Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter
Friday 5th June 2020
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 & Information
We hope you had a lovely half term and we look forward to the final half term of the Summer where we will continue with our Distance Learning. We have been so impressed seeing our PRIDE values in all of the work that the children are sharing. Keep it up Cheam Common! Thank you to our families for your continued support, especially during these challenging times to complete the Distance Learning. We know this is no easy task!
We are looking forward to welcoming some children back to Cheam Common on Monday.
Everyone has been busy getting the school ready for children to return.
We have created a story book for you to share with your child to help prepare them for their return to school.
Click on the image to open the slides.
To those of you who are not coming back to school yet, we can't wait to see you when you do but keep working hard at home!
LEO Distance Learning Sites
As you are already aware, we will be opening our school more widely from Monday 8 June, with many pupils in Year 6 returning to lessons on site. Class teachers from all year groups will be returning to school to teach children in Year 6 and children of Key Workers. As a result, our online distance learning will be changing to reflect this.
We remain committed to supporting your child’s learning at home and will be launching a new range of lessons and activities for all year groups next week on our distance learning website:
You will continue to find activities, videos, work and online learning resources for your child to complete at home each day. There are a number of ideas and links to distance learning activities for you to choose and plan your day from. Teachers in school will also be sharing tasks delivered to pupils in school for you to take part in at home too. These will be uploaded regularly to each year group page so check the website often for updates. We will also continue to add these to Google Classroom.
We will be providing new weekly online lessons for Music, French, PE, Computing and Digital Skills, along with more activities from our popular Forest School. These lessons will all be uploaded at the start of each week to allow you to plan in advance your own daily or weekly schedule.
All pupils can keep in touch with their child’s class teacher using the usual email addresses as well as with the LEO Distance Learning Team at their new email address distancelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
Class teachers will continue to respond to emails sent to the year group email addresses as much as possible. They will also be continuing to use GoogleMeet to hold virtual meetings with classes too. You will get information regarding these on Monday.
We will continue to celebrate the children’s learning and achievements, whether from home or at school on Twitter and through our weekly newsletter so please share your work with us. We love seeing everyone's work and ideas!
Distance Learning Email Addresses:
Year3 - ccjy3homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
Year4 - ccjy4homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
Year5 - ccjy5homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
Year6 - ccjy6homelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
LEO Distance Learning Team - distancelearning@leoacademytrust.co.uk
This Week's Events
EduFuturists Primary School of the Year 2020 Award
We’re really proud to have been shortlisted for the EduFuturists Primary School of the Year 2020 Award. The winners will be announced during a special online event on 10 July. You can find out more details & vote online at: https://awards.edufuturists.com
Please vote for Cheam Common Junior Academy and share with your friends and families to vote too!
Cheam Common Juniors' Brilliant Bake Off!
Before half term, our school council launched their very own Cheam Common Junior Bake Off. With nearly 100 entries, the School Council have got a tricky job to decide the winner in their meeting on Wednesday!
Each creation will be judged on its appearance, name and packaging design. Your families were the lucky ones to enjoy some of the amazing creations and give their verdict on taste!
Winners will be announced next Friday and will receive their very own personalised Cheam Common cooking apron!
Which would get your vote? Well done to everyone that entered! We were very impressed.
LEO VIRTUAL SPORTS' DAY
On Thursday, we had our LEO Virtual Sports' Day. It was great to see the children taking part and even the whole family getting involved. We hope you enjoyed it.
A big thank you to Mr Warner for organising a great day!
Well Done Samuel!
Samuel in 3H created his own Google Site on The Avengers after watching the Digital Skills Lessons from Mrs Shirley. You can see it here.
Well done Samuel! We are very proud of you. You can catch up with any of the Digital Skills lessons you have missed on the LEO Distance Learning Website.
Well Done Chuck!
Watch this amazing animation from Chuck and his brother Dylan, to say a big thank you to Joe Wicks, aka, The Body Coach,
for keeping us all fit each day! Your best animation yet boys; incredibly well done! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Year 6
This week, Year 6 have been enjoying the amazing work of the naturalist broadcaster and author, Steve Backshall.
Sian enjoyed recording this interview, as part of our Distance Learning . Well done! We hope you enjoy it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rT-56EJn5-0DU5wE2CR3Xy6N80d1t8aP/view
Also some great work from Emma & Simran as they worked collaboratively online to jointly put together this amazing Adobe Spark video.
Why not listen to their impressive interview with the naturalist broadcaster and author, Steve Backshall?
World Environment Day - 5th June
World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action to protect our environment.
Check the Distance Learning site for activities and an assembly.
Click here for more information.
#WorldEnvironmentDay #ForNature
The Locals: Diaries - Distance Learning Project with Sutton Cultural Services
LEO Academy Trust have been asked to take part in an exciting project from Sutton Cultural Services called ‘The Locals: Diaries’. We are incredibly honoured to have been asked and hope that lots of you will want to get involved.
Sutton Council Archives are collecting diary entries from different types of people throughout the borough during this unusual time. They are going to add your entries to Sutton’s Archive Collection so that historians of the future can learn what this time was like for people in our community.
Entries can be as short or as long as you like. You can write about one single day, a week or keep a diary over a few weeks. Your diary can include photographs, drawings or even poetry. It can be handwritten or digital. You could even make a video diary (If other people are in the video, make sure that you have their permission). BE CREATIVE!
Click here for a template you could use.
Anyone can take part in the project but in order for the diaries to be entered into the Sutton Council Archives, we will need parental permission.
Once the diary entry is completed, please email to: diaryentryproject@leoacademytrust.co.uk.
Please include your child’s name, school, class and age.
Then please complete this form to give permission.
TIMES TABLE ROCK STARS LEADER BOARD
Congratulations to the following children for being in the top 5 leader board for achieving the most points towards their classes' overall score.
1st: Grace (3G)
2nd: Joshua (5W)
3rd: Kornelia (6P)
4th: Louis (5C)
5th: Oliver (5C)
Well done also to the following classes for the highest points this week:
1st: 5C
2nd: 3G
3rd: 6P
DOODLE MATHS
Well done to our top doodlers this week:
Y3 - Noah 3H
Y4 - Vasu 4H
Y5 - Evie 5W
Y6 - Emma 6P
Congratulations to 4RM for being the winning classes this week. Who will be our leaders next week?
Upcoming Events
WORLD OCEANS' DAY - 8th JUNE
On World Oceans' Day, people around our blue planet celebrate and honor the ocean, which connects us all.
Click here for more information
Help #WorldOceansDay grow the movement to protect our blue planet by using the hashtag #ProtectOurHome
Celebrating some of the fantastic work this week!
PROJECT BASED HOME LEARNING
Below are each year group's Project Based Home Learning for this half term.
The topics for the Summer Term are:
Year 3: Rivers Deep, Mountain High
Year 4: Titanic
Year 5: Recycool
Year 6: Gallery Rebels
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!
Information
LEO CATERING LUNCH MENU
For those children in school, you can our school dinner menu here for this half term. Remember you can choose which days you would like to have a school dinner.
Wellbeing Resources
Resources for Children Coming Back to School
Cognus have created some tips for parents to help children who are returning to school as well as supporting their mental health. Click here to see their tips.
Sutton School Nurses
The school nursing team are offering support to families who may be experiencing anxiety at this time or may have other concerns they would like support with.
They offer telephone appointments, online appointments and face to face in a clinic space if it is felt appropriate with all the necessary precautions and risk assessments.
Phone Discussions for Parents & School Staff
The Cognus Educational Psychology Service Community Callback is open to all parents and carers who live in Sutton. They hope to be able to offer you a safe and reflective space in which you can share any questions you have or anxieties you may be experiencing during this time.
Calls are available on: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays during the school and setting closure period with some evening slots available.
Here is the link to the form to book a slot for the "Educational Psychology Service - Phone discussions for parents & school staff".
Helping with Children Cope with Change
Going through change can be scary or challenging for children.
These 10 top tips can provide a starting point for helping children struggling with a change in their life.
Click here to download these tips.
Learning
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
The Secret Lake by Karen Inglis
When Stella and her younger brother, Tom, move to their new London home, they become mystified by the disappearances of Harry, their elderly neighbour's dog. Where does he go? And why does he keep reappearing wet-through? Their quest to solve the riddle over the summer holidays soon leads to a boat buried under a grassy mound - and a tunnel that takes them to a secret lake. Who is the boy rowing towards them? Why is he so terrified? And whose are those children's voices carried on the wind from beyond the woods? Stella and Tom soon discover that they have travelled back in time to their home and its gardens almost 100 years earlier. Here they make both friends and enemies and uncover startling connections between the past and present.
Described as a modern ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’, this wonderfully captivating and intriguing mystery novel will have you turning page after page!
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.
SCIENCE SPOTTED!
This week your challenge is to make your own rainbow but not with a pen and paper! Instead of giving you instructions, we would like you to use your scientific enquiry brains and investigate how you could make a rainbow! You will be given a list of equipment that you could use to help you figure it out!
You could use:
- A mirror
- Water
- A torch
- A clear glass
- White paper
- Sunlight
You do not need to use all of these at the same time but if you get the right combination you’ll make rainbows in no time! Good luck and let us know if you are successful!
MAD ABOUT MATHS
Why not ask your child how they used our Word of the Week?
Year 3:
immediate
Year 4:
abrupt
Year 5:
exhilarate
Year 6:
invigorate
Opportunity
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