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Liz Parfit

The Scoop On the 2024-25 Admissions Season

By Liz Parfit, Director of Admissions | May 03, 2024

We are excited and proud to report that Belmont Day had another banner year of interest and engagement from prospective families. This season, we continued to see high applications relative to pre-pandemic numbers, with a remarkable 30% increase in total applications received over those that came in during the 2019-2020 admissions cycle. Our volunteer tour […]

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Brendan Largay

Creating Great Habits and Even Better Mistakes

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | April 26, 2024

Welcome back, everyone! I hope you enjoyed a great vacation week. Typically, I use the April break to catch up on the books and magazine articles I have placed on my proverbial bedside table, and this year was no different. As I chipped away at that pile, two articles have occupied my thinking as we […]

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Capstone Week 2024: Learn, Do, Share

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | April 12, 2024

Every year, the build-up to Capstone Week is palpable. Students carefully finalize their presentations, mentors shuffle schedules to ensure a final touchpoint with their mentees, and communication from the dynamic Capstone partners and guides Dean Spencer and Jen Friborg picks up in coordination and with a true anticipatory buzz. This week, Capstone arrived in all […]

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Seeing Science, Society, and So Much More in the Solar Eclipse

By Anthea Lavergne, Director of Curriculum and the Associate Teacher Program | April 05, 2024

Teachers and students are preparing to observe Monday’s forthcoming total solar eclipse. The excitement behind what’s on the horizon will fuel learning and ignite sparks of joy throughout our community. Our school’s approach to teaching and learning about the eclipse culminates with students in grades first through eighth adorning special lenses to experience, through their […]

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Blank Walls Transformed By Student Art, In a BIG! Way

By Jen James, Assistant to the Head of School; Registrar; Director of Special Projects | March 29, 2024

No doubt about it. This week has been dark, drab, and dreary outside our walls. It seems there are only shades of gray on Mother Nature’s palette as we say goodbye to March. Thankfully, inside our walls, we’re surrounded by a growing gallery of the vibrant colors we seek from spring.  From our school counselor’s […]

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Brendan Largay

At Belmont Day, the FOMO Is Real

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 22, 2024

As a head of school, you learn that when you take a bit of time away, there is never a “perfect” week for your travels. Something is always happening at school, something special that you will miss, a moment of learning, sharing, caring, and joy that you wish you had experienced firsthand. The school is […]

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Brendan Largay

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

January 26, 2024

I attended the Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) heads’ retreat and winter board meeting in Portsmouth, NH, this week. It was inspiring, reinvigorating, and a worthwhile pause and reflection during another busy school year. This spring, after…

By Anthea Lavergne, Director of Curriculum and the Associate Teacher Program |

January 18, 2024

Last week in this space, my colleague, Jess Halton, beautifully wrote about how we, as a community, can honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through “Teaching, Learning, and Philanthropy.” Her words got me thinking about legacy and how closely connected…
Jessica Halton

By Jessica Halton, Director of Development |

January 12, 2024

“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words guide us as we strive…
Brendan Largay

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

January 5, 2024

We are already back in the groove! Students did not miss a beat as they returned to their classrooms, and teachers were ready to greet them, well-rested themselves. High fives and other delightful greetings at the doorways of lower school…
Brendan Largay

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

December 16, 2023

As we look ahead to bidding 2023 a fond farewell, I want to thank this community for how we have grown, shared, and cared for one another through this first half of the school year. This poem, written by Sudeep…
Jessica Halton

By Jessica Halton, Director of Development |

December 8, 2023

“What Does Philanthropy Mean to You?” I posed this question to my colleagues at a faculty meeting in September. The responses varied along quite a spectrum, from the skeptical (robber barons) to the altruistic (helping others.) As we celebrate and…
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