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Vidyalaya curriculum 2020-2021

The Vidyalaya curriculum for 2020-2021 has two components.

1. Core curriculum :  This component is generally not offered by regular schools and is only available from religious institutions and/or institutions with affiliations with Indian culture or heritage.   This is considered mandatory for children taking Vidyalaya classes so that some core values are learnt about religious chants, epics and stories of hindu religion.
2. Supporting curriculum:  Some of this curriculum may be offered by other local institutions.  The curriculum may be popular amongst the children and the community due to various factors.  Since this is also available outside of our HTGC Vidyalaya, this is considered optional for children. 

Based on the feedback from many parents surveyed this year, the school year will have 2 hours of core curriculum (mandatory) for children.  One of them is Religion and the other is either indian languages or cultural topics. 

The other consideration that has been taken into account is the age or the ability to learn.  There are 3 age groups aligned with the school system (Elementary, Middle and high school.)  This is expected to help simplify the curriculum selection by the students/parents.  This categorization is suggestive and not strictly enforced on students.   Parents are suggested to select classes based on the child’s abilities while using this categorization as a guidance.  Based on the child’s ability, they can be advanced or slowed down to higher or lower levels of each core classes. 

Vidyalaya will be holding a parent orientation/open house during which parents can speak with teachers to determine the appropriateness of the class for their child(ren.) 

This year we removed the PSAT/SAT classes from the sunday school curriculum.  It is felt that a short term (6-8 weeks) PSAT/SAT/ACT classes with more emphasis and frequency would be of benefit to children.  More information will be posted soon.

Due to the online nature of the classes this time around, the parents curriculum is not included in this.  Parent/Adult curriculum will be posted soon. 

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