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A Year for Bridge-Building & Healthy Risk-Taking

By Liz Gray, Middle School Head; Grade 7 Social Studies Teacher | September 19, 2025

Thank you to all who attended last evening’s middle school curriculum night. The remarks below were shared by Liz Gray, middle school head, to welcome families and kick off the event. (These remarks were edited for length.) Welcome, everyone, to our middle school curriculum night, and thank you so much for joining us. First, I […]

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Connecting With the Past, Present, and Future at Belmont Day

By Divya Muralidhara, Assistant Head of School | September 12, 2025

“The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” –Zora Neale Hurston Throughout my first two months at Belmont Day, I have returned to Hurston’s wisdom as I deepen my understanding of the school’s culture and rhythms. Through conversation, observation, and immersion, I am experiencing all aspects of the […]

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Building Bridges at Belmont Day

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 05, 2025

Welcome back, everyone! On Wednesday (the first day of school!), Belmont Day was buzzing in all the best ways. Students reconnected with classmates after a long summer apart. Parents beamed with joy as their children shifted from the free form of summer to the schedule and promise of the school day. And faculty, fresh from […]

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Enjoy the Journey to Ithaka. May It Be a Long One.

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | June 06, 2025

To our loyal leadership blog readers, thank you for another year. We hope you have found this space to be meaningful, instructive, and helpful to you and your family. This last column of the year is an early goodbye, as our final days of school still lie ahead, culminating in our Moving Up Assembly and […]

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Another Inspiring Admissions Season at Belmont Day

By Liz Parfit, Director of Admissions and Institutional Advancement | June 02, 2025

With each passing year, it becomes even more clear: Belmont Day School is a place where prospective families feel energized and inspired by our mission and faculty, and by how an intentional, welcoming community intersects with a strong academic program to create meaningful experiences for our students. As we close out another remarkable admissions season, […]

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Summer Reading: Happiness Is a Stack of Good Books

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | May 23, 2025

With summer soon upon us, I’m again piling up a selection of intriguing books to read during the quieter weeks ahead. I am delighted to share my 2025 summer reading list. The recommendations come almost entirely from Belmont Day community members who consistently inform and fuel my love of reading. The titles are my best […]

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By Betty Chu Pryor, Lower School Head |

October 11, 2024

Yesterday, I had the rare opportunity to leave campus during school hours when I joined our fifth grade at The Farm School–a non-profit educational farm on 400 acres of land in Athol, Mass. Formerly a sixth grade trip back when…
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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

October 4, 2024

This Sunday, Belmont Day will welcome nine faculty and administrators from a collection of independent schools who serve as the AISNE (Association of Independent Schools in New England) Accreditation Visiting Team for our ten-year accreditation visit. Technically speaking, it has…
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By Betty Chu Pryor, Lower School Head |

September 27, 2024

(These remarks were prepared for lower school curriculum night and have been edited for length.) Our lower school division represents pre-kindergarten through grade five and includes a wide range of developmental stages and milestones. A few weeks ago, Brendan announced…
Liz Gray, middle school head

By Liz Gray, Middle School Head |

September 20, 2024

Thank you to all who attended last evening’s middle school curriculum night. The remarks below were shared by Liz Gray, middle school head, to welcome families and kick off the event. (These remarks were edited for length.) Welcome to our…
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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

September 6, 2024

A row of trees lines the fence that separates the Osborne Tennis Courts from Big Blue. Over my years at Belmont Day—this year will be my ninth—I have come to anticipate that one of those trees, the last of the…
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