Bring your gardening gear and tools and join the Bigelow PTO Saturday, October 19th from 10 am to 1 pm for Beautify Bigelow Day. The entire Bigelow Community is welcome! We will plant, clean, weed, and mulch in the front entrance beginning at 10 am.
All volunteers are welcome to drop in for any amount of time. Every contribution counts!
Franklin Park Family Fun Day! Please join Principal Green, Bigelow teachers and staff, and Boston and Newton families on Sunday, October 20th from 1:30-3:30 pm at Franklin Park for an afternoon of music, games, fun and connections as we start the 2024 school year!
PTO Board Secretary Lanni Isenberg (7th grade parent) invites the Bigelow Community to the 4th Annual Newton Indigenous Peoples Day. Stop by the vendors sign in booth to say hi or just come enjoy the festivities and food!:
The 4th Annual Newton
Indigenous Peoples Day Ceremonial Celebration
“Honoring Our Mothers”
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2024
11 AM–5 PM ET
ALBEMARLE FIELD, NEWTON, MA
Celebrate & uplift Indigenous peoples & voices on Indigenous Peoples Day in Newton, MA.
All are welcome to this free, family-friendly, Indigenous-led, volunteer-run event to enjoy great music, check out cultural dances & presentations, support local Indigenous vendors & non-profits, & eat delicious food.
The Newton Health and Human Services Department is offering two vaccine clinics for our community in October.
We are offering a Children-only flu and/or COVID clinic (with free COVID vaccine received from the State). Current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are that everyone 6 months and older should get the annual flu vaccine and an updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine.
We are also offering an Adult-only flu clinic. (Sorry, we do not have access to COVID vaccines for adults.)
The clinics will be in the Newton City Hall War Memorial Auditorium (1000 Commonwealth Avenue on the second floor; follow the signs). Insurance information is requested, but not required.
Children-Only Flu and/or COVID Clinic
Adults-Only Flu Clinic
For more information on the flu vaccine, click here. For more information on the COVID vaccine, click here here. Questions? Contact the Newton Health and Human Services Department at 617-796-1420 or health@newtonma.gov. Interpreter services are available.
There is a lot of excitement for the 2024-25 school year and we are ready to dive into some fun activities for our students and families! Based on your feedback, our October PTO meeting will be an active planning session focused on the priorties identified during our first PTO meeting:
Please complete this brief survey to help us determine a meeting date to accommodate more of your schedules and which activity ideas interest you most. This meeting is for all levels of interest and availability!
Please RSVP for the 6th Grade Potluck! We are looking forward to seeing Bigelow 6th grade families & staff on Sunday, October 6th at 4 pm.
Bigelow 6th grade families and staff are warmly invited to a potluck dinner on Sunday October 6th at 4 pm. We hope you can join us as we reconnect with old friends and make new ones.
Please CLICK HERE to RSVP and sign up to bring a dish to share.
Questions? Please email Rachanee Nelson (sprcnelson@gmail.com) and Hai Ly (ms_haily@yahoo.com)
Dear Bigelow Community,
Team Anya will be participating in the Jimmy Fund Walk and we would love for you to join us in the effort to push forward pediatric cancer research. We are new to the Bigelow community (our son is in 6th grade here) and our family is forever grateful for the way that the Newton community has shown up for us over the past few years since our daughter, Anya, was diagnosed at 7-years old with an aggressive bone cancer called osteosarcoma. After intensive chemotherapy and multiple surgeries including a leg amputation, Anya has had 2-years of clear scans and is thriving as a 4th grader at Cabot Elementary.
This fundraiser is deeply personal for us as 90% of the Team Anya funds will be allocated to the research of Dr. Katherine Janeway, a leader in the field who specializes in metastatic osteosarcoma. The other 10% of the funds will go to a general Dana Farber research fund. Please consider donating and sharing this team link with your social networks. Scroll to the bottom of the site to donate to the team or to any individual team members (all the Team Anya funds go to the same impactful place.)
http://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/goto/SUPPORT-TEAM-ANYA
If you’d like to register to join Team Anya for the walk on October 6th, we’ll be doing the 10k portion starting at the BC Law School. To register, there is a fundraising commitment, and if you have questions or concerns about meeting the minimum, please be in touch (jenjo4@gmail.com).
In our journey, we have met kids who survived cancer and we have met bereaved families. We have met kids who have relapsed and kids whose treatment is ongoing. And while every story of pediatric cancer is different, there is always the reality of being dependent on the research and the doctors to provide the best care possible. Please consider donating and inviting others in your network to contribute.
Thank you!
Jeni Rhodes
Bigelow Parent Alexander Lee invites the Bigelow community to Hayfest, Historic Newton’s annual fall festival, on Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 12-4pm.
Join them for a free, family-friendly day of fall fun! Travel back in and explore life in 19th century Newton, featuring:
Activities are held in the backyard of the Jackson Homestead, 527 Washington St.
Thank you to all who attended our first PTO meeting of the 2024-25 school year on Tuesday evening! It was great to see both new and familiar faces and discuss how best to support our school and build community. We had a long discussion with lots of great ideas for events and how to organize them. Stay tuned for more information and details on our second meeting.
As always, we welcome comments and questions at bigelowbulldog@gmail.com.