CCJ Newsletter 10.07.2020

Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter

Friday 10th July 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

Next Week...

As we reach the final week of this half term and the end of of a very strange year, there are still lots of things for the children to enjoy next week:

WC Monday 13th July - LEO Celebration Week

Monday 13th July - Introducing Sports' Day Assembly

Tuesday 14th July - Sports' Personality of the Year Awards

Tuesday 14th July/Wednesday 15th July - GoogleMeet Celebration with teachers

Wednesday 15th July - CCJ Sports' Day

Thursday 16th July - Year 6 Leavers' Celebrations

Friday 17th July - Summer Term Merit Assembly

Friday 17th July - Last day of Summer Term

End of Term Arrangements

As we get to closer to the end of the school year and now further guidance has been released from the Government regarding the wider opening of schools from September, we now look to organising the classrooms to cater for full class sizes across the school and put measures in place for all children to return safely.

In order for us to prepare for this, school will finish at the following times on Friday 17th July:

Year 6 - 1:00pm

Key Worker Groups - 1:15pm

There will be no After School Club on this day.

More information will be sent out soon regarding the arrangements for children returning in September.

Meet the Teacher

This week, all of our classes met their teacher for next year via GoogleMeet. The children found out more about the curriculum for next year, trips and enjoyed asking questions and taking part in Kahoot quizzes. We also welcomed our Year 2 children who found out all of the things they have to look forward to at Cheam Common. We are looking forward to September!

Our GoogleMeets next week will be a celebration of the year and the great achievements children have made.

Year 3 Induction

We also held our Year 3 induction evening virtually to share more information about Cheam Common with parents. You can watch it here.

Free School Meals

Many families are entitled to free school meals but are not claiming this support.

Free school meals support in the form of supermarket vouchers or food parcels and will be provided over the summer holidays for all children who are registered for free school meals.

Click here to see if you are eligible.

Well Done Kian

Congratulations to Kian on completing a 35 mile bike ride to raise money for charity. What a great achievement! We have been enjoying watching his progress with riding since lockdown - he has certainly been busy!

Sports' Leaders 2020-2021

Click here to watch a video from our current Sports' Leaders explaining their role and what children in Year 4 and 5 need to do if they would like to be a Sports' Leader next year.

If you are interested in becoming a Sports' Leader, either write a letter or record a video explaining why you would like the role and how you would be suitable to help Mr Ewing next year. Send these to your year group email address. We look forward to working with this leadership group next year!

Sports Personality of the Year 2020

Our Sports Personality of the Year Awards are taking place on Tuesday 14th July. Great nominations for a variety of sporting achievements. Good luck to you all! We will share the assembly with you all on Tuesday.

DoodleMaths Summer Challenge

1st July – 31st August

Doodle little and often to earn rewards!

We can’t wait to see you all taking part in the DoodleMaths Summer Challenge. Why not sign up today?

The goal of the Challenge is to earn 600 stars (for children born after 31/08/13) or 750 stars and a 14-day streak. This target has been carefully chosen to provide children with a challenging and rewarding experience, while also being achievable in 10 minutes a day – leaving plenty of time to enjoy the summer!

By rewarding children for Doodling ‘little and often’, the Challenge encourages children to develop healthy learning habits which can be used outside of DoodleMaths in their education as a whole.

Upon completion of the Challenge, children will receive an exclusive collectable pin badge and certificate free of charge to celebrate their hard work in the post. Good luck!

This Week's Events

LEO Arts' Week

Week Commencing 6th July

Children at both home and school have enjoyed Arts Week. The definition of Art is: the product of imagination and creativity, particularly in a physical form. This means that there are many different forms of art: paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, collage, photography, theatre, poetry, novels, music, dance, film and much more.

Children particularly enjoyed art and recreating the dance from Matilda, the musical!

Tom Palmer comes to LEO

We have enjoyed working with the wonderful author Tom Palmer this week. Children have enjoyed planning and writing their ghost stories this week.

To find out more about Tom, visit his website. https://tompalmer.co.uk/about-tom/

To watch a video that he made for LEO schools, click here.

What's Been Happening in School?

Here are some of the things children in school have been up to this week...

Comic Strips using Book Creator

Year 6 have enjoyed creating their own comic strips using Book Creator this week.

Click to read 'The Amazing Adventures of Gemini Man.'

Click here to view Seyon's comic strip.

Click here to view Boris' comic strip.

Click here to view Kiarra's comic strip.

What's Been Happening at Home?

Well done to those of you who have been hard at work completing your Distance Learning tasks from home this week.

Remember, you can send any work you do during and after these lessons into your year group mailboxes. Your teachers will love to see it!

Great Writing at Cheam Common this week...

CHEAM COMMON POSTCARDS

More Cheam Common Postcards have been sent home over the past couple of weeks. 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!

Who will be next to receive one?

Year 3:

William

Toby

Soyool

Year 4:

James D

Ziqcra

Innila

Year 5:

Altjona

Ali

Year 6:

Chloe

Melissa

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: Seyi, 3B

2nd: Louis, 5C

3rd: Ryan, 5J

4th: Trishanth, 6K

5th: Grace, 3G

Well done also to the following classes for the highest points this week:

1st: 5C

2nd: 3B

3rd: 4H

Enjoying Times Table Rockstars?

Why not get involved with London Rocks 2020 everyday between 2pm and 7pm?

DOODLE MATHS

Well done to our top doodlers this week:

Y3 - Amie Lee

Y4 - Rhianna

Y5 - Rosina

Y6 - Irina

Congratulations to 3G and 3H who are joint leaders for this week. Who will be our leaders next week?

Upcoming Events

LEO Celebration Week

Week Commencing 13th July

For our Celebration themed week, we will be reflecting on the year and celebrating all that we have achieved. We will also be looking ahead to the next academic year and thinking about what we’d all like to achieve.

Information

LEO CATERING LUNCH MENU

Click here to see the weekly school dinner menus from September. Remember you can choose which days you would like your child to have a school dinner.

Cleaner/Keyholder Job Vacancy

Please click the below links for details about a Cleaner/Keyholder job vacancy at Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy.

Advert

Job Description

Wellbeing Resources

Does your child play Roblox? Click here to read more information about the game and the possible risks it presents and ways you can help minimise them.

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".

Learning

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

The Infinite by Patience Agbabi

Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle Bibi-Imbele Ifie has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her twelfth birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time - and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle's adventure becomes more than a race through time. It's a race against time. She must fight to save the world as she knows it - before it ceases to exist...

Brilliantly fresh, funny and original, this delightful and energetic adventure is a smart and well-written adventure. Full of lovable characters that are unlike any you would have read before, The Infinite is a breath of fresh air to read!

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!

Since we are now in the height of summer, your task this week is to make your own sundial! Here’s what you need to do!

1. Find a spot in your garden or in an outdoor space where you can push a stick into the ground. It must be standing up right and you must get adult permission.

2. It is best to start this at 7 in the morning when the sun comes up and then return each hour and mark where the shadow of your stick is with a pebble or a shell.

3. By the end of the day your sundial will be complete!

Can you work out why the shadow of the stick moves throughout the day? Would it be the same in winter? Let us know how you get on!

MAD ABOUT MATHS

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

Year 3:

quandary

Year 4:

vindicate

Year 5:

irrational

Year 6:

contradiction

Opportunity

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