The Lions football team is traveling to Acton Boxboro Saturday afternoon. The game will start at 5:30 PM. Acton TV will broadcast it live.
Acton TV’s YouTube link is youtube.com/actontv1
AB recommends that interested people subscribe and turn on notifications. You will receive a notification the moment AB starts the live broadcast.
The volleyball teams will host Acton Boxboro on Saturday, April 3. The JV game starts at 10 AM followed by Varsity at 11:30 AM. The JV team is ready to challenge a strong AB squad and our varsity game promise to be an exciting showing.
You can follow them live by subscribing to the NSHS Athletics YouTube channel or by clicking on the links below.
JV Volleyball vs AB 10:00 AM
Varsity Volleyball vs AB- 11:30 AM
At the conclusion of the Varsity game, the 9th-grade team will have their weekly intra-squad competition.
Dear South Students and Families –
In the coming days students will access their course recommendations for the 2021-2022 school year. Students will also be asked to select their elective course choices. Course registration is an exciting time, allowing students to explore new disciplines and delve more deeply into previously identified interests.
Between March 25th and April 14th counselors will hold brief one-on-one meetings with all students to complete their selections in Aspen. For the class of 2023, we are prioritizing these meetings between Wednesday 3/31 and Wednesday 4/7. Students should schedule a meeting with their counselor during an unassigned period or flex block whenever possible. Students should also plan on scheduling their meeting on a day that they are learning remotely, when possible, to allow them to speak more freely than if they are in an assigned study with other students.
Counselors will work with students to consider balance (with regard to levels as well as overall course load), to make sure students are electing a full complement of courses including alternate choices, and how next year’s choices fit within a broader four year plan. In this most unusual year, we ask for your partnership with the following steps to make sure that students make good, thoughtful course selections.
We encourage you to take time to review available course offerings in the NSHS Program of Studies. Rising 11th graders are reminded that US History and Biology are required courses for graduation, in addition to English being required for all four years.
Please complete a draft course request form prior to meeting with your school counselor to complete/review your course choices in Aspen. Make sure you meet minimum credit count and that you select alternates.
Remember that Newton South recommends that students take no more than three courses at the AP/honors level.
Please review course request change guidelines
Please contact your counselor should you have any questions.
Best,
Dan Rubin
Director of Guidance
Hello Class of 2021 Parents!
We have reserved some space in this year’s yearbook for the traditional display of baby pictures of this year’s graduates, and we want to invite you to submit a photo of your graduate by this time next week.
The instructions:
— Upload a picture of your graduate in their younger and more innocent years to THIS FOLDER. (I’ll leave you to decide what constitutes a baby picture. In the past, we’ve had newborns up to pre-teens.)
— Please only upload ONE photo. We have a lot of details to take care of to get this year’s book done (close to) on time, so don’t have time to choose among photos.
— Once the photo is uploaded, change the name of the photo to the name of your graduate (so we don’t have 200 photos labeled image1114.jpeg and no way to ID them in the book).
— If absolutely you can’t make Google work, you can just email the photo to baronb@newton.k12.ma.us (I’m trying to keep a flood of these photos out of my inbox, though, so would really prefer it if you could use the Google folder directly.)
The deadline: End of the day, Saturday, April 3 (it’s a hard deadline, unfortunately. We need to get the book to the publisher as close to on time as we can.)
Let me know if you have any questions.
Mr. Baron baronb@newton.k12.ma.us
NSHS HOSA Hosting Talk on Sports Medicine, Tue, Mar 30 at 8PM
NSHS Chapter of National Health Professional (HOSA) will be sponsoring an informational session on sports conditioning to be held on Tuesday, March 30 at 8 pm with New England Revolution’s starting midfielder, Scott Caldwell – he will be live to talk about his daily routine, staying strong and fit at the highest level and his path to professional soccer. He will also be available to answer your questions. This promises to be an exciting session for all athletes and anyone interested in sports medicine.
If you have an interest, please email Hunter Tsao at newtonsouthhosa@gmail.com.
Spring sports registration on FamilyID will open on April 5th. All students participating are required to have a current physical on file. Please notice that the state requires in-person physicals for sports activities. Telehealth appointments are not acceptable. The Covid coach for the Spring season is Mr. Patrick Jordan Quern. Please see the preliminary protocol that our coaches will follow for Spring 2021:
Pre-Practice;
-NSHS coaches will ask each player to fill out the COVID symptom form by 1 PM.
-Any student answering yes to any question will be kept out of practice. The coach will contact Covid coach immediately and text AD.
-COVID coach talks to the student, contacts their family and sends the student home. He will also contact the AD and school nurse with the findings.
-Sharing food or drink is not allowed at this time (no cakes, cupcakes, pizza, fruits, seeds, etc)
Post Practice
-Equipment that is shared by the team has to be cleaned (use spray bottles and paper towels set for that purpose) before it is put away. That includes cones and extra balls. To be done by the coach that uses it.
-Students have to take their equipment home and clean it before their next practice.
-Please refer to general MIAA guidelines for best practices.
Away Games
Pre-game:
-Each team head coach is responsible for COVID-19 screening of all their team members before 1 PM.
-If students answer yes to any screening question, the student can not travel to the visiting school.
-Covid coach is contacted, the family is contacted, the head coach is contacted.
Newton South HOME games protocol – Spring 2021.
Home Games; Fitted masks required for all participants. NO GAITERS ALLOWED.
Pre-game:
-NSHS staff member or coach greets visiting team – directs them to the appropriate field as needed
-Visiting team head coach is responsible for COVID-19 screening all of their team members and other coaches who will be in attendance.
-NSHS staff member greets refs; asks COVID-19 screening questions by NSHS COVID coach or another staff member.
Due to the nature of the current situation, all protocols and schedules are subject to change.
We look forward to a fun and safe Spring season!
Students interested in participating in Baseball during the Spring season should attend the informational meeting on Thursday, April 1st at 5:30 PM.
Coach Aiena will conduct a meeting via zoom. He will review the program, coaching staff, and expectations for the season, as well as answer any questions that attendees may have.
If you can not attend the meeting please contact coach Aiena via email at aiena.mike@gmail.com
Here are the credentials for the online meeting
Theme: Boys Baseball
Join Zoom Meeting
https://newton-k12-ma-us.zoom.us/j/89920060503
Meeting ID: 899 2006 0503
Passcode: 926530
We will be having our first meeting on Zoom on Monday, March 29 at 4:30 pm. Please email me at Timminsm@newton.k12.ma.us if you cannot attend. Make sure your physical is updated and ready to go before April 26 which is our first day of practice. Looking forward to seeing everyone and getting things started for our season.
Sincerely,
-Mr. Timmins
Topic: Boys Tennis Pre Season
Time: Mar 29, 2021 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://newton-k12-ma-us.zoom.us/j/86310850945
Meeting ID: 863 1085 0945
Passcode: tennis
The Unified Basketball team will travel to Waltham on Tuesday, March 30 for the first game of the season. The game is scheduled to start at 5:00 PM PM. It is Waltham Senior Day. A link to watch the game will be released on Monday and posted on the athletic page on our website.
The Boys and Girls Teams will host their first meet of the season on Monday, March 29. The meet will be held virtually due to our opponents not participating in in-person meets. The meet will be scored separately for each school. We will be competing against Concord Carlisle and Westford Academy.
Two members of each family will be able to attend the meet. Please register at the entrance of the stadium. Covid protocols regarding the use of masks and distancing will be followed.
