August 29th: Legacy Dance Team Auditions

September 2nd: Labor Day – No School

September 3rd: ELA PM1 *

September 5th: Math PM1 *

September 10th : SAC meeting in the Media Center at 5:30 pm

* Florida Assessment of Student Thinking or FAST assessments are administered three times during each school year: once at the beginning of the year (PM1), once in the middle of the year (PM2), and once at the end of the year (PM3). Please click here for more information from the Florida Department of Education on FAST and the three Progress Monintoring Assessments (PMA) for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics.

Month of September:

B.E.S.T. - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking

EOC - End-of-Course Assessment

ELA - English Language Arts

FAST - Florida Assessment of Student Thinking

NGSSS - Next Generation Sunshine State Standards

PM1, PM2, PM3 - Progress Monitoring Assessments. FAST is administered during three windows of the school year. 

National College Colors Day (Aug. 30):

Labor Day - School Holiday (Sept. 2):

Jeremiah's Ice Night (Sept. 4)

Hat Day:

Florida Department of Education and Volunteer Florida announce 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month contests

The Florida Department of Education and Volunteer Florida are encouraging students to participate in the Hispanic Heritage Month student art and essay contests with the theme “Honoring Hispanic Contributions to Florida’s Success.” Hispanic Heritage Month is recognized and celebrated in the United States from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

About the Student Art Contest

The Hispanic Heritage Month art contest is open to all Kindergarten through third-grade students in Florida. Each student will submit original, two-dimensional artwork based on this year’s theme. Four statewide winners will be selected, and each winner will receive a $100 gift card for school supplies and a one-year pass to Florida State Parks.

About the Student Essay Contest

The Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest is open to all students attending any Florida school in grades 4-12. Six winners will be selected: two elementary school students (grades 4-5), two middle school students (grades 6-8), and two high school students (grades 9 through 12). Each winner will receive a two-year Florida College Plan scholarship provided by the Florida Prepaid College Foundation and a $100 gift card for school supplies.

Contest entries and nominating forms and guidelines

Student contest forms and educator nomination forms must be mailed to Volunteer Florida or submitted at FloridaHispanicHeritage.com.

Congratulations to our 2024 soccer athletes! Please join us next Wednesday at HOME when our Jets compete vs. Avalon's Huskies!

Ms. Schneider’s 8th Grade Science Class

Bubble Lab Scientific Experiment Review

Join us for a night of celebrating Hispanic Heritage with our Legacy dancers!

It’s such an honor to be invited back for a second year! Bring your family and friends to this amazing free showcase show at 6pm! We are opening the invite to our community including feeder schools (Elementary and HS). Students from each class will be selected to join us on a field trip experience for just $10 that includes pizza and bus transport. Please give Mrs. Henry exact cash or pay through school pay by August 30th if you are selected. 

The link below is to reserve your free ticket for the 8 pm show- The director told me to give her a number asap so that she can accommodate other schools as well.

https://www.drphillipscenter.org/events/tickets/2024/celebrating-hispanic-voices/

Snapshots from last year's event!

Legacy Middle School is seeking the support of families and the community to join our Student Advisory Committee (SAC) and Parent Teacher Student Association (PTSA) in its mission of helping students collaborate, innovate, and accelerate our students to success.  

Our first SAC meeting of the year will take place on Tuesday, September 10 at 5:30pm in the media center. We will review important information regarding SAC, the school, and a motion for funding. When parents are actively involved, it fosters a sense of community and collaboration among families, teachers, and administrators. This can create a more supportive and engaging environment for students. Being part of the SAC/PTSA helps parents stay informed about school events, policies, and needs. It also provides a platform for parents to voice their concerns and ideas directly to the school administration.

The current PTSA officers will help guide you through the process, provide all materials, and send out the officer application. 

Members of the nominating committee can run for office but are not required to.

If you would like to serve on the Legacy Middle School PTSA Nominating Committee please complete the following form LMS Nomination Form or email us at legacymiddleschoolptsa@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Legacy Middle School PTSA 

Aug. 26, 2024

On this week's Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial, Superintendent Maria Vazquez is addressing concerns that some families might have about transportation this year and what the district is doing about it. You can see a list of frequently asked questions on the front page of our website. 

Illegal passing of stopped school buses:

This is a quick reminder to all Orange County drivers about running through buses' stop arms during these early weeks of back-to-school. In 2021, the penalties for failing to stop for a school bus and passing a stopped school bus on the side where children enter and exit doubled. It is imperative that all motorists properly stop for school buses so all of our students can arrive at school or home safely.

Source: Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

This is a troubling state-wide issue at the start of the new school year, so we ask our local community to be careful when approaching a stopped school bus. In a popular story which ran this past week from nearby Hillsborough County (Tampa), over just four days, from August 12 to August 15, deputies with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office issued 2,391 warnings for stop-arm violations. (For now, drivers who violate the stop-arm warning and flashing red lights urging them to stop will receive just a warning, but starting Sept. 12, violators will be slapped with a $225 ticket - more than red light violation fines.)

* Please also remember that using a wireless communications device in a handheld manner while driving in a designated school crossing, school zone, or active work zone area is against the law and extremely dangerous.

Wisdom to Live By

Inspirational quotes for our Jets heading into the last days of August about setting ambitious goals, blazing your own path and practicing to be your best.

Devers On Conviction

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

~ Gail Devers, track star

Emerson On Leadership

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet

Knight On Practice

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

~ Bobby Knight, basketball coach

Berlin On Consistency

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

~ Irving Berlin, songwriter

Picasso On Challenges

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

~ Pablo Picasso, painter