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 our middle school was smaller, the three-day, two-night excursion is now a landmark experience for […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | October 04, 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 been eleven years since AISNE’s last visit (the pandemic put a one-year pause on the […]
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 to the faculty that the theme of the two curriculum nights this year would be […]
By Liz Gray, Middle School Head; Grade 7 Social Studies Teacher | 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 middle school curriculum night. It is a joy to be able to work with each […]
By Brendan Largay, Head of School | September 13, 2024
This week’s Scoop may be hitting your inbox at about the same time our intrepid middle schoolers return to campus from their start-of-the-year orientation/team-building trips, so apologies if you find yourself reading this in a congested carline. This week, sixth grade students and faculty left campus for a three-day experience at Cathleen Stone Island (formerly […]
September 06, 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 line as you move towards Claflin Field, usually offers an early signal that fall and […]
on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, due to weather.
