September 26, 2011
Upcoming Events:
September 26 - Monday: Student Council Speeches at Faneuil Hall.Students will leave after second period to walk (weather permitting) to Faneuil Hall.Students will be allowed to have lunch in the Faneuil Hall area and will return with their teachers to Newman in time for 6th period. Students should bring a lunch or money for lunch ( five to ten dollars) for lunch in the Quincy Market Food Court.
September 28- Wednesday: Celebration of Mass at 7:30)AM in the D'Alelio Room.
September 30 - Friday: All-School Field Day to George's Island. Faculty and staff will take all students to George's Island for our annual field day. Students will report to school at 9:00 AM that morning and will walk to Rowes Wharf as a group. From there we will take a charter boat to George's Island and should arrive by 11:00 am. Students will have a chance to tour the island and participate in games. We ask that students bring a bag lunch to the island. Students may wear casual, modest clothing and should bring a jacket or sweater/sweatshirt. The boat will then take the students back to Rowe's Wharf where they will be dismissed at approximately 2:00 pm. Teachers and Staff will be traveling back to Newman and can accompany students who wish to be picked up there.
October T Passes are on sale until September 30th
KhanAcademy
Mr. Eddy reports that many Newman students are finding the website, KhanAcademy a very helpful tutorial site. KhanAcademy provides thousands of tutorial videos in many subjects in math, science, and others. Students can typically find a video that covers a topic, like "limiting reactants" in chemistry, or "permutations and combinations" in math, and helps them understand it better. If you or your student hasn't visited the site yet, it's worth checking out.
After School Clubs and Activities:
Below is the schedule for clubs and activities. All begin at 3:05:
Monday: Red Cross Club (Also meets Friday during Lunch), Sailing
Tuesday:Chorus, Newspaper, Guitar Lessons, Recycling Club, Business Entrepreneurship Club
Wednesday:Piano Club, Chess, Yearbook and Chinese Painting
Thursday: Math Club and Recycling Club
Mock Trial Club will begin in early November .
Fall Sports:
Crew: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 6:AM at Community Rowing Boathouse (new rowers please see Mr. Tiffany)
Girls' and Boys' Soccer: Please click link for fall schedule:
Newman Fall Soccer Schedule
Notes from the Guidance Office
September 28 -Thursday: Junior Class Meeting (PSAT) 3:05 in Room 53
Visits from College Representatives:
September 26 - Monday: King's College, London 1:30
October 3 - Boston University
4- Emmanuel College
5- University of Scranton, Wentworth
6- University of Rochester
7 - Rochester Inst. Tech, NYU
13- Pepperdine University, Providence College
18- Stonehill College
19- Suffolk University, Fashion Institute Tech (NY)
24- Framingham State College
25 -Western New England College
26 - College of the Holy Cross
27 - Ecole Hoteliere, Lausanne
28 - Northeastern, Brandeis
2012 Yearbook
Ms. Papetsas is accepting orders for the 2012 Newman School yearbook until October 30. This form was included in the July parent mailing and is also available on the Parent portal of the school website.
Cardinal Newman
"This then is real education..."
"When a multitude of young men, keen, open-hearted, sympathetic, and observant as young men are, come together and freely mix with each other,they are sure to learn from one another, even if there be no one to teach them: the conversation of all is a series of lectures to each, and they gain for themselves new ideas and views, fresh matter of thought, and distinct principles for judging and acting, day by day....
That youthful community will constitute a whole, it will embody a specific idea, it will represent a doctrine, it will administer a code of conduct, it will furnish principles of thought and action. It will give birth to a living teaching, which in course of time will take the shape of a self-perpetuating tradition, or a genius loci, as it is sometimes called, which haunts the home where it has been born, and which imbues and forms, one by one, every individual successively brought under its shadow. Thus it is that, independent of direct instruction of Superiors, there is a sort of self-education...a characteristic tone of thought, a recognized standard of judgment...which becomes a twofold source of strength to him, both from the distinct stamp it impresses on his mind, and from the bond of union which it creates between him and others...Here then is a real teaching, whatever be its standards and principles, true or false, and it at least tends toward cultivation of the intellect; it at least recognizes that knowledge is something more than a sort of passive reception of scraps and details; it is a something, and it does a something, which never will issue from the most strenuous efforts of a set of teachers, with no mutual sympathies and no inter-communion, of a set of examiners with no opinions which they dare profess, and with no common principles, who are teaching or questioning a set of youths who do not know them, and do not know each other, on a large number of subjects, different in kind, and connected by no wide philosophy...
The Idea of a University, Cardinal John Henry Newman