The Kindergarten Welcome Committee (Julie & Jacqui) will be hosting informal playdates at the Lincoln-Eliot playground this summer (weather permitting). Come connect with classmates before the next school year starts! Please don’t forget to register in the LE directory at lepto.membershiptoolkit.com for updates or email julie.loh@gmail.com with any questions.
Friday, June 25, 4-5pm
Monday, July 19, 9-10am
Wednesday, August 11, 4-5pm
Sunday, August 22, time TBD
We are so thrilled to be able to have an in-person graduation ceremony for our amazing 5th graders, and we hope families are able to join us for this celebration of all their hard work!
The graduation ceremony will be this Thursday, June 17th, at 1:30pm on the field outside the basketball court, next to the Lincoln-Eliot playground. (Rain date: Monday, June 21st at 1:30pm) Families are invited to arrive at 1:15pm; please bring your own seating (picnic blankets or lawn chairs) and set up with distance between families. (Chairs will be provided for the graduates.)
Masks will be worn by students and teachers. For vaccinated guests, masks are optional. Unvaccinated guests should wear masks.
The ceremony should take about 30 minutes, so we anticipate it will be over by 2:15pm. With luck the kids will be receiving their yearbooks after the ceremony, so please feel free to stay and let them exchange signatures and celebrate together for a little while!
The Lincoln Eliot School-NECP Building Committee invites you to a community meeting on June 17, 2021 to review the Lincoln Eliot School Improvement Project and plans for continuing project advancement through Feasibility Study.
June 17, 2021, 6:00 PM
Join Zoom Meeting: https://newton-k12-ma-us.zoom.us/j/85453148294
Meeting ID: 854 5314 8294
Passcode: Newton
If you cannot attend this community meeting, the Committee encourages you to visit the Lincoln Eliot-Newton Early Childhood Center projects web site at http://lincolneliot-necp-projects.com.
We look forward to meeting with you to discuss this important community project. Should you have any questions, please contact Alejandro Valcarce, AIA, Deputy Commissioner Newton Public Buildings at avalcarce@newtonma.gov or Mary Mahoney, Project Manager for Hill International, Owner’s Project Manager at marymahoney@hillintl.com.
The beloved principal of Bigelow Middle School, Todd Harrison, is retiring after this year, and the Bigelow PTO is hoping to put together a letter full of memories honoring him and his leadership.
For Lincoln-Eliot families who have had children in Bigelow with Principal Harrison, they are asking for any special memories you and your kids can include. It could be drawings, comic strips, a picture of your child, or just a simple line wishing him the best in his new chapter of retirement.
You may upload a file to the shared folder included here: Todd Harrison- Memories
Please be sure to label it with your first name, last name and year with Mr Harrison. There is a quick turn-around time as we would like to deliver it at Graduation on Monday, June 21, so please make sure to add anything you would like to by this Friday, June 18.
Thanks very much for your help!
Thank you so so much to everyone who donated to our Clothing FUNDrive, to everyone who volunteered to help, and most especially to Ronda Morra for planning, organizing, sorting all the bags, and making this happen! We ended up with 298 bags of donations, which added up to 5,080 pounds, which means $1,016 raised for our school!
Twelve snow pants, 15 hats, and 18 coats were also set aside as a donation to Lincoln-Eliot for students in need next year:
Thank you again!
Thank you so much to everyone who donated bags of clothing to our FUNDrive! We now have 264 bags, which is amazing and surpasses our goal — every little donation added up to one big difference!
We will be loading all these bags to transport them to Savers next Saturday, June 5, at 9:45am and would love a couple of volunteers to help move the bags onto the truck! It will only take at most half an hour of your time and will go much faster with a few helpers. Please reach out to Ronda Morra at 781-589-7226 or rbmorra@gmail.com to volunteer, and thank you again!
On Friday, June 11th, we will show our crossing guards and bus and van drivers how much we appreciate their help getting to school safely. They have been with us through the pandemic, shifting schedules multiple times and keeping us safe throughout.
Please help your child make a thank you note and give it on your way to school on Friday, June 11th to your crossing guard or write a note to your bus driver. Your note can be simple: “Thanks for helping me get to school safely!” You can also print out a card to decorate. They will appreciate it so much!
Newton Safe Routes to School will organize celebrations with pre-packaged snacks and drinks and Safety Superhero buttons at both the van yard and the bus yard for the 130 bus/van drivers, and will distribute flowers and buttons to the 56 crossing guards spread across the City.
Today marks the official launch of the 2021 Newton METCO Scholarship Equity and Excellence Annual Fund Campaign. This coming June, thirty-four Newton METCO Seniors will graduate from Newton North and Newton South High Schools. As they stand at the horizon of new opportunities, we want each and every one of our Newton METCO seniors to know they have the tangible support of their Boston-Newton communities.
The members of Class of 2021 have faced unprecedented times as the pandemic exacerbates educational and economic disparities, and experiences of racial injustice continue to have a significant impact on the students, their families, and our communities.
Now in existence for over 35 years, the Newton METCO Community Scholarship Fund (NMCSF) provides financial assistance to deserving METCO seniors seeking to pursue a college education. As we seek to support our graduates, let us draw inspiration from the spoken words of Amanda Gorman, First National Youth Poet Laureate, on Inauguration Day, 2021:
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it
Please join us in donating to the scholarship fund today, and be a light of equity, justice, and opportunities for our Newton METCO graduates.
With gratitude,
The Members of the Newton METCO Scholarship Fund Committee
Please donate by mail:
Newton METCO Community Scholarship Fund
P.O. Box 600053, Newtonville, MA 02460
We are not accepting online donations at this time. Thank you.
Dear families,
It’s hard to believe we only have one month of school left. We are so proud of all our students for how resilient and flexible they have been in this very challenging year! There are a number of activities coming up to celebrate the end of the year, and we hope everyone will have a chance to participate and connect before the summer.
We are planning a number of playdates to connect our DLA and in-person students over the next month — we hope you can join your classmates on the Lincoln-Eliot playground at the times on the calendar below! (Click here if the image is not showing up in your email.)
The playdates planned for this week are:
Tuesday, May 25th, 5-6pm: 1st Grade
Thursday, May 27th, 5-6pm: 2nd Grade
Saturday, May 29th, 4-5pm: 4th Grade
Sunday, May 30th, 4-5pm: 3rd Grade
This week we are also having two events for our Incoming Kindergarten families:
Tuesday, May 25th, at 6:30pm: Incoming Kindergarten Virtual Parent Night
Wednesday, May 26th, at 1:30pm or 2:15pm: Kindergarten in-person Visiting Day
Information has already been emailed out to registered families; if you have not received it, please contact the school office.
Our registration numbers are lower than usual for kindergarten next year — if you know anyone who has yet to register, or if you are a current family with an incoming kindergartner, please visit the NPS Kindergarten Registration page for more information and to register online. You can also call the school office with questions anytime. We look forward to welcoming our new students in the fall!
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our International Week festivities — we hope you all had a chance to watch the impressive cooking videos, country presentations, and talent show!
And finally, just a reminder that there is no school on Monday, May 31, for Memorial Day.
Have a great week!
Principal Morrissey & the PTO
This is the last week we’ll be collecting bags of clothes to donate for our FUNDrive, and we’d love to get as many as we can before the May 29th deadline! Right now we have 103 kitchen-sized bags and 30 lawn-sized bags, so we’re about halfway to our goal. Help protect the environment and support our school at the same time!
Savers West Roxbury will weigh the items we’ve collected on our drop-off date, pay our PTO by the pound of donations collected, and give others the chance to love your gently used stuff.
Approved Items for Donation:
(Items should be laundered and ready to sell.)
Items NOT accepted:
Please collect in lawn-sized or kitchen-sized trash bags and contact Ronda Morra at 781-589-7226 or rbmorra@gmail.com to schedule a pick-up or inquire about a porch drop-off at her home! Thank you!
