I wanted you to know that each year we award the Presidential Fitness Awards to our students who master all of the Physical Education goals.  This is a national assessment.  At Poinciana we usually have approximately 80 students who receive this award – last year we had 88.  This year we had 168 students receive it!  The only difference we [...]

Has anyone felt the ground vibrating each morning from 7:45 to 8:15 AM?  Don’t worry, it’s not an earthquake – its approximately 426 Poinciana Elementary School students (grades k-5) walking and running the Morning Mile.  Introduced by and sponsored to the school by the Lower Keys Medical Center,  Coach John Hughes, PE Teacher at Poinciana, loves that the Morning Mile [...]

Poinciana Pelicans are extremely excited about their Morning Mile program, which is sponsored by Lower Keys Medical Center. They completed 620 miles in the first five days alone, and plan to walk enough miles to get all the way to Hollywood, California. This should easily be accomplished as 387 out of 628 students or 61.6% of the student body has [...]