Thank you to all who visited Bertucci’s last week during the Dining for Dollars nights. Thanks to your participation (and good appetites) Bertucci’s will donate $348 to pay for scholarships for 8th grade end of year trips.

May 4-8 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Say “Thank You” to the exceptional teachers and staff who motivate, educate and inspire your students to be the best they can be by participating in the Honor Thy Teacher campaign. Newton Schools Foundation created this special program for parents to honor teachers by giving a gift in their name. You may also choose to honor a special education aide, a fine arts or music teacher, or a coach or counselor who has touched your child’s life. Suggested donation is $25 per teacher/staff member.

FIDEL STILL CAN NOT MAKE IT TO THE BIG NIGHT, BUT YOU CAN! JOIN US AT BIGELOW’S HOT NIGHT IN HAVANA THIS SATURDAY, MAY 9 from 7-11pm.

Come enjoy live Cuban music, salsa lessons, delicious latin food, and lots of great items to bid on, as well as a special appearance by the Bigelow Jazz Band. The fiesta takes place under the stars at the Commander’s Mansion in Watertown.

Get your tickets at www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/Bigelow2015 

Want to volunteer?  We need people to help set up and decorate the space from 11am-2pm on Sat. We also need a few people to help during the night of the event for an hour or so. Please email Beth at beth.ann.panella@bankofamerica.com if you are interested.

Check out our auction, especially our one of a kind TEACHER / SCHOOL items.  Go to www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/Bigelow2015 and scroll to the bottom to see the items.

Thank you to all that attended the Growth Mindset Workshop at last week’s PTO meeting.  Over 60 parents / guardians and educators attended the evening.  A very special thank you to the Newton North School Council and Principal Jen Price for sharing their presentation with us. It was a very informative and interactive night.

Bigelow Middle School 2014-2015 Yearbook

• All-color pages
• Durable hard cover
• Price: $25
• Payments: cash, check 

If you would like to pay by cash or check (payable to: Bigelow Middle School), please place payment in a sealed envelope with your child’s name and homeroom written on the front.  Your child should give the envelope to their homeroom teacher.

See the attached flyer for more information.  Bigelow yearbook order flyer

Please join us tonight for this special PTO meeting on the Growth Mindset 7:00- 8:30 pm in the Bigelow cafeteria. Newton North Principal Jen Price and The NN High School Council will be doing an encore presentation of their December workshop providing a basic overview of Growth Mindset, interactive activities and a discussion of appropriate feedback.  This discussion is based on the book Mindset by Carol Dweck. 

Click here  to RSVP for the event.

More about the Growth Mindset and the workshop:  Do you know that the research-based growth mindset is useful for all ages and in all settings—school, home, work, athletics?  To learn more about the growth mindset, read The Significance of Grit, or see this six-minute TED talk video by Angela Duckworth.

During the workshop you will learn the following:

• Effective ways to give praise
• Useful methods for encouraging children and teens to try new things and accept challenges
• Constructive ways to respond to failure
• Successful strategies for creating a parent-teacher dialogue about students’ development

Tickets for the Big Night – “Hot Night in Havana” are on sale now!!

Go to www.charityauctionorganizer.com/auction/Bigelow2015 to purchase your tickets.  The Big Night is on Sat. May 9th 7-11pm.  

Come out for the Big Night and enjoy authentic live Cuban music, learn to salsa dance, enjoy great latin food and sip our signature mojito.  Our silent auction will feature wonderful donations from area business, as well as many one of kind items such as “Bigelow Principal for the Day”.   A complete listing of auction items will be available soon.

Please support our local businesses who support Bigelow!!  Click here for a complete list of donors.

For more information on the BIG NIGHT, please go to http://bigelowpto.org/bigelows-big-night-2015/

If you have any questions please email bigelowbulldog@gmail.com

Thank you, your event co chairs – Beth Panella and Tammy McKenna

This Thursday and Friday, April 30th & May 1, we are Dining for Dollars at Bertucci’s to support the Bigelow 8th grade field trips. Bring the attached flyer to the Newton Corner Bertucci’s at 275 Centre Street on either of these nights and Bigelow will receive 15% of any purchase. Join friends and family to eat and socialize Thursday with the whole family or consider treating yourself to a night out Friday in support of scholarships for Bigelow Students while the kids are at the dance. Dine-in, take-out, or order delivery.  Please forward the attached flyer to local friends, colleagues and family, and post it on social media.

A heartfelt THANK YOU to all of the Bigelow parents, students, faculty and friends who turned out today to plant, trim, mulch, clean, paint, and water.  The school looks great!!  The main entry and the island are planted, the courtyard cleaned up, shrubs trimmed and plant beds mulched.

The team moved 14 cubic yards of loam and mulch, planted over 130 shrubs and perennials, collected over 20 bags of yard waste and collectively donated over 300 hours of time!!

A very special thank you to Andrew Hargens and Lex Van der Ploeg for organizing the day, to Tami Ireland for leading the planting of the island, to Joe Raso for working with us to get the plants, and to Audrey Weissborn and Kathy Marsh for their ongoing care of the Bigelow grounds and gardens.

In case you missed the email from the school today, click here for the letter regarding End of Year dates and activities.  End of Year Letter-14-15