Layer Link- 9/13/25

Posted Date: 9/13/25 (9:00 AM)

Principal's Message

Thank you for being involved in your child's success at Layer! We are incredibly grateful to have a community that is dedicated and wants to make impact with us!

Remember that Quarter 1 Progress Reports are now available online in the Portfolio section in Skyward. Please let the front office know if you need help logging on to your Skyward Account.

As always, please let us know if you have questions, feedback, or suggestions!

Lindsay Todd, Principal

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Student Discussion

Lucky's Locker

Kindergarten Field Trip

Grandparents Breakfast

Layer Facebook Page

Upcoming Dates:

8/25-9/26- FAST Progress Monitoring 1 for Grades K-5 (see schedule below)
9/15-10/15- Hispanic Heritage Month (see below)
9/15-9/20- Chick-Fil-A Spirit Week at Tuskawilla Road (see below)
9/19- Oh, The Places We Will Go Day- Wear travel/favorite destination shirts!
9/23- Fall Picture Day (info coming soon)
9/26- Layer Spirit Day!
10/1- Rock Your School Day!

We have planned so many additional events for the year! Click this link to access our 2025-2026 Family Events calendar!

School Information:

Hispanic Heritage Month

Congratulations to our Teacher of the Year and Employee of the Year!

Congratulations to these tremendous educators, Mrs. Donna Grubbs is our Teacher of the Year and Ms. Debra Badger is our Employee of the Year! It’s so exciting because they work together in the same classroom! We are grateful for their dedication, compassion, and positivity all over campus!

PTA Chick-Fil-A Spirit Week

Fall Picture Day

Lifetouch Ordering Website

PTA Reflections

Reflections Information

Reflections Interest Form

Layer School Advisory Council

We appreciate all of the volunteers who will be serving on our SAC for 2025-2026:

· Allison Kerr (Parent and SAC Chair)

· Artranise Wright (Assistant Principal)

· Devin Price (Parent)

· Jennifer Dishman (Instructional)

· Heidi Caragan (Instructional)

· Jenn Glasglow (Parent)

· Jerry Walker (Parent)

· Kathleen Robinson (Parent and SAC Secretary)

· Lindsay Todd (Principal)

· Melanie Cruz-Phillips (Non-Instructional)

· Melissa Balserait (Parent)

· Melissa Botens (Instructional)

· Nicola Williams (Parent)

· Patrice McKay (Parent)

· Scott MacCord (Parent)

· Tara Noviello (Parent)

· Tatiana Estevez (Parent and SAC Vice-Chair)

Anyone is invited to attend our monthly meetings as we will continue to focus on Layer and how we can grow our school together. The SAC BYLAWS guide our practices and planning! Let Ms. Todd know if you have any questions or suggestions!

Art Club- 4th & 5th Graders

Our Art Club is ready to take on some artists! If you are interested in being a part of our Art Club, fill out an application below & attach it to a drawing. Return everything to Ms. Knazick by September 19th.

Art Club Application

Calling All 2nd & 3rd Graders!

The Green Thumbs Gardening Club is getting ready for a new planting season. If you would like to come "grow" with us, fill out & turn in an application before next Friday (9/19/25). Students will be selected and informed by email the week of September 22nd.

Green Thumbs Application

Sunshine State Program Kick-Off

We are reading, reading, reading!! If your child has come home talking about their Sunshine State book, here's more information! Check out our parent letters below which explain our program. Students earn book tokens & book tags when they read the books & take an AR test. Let's Get Reading!!!

Sunshine State Jr Parent Letter (Kind. - 3rd)

Sunshine State Jr Kick-off Video

Sunshine State Young Readers Parent Letter (3rd - 5th)

Sunshine State Young Reader Kick-off Video

Attendance Matters!

Please send in your excuse notes for absences or tardies to LRES_attendance@myscps.us or log into your Family Skyward account. Please be sure your doctor's & excuse notes are in within two weeks of the absence so they can be entered properly! Excuse notes need to explain the family emergency or if your child is sick to be excused. After 10 written/emailed parent notes, doctor notes are required.

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Community Photos for Yearbook

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Fifth Grade Dedication Ads for Yearbook

Purchase Fifth Grade Ads

Layer Food Pantry Assistance

Sign up to receive free support from the Layer Food Pantry. This includes our food backpack program in which families receive food to take home on the weekends. This is completely optional and you can cancel anytime. Answers will remain confidential.

Please contact Neva Akins, Layer's Guidance Counselor, at 407-871-8054 if you have any questions.

Food Pantry Assistance

Donate to Layer's Food Pantry

FAST & iReady Testing Dates:

iReady & FAST Testing Dates in August & September

Click below for more testing information:

Support Our Layer Community Partners!

Become a Community Partner

PTA Birthday Banners

Purchase a Birthday balloon for your child

Purchase a Birthday Balloon Here

PRIDE Expectations with PBIS!

Layer is proud to be a PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Support) School! We expect all students to follow our PRIDE expectations so we can keep our school a happy and safe place for all students.

We appreciate family support as we link all behavior choices to our expectations across our campus with our continued Lucky Bucks and our consistent Behavior Alert system. Layer follows a Heirachy of Consequences in every classroom which can be viewed HERE.

HERE is the Seminole County Public Schools Student Code of Conduct. These are the expectations that all students follow to keep our school happy and safe.

HERE is the Seminole County Public Schools Dress Code. We ask that all students have appropriate clothing and safe shoes to play outside in each day. No flip-flops please!

Connect With Us!

Principal- Lindsay Todd

lindsay_todd@scps.k12.fl.us

407-871-8090

Assistant Principal- Artranise Wright

sawyeraz@scps.k12.fl.us

407-871-8091

Website: https://layer.scps.k12.fl.us/

Location: 4201 Florida 419, Winter Springs, FL, USA

Phone: (407) 871-8050

Facebook: facebook.com/LayerElementary

Twitter: @Layer_Lynx