Every Tuesday during the school year, members of the Newtown High School Peer Leadership club meet and plan different activities around interests or passions of club members. Recent projects have spread the club’s support locally and further away.

Hawley Elementary School began its annual Kindness Month celebrations with a visit by Westport author Karlin Gray on December 3, and throughout the month, the school will focus on learning about kindness and completing kind acts.

Newtown Police Department K-9 Officer Felicia Figol, Officer Matt Hayes, and K-9 Aris visited Fraser Woods Montessori School on December 4 to share some of Aris’s abilities during two school assemblies.

The Board of Education discussed the idea of creating a new policy for class sizes at its meeting on December 4. Board of Education Vice Chair and Policy Committee Chair Rebekah Harriman-Stites introduced the idea, explaining that while there have been general guidelines, the district has not had a set policy on class size.

A Fraser Woods Montessori School mother has created an online app to help inspire girls to be clever, creative, and inquisitive. Empowered Girl offers tools and interactive features to help girls understand self-care.

Air conditioning projects for Hawley Elementary School’s multipurpose room and Newtown Middle School’s cafeteria were approved, along with a lightning protection system project for Sandy Hook Elementary School, by the Board of Education at its meeting on December 4.

UPDATE: NEF's Annual Evening of Comedy has been postponed to Friday, March 1. || The Newtown Education Foundation Honor an Educator program is live in time for the holiday season, according to the foundation. The foundation has also announced its next Annual Evening of Comedy fundraiser is slated to be held January 19.

All fourth grade elementary school students in the district work on creating personalized exploration projects, and one class at Hawley Elementary School recently completed its projects.

Newtown Middle School recently released its honor roll for the first quarter marking period of the 2018-19 school year. The following seventh and eighth grade students earned their place on the list.