888, and although no translation was given of the Latin, it may be loosely translated to "be holy wisely" or "holy, wisely. The … [56] Current projects undertaken by the school include the establishment and on-going management of two Kindergartens in East Timor,[57] the management and support of Birla Children's Orphanage in Vietnam, and the establishment of the "Adopt a School" programme. [30], In late August 2005, due to financial troubles at the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Armidale, it was announced that PLC Armidale and PLC Sydney would join to form an alliance, with both schools coming under the executive leadership of Dr William McKeith, the Principal of PLC Sydney.
The PLC Council nearly kept the school at Strathfield permanently, but ultimately it was decided that PLC would reopen once again at Croydon in first term 1946. [41] In 2007 PLC won three IGSSA carnival premierships: in diving (for the ninth consecutive year), swimming,[43] and gymnastics. With the desire to provide Marden with a "fitting and lasting memorial",[69] it was decided that a library, to be called the John Marden Memorial Library, should be built at the Croydon College. "Presbyterians should take prompt action because the Popish party, seeing the want that was felt throughout the colony in regard to higher education, has stepped in to supply that want, and if Protestants did not look to the matter, the Roman Catholics would take advantage of them. [40] [28] In March 1972 the school also produced a newsletter ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΝΕΑ providing background on Greek culture and language and a bibliography of relevant books in the school library. The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Pymble was opened on 8 February 1916 with 48 day girls and 86 boarders. "[59], The school's highly symbolic badge was inspired by the first Principal, Dr. Marden, and designed in 1888 by the first art teacher, J.A.