Bigelow 3.0 will begin offering Enrichment clubs starting this week!
Some old favorites will be back, including Anime, Bigelow Green Team and Chess. New clubs just starting are the Bigelow Time Capsule project, Cooking Together!, Collage Art and Design, and Art Club.

Check out all the clubs’ meeting times, descriptions, and Schoology groups HERE. For security reasons, your child MUST be logged onto the Newton Public Schools Google Account to join them.

• Time Capsule Club – Ms. Summa – Wednesdays from 3 – 4 PM
• Bigelow Green Team – Ms. Hoffman – no ‘face to face’ meeting
• Cooking Club – Let’s Cook Together! – Nurse Schy – Mondays from 3 – 4 PM
• Collage Art & Design – Ms. Capoccia – Wednesdays from 3 – 4 PM
• Chess Club – Mr. Trunk – Tuesdays 8 – 9 AM & Thursdays 3 – 4 PM
• Art Club  **starting week of 5/4 – Mr. Legare Tuesdays 3 – 4 PM & Wednesdays 3 – 4 PM
• Anime Club – Ms. Ketcham – Tuesdays 3 – 4 PM

This list and more details can also be found on the Bigelow website under “Clubs.”

This yearbook is sure to be a keeper, so don’t delay in ordering yours! 

The deadline for ordering a yearbook has been extended until May 15.  Please see the directions below for how to order your yearbook.

The yearbooks will be printed over the summer and distributed to students in early September.  While the details have yet to be worked out, we envision inviting back 8th graders for a “yearbook signing party” when school opens in September.

YEARBOOK ORDERING DETAILS

Deadline: May 15th
Price: $ 25

Option # 1: Order online:  ybpay.lifetouch.com
Bigelow’s ID Code: 1945920
Not sure if you’ve already ordered?
Click here to view your order history for the 2019-2020 school year.

Option # 2:  Mail a check to the school.
Check payable to: Bigelow Middle School
Memo: Student’s First & Last Name, Grade
Addressed as follows:
Attention: Yearbook
Bigelow Middle School
42 Vernon St.
Newton, MA 02458

Checks must be received by May 15th. Please do not send cash.

School may be closed, but Bigelow is still planning to produce a yearbook for this school year. Led by advisor Sheryl Rice, a group of hard-working students are continuing to chronicle this most unusual year in a volume that will surely be a valuable memento and worth ordering. In addition to the many great pages of photos that they have assembled already about events that have taken place at Bigelow this year, the Yearbook Club needs your help as well!

They would like to include photos of students engaged in distance learning during this school shutdown.  In particular, they’re looking for 1-2 candid photos from each student in all grades engaged in activities such as:

• fitness
• outdoor activities
• playing with pets
• cooking
• making things
• playing music
• working on projects
• wearing purple or Bigelow gear to show school spirit
• having your own pajama day
• Etc… be creative!
• Please no family photos–we just want Bigelow students

The Yearbook Club will select some of these photos to feature in the Yearbook.  Click here to submit your photos.  The deadline for submitting photos is Friday, May 7.

The deadline for ordering a yearbook has been extended until May 15.  Please see the directions here for how to order your yearbook. Order Online now. 

On Friday, Mr. Harrison introduced us to the next wave of Bigelow 3.0 — the Bigelow 3.0 Distance Learning Website!

This is an all-inclusive, one-stop-shop site for ALL students assignments, office hours links, and schedules for ALL of classes. This website, which can be found on the Bigelow homepage, is live all the time and will be updated by 8:30am on Tuesday (April 21) morning and by the same time every Monday morning thereafter.

Bigelow 3.0 Distance Learning

Here is a ten minute screencast from Mr. Harrison about how to use it: Bigelow 3.0 Website Screencast.

If you have any questions about the new website, please ask them in the “parking lot” and we will get back to you. The cluster teachers will also go over this new website with students in the cluster office hours on Tuesday, April 21.

(Add your own thunderous applause here!) This picture doesn’t do it justice, but it looks great, according to those who saw it…  Now all we need is a stage full of student-performers and a packed house!

This is the latest improvement to the Bigelow Auditorium, which started in 2018, and included:

• Storage unit for theatrical sets (Nov 2018)
• Pest extermination (Dec 2018)
• Repairing of steps outside emergency exits (Dec 2018)
• Stage curtains (Jan 2019)
• Free standing spotlights (April 2019)
• House lights (Aug 2019)
• Light board (Oct 2019)
• Wall painting (Dec 2019)
• Ceiling mounted stage lights (Jan 2020)
• Light bar over the stage (Jan 2020)
• Carpet (Feb 2020)
• House curtains (April 2020)

A million thanks to all who helped making this a reality. This was possible thanks to the coordinated efforts of the performance arts teachers, the PoPS, the PTO, and the School Council, as well as the support of Principal Harrison, NPS and all the donations from the Bigelow community. The much needed auditorium improvements are now complete!