Newtown Public Schools announced upcoming art shows that are open to the public. Admission is free for all of the events.

Newtown High School students are making magic on the school’s auditorium stage: the spring musical, Mary Poppins, is being staged Thursday, March 21 to Sunday, March 24.

Middle Gate Elementary School students learned about differences people can have at the school’s annual Diversity Day, held this year on March 1.

To create the magic of Newtown High School’s upcoming musical, Mary Poppins, on the school’s stage, students in the production crew have been working on the play’s scenes and props.

The Newtown Percussion and Newtown Winter Guard groups have been busy practicing, in lieu of competing, due to recent weather-related cancellations.

Newtown High School artists were celebrated for recent accomplishments by the Board of Education at its meeting on March 5.

Newtown Continuing Education has limited openings available in the following classes and activities. Contact Newtown Continuing Education at 203-426-1787, 9 am to 1 pm, Monday through Friday, for further information on dates, times, and location or visit newtowncontinuinged.org.

As the performance dates for Newtown High School’s spring musical, Mary Poppins, approach, students are working hard to bring the production’s magic to the school’s auditorium stage.

After the entire school community read a book about a dog and his best human friend, Sandy Hook Elementary School students celebrated by attending an assembly on February 22 that included humans and dogs.

Newtown Middle School eighth grade art enrichment students spent the entire school day on February 28 making mobiles inspired by the American sculptor Alexander Calder’s body of work.