Week-03 (09/12/2021) – Circular – Sacramento Tamil Academy

Week-03 (09/12/2021) – Circular

அன்புடையீர் வணக்கம்,

We hope this email finds you and your family healthy and safe. Please read this email in its entirety since it contains lots of important information.

Welcome to week-3 of the 2021-22 academic year. School registration is closed. Full calendar is available on the school information page.

Upcoming important dates:

Sep 19 2021: Test -1/project (applicable only to Adv. KG, Grades 2 to 8)

Oct 17 2021: Test -2 (applicable only to Adv. KG, Grades 2 to 8)

Class assembly performance:

Sep 12 2021: Grade 8, section A

Sep 26 2021: Grade 7, section A

Oct 03 2021: Grade 7, section B

Oct 10 2021: Grade 6, section A

Library pick-up/drop-off:

Student’s favorite library is back. First pick-up/drop-off event is scheduled for 6 PM, Sep 11 2021 at Amos P. Catlin Park, Folsom, CA. There are few books pending to be returned from the 2019 school year. Those parents have been separately reached out. Please make sure school library books are returned promptly.

Instruction method: Classes will be conducted through Google classroom & meet. All new students by now should have received and activated their sactamilacademy Google workspace logins. If not, please reach out to their teachers and/or principal(s). For security reasons, all students & teachers must join or access the content and meeting ONLY through the authorized sactamilacademy.org Google workspace. Since this facility allows each student to have a full google account, Parents are responsible to monitor their child’s activities, progress, & assignments.

Conversation Videos by AKT (grades KG, 1, & 2):

Conversation videos by AKT are made to be part of the curriculum for Kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 2. Access is available to those videos on the CTA / ITA webportal for the respective teachers and parents.

Here are the links to documents on “How to access Conversation Videos by AKT” for different roles:

Teachers – https://tinyurl.com/ConversationVideos-Teachers

Parents – https://tinyurl.com/ConversationVideos-Parents

Note: Videos for Grade 2 are on the works and it should be available by Sep 12 2021.

Assembly: School will start with a virtual assembly at 9:45 AM. After assembly, students are required to join their individual classroom sessions conducted by their respective teachers.

Parents eager to join the assembly session can use the following video call link: https://meet.google.com/usx-kpcm-eac. Teachers/Students should have a separate invitation to join the assembly as live stream participants.

Books for current year:

Grades Preschool 1 to Grade IV: Book distribution is closed. Please reach out to the school principal if you have not received the text books. There are few students yet to receive story books and we are hoping to distribute them along with grades V-VIII.

Grades V – VIII: Books are available online for now as shipment from Singapore is delayed due to CoVID-19 shipment restrictions. We request Parents to help their kids access the online books through parent login.

To access the books, login to your ITA/CTA account, select Parent Access, Child Resources Info and click on the book icon below the ITA textbook header. This should give the list of books for your child. Click on the book name from the list and make sure pop-ups are not blocked. This should open up the book. Physical textbooks are expected to be distributed by late September/early October. Expect further communication in that regard.

Attendance: Attendance will be noted by the teachers during the live classroom session (weekly Sunday 10-11:30 AM).

For all other technical support and/or questions, please reach out to administration team below:

Incharge	Name	Phone	Email
Principal	Rajarajan Thangavelu	(916) 342-6678	rajarajan.thangavelu@sactamilacademy.org
Vice Principal	Kavitha Manoharan	(916) 917-8902	kavitha.manoharan@sactamilacademy.org