The latest announcements from the Principal, PTSO, and NPS...

Virtual Cooking Class: Support Travel Scholarships & the Newton COVID-19 Care Fund – May 9 at 3PM

The Newton COVID-19 Care Fund helps families and individuals who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The GELF offers life-changing, need-based scholarships to students participating in Newton North & South travel programs. Support both causes with a special cooking class on May 9! Proceeds will be split between the two organizations. This year, GELF made many financial scholarship commitments for travel that it was unable to recover and was additionally unable to hold its annual fundraiser, so you can help in a big way by joining the fun online!

Join Newton North parent and chef extraordinaire Katya Salkever for a unique Zoom DIY cooking broadcast. Chef Katya will show guests how to prepare some of her most popular dishes from GELF Benefit Dinners over the last 11 years so that you can enjoy GELF cooking at home! The menu, Zoom link, and a list of ingredients will be sent out to all registered participants one week prior to the event date. 

Event Details:

LIVE Virtual Cooking Event with Chef Katya Salkever via ZOOM

Learn to Cook Top GELF Dinner Hits!

Saturday, May 9

3-5:30PM

Ticket Price: $50 Minimum Donation to Join

REGISTER HERE!

The event is limited to 100 members, so reserve your spot today!

Don’t want to cook but still want to donate to the Fund? Head here to make your donation today. 

BONUS: We’ll also feature a specialty cocktail recipe called “The Globetrotter!” to help celebrate this fun event. 

All proceeds of the event will go to support the Newton COVID-19 Care Fund and The Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF), and its ongoing efforts to ensure that no students are left out of these experiences, regardless of their financial means. 

Hope you’ll join us on May 9!

NPS Teacher Appreciation Week

Next week we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week!

Please join us to say thank you to all NPS teachers by submitting a thank you card, photo or video. Use this form to submit your creation and look for it on our social media channels next week!  https://forms.gle/65Wao2kNJHcShX6F7

Looking for Spirit Gear?

Most of the inventory is inaccessible in the school, but Ms. Woodruff happens to have lots of Newton South socks (orange and blue with a lion – $12), baseball hats (trucker hats are $20 or canvas hats are $15), and lanyards at her house.  She does have one box with a few pairs each of T-shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, jogger pants, 1/4 zip pullovers, and sweatshirt blankets.  If you want to place an order, email the details of your order to Wendy Woodruff at wrwoodruff@yahoo.com, and she can let you know if she has it.

4.30.20 Message From Principal Stembridge

I am saddened and incredibly disappointed to share with you that today one of our biology classes experienced two virtual intruders during the middle of class. The teacher was able to remove the intruders, but not before the class was subjected to a verbal attack, including foul language and the use of the n-word. Our deans are investigating, and we have shared this information with the Newton Police Department and the ADL.

Our students say it better than I could: “One would hope that awful racist attacks on those we care for would end as we try and stand together against a pandemic. But people can be awful so here we find ourselves, bewildered, hurt.” I share their hurt.

In the aftermath of our last incident, we developed a NSHS human rights council to help us prevent and respond to incidents of hate, and I will be meeting with this group tomorrow to plan a response. We are also directing faculty to only allow into classrooms students who have authenticated their NSHS identification through the use of their NPS student gmail, a security protection that just came available for our use today.

These hateful attacks are an attempt to thwart the very things that we need more of right now: connection, understanding, grace. I applaud our students and faculty who once again are showing tremendous resilience in these challenging times.

As always, thank you for your partnership.

 

Sign up by May 1 for Class of 2020 Yard Signs

Dear Newton South Senior Families,

If your Senior has not completed the survey sent out to get feedback about events & graduation, please have them complete it ASAP so their voices can be heard.

Thank you for your enthusiasm to help and for all the suggestions we have received already.  As you know South has formed a committee of faculty, senior students and parents that will be looking at how to do senior events, especially graduation, working with the restrictions we have but trying to be as creative as possible.  The PTSO will continue to share the ideas to the committee.

Our first effort to celebrate the Class of 2020, the PTSO, with support of NSHS, will be providing congratulatory lawn signs for all 480 seniors & their  family.  Please sign up by May 1st at this link: https://signup.com/go/CTkAGPL.  Note the signs are not customized to each student.  Pick up information will be sent out in separately email.  Thank you.

The PTSO Board is looking to do all we can to help make celebration memories for our class of 2020, and will communicate plans as soon as we get information.

Juniors: College Admissions Panel Virtual Call – Wed., April 29

Juniors and Families,

The Newton South and Newton North College and Career Centers are hosting a live virtual College Admissions Panel on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm, as a Zoom webinar.

Representatives from The College of the Holy Cross, Northeastern University, Ithaca College, and UMass Amherst are confirmed to participate in a panel discussion about the college application process. They will provide insights from the college perspective, including information on the impact of COVID-19. The intended audience for this presentation is junior students and their families. However, any student or parent/guardian is welcome to attend!

Please find the Newton College Admissions Panel Zoom link below:

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Apr 29, 2020, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Newton College Admissions Panel

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85943078304?pwd=eGU2M1Z6bTJIVng1Y1FTc3o0SVE1QT09
Password: 832621

Or iPhone one-tap :
US: +13126266799,,85943078304#,,#,832621#  or +19292056099,,85943078304#,,#,832621#
Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
US: +1 312 626 6799  or +1 929 205 6099  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 669 900 6833
Webinar ID: 859 4307 8304
Password: 832621
International numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdKK3tNvSw

Health Occupations Student Club Seeks Donations for COVID-19

We hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well during this unprecedented and stressful time. There is no question that COVID-19 has permanently changed our view of disease and of our own vulnerability. We at the Newton South High School’s Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Club feel tremendous gratitude to the countless healthcare workers who put their own lives on the line to help those afflicted with COVID-19. With that in mind, we have decided to mount our own campaign to help our local hospitals battle this pandemic.

There are two ways people can help:

First, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is asking for iPads so hospitalized patients can talk to their loved ones at home. If you can donate your old iPads, we can all help reduce the social isolation for hospitalized patients. We can do a contact-free curbside pick-up if you live in the Greater Boston Area. All the patients and the hospital will undoubtedly appreciate it!

Here is the link if you are able to donate an iPad:

https://forms.gle/uNiNPnzKYFphKM4h8

Second, if you do not have an old iPad but would still like to join us in our fight against COVID-19, we have also started a GoFundMe page to help the Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center through their fights against COVID-19. Every dollar donated will go towards saving the life of a doctor, nurse, friend or neighbor. Even though we are all apart, we are all in this together!

Here is the link if you would like to donate money to our Go Fund Me:

http://gf.me/u/xycbfz

Please consider donating to our iPad and fund campaigns so NSHS HOSA can help these wonderful local hospitals during this devastating COVID-19 crisis.

GELF Virtual Cooking Fundraiser: Sat., May 9

May 9 Virtual Cooking Event Fundraiser for GELF Travel Scholarships!

The GELF offers life-changing, need-based scholarships to students participating in Newton North & South travel programs. This year, GELF was unable to hold its annual fundraiser due to social distancing, so GELF invites you to join the fun and support our students online instead!

Join Newton North parent and chef extraordinaire Katya Salkever for a unique Zoom DIY cooking broadcast. Chef Katya will show guests how to prepare some of her most popular dishes from GELF Benefit Dinners over the last 11 years so that you can enjoy GELF cooking at home! The menu, Zoom link, and a list of ingredients will be sent out to all registered participants one week prior to the event date.

Event Details:

LIVE Virtual Cooking Event with Chef Katya Salkever via ZOOM

Learn to Cook Top GELF Dinner Hits!

Saturday, May 9th

3-5:30PM

Ticket Price: $50 Minimum Donation to Join

REGISTER HERE!

The event is limited to 100 members, so reserve your spot today!

Don’t want to cook but still want to donate to the Fund? Head here to make your donation today.

BONUS: We’ll also feature a specialty cocktail recipe called “The Globetrotter!” to help celebrate this fun event.

All proceeds of the event will go to support The Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF), and its ongoing efforts to ensure that no students are left out of these experiences, regardless of their financial means.

Newton College Admissions Panel for Juniors – Wed, Apr 29 @12-1PM

You are invited to the Newton College Admissions Panel for Juniors!

The Newton South and Newton North College and Career Centers are hosting a live virtual College Admissions Panel on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, from 12:00 – 1:00 pm, as a Zoom webinar.

Representatives from The College of the Holy Cross, Northeastern University, Ithaca College and UMass Amherst are confirmed to participate in a panel discussion about the college application process. They will provide insights from the college perspective, including information on the impact of COVID-19. The intended audience for this presentation is junior students and their families. However, any student or parent/guardian is welcome to attend!

To help streamline the webinar process, we will be collecting questions ahead of time to provide our panelists through this Google Form. Please submit your questions by Friday, April 24th at 5:00pm. 

To attend the Zoom webinar, we will send the link next week!

If you have any questions, please contact Newton South College and Career Counselor, Kathleen Sabet at sabetk@newton.k12.ma.us

GET A SPRING REFRESH and help the Newton South Booster Club Earn Money!

This may be our last chance to raise money for the teams at Newton South this year. Please help us out by getting yourself some new sheets. They would make a nice graduation present for anyone who is getting their first apartment or going off to college!

We partnered with a company, CoZzzy Comfy – The Bed Sheet Fundraising Company – to do this fundraiser online. We are selling 1800 thread count bed sheets sets for only $40! These sheets are wrinkle free, moisture wicking, anti-pilling, and INCREDIBLY soft. They are also money back guaranteed!
IF YOU HAVE A STUDENT HEADING TO COLLEGE IN THE FALL, THEY DO HAVE EXTRA LONG TWIN SHEETS!

Please follow this link to order: Online Store | Cozzzy Comfy

Use our group code: Newton 1- 2020
Order by: May 31.
Choose direct ship to have the sheets sent directly to your home