Get involved! We have many opportunities for you to participate in fun, community-building events. Commitment can be as big or as small as you like.

Yearbooks will be distributed to seventh and eighth graders who placed an order last year during lunches on Tuesday, September 14th.

We have a limited supply of extra yearbooks for sale. Students who did not place an order but want to purchase last year’s yearbook can do so on Tuesday during lunches as well. The price is $25, cash or check’s made out to Bigelow Middle School.

Meets Day 3 and 6 @ 7:15 – 7:55 AM Beginning Wednesday, 9/22. Contact Mr. Harlow for more info: harlowe@newton.k12.ma.us

Bigelow Middle School FORJ (Bigelow FORJ)  is a school-based chapter of Newton’s Families Organizing for Racial Justice (FORJ). 

Bigelow FORJ is a group of devoted parents, faculty and administrators committed to raising anti-racist children who acknowledge the pervasiveness of systemic barriers; speak out against injustices; and seek action-oriented solutions.  We invite parents and children to engage in critical conversations that support questioning, challenging and dismantling systemic racism, structural inequities, including anti-Blackness, racial discrimination, unconscious biases and all other forms of racial injustice and social exclusion.

Please email us at bigelowforj@gmail.com and tell us if

• you would like to get our monthly announcements;
• you’d like to join our leadership committee;
• you have some ideas about how to promote antiracist work at Bigelow; and/or
• you’d like to participate in broader conversations on antiracism, diversity & inclusion.

Yuen Ler Chow and Elena Su are current freshmen at Harvard and MIT and the co-founders of the Greater Boston STEM Program (gbSTEM), an enrichment program that delivers free introductory computer science, math, and engineering courses to elementary and middle school students in the Greater Boston area. Since March 2020, their team of dedicated high school and college volunteers have brought free lessons to over 500 Massachusetts youth. Classes will be held both in-person and through Zoom, and will offer an innovative curriculum and collaboration-based learning model.

The fall semester of gbSTEM will run from September 26th to December 18th, 2021.

The registration deadline is September 17th, 2021.

Information about the program and the registration form can be found at https://gbstem.org

If you have any questions, please contact gbstemprogram@gmail.com.

Dear Bigelow Families,

We hope this note finds you well, and we are excited to welcome you and your student(s) to the 2021-22 year at Bigelow Middle School!

As parents or guardians of students at Bigelow, you are all members of the PTO. The PTO acts as a liaison between parents and the school, helps to build community and foster communication and fundraises for the priorities set by Bigelow.

Please, take a minute to read about the Bigelow PTO’s purposes and what it does to promote the core values of the Bigelow Middle School, by supporting performing arts, technology and lots more for our children and the school. The Bigelow PTO is a volunteer organization and your participation enriches the school environment.

We were truly gratified by the support and generosity you showed the PTO last Spring and through the end of the year. We are fortunate to be part of such a wonderful community and we look forward to serving you in the coming year.

We wish you and your students a very successful year!

If you have questions for the PTO, please contact us at bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.

Sincerely,

The Bigelow PTO Board – Gabriela Kroszynski, May Chen, Linda Gillespie and Sukanya Ghosh

First Day of School: Thursday 9/9

School Hours: 8:05 a.m. – 2:35 p.m. (early release Wednesdays at 1:50 p.m.)

Don’t forget: *ALL* school personnel, visitors, and students, regardless of age or vaccination status, are required to wear masks covering their nose and mouth at all times while on campus and when riding on school buses. No exceptions.

More information about the Newton School District’s 2021-22 Back to School Health and Safety Plan

All 7th grade students are invited to the Ice Cream Social on Friday, September 10th right after school until 3:30 PM in Burr Park.

We need 4 volunteers to hand out ice cream (meeting at school at 2:15). If interested, please contact Gabriela Kroszynski (frinulia@hotmail.com)

Here are links to school supply list for each grade. Please remember you don’t need to buy everything new. The PTO invites you to think about school supplies in a sustainable way.  Let’s practice with our children the three Rs of sustainability – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

• Grade 6 School Supplies
• Grade 7 School Supplies
• Grade 8 School Supplies
• World Language School Supplies

***One Additional School Supply Needed***

Thank you to Holland Hargens (former Bigelow student) who worked for his Eagle Scout project with M. Harrison, to design and install a sign in the gym entrance, purchase and assemble some tables for the courtyard area of the school. Thank you also to Daniel Salemme, Kyle Judge, and TJ Cox for their help in bringing this project to life!