We would like to wish all of our students, families, faculty, and staff a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. Sending gratitude and heartfelt thanks this holiday season to everyone for supporting us to make Bigelow a stronger and supportive school environment.
-Gabriela Kroszynski, May Chen, Linda Gillespie, & Sukanya Ghosh (Bigelow PTO Officers)
Dear Bigelow Families,
In the spirit of the winter holidays, we’d like to thank our Bigelow Teachers and Staff for their monumental efforts this year and to wish them a very happy holiday season. Together with Principal Coston, the PTO is hosting a “Winter Warm Up” on December 23rd. Details are still being finalized, but warm drinks and delicious food are on the menu for our amazing teachers and staff!
We will also be holding a teacher luncheon in early February and an afternoon tea in late spring. At this time, we’d like to ask for donations to the Teacher Appreciation Fund to help cover the costs of these three events. No donation is too small, and since catering costs have increased significantly since last year, all donations are so appreciated!
For all of you who love to cook and bake, we will have the opportunity to share our treats with the teachers and staff at the February event, so keep those recipes handy!
Please consider donating here, and when you donate, please indicate “Teacher Appreciation” in the note field:
Venmo: @BigelowPTONewton
or Credit Card: $10 – $20 – $50
Warmest regards,
Susan St. Pierre, Karen Yee, and Charlene Gillespie
Teacher Appreciation Committee
The Newton School Committee approved the calendar for the 2022-23 school year. You can find it here: NPS School Calendar 2022-23
A message from Newton Public Schools:
Winter weather is upon us as we expect a bit of snow this week! Here is a quick reminder of our snow day notification procedures.
School closings or delays will be communicated via phone call, text message, email, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), website, and local television and radio stations. To receive text messages, you must opt-in. To opt-in, please login to Aspen, navigate to the contact information section, and select “yes” for SMS messages in the drop-down box below your cell phone number. Following a storm, many of our students will continue to walk to school. We have collaborated with Newton DPW to create maps showing sidewalks that will be plowed, ensuring safe routes to school. Please access the maps here. For more detailed information on school operations in winter weather, please visit our webpage here: https://www.newton.k12.ma.us/weather
JOIN Bigelow FORJ on Monday, December 13 at 7:40-8:00 am at Vernon/Park intersection crosswalk island to demonstrate our support for the leadership of our NPS principals (particularly Bigelow Principal Coston and NNHS Principal Turner in light of recent events, administrators, counselors and teachers who are pursuing educational agendas aligned with the district-wide values and commitment to equity. Bigelow FORJ unequivocally denounces all forms of systemic racism and social exclusion and will continue to push and act for antiracism, social justice and inclusion.
Please spread the word, ask your children, families and neighbors to join us to demonstrate that the Bigelow community (whether as parents, students, teachers, administrators, counselors, staff or supporters) stands united in continuing to push for equity for all. Bring signs, posters, slogans (this would be a fantastic opportunity to include your children/students’ creative ideas for designing rally materials) and most importantly, yourselves!
Thank you so much for all your support for this incredibly difficult work on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Margo Michaels & Kaori Urayama
Bigelow FORJ Co-Leads
Remember Thursday December 9 is an early release day with a 11:20am dismissal.
The 2021-2022 Parent Conference sign-up process is live. Please click here for registration information & instructions.
Conferences start on Wednesday December 8.
Contact Principal Coston (costonc@newton.k12.ma.us) or Kersten, Exec. Admin. Asst. (rasok@newton.k12.ma.us) if you have questions, comments, or concerns.
It’s that time of year and your inbox is probably filled with worthy organizations asking for donations. The Bigelow Middle School Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) is one cause that doesn’t get more personal: our kids’ education. As parents and guardians of Bigelow students, we are all members of the PTO, an organization that is well worth supporting. With the pandemic, fundraising events are very limited so your donations are needed now more than previous years.
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