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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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Eighth Grade Trip Builds Bonds, Creates Memories For A Lifetime

By Emily Phan, Grade 8 English Teacher | May 13, 2025

During the week we returned from April break, our 48 eighth graders and six adult chaperones set off for a whirlwind class trip to Southwest to visit our National Parks. The students were awed by amazing vistas, climbed to new heights, floated down the Colorado River, and discovered something new about themselves and their classmates. […]

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Let’s Go to Space Over The Break!

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | May 02, 2025

Hey, how was your break? Over this first week back from the April break, it’s the question most asked by colleagues, students, and parents. Consider, for a moment, what your answer might be. Stories of faraway travels, family time, staycations, and good books filled the responses I heard. For some, however, the adventures and joys […]

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Capstone Week 2025: Learn, Do, Share

April 18, 2025

Every year, the build-up to Capstone Week is palpable. Students carefully finalize their presentations, mentors adjust their 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 with an anticipatory buzz. This week, Capstone arrived in all of its glory. […]

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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

November 1, 2024

I was “Deep in the Heart” at the 2024 Elementary School Heads Association (ESHA) Head’s Retreat earlier this week in Austin, Texas. I gathered with fellow heads of school in that big state to consider the big ways that school…
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By Betty Chu Pryor, Lower School Head |

October 25, 2024

Next Thursday and Friday, we will host our fall parent-teacher conferences in grades PK-8. Every parent/guardian will have the opportunity to meet with their child’s teacher(s) to discuss their child’s progress, set goals for the year, and ask questions. Having…
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By Annie Fuerst, Director of Innovation |

October 18, 2024

This week, the innovation team presented about last spring’s community birding project at the annual MassCUE conference at Gillette Stadium. Upon returning to campus today, we are scanning and folding the final zines for our table at the Watertown Library…
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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…
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