Week-07 (10/10/2021) – Circular – Sacramento Tamil Academy

Week-07 (10/10/2021) – Circular

அன்புடையீர் வணக்கம்,

Welcome to week-7 of the 2021-22 academic year. Hope you all are doing well and safe. Please read this email in its entirety since it contains lots of important information.

Upcoming important dates:

Oct 09 2021: Textbook pick-up for grades 5 to 8 and library pick-up/drop off at Amos P. Catlin Park, Folsom, CA. Hours: 4:30-6:00 pm

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

Books for current year:

Grades V – VIII: Book distribution is scheduled for today, Oct 9th between 4:30-6:00 pm at Amos P. Catlin Park, Folsom, CA.

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. Students who didn’t receive their story books can pick them up at today’s (Oct 9th) book distribution/library hours (4:30 – 6:00 PM).

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, teachers and students should have calendar invites already for the assembly session. Teachers & students are requested to join the assembly through the live stream link available in their sactamilacademy.org’s calendar.

Upcoming class assembly performance:

Oct 10 2021: Grade 6, section A

Oct 24 2021: Grade 6, section B

Oct 31 2021: Grade 6, section C

Attendance: Attendance is a key component of our grading system as you all should know. Attendance will be marked by the attendance officer during the live classroom session (weekly Sunday 10-11:30 AM). Arriving after 10.15 am or leaving before 11.15 am will be marked as Tardy. Don’t forget that 100% attendance for the academic year gets a special recognition at the end of the year.

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

Instruction method: Classes are 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.

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