Bigelow needs new volunteers to continue to benefit from the program. If you are interested in gardening, groundskeeping or landscaping, Newton Serves is a great way to lend your skills to our Bigelow community.
Newton Serves is focused on cleaning and improving our city’s parks, school grounds, open space areas, and conservation lands. If you are interested in bringing this back to Bigelow, we need your help!
Any parent or guardian who has a student in Orchestra, Chorus, Band, or Drama is welcome and encouraged to participate in the PoPS and support our students and performing arts faculty.
Our next meeting will be Monday, 4/13 @ 7pm via Zoom. The link will be made available Sunday evening.
How to Speak Up with Courage, Care, and Respect, an online training offered by the MetroWest Anti-Bullying Coalition, coming up on Wednesday, April 29. More details from their website can be found HERE.
About the Active Bystander Training: Training Active Bystanders (TAB) is an interactive, skill-building workshop that helps community members recognize harmful situations, evaluate options, and take safe, effective action instead of remaining passive. Offered by experienced practitioners at Quabbin Mediation.
When you see something that is not right, not fair, or not just, you have a moral obligation to do something or say something about it. — JOHN LEWIS
You Will Learn How To: * Recognize when you are a bystander * Understand roles in harmful situations * Overcome common barriers to taking action * Respond to bias and harm in the moment * Use practical, safety-focused intervention strategies * Create action plans for future situations Workshop Style: * Peer-led and interactive * Group discussion and role play * Real-life scenarios Who Should Attend: * Community members * Volunteers and advocates * Parents and caregivers * Educators, faith leaders, and civic leaders * Anyone who wants to respond to harm with courage, care, and clarity
Learn how to speak up with courage, care, and respect—when it matters most.
Bigelow Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ) is a committee focused on advancing racial justice through education, action, and community building.
This is a great opportunity to get involved, stay connected with our Bigelow community, get to know teachers, staff and families from other schools! Parents and guardians from all grades may join! We especially welcome incoming 6th grades to participate and learn more about middle school.
Please throw your hat in the ring by Friday, May 1st so we can prepare a slate to be voted on by all parents at our end-of-year PTO meeting (date TBD).
We have several PTO Board roles open for next year and we would love to have representation from all feeder schools.
Check out ALL the positions HERE to sign up or find out more about something new!
Returning volunteers: please email bigelowbulldog@gmail.com to let us know whether or not you are continuing on in your same role next year. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered this year and to those who have already signed up for next year.
Here are a few roles we are looking to fill:
Co-President (1): Rotating leaders who are accountable for the success of the PTO
Vice President (1): Work with board and committee chairs to coordinate fundraising activities
Communications (2): Send weekly newsletters and maintain Social Media accounts. Attend and participate in board meetings
Creative Arts & Sciences (2): Help enrich the curriculum by planning cultural events for the student body
Back to School Picnic (2): Coordinate the family picnic at Burr Park (September)
Ten Tables (1): Organize our Progressive Dinner fundraiser (April-May)
We are looking for volunteers to help lead Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4–8th). During this week, each grade (6, 7, 8) organizes a luncheon for teachers and staff.
We are looking for 6th and 7th grade parents to coordinate their grade’s luncheons. Please email Laura Goldworm at lauramandell@yahoo.com if you are interested!
Gracias (Spanish) Спасибо (Russian) Obrigado (Portuguese) 谢谢 (Chinese – Simplified) Շնորհակալություն (Armenian) Go raibh maith agat (Ireland – Gaelic) Merci (French) Salamat (Tagalog) धन्यवाद (Hindi) Dziękuję (Polish) Grazie (Italian) Cảm ơn (Vietnamese) Danke (German) شكراً (Arabic)
On Tuesday evening, Bigelow’s Gym came alive to celebrate our beautiful and diverse community with delicious food, bright displays, lively music, and good cheer! Attendees were treated to a tour of Armenia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Italy, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Uruguay, Venezuela & Vietnam.
Thank you to all of the students, families and teachers who attended and the many volunteers who came together to make this event a success!
Special thanks to Principal Green and Bigelow Custodians for all their help, to our teachers who helped communicate with many of our families, and to Ms. Richardson for sharing an international music soundtrack for the evening!
Finally, thank you to 8th grade parent Lanni Isenberg for spearheading this amazing event! She documented the steps to make this come together the last two years, so it should be a great head start for any families who would like to make it happen again with our PTO next year!
If you haven’t had a chance to volunteer for an event yet, now is a great opportunity before the end of the year! Our goal is to create a fun and safe environment for all the kids and your help is greatly needed and appreciated. These events are only possible if the adults show up to help.
Thank you to everyone who’s signed up so far! We are still looking for chaperones — please sign up for however long you can — it doesn’t have to be the whole dance!
This is a great opportunity to get involved, stay connected with our Bigelow community, get to know teachers, staff and families from other schools! Parents and guardians from all grades may join! We especially welcome incoming 6th grades to participate and learn more about middle school.
Please throw your hat in the ring by Friday, May 1st so we can prepare a slate to be voted on by all parents at our end-of-year PTO meeting (date TBD).
We have several PTO Board roles open for next year and we would love to have representation from all feeder schools.
Check out ALL the positions HERE to sign up or find out more about something new!
Returning volunteers: please email bigelowbulldog@gmail.com to let us know whether or not you are continuing on in your same role next year. Thanks to everyone who has volunteered this year and to those who have already signed up for next year.
Here are a few roles we are looking to fill:
Co-President (1): Rotating leaders who are accountable for the success of the PTO
Vice President (1): Work with board and committee chairs to coordinate fundraising activities
Communications (2): Send weekly newsletters and maintain Social Media accounts. Attend and participate in board meetings
Creative Arts & Sciences (2): Help enrich the curriculum by planning cultural events for the student body
Back to School Picnic (2): Coordinate the family picnic at Burr Park (September)
Ten Tables (1): Organize our Progressive Dinner fundraiser (April-May)
