Every year, Belmont Day middle school students participate in the international Purple Comet Math Meet, a team-based competition that challenges students to collaborate in solving 20 complex math problems within one hour. This year, nearly 70 students competed across 12 teams, demonstrating perseverance, creativity, and the power of teamwork. At
Belmont Day School alum, BDS athletics Coaches Award winner, and current Professional Women’s Hockey League player Mia Biotti ’16 returned to campus to bring energy, spirit, and inspiration to our physical education classes! Students had a blast participating in fun scoops and tennis games alongside Mia, and had the opportunity to ask questions, share
Chicka-dee-dee-dee! Local birds are beginning to migrate back to the Gallery as year three of our school-wide birding project gets underway. Students throughout the school will help us to collect and visualize data representing bird calls detected by our Haikubox, helping us all to learn more about the nature around
Seventh grade students engaged in a service project to support The Village Table, aiming to deepen their understanding of food insecurity and community support. The day began with discussions on food insecurity: its meaning, its impact, and how communities can help. These conversations highlighted that access to nutritious food is
Students Learn, Sharpen Their Spy Skills During February break, the Belmont Day School campus transformed into a school for super sleuths with all sorts of whodunit programs. Our young detectives and spies explored everything that the campus had to offer. Their sleuthing instructors, Ms. Fields and Mr. Armstrong, taught the
Do you know what a tombolo is? Ask a second grader! This week, the students visited the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Students had an opportunity to meet with map educators and learn about the current exhibit, Terrains of Independence, and examine revolution-era Boston maps.
This week was our annual Capstone Studio Week for our eighth grade students. They had several hours each day in which to work on their Capstone projects. The students were assigned to small groups across campus, supporting one another with ideas and positivity. Throughout the week, our arts and technology
For the bulk of trimester two, sixth graders read The Giverby Lois Lowry. Often considered the first dystopian novel written for a young adult audience, The Giver provides an exciting but accessible text on which to practice our large group discussion skills. Students were taught explicit “talk moves” in order to share ideas
In the current fifth grade science unit, students are studying aspects of our planet and its relationship to the Sun and Moon. Through lessons examining the changing seasons, shortening of daylight hours, and how the Earth both rotates and revolves, fifth graders are learning more deeply about how and why
In first grade, students are beginning their poetry unit, which is the foundation for their curriculum showcase in March. First, the students explored poetry as art and a style of writing, and now they are examining different forms such as haikus and free verse poems. For their free verse poems,
