While traditional students are out for the summer, many Wake County year-round students head back to school this morning. Some of them will be attending Laurel Park Elementary, one of Wake County's brand new schools.

"It's going to be very exciting. We have 600 penguins arriving," said Laurel Park Elementary Principal, Gail Turner. "It has just some beautiful wide open spaces and sky-lights and it's really quite unique and we're really excited about how we can use some of these open spaces for learning."

All the books and computer inside the school are also new, as well as some of the teachers.

"I'm new to Wake County, so it's a brand new curriculum, brand new area, trying to get a feel for everything," said Julie Murphy, a fourth-grade teacher.

Murphy isn't new to the job, just to the area. She's was a teacher for 10 years in Pennsylvania and she's still nervous about the first day.

"Working with a brand new team, although I have a great team I'm working with so far, I'm very excited about that. That helps in calming my nerves a little bit," she said.

Down the hall it's a new school and a new career for Anna Dimeo, fresh out of college. She's excited about all the resources that come with the brand-new school

"A classroom library's given to me, math manipulative, and just all this space and such as small class size, I just feel that I was given a gift to be able to help children," said Dimeo.

And she can't wait to start teaching her fifth-grade students.

"I like to be very active with my class, when it gets a little crazy, do some yoga to settle everyone down and I think just having that young energy, it really excited the children,"