Legacy Middle School

    

Overview

Legacy Christian Academy’s middle school offers a challenging yet nurturing academic environment that addresses the distinctive needs of early adolescents. Our program supplies support and guidance so that each student discovers new interests, develops intellectual integrity, grasps increasingly challenging academic concepts, builds healthy relationships, grows in confidence, and strengthens independent thinking skills. The middle school provides traditionally-paced, college preparatory courses as well as accelerated math classes. The program emphasizes the concurrent development of work and study habits to ensure success in meeting the increasing demands of academic studies. Students leave the middle school prepared for a rigorous high school curriculum with solid cognitive reasoning, communication, and critical thinking skills.

Seventh Grade

• Advanced Math Placement - Students are given the opportunity to test into    Algebra I as a Seventh Grader.
• Spanish I high school curriculum - Upon completion of their 7th and 8th grade    year at Legacy, students will have met the full requirement of a Spanish I high    school program.
• Technology-rich classrooms with ActivBoards, an ELMO, and personal MacBook    laptops [for research, word processing, access to educational websites, drafting &    design, digital media editing, video production, and much more!].
• Interactive Science Laboratory with projects and dissections such as a Flower    Dissection Lab and a Sheep Heart Dissection.
• Physical Education: Students choose to enroll in either a general PE course or an    after school sports team (basketball, flag football, softball, volleyball, baseball,    soccer).
• Electives such as: Strategies for Life, Media Arts (video production or digital    photography), Creative Arts (architecture, fashion illustration, or sculpture),    Domestic Arts (fine arts, cooking, calligraphy, cake decorating, etc.), Musical Arts.
• Weekly Small Group Discipleship and Community Service/Mission Opportunities.
• Field trips such as: Winter Camp [3 days/2 nights] and the Catalina Island Marine    Institute [3 days/2 nights].

Eighth Grade

• Advanced Math Placement - Students are given the opportunity to test into Geometry as an Eighth Grader.
• Spanish I high school curriculum - Upon completion of their 7th and 8th grade year at Legacy, students will have met the full requirement of a Spanish I high school program.
• Technology-rich classrooms with ActivBoards, an ELMO, and personal MacBook laptops [for research, word processing, access to educational websites, drafting & design, digital media editing, video production, and much more!].
• Interactive Science Laboratory with projects and experiments such as Chemical Reaction Experiments, a Bottle Rocket Lab, and Atomic Radii Data Lab.
• Physical Education: Students choose to enroll in either a general PE course or an after school sports team (basketball, flag football, softball, volleyball, baseball, soccer).
• Electives such as: Strategies for Life, Media Arts (video production or digital photography), Creative Arts (architecture, fashion illustration, or sculpture), Domestic Arts (fine arts, cooking, calligraphy, cake decorating, etc.), Musical Arts.
• Weekly Small Group Discipleship and Community Service/Mission Opportunities
• And Field trips such as: Winter Camp [3 days/2 nights] the Griffith Observatory, and Disneyland [3 days/2 nights]

Course Offerings (click here)

21st Century Learning

The Legacy middle school program maintains a foundational focus on core academic subjects. However, student success in the 21st century depends on more than basic reading, writing, math, and computing skills. To function well in the context of modern life, students must also develop critical interpersonal skills, independent and collaborative work habits, discernment about information and media, and a global perspective. Therefore, Legacy makes learning 21st century skills a key goal of its middle school program.

These 21st century skills can be categorized under four themes:

• Global Awareness
• Critical Thinking and Innovation
• Information, Media, and Technology Literacy
• Communication and Career Skills

Global Awareness

Within Legacy's 21st century focus, global education is a priority. Our desire is to instill in students a deeper understanding of and appreciation for cultures, people, and challenges around the globe. Our program seeks to prepare students to address the complex issues other countries face in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected world. Legacy achieves these goals through:

• Service learning projects that teach students about key global issues and enable them to actively participate in solutions
• School-sponsored travel/missions opportunities
• Guest speakers and performers focusing on cross-cultural and international issues
• Connections and partnerships with schools and communities around the world
• Year-long foreign language and culture study in seventh and eighth grades
• A consistent focus on current events in the world