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NCE Middle School Programs
Needham Community Education’s NCE Elementary program offers a wide array of after school classes at each elementary school at the end of the school day.
Summer Explorations 2025
Health and Wellness
Exercise and recreation classes
Fine arts and crafts
DYI, home, garden and skills classes
Humanities and science programs
Investment and financial planning classes
Parenting programs
Learn to play a game or improve your game skills
SSAT, SAT prep, PSAT prep, and prep school, college and grad school application related programs for students and parents.
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Broadmeadow Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Eliot Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Mitchell Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Newman Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes at Sunita WIlliams
NCE Kids' Late Afternoon and Evening Classes
NCE Kids Virtual Classes
Private Music Lessons
Join Declan Battles of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy for a special guided tour of Boston's largest park. Franklin Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture, in the late 19th century, as part of the Emerald Necklace park system that connects over a dozen neighborhoods in Boston and Brookline. Its 526 acres are filled with wooded trails, rolling hills and striking examples of historic Olmsted-era architecture. This walk will explore the Park's historic Playstead, sprawling Wilderness, the Schoolmaster Hill ruins and more!
Declan Battles is the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, working to increase the public’s awareness, appreciation, use of and support for the Emerald Necklace and the work of the Conservancy through social media, special events, communications and media relations. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Suffolk University with a degree in Public Relations with a Minor in Media & Film. Bringing experience from prior work with the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, McNeil, Gray & Rice, and Suffolk University’s Dept. of Communications, Journalism & Media, he has been passionate about open space and its need in urban communities since childhood.
Declan Battles
