Newton South Students and Families:
Progress reports for term 2 are now available for viewing on Aspen. These can be found on the home page in Aspen and contain a list of classes, comments for these classes, and number of absences from class.
If you have any questions about these comments, please reach out directly to your/your child’s teacher.
Sincerely,
Jason Williams (he/him/his)
Vice Principal
Newton South High School
140 Brandeis Road
Newton, MA 02459
617-559-6700
Newton South Seniors:
The Semester 2 Senior Parking Lottery is now open. If you would like to park on campus for Semester 2, beginning Tuesday, January 18, you must enter the lottery. Please note the following:
Please note: Semester 1 parking tags will no longer be valid after Friday, January 14. If you already have a parking pass and would like to continue parking on campus after this date, you will need to re-enter the lottery for a chance to get a spot.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jason Williams (he/him/his)
Vice Principal
Newton South High School
140 Brandeis Road
Newton, MA 02459
617-559-6500
This Saturday, Dec 18, Newton South alongside Green Students Movement will be hosting a cleanup event where students can help remove litter around the school and earn community service hours while meeting new people in our community SIGN UP HERE!
How can I participate?
1.) Sign up with the link above.
2.)Check in outside the main office of NSHS at 11am on December 18.
3.) Just bring yourself! All gloves and bags will be provided.
4.) What if I can’t make that day? Stay-tuned. We will be organizing more days as needed.
Newton South Students and Families:
Here is a link to the Weekly Update for 12/13 – 12/17. Note that this is an ORANGE week, which affects Lion Block and clubs.
Here’s to another great week at NSHS! Please let us know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jason Williams (he/him/his)
Vice Principal
Newton South High School
140 Brandeis Road
Newton, MA 02459
617-559-6700
Dear Newton Families,
The Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund began over 10 years ago to ensure global travel was open to any student at Newton North and Newton South. As you may know, one of the many special parts of these two high schools are our exchange and global trips–from France to Spain, Mexico to Argentina, Ghana and Australia.
A lot has happened in the past 18 months for GELF. We are now our own 501(c)3! We are grateful for the years of support from our friends at Newton Schools Foundation, but we felt like it was time to go on our own. We are grateful for our partnership with Newton Schools Foundation and excited to be moving into the future as an established 501(c)3.
Additionally, long time GELF director Samantha Mandel moved into her new role at Newton Community Education and we have now welcomed NNHS Chinese teacher Star Lew as Global Education Developer to assist the Board in managing GELF. Star’s international knowledge and understanding of the Newton high schools is invaluable. Additionally, Star is the Exchange Program Specialist of the Newton-Beijing Jingshan Exchange Program! Finally, our board has been setting our vision for the GELF’s future. That vision includes supporting more students as they have transformative experiences with our global programs.
When our students are able to travel again, we know there will be a surge in demand. In 2018-19, 32 students received $32,994 in scholarships and in 2019-20 we would have awarded 80 students with the total amount of $78,941, had the pandemic not halted some of our trips. We need to be ready for our first wave of student travelers which hopefully will be sooner than later.
With that we need your support! Please consider a year-end fully tax-deductible donation to The Jennifer Price Global Education Leadership Fund so that we may continue to offer life-changing travel experiences for all of Newton’s high school students.
For donations by credit card or PayPal:
https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=Z35XEQVG3ZJ9S
For donations by check, payee is GELF. Please send to: GELF c/o NNHS, 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460.
THANK YOU!
Check out The Williams PTO Auction Fundraiser being held December 1-12, 2022.
https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?vhost=williamspto&aalias=2021
All seniors in the Class of 2022 are encouraged to apply for the Newton South Local Scholarships.
Local scholarships are awarded through Newton South High School and through the generosity of individual and business donors, community organizations and memorial funds.
The application is brief and includes the submission of a reference from someone outside Newton South High School. The application is available beginning on December 1, 2021 and the deadline to apply is January 31, 2022.
Based on the criteria of each scholarship, recipients will be selected and notified. While some scholarship awards are announced in March/April, most will be received in early June.
Look for an email on Wednesday Dec 1st with the links to apply.
Contact Ms. Sabet, College & Career Counselor in the College & Career Center or by email if you have questions.
Thank you!
KATHY
Kathleen Sabet, M.A
College & Career Counselor, Newton South High School, 617.559.6590, sabetk@newton.k12.ma.us
http://sabetk.youcanbook.me/
https://sites.google.com/newton.k12.ma.us/nshs-college-career-center/home
Newton South Families:
Please see the message below for a food drive being run by two of our seniors, Tess and Isabella. This message was also sent to students via Schoology.
Please note the in-school collection boxes are for student use only.
WINTER FOOD DRIVE
NSHS seniors Tess and Isabella are collecting food donations on behalf of the Centre Street Food Pantry to benefit school-age children.
Please help by donating any of the following items:
Packs of applesauce cups
Boxes of granola bars (any kind)
Boxes of cereal
Jars of jam / jelly
Boxes of mac n’ cheese
Large bags of pretzels, chips, goldfish, corn chips, crackers
Students can use the collection at the school by the front entrance (near main office) and Wheeler entrance (1,000’s). Please contact Isabella or Tess with any questions or if you need to arrange for a pick-up of your donations.
Thank you for your generosity!
Newton South Students and Families:
Here is a link to the Weekly Update for 12/6 – 12/10. Note that this is a BLUE week, which affects Lion Block and clubs.
Here’s to another great week at NSHS! Please let us know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jason Williams (he/him/his)
Vice Principal
Newton South High School
140 Brandeis Road
Newton, MA 02459
617-559-6700
