Maine Arts Camp for Creative Teens

Are you looking for a nurturing overnight summer camp where your creative 9 to 16-year- old can combine all the fun of a traditional sleep-away camp with high quality instruction across multiple arts disciplines and activities? A camp that provides access to outstanding facilities in a beautiful college campus setting?

Maine Arts Camp is a small, inclusive camp community led by experienced professional instructors and mature dorm counselors, with a 3:1 camper/staff ratio. Its stunning Colby College location provides access to several art studios, a theater, two dance studios, a full commercial kitchen for cooking programs, Johnson Pond, tennis courts, a photography/film studio, and much more. Your child can enjoy an individualized schedule of activities chosen from a huge range covering visual arts, theater, music, dance, culinary arts, individual sports, film making, photography, and creative writing.

Choose from 2 or 4 week sessions in July. The maximum enrollment for each session is 100 campers, so early application is recommended.

For more information, visit www.maineartscamp.com. Click here to download a flyer. Contact Rick Mades, Camp Director at maineartscamprick@gmail.com or Anabel Cable at mainearts.anabel@gmail.com if you have any questions or would like to set up a meeting.

Super Supper Stroll – RSVP by MIDNIGHT!

If you have not attended a Super Supper Stroll at Bigelow yet, you are in for an amazing treat!!! Don’t miss your opportunity to enjoy fabulous dinner and community building while supporting our children and their school!

If you have enjoyed the Super Supper Stroll in years past, do not miss your chance this year – the deadline to RSVP is upon us.

Please click here and RSVP by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, November 1st!

If you are reading this after the deadline has passed, and wish to join the “Stroll,” please email the coordinator, Jessica Gilmartin, directly at jessiekgilmartin@gmail.com.

Questions?  Please email bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.

Election Day Bake Sale – Organizers and Volunteers Needed

We are one week away from the biggest bake sale of the year! Thanks to everyone who has already signed up to help, but we need more bakers and more volunteers to sell.

We also need several amazing PTO members (if you are reading this, you are an amazing PTO member!) to coordinate the effort. In years past, eighth-grade parents have usually taken on the bake sales, and after the fantastic job the 8th-grade parents did for the car wash and bake sale in September we are hopeful that they will tackle this one and make it eclipse all others, but we welcome parents of all grades to consider stepping up to help.

If you can volunteer on the day of the sale and/or are able to donate baked goods, please follow this link to sign up.

If you are interested in  organizing/coordinating the effort (communicating with the food donors regarding packaging and drop-off, coordinating with the school about setting up tables, please email bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.

From the Bigelow PE Teachers

    • Anyone interested in a free throw contest? The Newton Elks is hosting their national contest this Saturday, November 5th, at the John M Barry Boys and Girls Club in Newton. It is free and starts at 2:00 PM. You cannot be older than 13 years old on April 1, 2017 to enter. See Mr. P if you have any questions.
  • Reminder to all students. All Physical Education classes will be going outside until Thanksgiving. The fall weather is finally here so please make sure you are dressed accordingly. Sweatshirts and sweatpants are highly recommended. PLEASE wear and old pair of sneakers if you can.

Thanks,
Mr. P and Ms. Fitz

Teledermatology visits online

Immediate Teledermatology visits are now available online through Boston University’s Department of Dermatology. The dermatology experts at Boston University are now offering a brand new service where patients can access care for dermatology issues at any time and from anywhere.

Patients can receive a diagnosis and treatment for almost any skin condition generally within 24 hours. Patients no longer have to miss work and school or wait months to see their dermatologist. Seeing your dermatologist has never been easier!

Find them at https://www.bmc.org/dermatology/immediate-dermatology-appointment-online or in the App stores under “BU Dermatology at BMC”.

Request from Ms. Summa – Rolls, Rolls, and More Rolls!

The One School, One Book Committee needs rolls.  The kind of rolls that are left after you finish using all your paper towels, wrapping paper, aluminum foil, plastic wrap and so on (see below). Please remember to set aside your rolls at home when they are finished and drop them off when you can at the library.  You can also send them in with your child to Ms. Summa in the library.  The committee needs the rolls for a school-wide activity on November 3.

Thanks for your help!rolls

Newton Inspires

Twenty-one Newton luminaries will regale audiences at Newton Schools Foundation’s sixth annual  Newton Inspires: An Evening of Ideas and Community,

This year’s program features headliners NPR’s Tom Ashbrook; MIT Koch Institute’s Tyler Jacks, Entrepreneur and Social Enterprise Philanthropist Dick Simon; 7NEWS Sports Director Joe Amorosino; Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn; Chef David Punch; and food writer Andrea Pyenson; along with more than a dozen other Newton stars.

Newton Inspires is FREE to Newton residents and $15 for non-residents. Space is limited so register early. The event is on November 14th, 7:00 – 9:30 pm at Newton South High School. Refreshments will be served.

To register, go to www.NewtonSchoolsFoundation.org

This year Newton Schools Foundation welcomes The Village Bank as lead sponsor. Newton Inspires is also supported by premium sponsors Chestnut Hill Realty, The Street Chestnut Hill and TripAdvisor.  For a full list of speakers and sponsors, go to www.NewtonSchoolsFoundation.org. For more information, call 617-559- 6120 or email info@newtonschoolsfoundation.org.