Visual And Performing Arts Hs Podcast

Weekly Updates Sept. 13, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Edward Trimis, principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School with a few announcements. Monday is a late-start day with Period 1 starting at 10 am. Hola comunidad VAPA! Este es el Dr. Edward Trimis, director de Legacy Visual y Performing Arts High School con algunos anuncios. El lunes es un día de inicio tardío con el período uno a partir de las diez en punto. This is National Suicide Prevention Month and National Hispanic Heritage Month. Did you miss Back to School Night? You can still see videos from the event at bit.ly/vapabts2020. Please note that students who are interested in playing a sport, should get a physical and complete online sports packets. You may also contact coaches for updates.  Their contact info may be found at www.legacytigers.com Physicals may be turned in to the VAPA office on Mondays until November 1. At this time, sports are scheduled to resume with practices on December 14, should we be allowed to retur

Weekly Updates September 8, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Edward Trimis, principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School with a few announcements. Hola comunidad VAPA! Este es el Dr. Edward Trimis, director de Legacy Visual y Performing Arts High School con algunos anuncios. This week we will have our Back to School Night Virtual Event on Thursday, September 10, at 5 pm. In addition to having the opportunity to see our teachers live in the Zoom Webinar, several teachers will post videos so you can see who they work with our students on a daily basis. In addition to our classroom visits, we will give a brief welcomes for myself and some of our students and staff, and you will have the opportunity to learn more about PTSA, School Site Council, and our Gifted and Talented program. The link for the Zoom webinar is http://bit.ly/vapath6 and the pass code is 814235. Please note that students who are interested in playing a sport, should get a physical and complete online sports packets. You

Weekly Updates August 30, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Edward Trimis, principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School with a few announcements. There is no school this Friday or on September 7 as we celebrate Labor Day. Hola comunidad VAPA! Este es el Dr. Edward Trimis, director de Legacy Visual y Performing Arts High School con algunos anuncios. No hay clases este viernes o el siete de septiembre ya que celebramos el Día del Trabajo. Monday is an B-Day with Period 4 starting at 10:05 am, followed by Periods 5, 6, and 7. Our theme for this year is VAPA Strong: Into the Light as we CREATE, INSPIRE, UNIFY, and EDUCATE. Please note that students who are interested in playing a sport, should get a physical and complete online sports packets. You may also contact coaches for updates.  Their contact info may be found at www.legacytigers.com At this time, sports are scheduled to resume with practices on December 14, should we be allowed to return to school by then. This week we continue ou

Weekly Announcements August 23, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Edward Trimis, principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School with a few announcements. Hola comunidad VAPA! Este es el Dr. Edward Trimis, director de Legacy Visual y Performing Arts High School con algunos anuncios. Monday is an A-Day with Period 1 starting at 10:05 am, followed by Periods 2, 3, and Advisory H and L. Our theme for this year is VAPA Strong: Into the Light as we CREATE, INSPIRE, UNIFY, and EDUCATE. This week we have our final textbook pick-up and registration paperwork return days. Please follow guidelines for mask-wearing and physical distancing on campus and be sure to wash your hand before you leave the house and when you return. Please also follow the schedule for when students pick-up books. 10th grade on Monday, 11th grade on Tuesday, and 12th grade on Wednesday. On Wednesday, seniors will also take their senior portraits in the MPR. Again, please follow the schedule from Fotorama and senior boys need

Opening of School Year and Welcome August 13/16, 2020 Good evening. This is Dr. Trimis, Principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School, with an important message for our students and families. The first day of school will be August 18. The first two days of school, August 18 and 19, will focus on preparing for online learning. Students will spend Tuesday and Wednesday morning watching orientation videos about tools and strategies for online learning success, online safety, and digital citizenship. Students need to log on to lms.lausd.net with their username and password and click on their grade level (or homeroom advisory) to access their lessons. On Tuesday, August 18, at 1 pm, I will hold a virtual meeting to welcome you to our school and answer any questions you may have. The link to this Orientation is www.bit.ly/vapath3  For those who are unable to attend, a video recording of the meeting will be posted on our school’s website. On Wednesday, August 19, (advisory) teachers will hold an

Weekly Updates August 9, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Edward Trimis, principal of Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School with a few announcements. Hola comunidad VAPA! Este es el Dr. Edward Trimis, director de Legacy Visual y Performing Arts High School con algunos anuncios. We are living in unprecedented times and there is quite a bit of information that you need to know as we start the school year teaching and learning online. Please note even in the virtual or distance learning classroom, we are continuing to focus on student success which including on-track high school graduation, on-time attendance, and citizenship.    Please note these days when students need to go to campus to return signed registration paperwork, pick up textbooks, and advanced instrumental students will also pick-up instruments. Pick-up times are assigned on these dates: 9th Grade on August 10, 11, 20, and 21, 10th Grade on August 24, 11th Grade in August 25, and 12th Grade on August 26. 12th Graders are also ta

July 28, 2020     Dear Students and Parents or Guardians,   It is with great excitement I welcome you, or welcome you back, to the Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School family! We have been working hard to prepare for a wonderful year for you full of fantastic learning opportunities from the classroom to the stage and beyond! We are excited about the many programs we offer that you will learn about from your Link Crew mentors to the Educare ACE program for all Freshmen. I hope to see you at Fall events, our Freshman Orientation event, Back-to-School Night, shows, concerts, recitals, and more! Please be aware that given the current health crisis we are all facing, we are not sure at this point what any of these will look like, but we are hopeful we will get back to more of a normal situation soon. Traditionally, our sports teams would be holding try-outs and practices after a Sports Orientation. We held on online sports orientation on June 20 and it may be found at https://youtu.be/8heKDLamEtw.

Welcome For New Students-UPDATE June 28, 2020 Dear Students and Parents or Guardians, It is with great excitement I welcome you to the Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School family! We have been working hard to prepare for a wonderful year for you full of fantastic learning opportunities from the classroom to the stage and beyond! We are excited about the many programs we offer that you will learn about from your Link Crew mentors to the 3-day ACE program for all Freshmen, to the Leader in Me program. I hope to see you at Fall events, our Freshman Orientation event, Back-to-School Night, shows, concerts, recitals, and more! Please be aware that given the current health crisis we are all facing, our calendar and events schedule is fluid, but will be getting more information throughout the summer. Please go to www.bit.ly/vapa2024 for updated information and a class request form. Please complete the form as soon as possible as our goal is to have all students scheduled into classes before the beginni

Weekly Updates June 7, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We are in the final week of the Spring Semester. This week all students will be returning return any textbooks, library books, uniforms, instruments or equipment for school including performing groups, sports program. SENIORS will pay outstanding fines with the Student Store, return Chromebooks or other technology, and receive caps and gowns. 9th, 10th and 11th Graders will NOT return technology/Chromebooks and will not pay fines this week. ALL SPORTS equipment and uniforms as well as musical instruments will be returned on Monday only, 8:30 am-3 pm. Students are assigned times on their specific day and can get those times on Schoology. We will have a virtual Senior Awards on June 11 at 5 pm and Sports Orientation on Monday, June 15 at 5 pm, presented via YouTube Premier. Our Class of 2020 Virtual Graduation will be Saturday, June 13, at 3 p

Weekly Updates May 31, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We are in the final two weeks of the Spring Semester. This Friday, June 5, at their assigned time, seniors will return any textbooks, library books, uniforms, instruments or equipment for performing groups, sports equipment and uniforms, and pay any outstanding fees at the Student Store. After final clearance, seniors will receive their caps and gowns. 9th-11th grade students will follow the same return process on June 8-11 on assigned dates and times. Please go to www.vapalegacy.com and http://’bit.ly/vapaonline to see assigned times for students. I encourage our seniors to go to their page on our website https://bit.ly/2020vapa We will have a virtual Senior Awards and Recital presented via YouTube Premier on June 10 at 2 pm. The deadline to submit recital videos is Thursday, June 4. Our Class of 2020 Virtual Graduation will be Saturday, J

Weekly Updates May 25, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We wish our VAPA seniors all the best as they take their Final Exams this week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We will have a virtual Open House tomorrow, Tuesday, May 26, at 5 pm. The Zoom Webinar links is posted on our social media sites and website at www.vapalegacy.com and www.bit.ly/vapaonline. SENIORS I encourage our seniors to go to their page on our website https://bit.ly/2020vapa We are coming down to the end of the year! June 5 is the day for seniors to come to school and return textbooks, library books, pay any outstanding debts, and return technology, uniforms, and equipment. We have also set aside this day for students to pick-up caps and gowns and awards after turning in their clearance sheet. We will have a virtual Senior Awards and Recital presented via YouTube Premier on June 10 at 2 pm. The deadline to submit recita

Weekly Updates May 17, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We wish our VAPA students all the best as they continue taking Advanced Placement Exams this week. We will have a virtual Coffee With the Principal on Friday, May 22, at 10 am. Our virtual Open House will be Tuesday, May 26, at 2 pm. Zoom Meet links for both events will be posted on our social media sites and website. SENIORS I encourage our seniors to go to their page on our website https://bit.ly/2020vapa We are coming down to the end of the year! At this time we have tentatively set June 5 as the day for seniors to come to school and return textbooks, library books, pay any outstanding debts, and return technology, uniforms, and equipment. We have also set aside this day for students to pick-up caps and gowns and awards after turning in their clearance sheet. We will have a virtual Senior Awards and Recital presented via YouTube Premie

Video Welcome https://youtu.be/Ot3IIpsTF-Y Welcome, Legacy VAPA Class of 2024 May 10, 2020 April 30, 2020 Dear Students and Parents or Guardians, It is with great excitement I welcome you to the Legacy Visual and Performing Arts High School family! We have been working hard to prepare for a wonderful year for you full of fantastic learning opportunities from the classroom to the stage and beyond! We are excited about the many programs we offer that you will learn about from your Link Crew mentors to the 3-day ACE program for all Freshmen, to the Leader in Me program. I hope to see you at Fall events, our Freshman Orientation event, our opening football game, Back-to-School Night, shows, concerts, recitals, and more! Please be aware that given the current health crisis we are all facing, we are not sure at this point what any of these will look like, but we are hopeful we will get back to more of a normal situation soon. LAUSD will run a virtual Summer School Program running from June 24 to July 28. Pl

Weekly Updates May 10, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   This is Foster Care Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. 15-Week Progress Reports are out this week and there are 5 weeks of school left until summer. The last day of instruction is June 12, Summer School is Online and June 24-July 28, and the first day of instruction in the Fall is August 18.   We wish our VAPA students all the best as they start taking Advanced Placement Exams this week. GRADE-SPECIFIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: SENIORS We will be making some deliveries to seniors this week on Tuesday including refunds and other paperwork. Any senior who thinks we may have an incorrect address on file should e-mail me at etrimis@lausd.net with your correct address. We will have a pick-up day at school for any deliveries we are not able to make. Stay-tuned for updates about graduation. We will host a virtual Senior Awards and Recital Event and mo

Weekly Update May 3, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We are continuing teaching and learning online this week as I hope to continue to answer questions and provide more support for our students as well as the teachers who teach them. This week we celebrate National Teachers Week with National Teachers Day being Tuesday. Please give a shout-out or a thank you to your teachers this week! One of my early mentors in education, in the classroom and as a school leader, was Jon Liechty, the first principal I worked with as a full-time teacher at Berendo Middle School  in the 80’s. Mr. Liechty always said, whenever he got the chance, that the classroom teacher is the most important person that works for the school district because their reach is far and the impact they make on kids’ lives on a daily basis is more than anyone else in our educational system. And I agree and this has guided my work as a scho

Senior Announcements (4/30/20) April 30, 2020 Dear VAPA Seniors and Parents or Guardians, We are now in the last month and a half of the school year and I have some updates for you. I’m sure you agree this has been an unprecedented time for all of us and I am sure not the way our seniors wanted to close their last year of high school. We are finding answers to questions as soon as possible and are working on plans to honor our seniors in a few different ways including signs and messages online. We have been featuring seniors on our social media sites and website. We are asking ALL seniors to send a photo and plans for college or whatever they will be doing after high school. We need these as soon as possible, ideally before Friday, May 1, so they may be featured in the slide show we are sending to LAUSD to be posted on the LAUSD website. Please send photos and information to Ms. Dadrass at pxd9265@lausd.net. We are planning virtual or online events for Cinco de Mayo, Senior Awards and Recital, and the Na

Weekly Updates April 26, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   At Legacy VAPA, we are continuing to connect with our students and community online. You may hear “virtual learning system” or “virtual academy” and these are all another way of saying “online school”.  We will continue teaching and learning in the environment for the rest of the semester which ends June 12 and in summer school, June 24-July 28. Teachers will be holding regular office hours and teaching online, sometimes through live online sessions with their students and sometimes through e-mail and text communications, depending on the teacher and the class. We hold staff and community meetings on Zoom, one of the video conferencing platforms that many schools use. Here are a few reminders: Grab and Go school meals continue to be distributed at South Gate and Southeast High Schools from 7-11 am each weekday. Seniors are being sent ref

Weekly Updates April 19, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   We are continuing teaching and learning online this week as we find more and more tools to help us in this work and provide more support for our students. Today I will proovide new resources and information important for our families. Last week we held our first virtual Coffee With the Principal. Please look for information for the next Coffee With the Principal meetings online in May and in June. This week the South Gate Community of Schools will hold a Virtual Town Hall meeting on April 23 at 1 pm to provide an update on school services. Meeting information will be posted on our website and social media platforms. Please join us. We have a new website for our work as an online school, VAPA Online, which can be found at bit.ly/vapaonline the site has new teacher class hours and office hours, video updates, and other information to support

Weekly Announcements April 12, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   This week we at Legacy VAPA, and the rest of LAUSD, will continue teaching and learning remotely in a virtual or online environment. Please note that teachers will be holding regular office hours for students and parents to visit online three times a week and these hours are posted on our website (under “Our School”) and our social media platforms. You may also find the online schedule and many other resources at https://bit.ly/vapaonline During the office hour, you may contact teachers through e-mail, telephone if they have set-up a phone line for that, and some teachers will be holding open video conferences. I will have an office hour for parents and community on Thursdays at 3:30 pm. Please support our work at VAPA helping students succeed by ensuring students to their assigned work and attend classes online as scheduled and check

Weekly Updates March 29, 2020 Hello VAPA Community! This is Dr. Trimis with a few announcements! ¡Hola Comunidad de VAPA! Este es el Dr. Trimis con algunos anuncios!   This week we are in our third week of instruction delivered to our students as the Legacy Visual and Performing Arts Virtual Academy! Please note that teachers will be holding regular office hours for students and parents to visit online three times a week and these will be posted on our website and social media platforms. During the office hour, you may contact the teacher through e-mail, telephone if they have set-up a phone line for that, and some teachers will be holding open video conferences. I will have three office hours a week, as well, and though I will try to keep them on the same days and times, they are subject to change depending on my schedule. This week I will have a Student Virtual Breakfast with the Principal on Monday at 10 am, Staff Virtual Afternoon Tea with the Principal on Tuesday at 3:30 pm, and  Parent and Community