The children who escaped last month's shootings at a US elementary school are returning to classes in a neighbouring Connecticut town in a refurbished school now named after their old one, officials have said.
Newtown Superintendent of schools Janet Robinson announced that the students' new school, the former Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe, has been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School. She said the Sandy Hook staff had been behind the decision.
"That's who they are. They're the Sandy Hook family," Ms Robinson said after a news conference at a park in Monroe a few miles from the school, which will open for classes on Thursday morning. An open day was held for parents and students today.
Ms Robinson added that renaming the Chalk Hill school will allow staff and students to keep "their identity and a comfort level".
The school where the shootings occurred in Newtown remains closed and guarded by police. Town officials have not decided yet on the building's future.
It has been nearly three weeks since the December 14 massacre, when gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 students and six staff. Lanza also killed his mother at the home they shared in Newtown before the school shootings, which...
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