Then check out the Newton SEPAC (Special Education Parent Advisory Council) at newtonpac.org.  This is a volunteer organization of parents of children with special needs from preschool through high school. SEPAC is in need of a parent representative from Bigelow!  If you are interested in the position or would like more information about the SEPAC in general, please contact Liaison Coordinator Kim Gallaugher at momofiggy@hotmail.com.

This Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM – 9 PM, there will be a workshop at the Ed Center to learn more about the role of the SEPAC in our community. More information here.

The Newton North and Newton South PTSOs are co-hosting a screening of the documentary Screenagers:The Next Chapter on October 10th at 7:00 PM in the Newton North Theater.  The film is about helping teens growing up in the digital age uncover skills for anxiety and stress management. A panel discussion will follow the film with experts from Newton Wellesley Hospital Pediatric Psychiatry and Newton High Schools counselors. All are welcome. 
More information: Screenagers: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience

About friendships over the first few months of school.

“New friendships are blooming and there is nothing quite as intense and vivid as those first few days, weeks, or months of middle school friendships: finding all the things you have in common, laughing so hard you can’t breathe, a yearning to learn everything you can about that new friend, all kinds of inside jokes and shared experiences. But with that joy of new friendship, often comes the despair of old friendships changed or discarded, feeling excluded from other groups, and, sometimes, finding that new friendship can’t stand up to the intensity, and instead of becoming solid, fizzles out. A double-edged blessing/curse.” Read more here.

Visit the Bigelow Middle School Counseling website.