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Get Ready BDS Birders, It’s Time to Fly!

By Annie Fuerst, Director of Innovation | April 04, 2025

While the weather in New England can be unpredictable this time of year, a sure sign of spring is once again filling the air: chicka-dee-dee-dee! Birdsongs are back, and they’re not the only joyful sounds. Take a walk through campus in the spring. You’ll hear a symphony of the season: students laughing on Big Blue […]

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Parent Education & Engagement: Opportunities Bloom This Spring

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | March 27, 2025

Clear your calendars, Belmont Day has plans for you this spring. We are in the latter half of the decision-making month for newly accepted families. They have until April 10 to choose a school for their child. As you might expect—and as many of the readers here once did when they were prospective parents—these folks […]

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Finding the (Right) Role for AI in Education

By Liz Gray, Middle School Head; Grade 7 Social Studies Teacher | March 21, 2025

I was excited to attend the recent Human-centered AI in Education workshop with Eric Hudson at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School alongside colleagues from many local independent and public schools. I was familiar with Hudson’s work from his time at the Global Online Academy (GOA), a virtual school and National Association of Independent Schools member. […]

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The Infinite Reasons We Celebrate Pi Day

By Brittany Ryan, Grade 6 Math Teacher | March 14, 2025

Today may seem like just another day to most. But in the world of math education, it’s a day to celebrate—Happy Pi Day, everyone! While the approximate value 3.14 is commonly used to represent the mathematical constant that expresses the ratio of a circle’s circumference (distance around) to its diameter (distance across), pi is an […]

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Some Shining Middle School Moments

By Jen James, Chief of Staff; Registrar | March 07, 2025

In the hustle and bustle of my daily work, which has been on the hectic side of late, it’s rare that I get the time to step back and truly experience first-hand the power and purpose of our work here at Belmont Day School. However, over the past week, I have had the great fortune […]

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Out Like A Lamb: Five Years After COVID Arrived

By Brendan Largay, Head of School | February 28, 2025

March, as they say, comes in like a lion. Typically, in the Northeast, that expression is a comment on Mother Nature and her stubborn refusal to move away from winter. As March begins, a slushy mix of snow across our fields and beneath Big Blue reminds us of the lion’s cold roar. For me, however, […]

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By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

December 13, 2024

“If music be the food of love, play on.” – Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare Excuse the Shakespearean allusion right off the top. I am in the thick of teaching Shakespeare to our seventh graders, and nothing speaks more to the…

By Trinity Johns, Seventh Grade Social Studies Teacher & Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging |

December 6, 2024

Have you ever embarrassed yourself in front of forty-five 12-year-olds? Since starting my teaching career, I’ve been in that fiery and uncomfortable spot plenty of times. And I’m entirely certain I’ll be there again. What they don’t tell you when…

By Brendan Largay, Head of School |

November 22, 2024

Few heads of school have the regular opportunity to share what is on their mind with their community. I am grateful to have this privilege and consider it a meaningful way to foster connection with the school’s parents, faculty, and…

By Anthea Lavergne, Director of Curriculum and the Associate Teacher Program |

November 15, 2024

In a short walk from this morning’s Fall Sports Assembly in the Barn to Mrs. Bettinelli’s music room in the Schoolhouse, the impact and importance of the Associate Teacher program at Belmont Day School were on full display. At the…

By Jen James, Chief of Staff and Registar |

November 8, 2024

Stepping through the front door of the Schoolhouse this month, our students, faculty, parents, and guests are being greeted by a growing gallery of colorful hands. From afar, the hands wave together joyfully to welcome us to the community. As…
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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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