Thales Academy Knightdale Pre-K-8

(919) 295-5954 | 525 Carolinian Avenue | Knightdale, NC 27545


Beth Zingler Head of School		Sharon Berger Administrative Assistant

2024-2025 School Year Information

Academic Calendar

TRACK IN	TRACK OUT
JULY 15, 2024 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 9/2 – Labor Day Holiday	SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 – OCTOBER 6, 2024 3 Week Break
OCTOBER 7, 2024 – DECEMBER 13, 2024 11/25 - 11/29 – Thanksgiving Break	DECEMBER 14, 2024 – JANUARY 5, 2025 3 Week Break
JANUARY 6, 2025 – MARCH 7, 2025 1/20 – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday	MARCH 8, 2025 – MARCH 30, 2025 3 Week Break (Includes possible make-up days March 10-14, 2025)
MARCH 31, 2025 – JUNE 6, 2025 4/18 – Good Friday 5/26 – Memorial Day Holiday	JUNE 7, 2025 – JULY 20, 2025 6 Week Summer Break 2025-2026 School Year begins July 21, 2025

Dress Code

Thales Academy students adhere to a simple dress code: Khaki or navy pants, skirts, shorts, or jumpers paired with polo shirts of various colors.

We have found that students learn best when given the freedom to focus their attention on academics and those aspects of character that are truly important.

View all PK-5 dress code details here.

View all 6-8 dress code details here.

Supply Lists

Students in grades Pre-K - 5 are expected to have the supplies listed on the PreK-5th Grade Supply List . Junior High students are expected to have the supplies listed on the Junior High Supply List. Please contact your child's homeroom teacher with any questions regarding your child's supply list.

Lunch Catering

Lunches are catered each day through MyHotLunchbox. Visit the MyHotLunchbox page and click Create Account to get started. All questions regarding lunch catering should be directed to info@myhotlunchbox.com or (888) 894-8295

Carpool and Student Safety

Morning, afternoon and mid-day Pre-K carpool run efficiently when all families follow the same procedures outlined here. For the safety of our students and neighbors, please review and plan to follow this guideline every day.

When visiting campus during the day, please have your valid drivers license with you to check in using our visitor system.

Emergency notifications will be sent via text. Parents are subscribed at the beginning of each school year automatically. To unsubscribe, text STOP to (877) 861-4157. To register after the start of the school year, complete this form.

After School Care, Before School Care, and Clubs

After school care is available daily for Grades K-8 until 6:00 pm beginning, Monday, July 15 (Kindergarten may participate on their staggered entry day). You may choose to pay in full in July, or you may pay in 10 monthly payments which can be added to your Blackbaud agreement. This is a flat rate fee that is paid regardless of the number of days of attendance each week/month, paid August through May.

Full-time 1 child - $1800, or 10 monthly installments of $180
Full-time sibling - $1200
Any students that are not picked up by 6:00 pm will incur a $1.00 per minute charge that is to be paid in cash at pick up.

Click here to sign up for ASC for the 2024-25 school year.

Before school care is available daily, starting at 6:45 am, for Grades K-8.

The rate is $5.00 per child, per day.
Monthly fees will be loaded into Blackbaud at the end of each month.

Click here to sign up for BSC for the 2024-25 school year.

After School Clubs

Visit the modules section to view current after school club offerings.

About Canvas

If you don't have a Canvas account, you're missing out! Announcements on this page are only visible to parents when signed in to Canvas.

Canvas is used for daily class communication and assignments, so parents are encouraged to use Canvas to stay up-to-date on student activity. Grades for all submitted assignments are posted to Canvas every Monday by 4pm.

This campus-level page will remain accessible to all parents without a Canvas account, but to access campus announcements and email notifications, as well as course-level student-specific information, including assignments, class announcements, and student grades, parents will need to create an account in Canvas.

Using Pairing Codes to Create an Account

Parent accounts should be created at the login page from the link "Parent of a Canvas user? Click here for an account." This process requires a pairing code. If you do not have one from your campus administrators, you can see this document for how you can generate your own. Pairing codes are one-time-use only and expire after 7 days if unused.

Canvas Parent Pairing Codes.pdf

Setting Notification Preferences

You have control over how often you receive notifications for each content type in Canvas. Please note that an email address must be confirmed before it will receive email notifications. You can check the status of an email address under the Ways to Contact section on the right-hand side of your User Settings page.

How to set notification preferences

Canvas Notification Schedule Details

Basics of Using Canvas

Once logged into Canvas, your student's courses will be listed on your Dashboard. Please visit this page to learn how to customize your dashboard, view grades, and access all course content.

In-depth guides to using Canvas can be found here.

Configuring the Mobile Apps

For quick access to this week's assignments, grades, and to set notification triggers for grades, we recommend the blue Canvas Parent mobile app.You can sign into this app using the same parent credentials you use on the web version of Canvas. Your account must be created from the web first before you can access the parent app. To access all content in a course on a mobile device, you will want to sign in to the red Student app as the student, using the student credentials provided in onRecord at the "Parent" login screen.

About onRecord and Smart Tuition

The onRecord Student Information System contains information about your student's Enrollment, Registration, Attendance, and Final Report Cards. An onRecord account is created during the application process. If you need an additional parent account created after a student is enrolled, please contact your campus administrator. All payments for tuition and incidental items like field trips and club fees can be paid from the Smart Tuition link on the onRecord resource board. If you would like to access Smart Tuition independently from onRecord, you will need to create an additional username and password from your Smart Tuition account under Edit My Profile>My Username & Password>Update

Click here to log into onRecord.

About LiveSchool

We use Liveschool to track and reward students behavior as a part of our belief in educating the Whole Student. Please contact you campus Head of School above to set up parent access to your student in Liveschool.

Announcements Archive

All previous announcements for this campus can be accessed at this link.

Technology

Students in Grades 6-8 are assigned an Apple iPad to complete schoolwork. Student use of Technology falls under the Student Code of Conduct in the Student Handbook and the Technology Handbook.

All students will set up iPads using the setup video found here. Students who join later in the year or have an iPad replaced can follow the same steps at any point. Other videos on this page are provided for student reference, as well as information for parents to share in management of student web activity and device usage.