Palm Valley Academy kicks off first day of school

Volunteers and members of the Palm Valley Academy PTO sort and prepare school supplies.

Photos courtesy of Palm Valley Academy PTO

Third-grader Hudson Pennell and first-grader Piper Pennell celebrate their new school in Palm Valley Academy’s gymnasium.

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Palm Valley Academy students and teachers attend the school’s Back-to- School Bash on Aug. 8, which included student-led tours, t-shirt tie-dye crafts and games.

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Kindergartner Finnley Strickland poses in front of one of the inspirational art and encouraging messages found throughout the hallways and bathrooms at Palm Valley Academy.

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A book fair is held in the Media Center at Palm Valley Academy during the school’s Back-to-School Bash last Wednesday, Aug. 8.

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Posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 12:00 am

Doors opened to nearly 1,300 students at Palm Valley Academy in Nocatee last Friday, Aug. 10.

Located on 13 acres of land adjacent to the Twenty Mile neighborhood, the new K-8 school is comprised of students from all Nocatee neighborhoods on the Town Center side of the master planned community, as well as all of Twenty Mile and Kelly Pointe.

Before the first day of school, the new K-8 school also held a Back-to-School Bash on Wednesday, Aug. 8.

For more information about Palm Valley Academy, check out the article about the new school in the August/September edition of the First Coast Register, which is inserted within this week’s Recorder and also found online at pontevedrarecorder.com.