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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 2026
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.
Special events
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
The MFA has one of the most renowned collections of art from the Golden Age of Dutch Art in the 17th century. Come find out why this era of art is called “golden." Note: The class fee does not include the museum entry fee (currently $30, free for members). Limited to 6.
Paula Lyon-Green began a lifelong love of museums as a little girl growing up in New York City. Though her studies and subsequent professional life were in psychology, she has always felt most at home in museums. She moved to Needham in the late ‘70s, sharing this passion for art museums with her friends and family, including her two sons who attended the Needham Public Schools K-12. In addition to her long career working in psychology, she began studying art history formally in the early 2000s by becoming a docent at both the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum & the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and has continued to give tours for over 20 years. Now, having recently left the medical field, she has even more time for studying art history and sharing it with fellow art enthusiasts.
Paula Lyon-Green
