Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter


Friday 5th March 2021

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

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

Learning Together, Aiming High

News

Full Opening of School - Monday 8th March

We are looking forward to welcoming all children back to school on Monday. We cannot wait to welcome everyone back into the Cheam Common building! As always, the safety of pupils, family and staff will be our priority. All parents/carers received further details regarding logistics of the full school return on Monday.


Please ensure:

  • If your child or anyone in your household is displaying symptoms of COVID 19, please inform the school immediately. DO NOT BRING YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL. Call 111 or visit www.nhs.co.uk for medical advice. You should also book a test.

  • Wear a face mask when on the school grounds

  • Ensure you remain social distanced at all times

  • Adhere to the one way system

  • Do not gather on the playground

  • Only arrive at the times stated below to reduce congestion

  • Only one parent/guardian per child is permitted on site, if siblings have to come due to lack of childcare, please ensure all family members remain within your family group including toddlers

The car park gates will open from 8:20am and close promptly at 8:45am. If your child arrives after this time, they will need to go through the main reception.

The end of the school day will be as follows:

Year 3 & Year 4: 3:00pm

Year 5: 3:10pm

Year 6: 3:15pm

Please enter through the car park. You can exit the site from either the car park, side entrance between CCI and CCJ or via the gate on Balmoral Road.

Breakfast Club and After School Club will begin from Monday 8th March. The normal timings will resume so breakfast club will begin at 7.30am and after school club will end at 6pm. Please note that payment will begin from Monday 8th March. If you have any further enquiries, please contact the Extended Schools email address: ccjextendedservices@leoacademytrust.co.uk

All extra curricular clubs both before and after school will recommence from Monday 19th April. An extra curricular club list will be shared with you shortly.

World Book Day - Thursday 4th March

Children both at home and school have been enjoying LEO Book Week which was rounded off nicely yesterday with World Book Day where all children were able to dress up as a book character. We were so impressed with the effort everyone put in.

All children will receive their World Book Day token next week.


Click here to watch a video from all the CCJ Staff to celebrate World Book Day. We hope you enjoy it!




Click here to see all the fun Year 6 had for LEO Book Week. Fantastic costumes, drawings, Toontastic videos and creative reading areas. Well done!

Cheam Common Lockdown Challenge

Well done to everyone who took part in The Cheam Common Lockdown Challenge. A great effort from everyone involved and currently have generated £800 for both Cheam Common Infants' and Cheam Common Junior Academy. Well done everyone and thank you to all the sponsors.

Cheam Common Strava Leaderboard

Before half term, Mr Ewing set up our very own Cheam Common Strava Page to help track how active we are whether that is through walking, cycling and running. Check out the leaderboard so far...

There is still time for you to sign up and to make your distances count!

Dates for your Diary!

Spring 2:

WC 8th March - School reopens for all pupils

WC 8th March - British Science Week

WC 15th March - LEO Innovation Week

Friday 19th March - Red Nose Day

WC 22nd March - LEO Happy Wellbeing Framework Launch Week





Things to celebrate!

Star of the Week Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who received the Star of the Week Awards this week:

Year 3

3B: Evie

3K: Yasmina

3LS: Rea

3M: Jemimah

Year 4

4G: Sofie A

4H: Ezre

4J: Suhaani

4S: Toby

Year 5

5A: Sesandi

5B: Claudia

5C: Karthi

5I: Dominik

Year 6

6C: Freddie

6H: Isaac

6K: Kinara

6W: Scarlett

PRIDE Values Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who received the Pride Values Awards this week:

Year 3

3B: Charlotte O

3K: Rex

3LS: Adam

3M: Ivan

Year 4

4G: Toby

4H: Stephen

4J: Abhi

4S: Ruby

Year 5

5A: Braymia

5B: Pratyusha

5C: Nihal

5I: Baer

Year 6

6C: Etana

6H: Yvonne

6K: Freddie L

6W: Aiden

Cheam Common Rights Respecting Schools' Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who have displayed outstanding, respectful behaviour this week:

Year 3

3B: Jaeden

3K: Melani

3LS: Luca

3M: Dexter

Year 4

4G: Nyaria

4H: Megan

4J: Alex

4S: Shashank

Year 5

5A: Mia

5B: Nnenna

5C: Molly

5I: Ahmed

Year 6

6C: Nisha

6H: Lucy

6K: Dua

6W: Joann


CHEAM COMMON POSTCARDS

Our Cheam Common Postcards are back! These postcards are another way of us communicating with you to celebrate great work, ideas or attitudes that we have been impressed with during this time!

We hope they will put a smile on everyone's faces!

Year 3

Charlotte L

Aryan

Grace L

Adam K

Ji-In

Elspeth

Elsie

Year 4

Furqaan

Harry

Genevieve

Matthew

Jessie

Amelia

Year 5

Sanat

Zackry

Abi

Mandy

Harsini

Year 6

Alex

Prenavi

Sadie









TIMES TABLE ROCK STARS LEADER BOARD

Congratulations to the following children for being top of the leader board for achieving the most points towards their classes' overall score.

Year 3: Rashad, 3B

Year 4: Seyi, 4H

Year 5: Zackry, 5C

Year 6: Veer, 6K

DOODLE MATHS

Well done to our top doodlers this week:

Y3 - Jordan

Y4 - Toby

Y5 - Shay

Y6 - Jay

Congratulations to 3M for being the Doodle Maths winners this week. Congratulations to 3LS for being the Doodle English winners this week.

Who will be our leaders next week?

100 Day Streak

Well done Layla who has completed a 100 day streak on Doodle Maths. This means she has used Doodle Maths everyday for the past 100 days!


Well done to Aadi for completing a 100 day streak on both Doodle Maths and Doodle English!

A great achievement!

Celebrating some of the fantastic work this week!







Year 6 Poetry

Year 6 were inspired by Malala's Magic Pencil and wrote and performed their own poems. What do you think? What would you do if you had a magic pencil?


Aurora's Magic Pencil

Laurence's Magic Pencil

Samara's Magic Pencil

Usman's Magic Pencil


Inspired by The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Year 6 have begun writing their diary entries from a character's perspective. Very impressed with the feelings they are portrayed.

Year 5 Travel Brochures

Year 5 have been putting their persuasive writing into practice with these fantastic travel brochures. Where would you like to visit?


Samuel Ben Pema Nihal Izaak Aarush Sophie

Information & Resources

Click here for a short story to share with your children about returning to school.

Free Well Being Exercise Sessions


The company Sport Works are delivering wellbeing exercise sessions which are targeted for children with SEND.

These sessions are completely free, are delivered online and will get children (and their families) active and engaged.

Sessions run on:

Monday 4:30pm - 5:15pm

Wednesday 4pm - 4:45pm

Thursday 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Saturday 10am - 10:45am

To sign up simply contact ernest.ako@sportworksltd.co.uk

Please click here for the Sport Works flyer with further information.

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

This week’s book is one of the new titles from the Year 6 book list and is ‘Point Blanc’ (Alex Rider) by Anthony Horowitz.

Investigations into the “accidental” deaths of two of the world's most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy, a school for rebellious rich kids run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high in the French Alps. Armed with a new collection of gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the academy as a pupil and establish the truth about what is really happening there!

Remember to fill in a book review once you have read a book so that your teacher can stamp your bookmark!

You can find your child's Battle of the Books suggested book list on our school website via the following link:

http://www.cheamcommon.org.uk/website/supporting_the_curriculum/331291

Here you will find most books listed, however we are continually updating and showcasing our recommended reads as new books are released.

MAD ABOUT MATHS

Science Spotted

In preparation for Science Week next week, why not try some of these activities and investigations...

LEO RECIPES

Blueberry Chesesecake

Ingredients

For the base:

100g butter

225g digestive biscuits crushed

For the filling:

2 large lemons

225g full fat soft cheese

100g caster sugar

200g full fat crème fraiche

For the topping:

3 tablespoons lemon juice

50g caster sugar

150g blueberries

Method

For the base melt the butter and add to the crushed biscuits. Press into a loose bottomed tin which has been greased.

For the filling : finely grate the zest of the lemons and squeeze the juice into a bowl. Add the cream cheese and sugar and beat well.

Fold in the crème fraiche

Spoon the mix into the tin and chill.

For the topping: cook all the ingredients together and cool. If there is too much liquid when cooking, add in some diluted cornflour and cook out until thick.

Once the cheesecake has set top with the blueberries.

Why not ask your child how they used our Word of the Week?

Year 3:

engulf

Year 4:

submerge

Year 5:

envelop

Year 6:

enshroud

Opportunity

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