Photo: The Chenery Middle School tennis courts which will house six modular classrooms in August 2016. After putting off a decision for the past two years, Belmont School District announced last week it will place six modular classrooms on the Chenery Middle School tennis courts for the start of the 2016-17 school year in August. The […]
Photo: Fifteen of the seventeen educators who were granted professional status by the Belmont School District. For Elizabeth Gentes, Tuesday night was the culmination of her giving Belmont students a first-class education. In return, the School District recognized that effort and her skills by saying “thanks for sticking with us. We’d like you to stay,” she said. […]
Photo: More students have entered Belmont schools in the past three months. The news on student enrollment levels in Belmont’s six public schools from School Superintendent John Phelan continues along a familiar theme of the past five years: more are still coming. At the Sept. 8 School Committee meeting, Phelan reported that between June 1 to Sept. […]
Photo: Custodians at work. The men and women who keep Belmont’s six schools clean and tidy and help feed 4,100 students will be getting a small pay raise after the Belmont School Committee approved a three-year contract with the union representing the workers. The committee unanimously approved the memorandum of agreement with the American Federation of State, […]
Photo: Newton’s Oak Hill Middle School recently used eight modulars to fill a temporary space need, adding 4,800 sq.-ft. to the district’s footprint. During the worst of the record snow fall in February, it appeared a certainty that many of Belmont’s six schools would see small villages of modular structures spring up in the fall to […]
Photo: Retiring: (from left) Mary Dominguez, Anne Mullany, Rosemary Peterson, Roseanne Mili and Georgia Patterson. They had a collective experience of nearly two centuries working in the Belmont schools; a testament to their commitment to education. At a ceremony held on Tuesday, June 9, Belmont School Committee honored eight educators and staff members as they […]
Photo: School lunches will increase by a quarter beginning in September. The Belmont School Committee approved a package of fee hikes for all users of school space at its Tuesday, June 10 meeting. The action, first reported in the Belmontonian last month, will begin in July at the start of the new fiscal year in July for facility rentals, full-day […]
Photo: Renting Belmont High School’s Higginbottom Pool will cost more if the Belmont School Committee approved fee increases. Saying that teaching positions should not be sacrificed if programs using its facilities are not paying a fair rate, the Belmont School Committee was presented a proposal to increase the rent for two non-profit programs and a jump […]
Photo: Lunch in Belmont. Dustin O’Brien, Belmont Public School’s Food Services director, has been a culinary whirling dervish this school year. The person responsible for providing nutritious meals for students that partake in the lunch offerings at the six Belmont public schools – as well as breakfast at the Belmont High – O’Brien has been leading the way […]
Photo: Dr. David Alper speaking before the Belmont School Committee. The Belmont School Committee approved a pilot program to close school for one day in observance of the Jewish High Holidays beginning in the coming 2015-16 school year. In addition to the decision made Tuesday night, March 24, Belmont School Superintendent John Phelan once again […]