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Pre-k teacher Nicole Siverls reads with students outdoors
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community of inspiring,
bold, and remarkable
learners and leaders

At Belmont Day School, our students truly love learning. We nurture this every day through hands-on, interdisciplinary work that grounds the academic experience in the real world. Our faculty are experts at offering each individual the right level of challenge and support. As a result, our students build a strong sense of themselves and embody our core values of excellence, responsibility, caring, honesty, respect, and joy. Our eighth grade graduates go on to the high schools of their choosing, where they are embraced as confident self-advocates and leaders in their new school communities.

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Belmont Day Quick Facts

6:1

Student-teacher ratio

100%

of grads are well-prepared for secondary school success

many

of our grads become team captains & class presidents

339

students in pre-kindergarten to eighth grade

10

miles from Boston

40%

of students identify as students of color

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Well, That Didn’t Work: Failure, Embarrassment, and the Painful Path to Better Teaching

By Trinity Johns, Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging and Grade 7 Social Studies Teacher | December 06, 2024

Have you ever embarrassed yourself in front of forty-five 12-year-olds? Since starting my teaching career, I’ve been in that fiery and uncomfortable spot plenty of times. And I’m entirely certain I’ll be there again. What they don’t tell you when you begin teaching is how often your lessons can just plain fall flat. Whether it’s […]

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By Trinity Johns, Seventh Grade Social Studies Teacher & Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging |

December 6, 2024

Have you ever embarrassed yourself in front of forty-five 12-year-olds? Since starting my teaching career, I’ve been in that fiery and uncomfortable spot plenty of times. And I’m entirely certain I’ll be there again. What they don’t tell you when…

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BDS December 06, 2024

Seventh Grade English Tackles Macbeth “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes …” For six weeks during the seventh grade English curriculum, Charlie Baird, seventh grade English teacher and department chair, is kind enough to allow for a guest lecturer, Head of School Brendan Largay, to join the class to read […]

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December 6, 2024

Seventh Grade English Tackles Macbeth “By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes …” For six weeks during the seventh grade English curriculum, Charlie Baird, seventh grade English teacher and department chair, is kind enough to allow…
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Training Teachers Harnesses BDS Experience

Our associate teachers are graduate students who are knowledgeable and passionate about education. They come to Belmont Day to be mentored through a one-year residency by our master faculty. Through this collaboration with Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education, our faculty are shaping the next generation of teachers.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
Belmont Day School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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