Take this Opportunity to Host at Bigelow’s Event of the Season – The SUPER Supper Stroll

The SUPER Supper Stroll (yes it has a new name!!) is a great way to get to know other Bigelow Parents while supporting programs that enhance our children’s education.

Don’t Miss out on your Opportunity to HOST
The Appetizer Party, The Dessert Party or a Supper
at the 2015 Super Supper Stroll
** New this year…The Soup is Optional **

This Super evening Stroll begins with the Appetizer Party at a Bigelow family’s home. At this party, you will find out where and with whom you will share Supper. After Supper, our Stroll continues on to a surprise location for the Dessert Party.

You decide the Supper menu-can even be a theme (we can help if you need ideas) and the number of guests you can accommodate.

If you don’t want to cook but would like to Host, we have Chefs at the ready that will come to you!

Please contact Carolyn Judge at 617 794-6436~carolyncjudge@yahoo.com or Jessie Gilmartin at 617-281-4535~jessiekgilmartin@gmail.com for more information or to sign up to host.

For those who cannot Host…Make sure to SAVE THE DATE & line up a sitter so you can participate as a Guest!  Sign up to attend to follow later in October.

Your 2015/2016 PTO Board

Your PTO Board for the 2015 / 2016 school year is:

Co-Presidents – Jacquie Arbuckle, Marcia Heron, Carolyn Judge and Anush Sahakian

Vice-Presidents – Jennifer Hrycyszyn, Beth Panella and Lex Van der Ploeg

Co-Treasurers – Beth Hicks and Magda Duchnowska

Co-Secretaries – Melissa Holt and Vicki Spetter

Please feel free to contact any board member if you have any questions or comments.  All board members can be reached at the following email  BigelowBulldog@gmail.com

Thank you for Back to School Night

Thank you to all the teachers and staff that made Back to School Night possible.  It is a great evening and so valuable for parents / guardians to understand what their students will be doing this year.  Your preparation and commitment is so appreciated.

International Walk to School Day – This Wed

This coming Wednesday, October 7th  is International Walk to School Day.  Newton students will be joining children across the world who will be walking to school, celebrating their livable communities.  They walk because it is good for the environment, it makes them healthy, and they like walking with friends.  Walking also helps charge their brains and bodies for a good day of learning. 
 
The Newton Safe Routes to School Task Force is a group of parents from across Newton working to increase the number of children walking and biking to school by making it safer and easier for them to do so.   Getting more kids walking and biking not only benefits students, it also significantly reduces the stress on streets throughout the city that are often congested with parents driving to school.   
P.S..  In case you missed this, the US Surgeon General earlier this month put out a call to action to promote walking and to create more walkable communities in the effort to address the many health issues facing our country.  http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/calls/walking-and-walkable-communities/exec-summary.html  
The Bigelow PTO is looking for someone to represent Bigelow on the Newton Safe Routes to School Task Force.  If you are interested, please email us at bigelowbulldog@gmail.com

For 7th Grade Parents

Family Communication Survey for 3rd/7th/10th Grade Parents Coming via Email

Parents and guardians of seventh grade students should be on the lookout for an email in mid-October with a link to an important survey that the school committee and superintendent have created.  Newton Public Schools is looking for information on how we can improve our two-way communication with families and create more opportunities for engagement.  Please be sure to complete the survey, as the data will help us improve our outreach and communication tools, including developing new strategies for reaching and out allowing you to reach us.  Thank you in advance for your participation!

Bridge Club Starts Tomorrow 10/5

Would you like your son or daughter to learn a game that, studies have shown, will improve their academic performance?  And is also enjoyed by just about everyone who has learned the game?  And where the club meetings include free snacks?

If you answered “yes”, then talk to your son or daughter about joining the Bigelow Bridge Club.  This fall, Jeff Lehman, the parent of four Bigelow alumni, will be teaching participating students how to play the card game of bridge.  Math teacher extraordinaire Sue Mortimer will be the faculty advisor.

The first club meeting will be on Monday, October 5, from 2:50 pm to 3:50 pm in Room 108.  Meetings will continue each Monday that school is in session.  Instruction, supplies, and snacks are free.

Click here for more information

Please contact Jeff Lehman at 617-332-2134 or at Jeffrey.Lehman.MA@verizon.net with any questions.

Newton’s One to One Program

Could your first through sixth grade child benefit from the consistent, caring friendship of a Newton teenager? Newton’s One to One Program has an enthusiastic and responsible new group of high school juniors & seniors from Newton North and Newton South High Schools.

If you would like the opportunity to have your child matched this academic year with a “Big Brother/Sister”, please call or email Nancy Holczer, Program Director by the end of October for more information. Sooner is better through. Please leave a message when calling 617-559-9460 with your name, address, and phone number or email info to Nancy at Nancy_Holczer@newton.k12.ma.us .

A program of the Newton Public Schools since 1972.

Newton Cultural Alliance Online Auction

The Newton Cultural Alliance is having an online auction in advance of their All That Jazz event on October 17th at the Windsor Club. There are items from tons of great local businesses – please take a look! https://www.biddingforgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?auctionId=245590554

Proceeds from the auction will benefit the restoration of the historic Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton into a thriving cultural center. For more information about NCA, please visit the website http://www.newtonculture.org/