Buy your tickets, invite your friends and get ready for our Big Night Luau!

Child care option: Central Rock Gym, Watertown, generously offered to have our children play there during the party. They can be dropped off at 6:30pm and picked up at 11pm. We only need to provide a list of participants by May 5^th. Please, sign up by sending a message to bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.

Bigelow Big Night Luau 2017
When: Saturday, May 20th from 7pm – 11pm.
Where: Commander’s Mansion at the Arsenal in Watertown
              440 Talcott Avenue, Watertown, MA 02472
Tickets: on sale now
Child care: sign up by email

For more information on the event, please visit the Bigelow Big Night Luau 2017 page on our website. If you have any questions please contact Beth Panella at beth.panella@comcast.net.

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

On the Monday after vacation Bigelow will be celebrating Earth Day. Show your Earth Day spirit by wearing BLUE and GREEN on Monday, April 24th.

More information here.

ACTOR’S NIGHTMARE, by Christopher Durang, is the short play that Bigelow Drama has chosen for this year’s METG Festival. It is a farcical look into the world of theatre professionals and the nightmares that haunt them.

The Bigelow production will bring a fast-paced, movement-based performance whose primary goal is to introduce the students involved to many styles of movement and performance throughout history.

All are invited to the public performance at the school:

“The Actor’s Nightmare”
Thursday April 27th, 7 pm
Tickets $5 at the door

More information at the Bigelow Drama webpage

The City of Newton’s Executive Office, Health and Human Services Department and Newton Public Schools are currently working on promoting out-of-school time for middle schoolers. While all young people benefit from out of school time activities that help them grow and learn, middle school tends to be an age when student participation decreases. While still in the early stages of this work, the city has created a webpage on the City website to help families find summer options for their middle schooler, as well as provide other valuable information like financial aid tips, helpful links and more. We will be continually adding more to the webpage in the coming months but with summer coming up we want to share what we have now to help with your planning. We welcome any feedback and ideas.

Middle School Summer Ideas – beyond summer camps

2017 Summer Youth Programs for Newton Youth Grades 5-8

Middle School resources webpage

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

With the support of our Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Bigelow will be observing the National Day of Silence,on Thursday, April 13, 2017.

The Day of Silence is a student-led action sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), in which thousands of students around the country will remain silent for all or part of the school day to call attention to the harassment and discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

Bigelow students can show their support and participate in the Day of Silence in two ways.

1) REMAIN SILENT FOR THE DAY –  Students making this choice are expected to participate non-verbally in all school-related activities, both in the classroom and the cafeteria. Students can choose to wear a Day of Silence lanyard with a card that explains their silence.

2) BE AN ALLY –  Allies will not remain silent themselves, but will respect the silence of others. Students can choose to wear a Day of Silence lanyard that explains why they are showing their support as an ally.

Participation is completely optional.  Contact Principal Todd Harrison if you have any questions.

Congratulations to the Bigelow Math Team for winning the last meet of the year, on April 6th. With perfect scores from Samir T. and Helen X., Bigelow came out ahead of 6 other schools. Great job everyone!

The Bigelow Math Team is part of the Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM).  The Team competes against other Newton middle schools, as well as Brookline (Heath), Needham (Pollard) and the Jewish Community Day School (JCDS).

On April 6, the School Committee approved the budget for the 2017-18 school year.

According to the Superintendent, David Fleishman: “The final budget approved allows us to preserve many of the programs and supports we have worked hard to implement over the past several years. With the additional monies we received late in the budget process, we have been able to partially restore program areas we thought we would need to reduce more significantly, most notably library staff in our schools.”.

For additional information and details, please visit the district website.

Lex Splash (modeled after MIT Splash) is a free one-day event in which middle school students can take a variety of unique classes taught by Lexington High School students.

Some of this year’s classes include introduction to molecular orbital theory, basics of psychology, the Catalan numbers, competitive programming, ukulele 101, and ultimate frisbee – no matter what a student’s interests are, there’s something for them at Splash. See the course catalogue here.

The goal of the program is to help younger students explore and discover their passions before high school, and to foster a genuine love of learning in the process.

“The high school students at Lexington High School are eager to share their knowledge and talents with the broader Boston community, and we’d love for Bigelow students to be a part of that.” Kimia Abedi (LHS ’18) 

This year’s Lex Splash will take place on Saturday, April 15th, from 8 AM to 4 PM, at Lexington High School. Students can sign up and find more information at lexsplash.learningu.org. 

LHS Educational Studies Program
Lexington High School
251 Waltham St, Lexington, MA 02421
E-mail: lexingtonsplash@gmail.com