By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 25, 2026
Gustavo Dudamel, the newly appointed music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic, is one of the world’s great conductors. He rose to fame leading the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in his native Venezuela, and he has since conducted around the world, including for Pope Benedict and on John Williams’s score for Star Wars: […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 18, 2026
If I had to choose one word to describe Fridays at Belmont Day School, it would be community. We start each Friday gathering in some way, intentionally coming together to share in our learning and simply be with each other. The power of presence is, and I’m sorry/not sorry for the alliteration here, profound. We […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 11, 2026
Welcome back, Belmont Day! The school year is off to a terrific start. Our returning students and families haven’t missed a beat since we said so long to them in June. Our new students and families are being welcomed with open arms and are fast becoming part of the community. And our faculty, both new […]
By Divya Muralidhara, Assistant Head of School | June 09, 2026
Here we are, on summer’s threshold, the giant clock that marks fleeting time now ticking a bit more intently. Fittingly, as I write this, early evening light streams in through my kitchen windows, beckoning me out to the porch to catch the purple and pink-hued sky at dusk as it settles over the rooftops. We […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | May 29, 2026
The Class of 2026 occupies a special place in my heart. These are the students and families who arrived at Belmont Day when I did or who joined this class along the way and became no less foundational to my own BDS experience. While our BDS lifers arrived with the wide eyes of four-year-olds, filled […]
May 22, 2026
First things first, as we reach this now annual tradition of the head’s Memorial Day summer reading list: Yes, I try to read them all during the summer. And, no, I haven’t succeeded yet. Yes, they are almost always recommendations from Belmont Day colleagues and community members or from the folks–my mom, my spouse, close […]
