After the recent International Dyslexia Association (IDA) annual conference, held this year at Foxwoods Resort, October 24 to 27, Newtown residents who attended reflected on the experience and what they learned.

Throughout October, local fire companies visited Newtown elementary schools to share fire safety tips as part of annual fire prevention activities.

Newtown Continuing Education has limited openings available in the following classes and activities.

The Newtown High School Marching Band & Color Guard is preparing for a November 3 USBands New England Regional Championship competition at Danbury High School. Groups from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Jersey will be competing at the event.

Newtown students and educators took part in an October 20 to 21 Student Gun Violence Summit in Washington, DC, that led to the creation and ratification of a Students’ Bill of Rights for Safer Communities.

The Board of Education celebrated Newtown High School’s new Sit With Us program, which is designed to partner students with new lunch mates, at its meeting on October 16.

Reed Intermediate School students faced off for the second year in a row in a week-long Color Games event, October 8 to 12, and a culminating evening event on October 12 filled the school with students wearing blue and green.