The West Suburban YMCA is offering a FREE American Red Cross Lifeguarding Certification Class on February 4 and 5, 9AM-4PM both days, at its Church Street location in Newton Corner. Learn valuable life-saving skills and make some extra money, too. Join a fun, welcoming, and inclusive organization as a lifeguard…
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The 18th annual Teen Summer Expo — where parents and teens (Grades 6-12) can get to know a range of camps, enrichment programs, and summer activities — will be held on February 6, 5:30PM-8PM at the cafeteria in Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Rd). Snow date: February 8. It’s…
January 22 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, celebrated by many Asian and Southeast Asian cultures including China, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Philippines, and Malaysia. Each lunar year is represented by one of 12 zodiac animals (rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig)…
The Newton Schools Foundation recently donated $250,000 — its largest donation ever — to the Newton Public Schools. NSF President Amy Werner presented the check at the December 19 meeting of the Newton School Committee. The funds will support new approaches in the classroom, professional development for teachers, and programs…
On Tuesday, January 10, a group of Newton South HS students organized the School MathCounts Competition at Oak Hill Middle School. This annual competition introduces middle-school students to mathematics competitions in a friendly and low-key way. The competition was well attended, with lots of enthusiasm among participants and organizers. The NSHS…
The Newton Public Schools district is asking parents of children turning 5 years old before September 1, 2023 to complete this survey to inform the school district about their child entering kindergarten in the fall. This helps NPS to plan staffing and programming for next year. Actual kindergarten registration will…
Newton North High School’s Theatre Ink will present Lost and Found: Stories of People of Color at 7:30PM on January 19, 20, and 21. Get tickets for the live performances (in The Little Theatre at NNHS) or get tickets for them live-streamed. Time and time again, the stories of people of…
The Newton Free Library offers these tween/teen events this week for Grades 5-12:
On Saturday, November 12, 80 students — from Oak Hill, Brown, F.A. Day, Bigelow, Bowen, Zervas, Memorial-Spaulding, and some private schools — gathered at Newton South High School for M Snake, a new, friendly mathematics competition created and run by NSHS students. For most participants, this was their first experience with math…
The sound of the MC announcing the matches over the background music, a sea of colorful custom T-Shirts, and LEGOs scattered throughout the school: This was the scene of the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Newton Qualifier last Saturday at Newton North High School. The FLL Qualifier, run by Newton’s dual-high-school robotics team,…