Newtown Middle School and Middle Gate Elementary School both held evening events recently to highlight student creativity.

During some of the week’s only sunny hours, Newtown High School Forestry Club and National Honor Society students met Aquarion Water Company volunteers along the banks of the Pootatuck River to plant trees on April 29.

Newtown High School’s Unified Theater program is set to present an original student-driven show called Breaking Barriers, Saturday, May 18, at 6 pm, and Sunday, May 19, at 2 pm, at Newtown High School, 12 Berkshire Road.

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.