Sixth Graders Dig Farm School This week, sixth graders enjoyed spectacular weather, bountiful harvests, uplifting interactions with animals, and nourishing companionship as we made our annual visit to the Farm School in Athol. Condensing the traditional overnight trip into two separate day trips and traveling in separate cohort groups, students
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month! Middle school Spanish students worked in teams to create two amazing murals to honor and to recognize the contributions of Hispanics to the culture and history of the United States. Sixth grade students researched and wrote biographies of different people, including Rita Moreno, Shakira, Jaime Escalante,
Pre-kindergarten: Into the Woods … In pre-kindergarten, we have always viewed the surrounding woods as an extension of our classroom. This year, in particular, we are excited to spend additional time exploring and discovering the woods and we have visited on a daily basis. For many reasons, the woods are
Author Visits Fourth and Fifth Grades On Thursday morning, fourth and fifth grade students had the opportunity to meet with author and illustrator Remy Lai from Brisbane, Australia. She gave us a tour of her home studio and talked about her brand new book Fly on the Wall and how the editing
Great First Week for First Grade First graders have been busy getting to know their teachers and cohorts. We have been playing a lot of community building games and practicing how to be back in school. Students have also been exploring many of the materials, some of them brand new, that
Head of School Brendan Largay is delighted to announce the 2020-21 recipients of the Lenesa Leana Endowment for Innovative and Collaborative Education. Established in 2011, the endowment supports the multidimensional ways that our community comes together to explore, develop, and implement innovation, all the while upholding the values at our heart. Alice Henry,
Heads of School and Current Parent to Discuss Community Relationships and Planning for Fall 2020 Through this challenging summer as schools across the country have worked to envision and prepare for reopening this fall, a key in the process for the team at Belmont Day has been harnessing the expertise
Connected • Responsive • SecureIntroducing Veracross, Magnus Health, and Seesaw As a school dedicated to transparent and relevant communications, maintaining a safe and healthy environment for students and faculty, and inspiring and challenging every student, Belmont Day is excited to introduce three new tools that support the home-school partnership: Veracross,
The 2020 Corporation and Parents’ Association open meetings were held online on Thursday May 14. During these annual meetings, the Belmont Day community came together to celebrate the 2019-20 academic year, mark faculty service milestones, honor outgoing and announce new members of the board of trustees and the PA executive committee. This year has
With the switch to offsite learning due to the coronavirus outbreak, our faculty will be sharing various curriculum highlights from their virtual classrooms. Sixth Grade French Class Gets Poetic After studying a poem by a Francophone author, it was time for sixth grade French students to create their own poems
on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, due to weather.
