BETHEL — Parents of SAD 44 children were notified Saturday that counselors would be available for students and staff when school resumed Monday morning as a response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy on Friday.

Twenty 6- and 7-year-olds and six staff members were killed at the Newtown, Conn., school.

Superintendent David Murphy said the district’s social workers also sent information to everyone in the district’s five schools Monday morning when classes began an hour later than usual because of the snowy weather.

“We’ll take a look at what has happened and at our crisis plans to see what adjustments we can make,” he said Monday afternoon.

State law requires every school district and individual school to have an emergency/crisis plan in place, Murphy said.

He said teachers were asked to conduct as normal a school day as possible.

“We want to maintain routine,” he said.