The girls’ soccer team will host Acton Boxborro tonight at 5 PM for the DCL semifinals. Best luck to our team!
The DCL and Newton HHD rules are in effect
Two people per Varsity soccer identifications lanyard (yellow dot) will be admitted.
Face masks are strictly enforced..Gaiters are not permitted.
Covid tracking information will be asked before entering the stadium.
This week the Golf team competed at the DCL Medalist championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Acton. Our four golfers had strong rounds led by Madalin Small and Will Freudenheim
The Field hockey team finished their season at the league semifinals on Thursday afternoon. A strong group of athletes welcomed two male players in their ranks. Brady and Zack meshed well with the team and improved greatly during the season.
The Varsity team will have an intra squad game under the lights on Thursday, Nov. 12. The program will host a Middle School clinic on Monday, Nov. 16 at 4:30 PM. Please contact coach Dirga if interested in signing up your middle schooler!
We made it! The fall season is almost complete and it was very positive for the Lions!
We measure success by evaluating the main objective of this year; fostering student connections, creating opportunities for enjoyment, and to channel their stress in a healthy and safe way. By all measurements, our season was a success.
The boys cross country team wants to thank its seniors for their hard work dedication and leadership. We are grateful for the strong work ethic and commitment that the following seniors displayed during their years as part of our team Owen Beaver, Camron Dioun, Potter Flynn, Jaden Friedman, Daniel Glickman, Jonah Goldfarb, Ari Heff, Eero Helenius, Owen Holland, Nicholas Hu, William Lavey, Vladimiro Martinez, Alex Merkowitz, Yehonatan Mileguir, Bett miller, Jonathan Orelowitz, Sheen Pattel, Skyler Shapiro, Josh Shepard, Hedi Skall, and Coleman Stanton.
The team will compete tomorrow at the DCL championship at Lincoln Sudbury their race starts at 3;15 PM. The Girls Cross Country team will also compete at LS. Their race starts at 2 PM.
The PTSO is continually looking to find ways creative fun events to help Newton South students meet and connect.
In order to make this event possible, we need 3-4 parent volunteers interested in helping organize the event.
Please contact the PTSO at [email protected] by Thurs, Nov 5th if you are interested in helping organize an event.
The PTSO is continually looking to find ways creative fun events to help Newton South students meet and connect. We are proposing a student meet/greet event in the next couple of weeks, possibly on Wed. Nov 11 (No School).
In order to make this event possible, we need 3-4 parent volunteers interested in helping organize the event.
Please contact the PTSO at [email protected] by Wed, Nov 4th if you are interested in helping organize this event.
PTSO is proposing to organize a Grade 10 student meet/greet on Wed. Nov. 11th (Veterans Day – NO SCHOOL). The event would involve Grade 11 students leading a group of Grade 10 students in a meet/greet. Grade 10 students would register and be grouped by their Community/Advisory Class to enable students to connect beyond their existing cohorts (friends, team mates, etc). Each group be on the baseball field to allow the group to create a Spotify playlist of their favorite 10 songs. All the playlists from each group will be merged into the Class of 2023 Playlist.
The event is to give the students a chance to meet/greet in-person. All students must wear masks and follow 6ft social distance guidelines, whenever possible (during the walk and sitting in group circle). All students will need to register.
Newton South PTSO Directory Information
How do I Access the online Directory if I have contributed to the dues campaign?
Can I pick up a hard copy version of the Directory?
Can I still contribute and obtain access to the paper or online Directory?
Other Questions?
Any questions on directory access can be sent to directory@newtonsouthptso.
End of Term/Quarter 1 Information:
Term 1 Midterm Comments/Progress Reports are now posted on Aspen: (https://aspen.newton.k12.ma.
In addition, every browser has its own settings for “blocking pop-up” windows. You must allow pop-ups from the ma-newton.myfollett.com
If you do not know how to login to Aspen, or need help resetting your password, please call your student’s house office.
Please note that we have amended our comments list for this first term (to be re-evaluated for subsequent terms) to reflect the current educational model we are working in. Here is a list of the comments that teachers could choose from so you have context: Midterm Comments 2020
Hello South Students and Families,
A few updates/clarifications…
1. Term 1 for Grade 12 ONLY will end next Friday, 11/6 and report cards will be available for Grade 12 ONLY on Friday, 11/13 at 5:00pm.
For grades 9, 10, and 11, term 1 will end on Friday, 11/13 and report cards will be available on Monday, 11/23 at 5:00pm.
This change from previous years is due to the fact that we started school later and yet since so many seniors apply early to college, we need to still get senior grades closed and out to colleges ASAP.
2. School Communications for Students During COVID:
The question has come up about how students, most of whom are learning remotely, are getting information passed on to them about events, clubs, and other important info. We have three avenues of communication that we are using:
a) Student NPS Gmail Accounts and Schoology–teachers and faculty advisors regularly contact students through either school Gmail, Schoology, or both (and schoology messages do ALSO go to the student’s Gmail account, just not vice versa) and I also share relevant information with students almost exclusively through their Gmail accounts. Please remind your students to be checking their school Gmail accounts on a regular basis so that they don’t miss any school-related information that may be shared.
b) School-wide Schoology Group: When the school closed down in the spring, we piloted a school-wide Schoology group where information relevant to students could be posted and shared. Now that the majority of clubs and activities have started meeting, we are hoping to get that Schoology Group active again. Our Student Life Coordinator, Ms. Parker, is working on a plan/system for the use of the school-wide Schoology group so that we can highlight student-related events, including potentially club specific info, without over saturating the site with too much information at the same time. We are hoping to have an update on this soon.
3. Clubs/Activities
Speaking of clubs/activities, as I have mentioned in previous emails, we are centralizing all of our information on a Google document this year: NSHS 2020-21 Clubs and Activities This document is available for students to peruse using their NPS Gmail account (we are limiting the document to NPS students using their school email only to protect the privacy of students who appear in club-made videos) and we encourage all students to bookmark it for easy access. The link to the clubs document can also be found on the student activities page of the South webpage.
The clubs Google doc. is organized by club category and there are Zoom meeting links, club meeting days/times, a listing of the faculty advisor, and a listing of the student leaders of each club. Students can also sign up for all clubs directly through the Family ID registration link at the top of the document. If a student has a question about any club, they should send an email directly to the student leader of the club, the listed faculty advisor, or both. If specific club information on the document is incomplete, it means that the student leader has not yet turned in the annual club paperwork required of all clubs and so is not meeting yet….we recommend students check back on a weekly basis as information becomes updated.
Finally, there have been some questions about whether clubs can have some meetings on campus or not. A few challenges so far this year are:
1. Many of our faculty who advise clubs are not currently working on campus and advisors do need to be in the building with students while they are meeting.
2. Many of the clubs meet during flex block which is in the middle of the school day so it may be difficult for students and faculty advisors to go back and forth between home and school and make it back to their next class on time.
That said, if a club wants to try to have even a meeting or two on campus either during the school day, before school or after school, AND their faculty advisor can join them, I have asked them to reach out to me about a possible date and time and then I can share procedures/next steps to try to make it happen.
These are such challenging times with many time consuming logistics to figure out to try to get students and staff in the building, whenever possible. We appreciate your patience as we work to try to accommodate requests and we will continue to do our best to think “outside of the box”, while maintaining health and safety protocols, at the same time.
Have a great weekend,
Chris Hardiman
NSHS Interim Vice Principal
Thank you for everyone who joined us for the Newton South Q&A on October 29, 2020 with Interim Principal Aronson, Superintendent Fleishman and School Committee Chair Goldman.
The recording of this meeting is posted on the Newton South PTSO website at https://newtonsouthptso.
