NECP Updates
School year 2022-2023: September 5, 2022, Newsletter #1
GOOD EVENING NECP FAMILIES!
Here were are again starting another school year! Welcome to our returning NECP families and welcome our new NECP families! Welcome to this wonderful community! I hope you all had an amazing summer. I was finally able to squeeze in 3 different trips, not having formally traveled since August 2019. I spent a week on the northern coast of Spain, my traditional week on Martha's Vineyard, and a few days with a close friend in Southern California. But now we are back and ready for this week!
What a special year this is going to be! NECP begins officially with our morning classrooms on Thursday, September 8th. Teachers will do their open houses for visits on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 6th and 7th (see teacher open house schedule below). Our related services/walk-in programming (speech/language groups, etc...) will begin the week of September 19th. Therapists will be in touch as they are scheduling. Teachers are ready...and a special thank you to Nick Stearns and Adel Marzouk, our custodians, for getting NECP clean and ready for staff and students to return.
Please find within this newsletter our most recent Covid-19 information and information on school lunches. Although there is still Covid-19 in formation within this newsletter, it seems like we are approaching more of a new normal. Also below is information on our upcoming move. Parents please make note of the dates found within!
See you this week and please reach out with any questions. We look forward to our partnership this school year!
~Kathleen
Classroom Visiting times
Tuesday 9/6/22
9:00- Christina
9:00- Michelle
10:00- Alli
11:00-Ashley
11:00- Jenna
11:00- Melissa
Wednesday 9/7/22
9:00- Stephanie
9:00- Liz
10:00- Jen
10:00- Evelyn
10:00- Kara
11:00- Catherine
11:00- Sarah
NECP New Staff
NECP is welcoming many new staff this year. We are almost 100 strong and with the loss of some staff this past year we are so excited to have many new faces at NECP, and want to celebrate the experience they each bring to NECP!
Melanie Ahern - SLP
Erin Archibald - SLP
Alyssa Battista - Teaching Assistant (Jenna’s class)
Nicole Cataldo - Behavior Therapist
Melanie Hansen - Psychologist
Julia Hopkins - Teaching Assistant (Evelyn’s class)
Alexia Linoxilakis - Teaching Assistant (Sarah’s class)
Shannon Loughnane - Nurse
Caroline Marcus - Teaching Assistant (Stephanie’s Class)
Jessica McGarvey - Teaching Assistant (Stephanie’s class)
Emily Nunes - OT
Wilfredo Perez Jr - Teaching Assistant (Ashley’s class)
Stephanie Pickens - Teacher
Julia Sanderson - Teaching Assistant (Melissa’s class)
Liz Savir - Teacher
Rebecca Sparrell - Team Specialist
Covid-19
On August 9, 2022, district leadership met with the Medical Advisory Group to discuss COVID health and safety for the start of the 2022-23 school year. Please find these links below.
NPS Health and Safety Plan - August 2022
Medical Advisory Group Recommendation - August 2022
For NECP, you will find our FAMILY HANDBOOK here with important information not only regarding Covid but pick up/drop off locations for school, etc... Parents are able to come back in the building for classroom experiences, to talk to the office, etc.. but given that Covid-19 is still here and to be aligned with elementary schools where drop off is outside, we are going to continue that for ease of transition.
School Lunches
NEW NECP!!!!
Our new NECP site is on target with renovations. We will move over the December school vacation. This means that on December 22nd and 23rd as well as on January 3rd and 4th, 2023, NECP will be closed to students so teachers can pack before their holiday break and then unpack and be ready to welcome children to the new school at 687 Watertown Street on Thursday, January 5th, 2023. This is an exciting time as it will be the first time NPS has renovated a building specifically with preschoolers in mind. As the completion approaches there will be many opportunities for families to tour the facilities via either a city-wide open house or one that NECP hosts just for the NECP community. We will have more information to share on this as the fall progresses.
Some Summer Construction Pictures
Entry with our book nook!
Our elevator arrived!
NECP PTO NEWS - WE NEED YOU!!!
- This will be a re-building year for NECP PTO. We will need volunteers and especially with the upcoming move! Please consider helping NECP. Once the school year begins we will be having meetings in-person that we are happy to also provide a link to attend virtually. The NECP PTO was a vibrant and engaging group before Covid and we would like to get back to that place. Once you are enrolled at NECP you are a member of the PTO community! Please know there are many little things you can do to help! And it is a great way to meet other NECP families!
- Don't forget - The PTO also has a new ongoing fundraiser with Mabel's Labels. 20% of all sales go back to the PTO! Mabel’s Labels is the best-known brand of durable labels for families, and the line of products features baby bottle labels, allergy and medical alert products, sports labels, household labels and seasonal items. They’re extremely durable, they’re laundry, dishwasher and microwave safe – and they’re 100% guaranteed. https://mabelslabels.com/en_US/about-us/#
UPCOMING SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER DATES TO REMEMBER
1. NECP Visiting Open Houses - 9/6 and 9/7/22
2. NECP first day of school - 9/8/22
3. Week of September 19th - related services begin (language groups, speech groups, etc...)
4. NO SCHOOL Monday September 26, 2022 for Rosh Hashanah
5. EARLY RELEASE - Thursday September 29, 2022. All NECP students leave at 12pm
6. NO SCHOOL Wednesday, October 5, 2022 for Yom Kippur
7. NO SCHOOL Monday, October 10, 2022 for Indigenous Peoples Day
2022-2023 Early Release Days
Please make note!
All students will be dismissed at 12:00PM on the following All School Early Release Days:
Thursday, September 29
Tuesday, November 8
Thursday, December 8
Thursday, February 2
Thursday, March 23
Thursday, May 11
CONTACT/FOLLOW NECP
Email: browningk@newton.k12.ma.us
Website: www.newton.k12.ma.us/NECP
Location: 150 Jackson Road, Newton, MA, USA
Phone: 617-559-6050
Facebook: facebook.com/NECPNewton
Twitter: @NECP_NPS