Here is the procedure for returning your child’s belongings to you and collecting any school books from them. A “grocery store style curb-side pick-up” in the gym parking lot will happen on June 15-17.

At this pick-up, teachers will load your car’s trunk with a bag of your child’s:

• locker contents*
• gym locker contents if accessible and identifiable
• Bigelow clothing gear if you ordered any
• Class panoramic photo if you ordered one
• Grade 6&7: One School One Book novel “The New Kid.”  To be read by students and parents over the summer.
• Grade 8 only:  art portfolio, and Social Studies and Spanish notebooks for selected students

We will also collect from you any school issued textbooks. library books, and other property of Bigelow.  Please check your home for any materials, and put them in a plastic bag with your child’s full name in it in your trunk so that we can easily retrieve it.

Download Curb-side Pick-up Schedule here. 

Please note: If you have children in multiple grades or teams, you only need to attend one curb-side pick-up.  If you can not arrive at your designated time, please contact Kersten Raso at rasok@newton.k12.ma.us by June 12 so we know when you are coming and can have your child’s bag ready.

Before arrival, please read the following directions to keep everyone safe:

• Students are encouraged to join you. This is a chance for them to say goodbye at a safe distance to some of their teachers on duty.
• Arrive by vehicle only.  No walk-ins.
• All passengers in the car should  wear a mask at all times.
• Enter the Bigelow parking lot from the first entrance on Park St, and follow the one way path through the parking lot.
• Place a sign on your dashboard with your child’s name, cluster and homebase before entering the parking lot.
• Please put in a bag any school textbooks, library books, or other property of Bigelow and leave it in your trunk for easy retrieval.
• Please remain in your car at all times.   Once in the pick-up zone by the gym, please open your trunk.  We will put your child’s belongings in your trunk.

*With the help of homeroom teachers who contacted students for whom they were missing locker numbers or had faulty or no  information about their lock combinations, we were able to open and preserve almost every combination lock. If  your child did not receive a lock with their belongings bag, it had to be cut off because the combination did not work, even after their teacher received updated information from them and repeated attempts were unsuccessful, or we did not have a key to open it, or the student did not respond to the teacher’s request for more accurate locker information before May 29, or the student did not remember their combination.

We are pleased to announce the PTO Board members for the 2020-2021 school year, voted at the Bigelow PTO Annual Meeting, on Monday, June 2nd. Terms become effective September 1, 2020.

Executive Board:

• President – Karen Markson
• Vice President – Joana Canedo
• Treasurer – Linda Gillespie
• Secretary – Vicki Spetter

Committee Chairs (Appointed positions):

• Directory – Megan Flynn
• Communications – Gwen Hautefeuille
• CAS – Caryn Izhar
• Big Night – Cheryl Abramson and Alexia Giannakopoulos
• Teacher Appreciation – Susan St. Pierre
• PoPS – Krista Chavez

There are still openings & the board encourages the PTO members to volunteer and fill the openings. Please look here for PTO Board and committee positions still open.

We also approved the budget for 2020-21. More details in the meeting minutes.

The PTO wanted to acknowledge Una Simmons for tirelessly giving her time and energy to Bigelow for 9 years. Thank you! This is what she said at our Annual Meeting:

“In the 9 years at Bigelow, mostly the last six, I have been on the board or chaired 6 Big Nights that grossed $121,000 and 3 Ten Tables/Supper Strolls that grossed $18,000. Todd, did I earn my keep?”

We say: YES!