January 12, 0218

Good Afternoon Parents and Guardians:

Happy New Year and welcome back to all of our students. We are looking forward to a phenomenal second semester.

I want to congratulate Ms. Andrews and Mrs. Bransgrove as we had three wonderful winter concerts before break. Thanks to all of our parents and community who attended the concerts. The student were outstanding with their performances.

I have some changes for this semester within our personnel. Mrs. Cruz who was our bookkeeper and front receptionist resigned effective in December and has moved on to a new position in the church that her husband is a pastor in. Congratulations to Mrs. Cruz on her new position.

With that being said we have hired Mrs.Tracy Rizuto to fill that vacancy. Tracy comes to us from Cimarron Middle School in Douglas County. Please help me welcome Tracy to the Newton Middle School Community. We are very happy to have Tracy come to us with Middle School experience and step right into this position.

Newton Backpack Program

Interested in volunteer or donation opportunities for the weekend backpack program at Newton Middle School? The Sign-up Genius has been updated to include dates for 2018 — please assist us with providing for our Newton community by going to: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0C4BA8A82EA4F58-newton

The program provides supplementary weekend snacks/meals and supplemental weekday snacks at school. Backpacks are available for student pick-up at the end of the day (2:50) each Friday.  Volunteers are needed from 2 to 3pm each Friday afternoon to put together backpacks, place them in pick-up locations and return those not picked up to the backpack storage room. Food donations may be made anytime during the year; there is a donation box in the front office for food donations (please no glass containers). Donations of perishable snacks (i.e., cheese sticks, frozen pb&j sandwiches, frozen burritos) should be brought to the school clinic. All donations must be store-bought items. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

Have a great weekend.

James O’Tremba

Principal, Newton Middle School