We are pleased to welcome some outstanding new staff members to join our Memorial School team!   

                                       

We are pleased to introduce Ms. Julie Abbott and Ms. Allison Edge who are joining our professional staff.  Ms. Abbott joins our special education team as a case manager.  Ms. Allison Edge joins our music department as the elementary band teacher. 

End 68 Hours of Hunger 

Because of the great efforts of people in our community, we will have a weekend food program starting this month for students in need. On Fridays, students who are participating in the program will get a bag of food to take home that will support their nutritional needs over the weekend. More information can be found at www.end68hoursofhunger.org or you can call the health office at school. This is a fully confidential program, all names are kept private.   

Thank you,

Summer 'buckets' were a HUGE success with eighty students returning their buckets documenting the many different ways they read over the summer. The goal was for students to read 100 different ways. Students who passed in buckets with 50 or more ways that they read, received a Leo' s Super Bowl free game of bowling, (Thank you Leo's Super Bowl -110 Amesbury for your donations!) along with a certificate of excellence.   Those who did not make it to 50 received a certificate of excellence during an assembly on Thursday. One student from each grade will also have the opportunity to have lunch with Mr. Vander Els.  All names from a grade level who returned their buckets will be put into a drawing with one winner. Thank you, parents, for supporting out summer reading program!!

Part of our goal this year, is to continue to encourage students' love of reading as our younger students get older. Together, as a reading community, we can model reading behaviors. At school, we talk about the books we like, read in front of children for different reasons, and provide ample opportunities for them to read and talk about the books they read. Of course it doesn't have to be books-they can read cereal boxes, cartoons, comic books, magazines, whatever suits their fancy.

At home, parents can read in front of their children and to/with their children-of any age. They can discuss information gained from reading such as the newspaper or online. For active kids, they can read the sports pages together or read a biography of a famous athlete. Most importantly make time in their busy schedules to read-even if it means turning off all the media and everyone in the family reads for 30 minutes.

In the community we can talk about books and magazines, encourage membership at a library, praise children when you see them reading, and give books and magazines as gifts. And, of course, you are welcome to volunteer as a Classroom Reading Buddy or Celebrate Literacy Reading in our school.

Thank you to all who signed up during the Passport to Learning evening -it's never too late! We look forward to welcoming all of you into the classrooms to share your love of reading.

  Good Day,

We had a very busy summer and are proud to report that we raised just under $4000 in ticket sales from the Ping Pong Ball Fundraiser brought in. We also collected just under $1000 between cash donations and candle sales from candles generously donated by Kelly Gannett owner of Soy Solas Candles and Wicks in Whimsies in East Kingston. Thank you to everyone that helped make this fundraiser a success.

Last weekend the Tedford family of Newton hosted a fundraiser at the Hen House with raffle and ticket sales which brought in just under $1500. Thank you to the Tedford Family.

Since we introduced the program to our community in May there has been many inquiries on how folks can help us. We will be holding two informational meetings which volunteers can come get a tour of our storage space and potentially sign up to join a team. Many opportunities are flexible and you can give as little as an hour per week. We are looking for volunteers interested in shopping for food, unloading food from vehicles, stocking and rotating foods, bagging food, delivering food, picking up donations from local drop offs, fundraising, letter writing and more. This is simply way too much work for two program coordinators to handle. There is no doubt that in order for this program to succeed we need lots of helping hands. We have two meetings scheduled; we felt that offering an afternoon meeting and an evening meeting would allow some flexibility to all volunteers.

September 9, 2014 at 4:00 pm @ the Sanborn Regional High School in room 137

September 15, 2014 at 7:00 pm @ the Sanborn Regional High School in room 137

Please share this information with anyone that you think may be interested in helping with the program.

 Donations of the following food types are needed:

* Box/bag of nutritional cereal or individual packs of oatmeal

* Cans of soup, beans or vegetables

* Peanut butter or jelly (no glass please)

* Can of tuna or chicken

* Fruit cups or Apple Sauce cups (no glass please)

* Box of crackers

* Macaroni and cheese (boxes, no cups please)

* Ramen noodles (no cups please)

• Nutritional Bars or Granola Bars
• Cans of Pasta with Meat
• Jars of Mayonnaise (plastic only)

Sanborn Ends 68 Hours of Hunger is a private, not-for-profit, volunteer effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive in school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive in school on Monday morning.

Childhood hunger is a national problem. It occurs when children receive insufficient food on a regular basis. After a while, these children also experience "fear of hunger" that affects their behavior as much as physical hunger affects their body. We provide a bag filled with food items to those children to sustain them over the weekend. In doing so, the children's nutritional needs can be met week to week.

Food donations can be dropped off at any of the Sanborn Schools in Newton and Kingston and at Wicks and Whimsies 14 Main St, East Kingston, NH 03827.

www.end68hoursofhunger.com 

https://www.facebook.com/Sanbornends68hoursofhunger 

Contact us: Program Coordinators Wendy Miller 978 210 1335978 210 1335 or

Jenifer Hever 603 560 0151603 560 0151

Email: [email protected]

Wishing all our students and families a wonderful school year! We've got a whole bunch of exciting events scheduled, starting off this Saturday with the 5K/Fun Run and Town Day.

It's not too late - if you're interested in running, walking, or hosting a table/booth. Check out the 5K Run/Walk page for specifics. Free coffee and donuts provided by Newton Recreation and Fire Department.

 
Food vendors include Gramolini's, Acio's, Orange Leaf and GottaQ, the BBQ food truck out of RI which finished 3rd in the nation for best  BBQ Food Truck of the Year. 

The schedule for the bands:

• 10:00am High Impact
• 11:00am Faraday Cage
• 1:00pm My Frosty Mug

All activities take place here at Memorial School. Looking forward to seeing all of you!!!

Don't forget, information for this and other PTO activities can be found on our webpage - https://sites.google.com/site/newtonmemorialpto/home. We loved seeing all the new faces at our last meeting. Thank you to everyone, new and returning, for joining us. Our next meeting will be held in the library at 7pm on Thursday, October 9th. We welcome all parents, teachers and staff to join us. If you have any questions regarding PTO, please don't hesitate to ask either Mr. V, Mrs. Johnson or a current member if you know one. You can also reach us by email at [email protected].