Cheam Common Junior Academy: Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park KT4 8UT Tel: 020 8337 1844

email: ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk www.cheamcommon.org.uk

YEAR 3 GREEK MYTHS on ADOBE SPARK

Year 3 are enjoying their topic on the Ancient Greeks this term. We have received some impressive Adobe Spark videos that the children have created to record their retelling of Greek Myths. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

Click here to listen to the story Pandora's Box by Maia

Click here to listen to the story of Icarus by Elise

Click here to listen to the story of King Midas by Ezre

Click here to listen to the story of Pandora's Box by Sofie

Click here to listen to the story of King Midas by Samuel

YEAR 3 DRUMMING

Year 3 enjoyed their first online drumming lesson with Inspireworks this week. They are learning how to play the cajón, a box-shaped percussion instrument from Peru. Using empty cardboard & plastic boxes, the children enjoyed making music with Kostas! We hope to see you all again at the same time next week!

CLASS GoogleMeets

We continued our Class GoogleMeets this week and caught up with the children to find out what they had been up to during the Easter holidays - they have certainly kept busy!

We plan to have these class meetings at the same time each week to help you plan your week. The link code that parents were sent this week will continue to be the same each week. Year 4 and 5 can access the code from Google Classroom. Year 3 and 6 will need the code from parent's email address.

Please see below a reminder of the day and times for each class GoogleMeet.

It has been a busy start to the Summer Term and lots of you have been sending in some great work from the Online Lessons and the year group tasks on the distance learning websites.

Remember, you can (if you want to) send any work you do during and after these lessons into your year group mailboxes - see email address below.

LEO Distance Learning Sites

Please click here to access the LEO Distance Learning Sites.

These will allow you to access:

A variety of activities

Online English and Maths lessons (Monday-Friday)

Additional resources

Distance Learning Email Addresses:

Year3 - ccjy3homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk

Year4 - ccjy4homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk

Year5 - ccjy5homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk

Year6 - ccjy6homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk

RE DAY

As Friday 24th April was the start of Ramadan, Cheam Common Juniors held their first online RE day on the religion Islam.

To understand Ramadan, Year 3 read an exciting text explaining what Ramadan is. Did you know that Ramadan lasts for 30 days and is a time for reflection for Muslims? Year 3 then explored Islamic art, including patterns and designs, before creating some of their own.

Year 4 learnt about Eid Al Adha and the 5 Pillars of Islam, in particular prayer, in Reading and Topic. After reading a text about the Festival of Sacrifice, Year 4 practiced their comprehension skills before choosing a craft to resemble the story. Some children recorded themselves baking sheep biscuits on Flipgrid or made sheep figures out of Lego! The creativity was flowing all the way through to their Topic lessons where they designed their own prayer mats when learning about the 5 Pillars of Islam! Well done Year 4!

Also being creative, Year 5 created lanterns and prayer mats in order to celebrate Ramdan too. Did you know that lanterns represent hope to light the way through darkness! They also decorated a window using tessellation. Year 5 also had the opportunity to bake some yummy treats to symbolise Eid Al Fir which will be on the evening of 23rd May!

Inspired by the Islamic symbol, Year 6 created their own moon and star sculptures! Year 6 also celebrated Ramadan by making lanterns, using geometric patterns that they learnt earlier in the year and decorating Sadaqah jars.

PROJECT BASED HOME LEARNING

Below are each year group's Project Based Home Learning for this term.

The topics for the Summer Term are:

Year 3: Ancient Greeks

Year 4: Blue Abyss

Year 5: Ancient Egypt

Year 6: Ancient Mayans

These are also available on our website here. Each year group have set a range of tasks that children may like to complete. These tasks will immerse children with the topic they are learning about and will also support their learning. There is no expectation to complete all of them or to complete one each week. The children can choose which tasks they would like to do. Please send any work into your Year Group email addresses. Your class teachers and Miss Gunner would love to see your work!

National Theatre Collection

In response to the school closures caused by Coronavirus, National Theatre is now offering username and password access to the National Theatre Collection. For a temporary period, plays can be accessed remotely ensuring students studying from home can still watch them.

Your access details are: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com

Username: 6Mx93Kq/fy

Password: 1Gz99Bjwv4

(The Log in button is in the top right-hand corner of the landing page. Please insert your username and password to left-hand option of the login pop-up.)

Please ensure you are typing the credentials in rather than copying and pasting them as this can insert invisible spaces which invalidate the details. These should be entered under the ‘access log in’ and not the ‘personal log in’. If you have any difficulties please test in another browser as some are known as having issues.

These details must not be offered to anyone external to our school or posted on social media.

Please note the free access is only to the National Theatre Collection whilst Drama Online is made up of 11 collections in total which are available via subscription. If you would like more information on these please click here.

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