Cultivating Community and Making Excellence Visible
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | September 16, 2022
During August faculty meetings, there were two key priorities as we welcomed new faculty and reckoned with fully reopening campus: transmitting school culture and setting the visible standard of excellence for our students. The first part of our time together was dedicated to understanding one another and learning about or relearning the recipe of Belmont […]
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Welcome Back!
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | September 09, 2022
In May of 2020, I watched as eighth grader Camille DeStefano ‘20 taught her virtual audience all about the benefits of exercise, the perils of sugar, and the dopamine that comes with both. I was—as I am throughout our eighth graders’ Capstone presentations—riveted. I learned a great deal from Camille that afternoon, and ever since, […]
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Happy Summer
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | June 10, 2022
These are exciting days here at Belmont Day as we are in the flurry of celebrations and traditions that will close out the school year. It will be exciting to experience an in-person Moving Up Assembly where we marvel at our students’ physical and academic growth. Teachers have been hard at work drafting final student […]
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My Summer Reading List: 13 Titles for 13 Weeks
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | May 27, 2022
I offer one of my favorite annual traditions: my summer reading list. What follows here is shared with you in the hopes that this yearfor the first timeI might be successful in reading a book a week from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Thirteen weeks. Thirteen books. (My record remains 11.5.) As poet Jenny Xie […]
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Celebrating Faculty Milestones
By Brendan Largay,
Head of School | May 20, 2022
Kurt Robinson 10 years From the days of the iD8 lab in the Schoolhouse to the IMPACT Lab, the makerspace in the Barn that he named, Kurt Robinson has been a leader of technology and innovation at Belmont Day for ten years. Kurt has been everywhere throughout his time herein each grade-level classroom teaching […]
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