Check with your son or daughter to see when they are performing. Hope to see you there!!!

Bill Prendergast, Danielle Pargoli, and Sean Petrosino

If you would like to recognize a staff member at Bigelow this holiday season, please consider donating a book in a staff member’s name to the library. A nameplate honoring the teacher, and recognizing the donor, will be placed inside a new book.   Click Here to Buy a Book.

The Bigelow Library is a vibrant and exciting learning commons. Students visit daily to find a good book to read. Maintaining a library collection of both fiction and nonfiction books to meet the reading interest of our students is always a priority.  The Buy a Book Fund  is a wonderful way to meet this demand so that the library can maintain its vibrancy.

Thank you to all parents and families who have donated to The Buy a Book Fund  in the past.   Your generosity is deeply appreciated.

Thank you to everyone who bought magazines and supported the 8th grade.  The money raised will help provide scholarships for the 8th grade trips to NYC and Quebec City.

It is not too late to help.  You can still purchase magazines and support the 8th grade by ordering your magazines on line at www.gaschoolstore.com School ID # 2637080.

Thank you again for your support!!

Wed Dec. 10th from 3-4pm in the Front Computer Lab

Yearbook Club is open to 6th, 7th and 8th graders – no experience necessary!

We are looking for hardworking students interested in photography and/or design to help create this year’s yearbook.  If you have questions, please see Ms. Rice.

Bigelow has a full line of Bigelow wear.  You can go to following website http://www.cafepress.com/bigelowgear to purchase from our line of clothing and accessories.

Click here for information on Diabetes awareness  Warning Signs of Diabetes type I and II

Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff and Students!

The Bigelow Magazine Drive, one of the important fundraisers for our school supporting 8th grade field trip scholarships, kicked off this past Friday, November 14, 2014.  A package with all necessary information to participate was sent home with your student.

More information regarding the Magazine Drive can be found here: Bigelow MS Prize Flyer F14 and Bigelow MS ParentLetter F14 1  or you can order on line at www.gaschoolstore.com School ID # 2637080

There are also many e-magazine subscriptions available.

Please join us for our next PTO meeting on Thurs Dec 4th at 7pm in the Library.

We will be hosting a Nutrition Solutions and Body Image Workshop. This workshop will help us work with our children (and ourselves) to develop good eating habits while promoting a positive body image.  This session will be led by Stacy Schwartz, Nutritional Health Coach and Cybill Goldberg, LICSW.

Please email us at bigelowbulldog@gmail.com with any questions.

There will be a MANDATORY informational meeting for all players interested in trying out for the Girl’s Basketball team on Wednesday, Dec 3rd, after school in Room 215 (Mr. Leone’s Room).  If you can not attend or have any questions, please see Mr. Eckstrom.

Getting up to speed on the growth mindset: Parent/guardian workshop  Wednesday, December 3, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Newton North High School cafeteria

Have you heard that Newton Public Schools is asking teachers and staff to explore how encouraging a “growth mindset” can motivate students to learn? Do you know that the research-based growth mindset is useful for all ages and in all settings—school, home, work, athletics?

Newton North School Council and PTSO invite ALL parents/guardians to a fun and engaging evening exploring the growth mindset. As Principal Jen Price shows you how Newton Public Schools faculty are being trained in the use of the growth mindset, you’ll learn: 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 and successful strategies for creating a parent-teacher dialogue about students’ development.

You will also have a chance to apply the growth mindset during an interactive challenge.

To learn more about the growth mindset, read The Significance of Grit. or view this Ted Talk by Angela Duckworth.