After learning All-Star Transportation, which oversees most of the district’s student transportation needs, may have stock and ownership transferred to a new company, the school board voted to approve of the company’s plans at its meeting on May 7.

St Rose of Lima School welcomed visitors on May 3 for Grandparents/Special Persons Day.

Reed Intermediate School Principal Anne Uberti was chosen by the Board of Education at its meeting on May 7 to serve as the district’s new assistant superintendent.

Newtown Winter Percussion competed at the annual WGI (Winter Guard International) World Championships in Dayton, Ohio, for the first time in the history of the program.

On the day that marked the school’s 30th anniversary, students, faculty, and invited guests gathered to watch the annual seventh and eighth grade performance of a play by William Shakespeare at Housatonic Valley Waldorf School.

Student finalists in grades K-12 from throughout the state will compete at the Connecticut Invention Convention on the morning of Saturday, May 4. The event is taking place at the University of Connecticut-Storrs campus, and organizers have confirmed to The Newtown Bee that students from Newtown schools are among those competing.

St Rose of Lima School is gearing up for a musical production of Getting To Know The Sound of Music, which will be staged at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street, on May 9 at 5 pm and 7:30 pm.

Reed Intermediate School’s musical James and the Giant Peach Jr, will be staged this weekend, May 3 and 4, at the school, 3 Trades Lane.

The following students made the High Honor Roll and Honor Roll for the third quarter marking period at Newtown High School for the 2018-19 school year.

For Middle Gate Elementary School, the week of April 8 to 12 was filled with celebrations for the school’s second annual Read and Grow Week.