Wednesday, February 5th:

Legacy Basketball at HOME - First Responders Night - 5:00pm

Monday, February 10:

Legacy Basketball at HOME - Fifth Grade Night - 5:00pm

Book Fair will be open

Tuesday, February 11th:

Resiliency Day – Adjusted Bell Schedule

February 11th – 20th

Scholastic Book Fair

February 12th

Spring CFE Infrastructure Trial

February 17th

President’s Day – Schools Closed

Deadline for OCPS 2025-2026 Magnet Program Applications 

February 19th - April 23:

United Basketball Academy Recreational League

February 20th

Incoming 6th Graders Night

February 24th

Jazz Concert Field Trip for All 6th Graders

March 14th

Teacher Workday / Student Holiday

March 17th – 21st

Spring Break – Schools Closed

March 25th

Legacy Middle School Business Fair

March 27th

6th Grade Author Visit – Alyson Gerber

We would like to thank the following Partners in Education for their generous donations to our “A” Honor Roll Breakfast on January 28th:

• East Orlando School of Music  

• Nothing Bundt Cakes - Waterford Lakes

• United Basketball Academy

Judges Award: Legacy’s Robotics team was evaluated on their engineering notebook, robot design, judges’ interview and other considerations. We are proud of Mr. Freeman and our students!

Our amazing Jets are soaring with Learning Ally!* We remain in first place for the state of Florida and among the top ten across the nation at 6th place. Please keep encouraging your child to read for pleasure. 

* Learning Ally is an audio book program that also provides students who struggle to read, often due to a reading deficit, equitable access to all the books they need to and want to read, including curriculum-aligned textbooks and literature, popular fiction, and others. Students have access to over 80,000 audiobooks. 

Voices of Freedom at the Dr. Phillips Center (Feb. 7):

Our Boys basketball team shakes hands and shows sportsmanship towards their opponents, Avalon Middle School, after a resounding vanquishing, 63 – 37. Our Boys basketball team is 2-0 on the season. Our next HOME game on Wednesday, 2/5, against Corner Lake Middle School will be our First Responders Night. 

Marcos Armien-Afu experiments with chemical reactions in Ms. Hubbel’s Physical Science class. Students are learning about the process of exothermic and endothermic reactions.

Jets compete on the road in Lakeland.

Our Debate team traveled to their second Incubate Debate event in Lakeland, FL. We showed a lot of improvement overall from our last tournament, with Orlando Stewart-Lopategui making it all the way to the semifinal round. Everyone was really excited for this improvement. In addition, both Orlando Stewart-Lopategui and Valeria Fiallos earned the Ernest Hemingway Award for showing the most growth throughout the tournament. We were pleased to see the support that we received from parents and the numerous compliments that we received from both spectators and participants on how sharply dressed our team presented in their new Legacy Jets blazers! 

Valeria Fiallos and Orlando Stewart Lopategui receipients of the Earnest Hemingway Award for most improvement.

Happy Birthday Sabrina. On Monday, January 27th, Sabrina celebrated with her friends at our Birthday Venue and they had a great time... Let's keep making memories!

Birthday Celebration Information

Questions: Email Ms. Haynes (media specialist)

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Parents, if you are interested in being a chaperone for Gradventure with our 8th graders, you must be approved as an ADDitions Volunteer for this school year. Approvals can take two to three weeks and should be completed as soon as possible. Please sign up on the OCPS ADDitions Website for #1 Become an 2024-25 ADDitions Volunteer with Legacy Middle School. Contact Ms. Fray at susan.fray@ocps.net if you are interested in being a chaperone and if you have any questions. Do not pay for your ticket until you have received a confirmation from Ms. Fray that you have been approved as a chaperone.

📚 Let's Read, OCPS! 🍊

Superintendent's Weekly Message - Jan. 27, 2025

The Let's Read OCPS challenge started this past Monday, January 27. Students, staff, parents, even partners in education can participate.

In this latest video message, District 7 School Board Member Melissa Byrd joins Mondays with Maria presented by Addition Financial to kick off the initiative, along with some very special guests you have to see. Let's do this, OCPS!

About the Challenge

All OCPS students, employees, families, and community members are encouraged to participate in the Let’s Read, OCPS! challenge by individually reading at least 500 minutes throughout the challenge. Participants are encouraged to read whatever they choose for enjoyment and to log their minutes in Beanstack, a LaunchPad application that motivates and rewards students for reading.

How to Participate

Students and employees are encouraged to log their minutes in Beanstack, which can be found on LaunchPad, in the Library Research Tools folder. Students and employees can earn badges and view their progress throughout the challenge by opening the Let's Read, OCPS! challenge on the Beanstack Challenges page.

More information about the Let's Read, OCPS! challenge and how to participate can be found here.

*** Legacy staff are already participating in the district reading challenge! SHOUT OUT to Ms. O’Brien, Ms. Terry, and Mr. Zissis, for logging their reading minutes into Beanstack! Please remember to ask your student if they have been recording their reading time. Thank you!

Digital Reading Resources with the Sora App:

Please have your student record their reading minutes through the Beanstack app. 

For the month of January, Legacy ranked #104 out of 217 schools in terms of total reading minutes. Let’s try to improve our ranking in February. This month's reading challenge is “For the Love of Reading."

* Should you have any questions about using the Beanstack app, please email our media specialist, Ms. Haynes. She would be more than happy to assist our parents or staff. 

This month's Reading Challenge which also support's the OCPS District Challenge mentioned above:

Legacy Middle School's Top 9 Readers for the January Beanstack Challenge: "Be a Reading Machine"

1. Presley McNichol (6th) - 1,176 minutes read 

2. Adrianna Acosta Irizarry (6th) - 1,052 minutes read

3. Susie Young (6th) - 728 minutes read

4. Ashley Plummer (6th) - 706 minutes read

5. Khuong Au (6th) - 635 minutes read

6. Hannah Tran (6th) - 615 minutes read

7. Pablo Rojas (8th) - 605 minutes read

8. Dominic Vasquez (6th) - 400 minutes read

9. Nikolas Cortes (6th) - 355 minutes read (TIE)

9. Kabella Ratunil (6th) - 355 minutes read (TIE)

OCPS offers several dynamic and innovative Magnet Programs across our district for students to participate in. Families with students as young as Kindergarten can apply to participate in one of 41 programs offered at the elementary, middle and high school level.

You can see all the Magnet offerings at: https://www.ocps.net/departments/school_choice/magnet_programs

To participate in one of these Magnet Programs families must apply. The application must be submitted electronically before the deadline of February 17, 2025, for consideration in the first lottery. Students must meet the eligibility requirements of the magnet(s) for which they are applying.

Families may apply here: https://schoolchoicemagnet.ocps.net/

If you would like to see additional information on our Magnet Programs, please visit the OCPS Magnet Office on social media at: https://linktr.ee/ocps_Magnets