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Middle Schoolers Pitch In To Pick Up Recycling

Middle school students began their school-wide recycling job last Friday. Every space in the school has bins to collect recyclables, including paper, bottles, and cans. On Fridays, each advisory group will take turns with this important community service job. The students collect recycling from offices, classrooms, and shared spaces and

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Four students demonstrate their character portraits in theater arts class

Arts Update: Students Create Character Portraits

To begin the year, students in Ms. Dempsey’s theater class dusted off their acting chops in the activity “character portraits.” After a physical warm-up to get their creative juices flowing, the students became groups of ballerinas, spiders, wilting flowers, cats, and wizards. An added challenge was to use different levels

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Congratulations to the 2022 Coaches’ Award Recipients

2022 Sports Achievers – Eliza Kuechle and Bernie Mattox The Coaches’ Award recognizes the two eighth grade student-athletes who best embody the Belmont Day School values through athletics. Recipients of this award value HONESTY on the playing fields by following the rules of the game. They demonstrate CARING by participating unselfishly

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Athletics News, June 3, 2022

Athletics Update: Successful Season for Mountain Biking Mountain biking was introduced to Belmont Day as a middle school club almost a decade ago. With the pause on interscholastic athletics last year, mountain biking worked its way into the athletics program as a COVID-friendly, non-competitive offering. This week, mountain biking wrapped up

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Learning Updates for May 16 to May 20

Sixth Grade and Kindergarten Continue ‘Big Flower’ Tradition Last Friday, kindergartners met with their sixth grade partners during a scheduled cross-graded time to engage in a Belmont Day tradition that goes back several decades. When kindergarten and sixth grade were the youngest and oldest grades respectively at BDS, the two

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Middle School Students Seated and Reading Books at Belmont Day School

Learning Updates for May 2 to May 6

Middle School Researches and Reads More Diverse Books In these final five weeks of school, middle school students are embarking on an independent reading challenge—to seek out and read books with characters, settings, plot points, or themes that we don’t frequently or typically see represented in books. The eighth grade

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Lesley University Honors Elizabeth Ho with June Fox Award

Congratulations to associate teacher Elizabeth Ho who is the recipient of the 2022 June Fox Award from Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education. Each year, the June Fox Committee recognizes one student in the collaborative residency programs for that individual’s work with children, academic scholarship, and effective collaboration with peers.

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Learning Updates for March 21 to March 25

Fifth Grade Studies, Researches the Immigrant Experience

Over the past couple of weeks in fifth grade humanities, students have been learning about immigration, specifically the immigration station, Angel Island. During the fifth graders’ most recent project, each student created their own questions and interviewed someone about their immigration experience.

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Athletics News, March 25, 2022

Athletics Update: Record Numbers for Track & Field

The track & field team rostered a program-record 30 athletes this spring, including 18 sixth grade students. Led by coaches Elinor Hannum, Charlie Baird, and Dani Kelly, the team will compete in eight interscholastic meets this spring.

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Athletics News, March 18, 2022

Athletics Update: Sun Shines on Spring Athletes The beginning of the spring athletics season usually coincides with cold, wet weather. As middle school athletes took to the fields, courts, and trails this week, however, the sun was shining and long sleeves were optional. All eighth teams hit the ground running

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By Kathy Jo Solomon, visual arts teacher and sustainability coordinator |

October 7, 2022

Middle school students began their school-wide recycling job last Friday. Every space in the school has bins to collect recyclables, including paper, bottles, and cans. On Fridays, each advisory group will take turns with this important community service job. The…
Four students demonstrate their character portraits in theater arts class

By Susan Dempsey, theater arts teacher |

September 16, 2022

To begin the year, students in Ms. Dempsey’s theater class dusted off their acting chops in the activity “character portraits.” After a physical warm-up to get their creative juices flowing, the students became groups of ballerinas, spiders, wilting flowers, cats,…

By John O'Neill, director of athletics |

June 9, 2022

2022 Sports Achievers – Eliza Kuechle and Bernie Mattox The Coaches’ Award recognizes the two eighth grade student-athletes who best embody the Belmont Day School values through athletics. Recipients of this award value HONESTY on the playing fields by following…

By John O'Neill, Director of Athletics |

June 3, 2022

Athletics Update: Successful Season for Mountain Biking Mountain biking was introduced to Belmont Day as a middle school club almost a decade ago. With the pause on interscholastic athletics last year, mountain biking worked its way into the athletics program…

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May 20, 2022

Sixth Grade and Kindergarten Continue ‘Big Flower’ Tradition Last Friday, kindergartners met with their sixth grade partners during a scheduled cross-graded time to engage in a Belmont Day tradition that goes back several decades. When kindergarten and sixth grade were…
Middle School Students Seated and Reading Books at Belmont Day School

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May 9, 2022

Middle School Researches and Reads More Diverse Books In these final five weeks of school, middle school students are embarking on an independent reading challenge—to seek out and read books with characters, settings, plot points, or themes that we don’t…

By Heather Woodcock, director of the associate teacher program |

May 2, 2022

Congratulations to associate teacher Elizabeth Ho who is the recipient of the 2022 June Fox Award from Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education. Each year, the June Fox Committee recognizes one student in the collaborative residency programs for that individual’s…
bds fifth immigration 1 03.23.22web

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March 25, 2022

Fifth Grade Studies, Researches the Immigrant Experience Over the past couple of weeks in fifth grade humanities, students have been learning about immigration, specifically the immigration station, Angel Island. During the fifth graders’ most recent project, each student created their…
bds athletics spring 8th 9 052821web

By John O'Neill, Director of Athletics |

March 25, 2022

Athletics Update: Record Numbers for Track & Field The track & field team rostered a program-record 30 athletes this spring, including 18 sixth grade students. Led by coaches Elinor Hannum, Charlie Baird, and Dani Kelly, the team will compete in…
bds athletics update 03.18.22web

By John O'Neill, Director of Athletics |

March 21, 2022

Athletics Update: Sun Shines on Spring Athletes The beginning of the spring athletics season usually coincides with cold, wet weather. As middle school athletes took to the fields, courts, and trails this week, however, the sun was shining and long…
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