CCJ Newsletter 11th November 2022

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 11th November 2022

Cheam Common Junior Academy: Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park, KT4 8UT

Email: ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk http://www.cheamcommon.org.uk/

School Updates

Important dates

As the festive season approaches, we have put together a list of important upcoming dates. More information about each event will be supplied nearer the date but please make note of these. These will be detailed in the newsletter every week.

Tuesday 29th November: Year 3 Drumming Showcase (2:15pm to parents)

Wednesday 7th December: RockSteady Performance (2:30pm to parents)

Wednesday 7th December: PTA Christmas Raffle Draw

Thursday 8th December: Choir and Orchestra Performance (9:30am to parents)

Friday 9th December: Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 9th December: Elf Run for St Raphael’s and St Alice’s Hospices

Monday 12th - Friday 16th December: No clubs this week

Monday 12th December: Year 3/4 Christmas Productions (9:15am, 2pm and 6pm)

Tuesday 13th December: Year 5/6 Christmas Productions (9:15am, 2pm and 6pm)

Wednesday 14th December: Merit Assembly

Wednesday 14th December: Children’s Christmas Lunch

Wednesday 14th December: Christmas Film Afternoon

Thursday 15th December: GymKids Performance (9am to parents)

Thursday 15th December: Class Christmas Parties

Friday 16th December: Christmas Sing-a-long in hall

Friday 16th December: School closes at 2:05pm (CCI closes at 2pm)

Road Safety Week: Kingsmead Avenue

Please could parents and carers be reminded that we have a School Streets initiative in place on Kingsmead Avenue in the mornings and afternoons. This is to ensure that our children and their families can enter and exit the school in a safe manner. If you are officially exempt from this initiative and have permission to use the road during these times, please be considerate of any pedestrians and cyclists.

Next week is Road Safety Week, with the theme this year being 'Safe Roads for All'. Please find more information here. Reasons why road safety is important for schools are listed below:

Road crashes are the leading cause of death for children and young people worldwide.
Every day, more than 6 children are killed or seriously injured on roads in the UK.
Pollution from traffic causes respiratory illnesses and other diseases.
Active travel (such as walking and cycling) is good for our health and for the planet.
Road accidents cost the UK economy approximately £36 million every year.

Next week, please ensure that you are arriving at and leaving school in a safe and considerate manner. Thank you!

Travel Ambassador Competition

As part of the campaign, the Junior Travel Ambassadors are running a competition to promote and raise awareness of travelling to school safely.

Have you got a competitive side? Have you heard about Road Safety Week? Get involved now! The competition is to create a comic strip to strengthen road safety messages in a creative and educational way. A certificate and a lucky prize will be awarded to each year group! See your Travel Ambassadors for further details.

Odd Socks Day

On Monday 14th November, we will be celebrating and taking part in Odd Socks Day! We are looking forward to seeing all of your colourful socks next week as 'Odd Socks Day' marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week.

Odd Socks Day is designed to be fun, however the main focus is to raise awareness of Anti Bullying Week and it is an opportunity to encourage people and children to express themselves whilst expressing their individuality and what makes us all unique!

There is no pressure to wear the latest fashion or to buy expensive costumes. All you have to do to take part is wear odd socks to school on Monday 14th November!

Children In Need

On Friday 18th November, we are celebrating Children in Need! Your child can wear MUFTI if they’d like and are encouraged to wear clothes that are yellow, colourful, spotty or Pudsey-themed - or even their pyjamas if you’d like! If you would like to donate then one option is to support our Just Giving Page to support this charity. We would encourage a donation of £1 per child, however this is not required.

Additionally, there will be a cake sale at 3pm on Friday 18th November. Some members of our School Council will be selling cakes outside on the playground and all donations will go to Children in Need. If you would like to bake or donate a cake/baked item to the stall, please deliver these to the office or 6C on Friday morning.

Year 3 Drumming Showcase

As you are aware, the Year 3 children have been busy practising their drumming skills this

term. The children have been working very hard to create a drumming piece to perform to you all. We would like to invite you to come to a year group drumming performance. At this time, you will be able to see your child’s class, and the rest of the classes in the year, perform the drumming piece they have been working so hard on.

The performance will take place in the hall on Tuesday 29th November. It will commence at 2.15pm. You will be able to come in from 2.00pm to ensure we have a prompt start. The performance will last for approximately 45 minutes. If you are unable to attend, please do not worry, we will also film the performances and share them with you.

Seeking Tree Surgeons! Help our Forest School

The logs that we have used as stools in our Forest School area are slowly starting to rot and are coming to the end of their lives. We are asking parents if they know any tree surgeons who could donate some new logs to our school? We are looking for approximately 20 logs to use as stools but every little helps. If you could help, please contact the office.

Final Call: Children's Hospital Pyjamas Campaign!

As we quickly approach the festive season, we have taken on board a new Christmas fundraiser. Our chosen charity for the festive season is ‘Children’s Hospital Pyjamas’. This amazing charity donates brand new pairs of pyjamas to poorly children in hospital over the Christmas period.

We aim to also donate to:

St Helier Hospital (Sutton)
The Royal Marsden Hospital (Sutton)
St George’s Hospital (Tooting)
Kingston Hospital (Kingston Upon Thames)

If you would like to help us support this charity, we are asking for either donations of brand new pyjamas or money that will go towards buying new pyjamas. To confirm, we are only able to accept BRAND NEW pyjamas due to the vulnerability of the children who will be receiving the pyjamas. Unfortunately, second hand pyjamas are not accepted. The pyjamas can be any size ranging from baby sizes - 10 years old. Alternatively, money donations are also welcomed and will be used to purchase new pyjamas to go towards our donations.

The deadline for all donations is Monday 14th November. Please hand pyjamas into the school office or Miss Beagle’s classroom, 4CB. Cash donations will be accepted at the gate each morning.

We hope that we can count on your generosity on this occasion as we are pleased that we are able to support a local charity, as well as our local hospitals.

Order your Christmas cards now!

This week, you will have received a sticker and a leaflet with details on how to order the Christmas card that your child designed earlier this term. Simply follow this link and enter the details below.

School Username: CheamCommon Junior

Password: 8Kq8T7W6

From here, you'll be able to search for your child's name, see their artwork and order various products. If you enter the code CheamCommon Junior at the checkout, you'll get an early bird discount of 20% during the next week.

Secondhand books and board games

Do you have any secondhand books or board games that you no longer need? At Cheam Common, we would appreciate donations of any of these items. Books are always appreciated and board games are extremely useful, especially during wet play! Simply drop these into the office or ask your child to hand them to their class teacher. Thank you for your support in advance!

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Year 6 Pupil Leadership Roles

Over the next few weeks, we would like to introduce some of the pupils who have taken up our Year 6 Pupil Leadership roles.

This week, we would like to introduce our new Heads of the Travel Ambassadors: Ismail and Faryn. These children will be working with Miss Shallcross this year to help the way in which staff and children travel to school become safer and more sustainable.

Sports Events

We've come to the end of another busy sporting week at Cheam Common Juniors. Below are some of the fixtures and scores from the many sports events that we attended this week.

Monday: Year 3 Netball Festival at Sutton High - a first chance for some of our Year 3s to represent our school and learn new skills.

Monday: Year 6 Squash Festival - a new sport learned for some of our pupils!

Tuesday: Our Year 5 Boys' Football Team won 2-1 against St Mary's Oxted to progress through to the semi-finals of the U10 Surrey Cup. Check out Jake's last minute equaliser below!

Wednesday: Our Y6 Boys' Football Team participated in the AFC Wimbledon EFL Trust Cup. They won every game, finished top of their group and won the final on the day too! They will attend the finals in the new year.

Wednesday: Our Y5/6 Netball teams were in action against Dorchester; they managed to win both their A and B games. Thank you for the fantastic home support from parents!

Thursday: Our Y5/6 Tag Rugby team competed in the borough competition against local schools. Our A team finished second in their group and our B team won their group! Both teams qualified for the Sutton Finals later this year.

Thursday: Our Y6 Boys' Football Team played Abbey Primary in their next league game and won 8-0, thus managing to maintain their 100% this season.

All week: 24 of our Year 6s have been undertaking the Bikeability course, learning how to safely cycle and understand the Highway Code. Our next group of Year 6s are looking forward to getting started next week.

Year 5 and 6 Science Quiz

On Monday, some of our Year 5 and 6 pupils represented Cheam Common in the heats of the National Science Quiz. Both teams performed exceptionally well, demonstrating clear understanding of some tricky concepts. Well done, everyone!

Anti-Bullying Theatre

On Wednesday, we welcomed in Open View Education's Anti Bullying Workshop. Year 3, 4 and 5 attended a theatre production in the morning, with some lucky children even getting to participate! In the afternoon, our Year 6 classes were involved in workshops which involved how to be an upstander when you see someone being bullied, or someone being unkind.

Autumn Term Dates

As the start of Autumn Term can be incredibly busy, we have collated all the important dates for your diary. Please find below all the key dates and times for the next few weeks of the Autumn Term!

Monday 14th November

Odd Socks Day

Monday 14th November

Deadline for pyjamas donations

Tuesday 15th November

6C trip to Sutton Life Centre

Thursday 17th November

6T trip to Sutton Life Centre

Friday 18th November

6W trip to Sutton Life Centre

Friday 18th November

Children in Need: MUFTI and bake sale

Tuesday 29th November

Year 3 Drumming Performance (2:15pm)

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

Thank you for coming to our discos!

Thank you to all of the children who came to our Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 discos on Thursday. This helped raise much-needed funds for our school and the children had an amazing time.

A massive thank you to all of our parent volunteers and teachers who stayed late to help out.

Christmas Foodbank Appeal

The Friends of Cheam Common will be collecting donations for the Epsom and Ewell Foodbank. If you would like to donate anything this Christmas, please see below for items that are in demand.

Christmas food bank appeal.pdf

Enter our Christmas Raffle here!

The Friends of Cheam Common are proud to announce their Christmas Raffle this year.

Tickets cost £2 each and there are 39 incredible prizes up for grabs including a Nintendo Switch and game, shopping vouchers, spa vouchers, hampers and much more! See more information on the PDF below.

To enter, please purchase your raffle tickets using this link.

Thank you to the parents, families and companies who have donated prizes for this raffle - we really couldn't do it without your support!

Christmas Raffle 2022.pdf

Celebrations, Awards and Stars of the Week

Excellent Learners of the Week

3A - Aanya

3F - Alisa

3M - Isobel

3S - Amelie

4I - Avini

4CB - Param

4F - Mahisha

4SB - Mimi

5H - Jake

5E - Luca

5G - Jayden K

5M - Tippi

6S - Abhi

6C - Kavya

6T - Thinon

6W - Thomasina

Pride Ambassadors of the Week

3A - Daniel

3F - Maya

3M - Joshua

3S - Daniel

4I - Mildred

4CB - Aneesh

4F - Finlay

4SB - Barney

5H - Hafsa

5E - Elsie

5G - Aarya

5M - Ernest

6S - Maia

6C - Evana

6T - Dhwarika

6W - Ivelin

Digital Coder of the Week

Year 3 - Nevin (3A)

Year 4 - George (4SB)

Year 5 - Vian (5M)

Year 6 - Tristan (6W)

Doodle Achievements

Top Doodle Maths Classes:

1st - 5E 2nd - 4CB 3rd - 5M

Top Doodle English Classes:

1st - 4CB 2nd - 5E 3rd - 3S

Streaks achieved this week!

Please note that this is where we celebrate children who have reached a streak of a multiple of 100 every week:

Lucy (3F) - 500 day streak (Maths)

Isobel (3M) - 500 day streak (English)

Aleeza (4F) - 700 day streak (English)

Samuel (6S) - 800 day streak (Maths and English)

Times Tables Rockstars Achievements

Top Rockstars

Year 3 - Yug Year 4 - Kaylie Year 5 - Nate Year 6 - Angie

Top 3 Classes:

1st - 4I 2nd - 4SB 3rd - 4CB

SEND & Inclusion Updates!

Young Carers at Cheam Common

At Cheam Common Junior Academy, we hold a weekly small group session to support children across the school who fulfil the role of ‘Young Carer’ because they have a sibling or parent with serious health issues, special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).

We want to celebrate the important role our Young Carers play, but also recognise that they may face challenges and pressures not shared by the general school population.

The group meets during assembly time and is led by Mrs Hart.

If you would like your child to take part please complete this form.

If you have any questions about the group, please feel free to contact us at ccjsend@leoacademytrust.co.uk

Play and Stay Winter 2022

Sutton Dyslexia Association

The next meeting of Sutton Dyslexia association will be at 8pm on Wednesday 16^th November 2022, via zoom.

Katrina Cochrane, a dyslexia specialist and author of several books on dyslexia, will be speaking on "Identification and Support for Reading Difficulties".

If you would like to join the zoom meeting, please email your first name, surname and email address to admin@suttondyslexia.org.uk

You will receive an acknowledgement of your registration and then on the morning of the meeting we will send the joining details.

The next parent/ Carer Pop-In session is on Tuesday 22^nd November 2022 (10-11.30am ) at Oaks Park Cafe, Carshalton, SM7 3BA. This is an opportunity to meet other parents and members of the committee. There is a free carpark at the Croydon Road entrance..

Confused about the EHCP Annual Review?

Amalia Banon, Sutton Head of SEND, will be joining us to explain the Annual Review process for your child’s / young person’s EHCP. She will cover what to expect from the Annual Review meeting, how you can prepare and what should happen before, during and following the meeting.

If you have any specific questions it would be helpful if you could send them prior to the meeting.

The session will run for an hour and then individual appointments are available. Please book with us by using the contact details below

Email: suttonparentsforum@outlook.com

Or call or text 07557 760328

For more information please check our website.

For parents of pupils with SEN

Please click here to access the Local Authority's Ambitious for SEND parent newsletter to stay in touch with what is happening in the local area. To receive these newsletters (three produced each year) please subscribe to the local area Ambitious for SEND newsletter. It is a great way to stay in touch with what is happening in the local area. You can unsubscribe at any time.

‘Small Change, Big Difference’ Parent Group for parents of children with a diagnosis of autism.'

We are also looking to host another Small Change, Big Difference course with Adapt to Learn. For those that are unfamiliar with this course, we run this as an alternative to the Early Bird programme. Some information about this is below.

If you are interested in attending this course, please email: sutton@nas.org.uk and we'll be in touch.

The aim is to empower parents, supporting them to help their children by developing an in-depth understanding of autism. Taking a positive approach, we will explore, share and discuss practical strategies to help develop communication skills, pre-empt and manage behaviour and gain confidence and resilience.

During the sessions, parents will be given the opportunity to make connections, gain support and feel less isolated.

Each course comprises of four x 1.5-hour sessions and will cover a range of topics.

Click the image above for further information!

Check out the latest information regarding Sutton Young Carers, by visiting their website HERE

To read their latest Newsletters, click HERE

And for their quarterly newsletters aimed at children and young adults, click HERE and scroll to the bottom of the page.

DIGI Safe - Keeping Children Safe Online

LGFL have launched a wonderfully informative and practical website full of resources to help keep children safe online. With videos, informative guides and top tips, there is lots to explore to help keep your child safe whilst online. To visit, click here.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Update