By Elisabeth Klock, Middle School English Teacher; Grade 8 Advisor | October 03, 2019
I’ve been a middle school teacher for nearly a dozen years. Over those years, I have noticed an unfortunate decline in students’ independent reading, both at school and at home. Recent research bears out this observation. In many schools, opportunities for independent readingknown by many catchy names including SSR, DEAR time, free reading, and wild […]
By Amy Sprung, Librarian | September 27, 2019
As I was adjusting the brand-new curved fiction shelves in the library just a couple of inches to the left and then back again for what must have been the tenth time in as many minutes, I was reminded of a quotation I shared with families at Curriculum Night several years back. In his picture book Zen […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 20, 2019
On the morning after our Lower School Curriculum Night, I am left reflecting on what I hope everyone saw on display at our school last night: caring. Of course, every aspect of our mission was on display, but what has long distinguished the Belmont Day experience is the simple caring that goes into every teacher’s […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 13, 2019
Happy Palindrome week, everyone. Here is an interesting fact to carry with you this weekend. From September 10 through 19 this year, our dates will be a palindrome (they look the same forwards and backward). So today, for example, is 9/13/19. What makes this so interesting? It is the last time this will be true […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 05, 2019
Welcome back, everyone. Summer still hangs in the air during the first week of school. The joy that marked the cautious excitement of summer experiences and sleep away camps has been replaced with a similar joy of reconnection, discovery, and exploration in the hallways here at school. Wide-eyed third grade students arriving to the Labyrinth […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | June 07, 2019
Happy summer everyone! It has arrived as it usually does, just in time. As we drift into these lazy days, I find myself reflecting on a remarkable year here at Belmont Day. In many ways, I look on it as almost two years in onepre-Barn and post-Barnwith a seismic shift in our school’s physical plant, […]
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