There is a lot of excitement for the 2024-25 school year and we are ready to dive into some fun activities for our students and families! Based on your feedback, our October PTO meeting will be an active planning session focused on the priorties identified during our first PTO meeting:
Global Diversity Event (similar to International Night hosted in many elementary schools)
Fundraising (e.g., Auction)
Community Building (e.g., regulary scheduled events such as Movie/Game Nights)
Other Social Events (for families or for parents-only)
Please complete this brief surveyto help us determine a meeting date to accommodate more of your schedules and which activity ideas interest you most. This meeting is for all levels of interest and availability!
Bigelow 6th grade families and staff are warmly invited to a potluck dinner on Sunday October 6that 4 pm. We hope you can join us as we reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
Please CLICK HERE to RSVP and sign up to bring a dish to share.
Team Anya will be participating in the Jimmy Fund Walk and we would love for you to join us in the effort to push forward pediatric cancer research. We are new to the Bigelow community (our son is in 6th grade here) and our family is forever grateful for the way that the Newton community has shown up for us over the past few years since our daughter, Anya, was diagnosed at 7-years old with an aggressive bone cancer called osteosarcoma. After intensive chemotherapy and multiple surgeries including a leg amputation, Anya has had 2-years of clear scans and is thriving as a 4th grader at Cabot Elementary.
This fundraiser is deeply personal for us as 90% of the Team Anya funds will be allocated to the research of Dr. Katherine Janeway, a leader in the field who specializes in metastatic osteosarcoma. The other 10% of the funds will go to a general Dana Farber research fund. Please consider donating and sharing this team link with your social networks. Scroll to the bottom of the site to donate to the team or to any individual team members (all the Team Anya funds go to the same impactful place.)
If you’d like to register to join Team Anya for the walk on October 6th, we’ll be doing the 10k portion starting at the BC Law School. To register, there is a fundraising commitment, and if you have questions or concerns about meeting the minimum, please be in touch (jenjo4@gmail.com).
In our journey, we have met kids who survived cancer and we have met bereaved families. We have met kids who have relapsed and kids whose treatment is ongoing. And while every story of pediatric cancer is different, there is always the reality of being dependent on the research and the doctors to provide the best care possible. Please consider donating and inviting others in your network to contribute.
Thank you to all who attended our first PTO meeting of the 2024-25 school year on Tuesday evening! It was great to see both new and familiar faces and discuss how best to support our school and build community. We had a long discussion with lots of great ideas for events and how to organize them. Stay tuned for more information and details on our second meeting.
Bigelow 6th grade families and staff are warmly invited to a potluck dinner on Sunday October 6that 4 pm. We hope you can join us as we reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
Please CLICK HERE to RSVP and sign up to bring a dish to share.
Principal Green and the Bigelow PTO invite you to attend the First PTO Meeting of the 2024-25 school yearon Tuesday, September 24th from 7-8 pm in the Bigelow Library.
Please join us to share ideas, discuss priorites for the PTO, and get to know the Bigelow community.
Bigelow 6th grade families are warmly invited to a potluck dinner on Sunday October 6that 4 pm. We hope you can join us as we reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
Please CLICK HERE to RSVP and sign up to bring a dish to share.
Food insecurity is a real issue and an issue in our own community. No family should have to go hungry and no child should suffer because the food budget is tight.
Bigelow offers a program called FUEL. It provides a weekend’s worth of non-perishable food for students each week with easy to prepare and healthy meals. Food is shopped for and packed each week by volunteers from a local church and delivered to the school in bags for students to bring home (or parents to pick up). The bags are generally delivered mid-week and sent home on Fridays (in nondescript bags), unless other arrangements are made to pick it up from Bigelow.
If this supplemental food program could help your family, please contact the nurse, Sue Schy, at Bigelow, schys@newton.k12.ma.us, or your child’s guidance counselor. All requests are kept confidential.
The Bigelow front office is in need of extra school supplies to have on hand for students who need them. If you have extra supplies at home, please consider dropping them off at the school office. In addition the grade level supply lists below, extra combination locks for lockers are also needed.
