Current 7th graders at Brown, and proud Countryside alums, Ben Kalis and Brendan Weissel have started their own business!
BNK Entertainment offers student DJ entertainers and balloon artistry for your school event or private party. Contact Ben at 617-485-4855 or email them at bnkentertainment2016@gmail.com.
This summer, Lumos Debate is offering 2 week day-camp for Newton students grades 6
– 10. Your child will practice critical thinking, argumentation, and public speaking in a fun
and engaging learning environment. These are the skills that will get your kid noticed
and catapult them into leadership positions in school and in their future careers! For
more information, call 617-901-4564 or go to lumosdebate.com.
March Madness is a basketball tournament for all interested boys and girls, where we compete to see who will take home the trophy! Games will take place next week in the Gym starting Monday.
The tournament will run on:
Monday 3/13
Wednesday 3/15
Thursday 3/16
Friday 3/17
and into the following week on:
Monday 3/21
Wednesday 3/23 (if needed)
6th graders will be combining homebases and competing against other homebases to earn the title of March Madness Championship!
A reminder from the principal:
“Dear Parents,
Just a quick reminder that this Thursday, March 9, is an early release day. All students will be dismissed at 11:30am. There are no late buses, and students should leave the building promptly at 11:30am. This is the last early release day of the year for the whole school. (Sixth graders only have an early release day on Step-up Day, June 9.)
Think spring!
Todd”
The Newton Schools Foundation is honored for the second consecutive year to have a very generous donor who will match up to $25,000 in contributions from the community to the Calculus Project during the month of March.
Double your impact and donate today: www.newtonschoolsfoundation.org
The Calculus Project has been transformational for Newton students. Since its 2013 launch, enrollment growth in high-level mathematics among traditionally underrepresented student groups is significant:
• Hispanic student enrollment has increased 70 percent.
• African-American student enrollment has tripled.
• Low-income student enrollment has increased nine-fold!
Here’s how the program works: Calculus Project students attend intensive small-group
summer classes to preview upcoming curriculum, boost their math skills, foster attitudes
that support academic risk-taking and perseverance, and cultivate relationships among
peers in the program. During the school year, students receive mentoring and after-school
academic support. The program also uses lessons and activities designed to improve self-
perceptions about academic accomplishment.
Your support this year will help deepen and extend the Calculus Project’s reach.
Currently serving 109 students in grades 7-10, the program will welcome a new cohort of
30 incoming 7th graders this summer. If we successfully complete this match challenge,
the resulting $50,000 will support nearly half of the students in the Calculus Program for
this coming year—including the entire new 7th grade cohort.
At a cost of $1,000 per student for a full year of programming, the Calculus Project’s
success depends on a public-private partnership between the Newton Public Schools,
private foundations and corporate donors, and generous individuals like you.
Please help us meet the donor match challenge. Please Donate today!
Come to the Newton Chinese Cultural Festival hosted by Chinese American Association of Newton (CAAN), Newton Chinese Language School (NCLS) and Greater Boston Chinese Cultural Association (GBCCA). This event is supported by the Mayor’s office for cultural affairs, and is the 3rd consecutivey year taking place in the city hall.
This year’s theme is Chinese painting, which is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. At the festival, you will learn the history and different styles of Chinese paintings. You will have a rare opportunity to watch Chinese artist painting in close distance and learn some basic painting techniques from Chinese painting masters.
You and your family can also enjoy traditional Chinese folk dance, listen to Chinese folk songs and taste traditional Chinese food. For children, there will be many other activities like art crafting, face painting and games. We hope this will be a wonderful celebration of the Chinese culture with the Newton community. Please bring your family and friends along.
For more information, see the 2017NewtonChineseFestival_Flyer
March 11th, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Newton City Hall
The Newton Highlands After-School Program, just for middle school children is hosting 5 Open House events for interested families on the following days:
March 12th, March 18th, March 26th, April 6th, and April 9th, all 5:30-6:30 pm. This is a terrific opportunity for parents of 5th graders to learn more about the program as they plan for the next school year.Come see the wonderful space that is the home base of this terrific program. For more information please contact: Rochelle Acker at 617-999-4617 or highlandsafterschool@gmail.com or visit highlandsafterschool.org
Brigham House, 20 Hartford Street, Newton Highlands
On March 22nd , Newton Public Schools will host a forum entitled “Talking to Children about Race: Why and How?” The session, designed for a K-5 parent audience and led by Horace Mann Elementary teacher Mike Feldstein and METCO director Maricel Sheets, will:
The forum will be held at Angier Elementary, 1697 Beacon Street from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. An RSVP is not required, but will help the district plan for materials and activities.
Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/eDB56M2MEcUz7aUX2
Every year, as part of our efforts to encourage intercultural learning, we invite twenty international students to join us at Newton South. This is our fourth year running this program, and we’ve hosted students from all over the globe. This year, we have students from a variety of countries including Italy, Colombia, China, Brazil, Spain, Thailand, Indonesia, and Germany. We’ve had a blast getting to know these students and they’ve added so much to our community.
I am writing to you because our wonderful south side families are an important part of this program. Families who open their homes and hearts to these students make this intercultural learning experience possible. Past families have told us how much they have gotten out of the experience. Connections are made that last well beyond the duration of the visit.
We are already starting to think about Fall 2017. We have wonderful families who have hosted in the past returning and we are looking for a few new families as well. In our effort to attract great families, we are working with a company called Educatius International.
If you would like to learn more about being a host parent, you can contact Claudette Rowe from Educatius International at claudetterowe.educatius@gmail.com or 508-246-7028. If you would like to know more about the visiting international student program at Newton South, you can contact me.
Please consider hosting an international student! You’ll be supporting this great program and past host families will tell you what a wonderful experience hosting an international student can be for everybody involved.
Best wishes,
Kara Veley
Guidance Counselor
Visiting International Student Program
Newton South High School
veleyk@newton.k12.ma.us
617-559-6516
Seeking caring, responsible, and enthusiastic babysitter for 2 children, ages 11 and 9 years. Babysitter must have a car to pickup children from school and transport them to activities on Tuesdays 2:30-6:00 pm, Wednesdays 2:30-6:15 pm, and Thursdays 4:00-6:00 pm.
Candidate would ideally be able to continue working with our family for 6-12 months or more. Payment $20-25 per hour. Please contact Henry at hpelish@gmail.com if interested.