CCJ Newsletter 12.06.2020

Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter

Friday 12th 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

Cheam Common Juniors' Brilliant Bake Off!

After a very close vote, here are the winners of the School Council's, Cheam Common Juniors' Brilliant Bake Off 2020:

Year 3: Orla

Year 4: Anaya

Year 5: Bella

Year 6: Ava

Well done - you will be receiving your very own personalised apron to continue your baking!

Well done to everyone who took part. We had over 100 entries. The School Council are already planning their next whole school project.

Year 3 Winner - Congratulations Orla, 3B!

Year 5 Winner - Congratulations Bella, 5W!

Year 4 Winner - Congratulations Anaya, 4SM!

Year 6 Winner - Congratulations Ava, 6C!

LEO Distance Learning Sites

We remain committed to supporting your child’s learning at home and have launched a new range of lessons and activities for all year groups next week on our distance learning website:

www.leodistancelearning.co.uk

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.

Your child's class teacher will be adding all of the daily activities onto Google Classroom for Year 3, 4 and 5.

From Monday, there will be recorded maths lessons for your children to follow from Mrs Dolling (Y3), Mrs Shirley (Y4) and Miss Kelly (Y5) for Maths.

Miss Harland, Miss Austin and Mr Perrot will be delivering recorded lessons for English each day so please keep checking Google Classroom and www.leodistancelearning.co.uk

In addition to this, your teachers will continue to set work linked to this half term's topics:

Year 3: Rivers Deep, Mountain High

Year 4: Titanic

Year 5: Recycool

Year 6: Gallery Rebels

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.

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

CCJ ECO Schools Award

This week we were delighted to receive the Eco Schools Bronze Award in recognition of the work we have achieved towards a sustainable lifestyle. Well done to the Eco Council for leading these projects this year and promoting sustainability across the school Keep up the good work! Thank you to Miss Harland for leading the Eco Council this year.

Transfer to Secondary School September 2021

If your child is currently in Year 5, please click the following links for further information and guidance regarding transfer to secondary school.

Transfer to Secondary School

Applying to Secondary School

Guidance for Parents

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!

Creative Pavements

Well done to Georgia in 3G for her creative way of presenting her bike ride to find all of the animals in the new walking trail around Kingsmead Avenue.

You can see her amazing video here.

Have you managed to find them all yet?

Join in with the Summer Reading Challenge here!

What's Been Happening in School?

On Monday 8th June, we welcomed back pupils in Year 6 and pupils whose parents are key workers.

Here are some of the things they have been up to this week...

Year 6 have been exploring more about Cubism. The children are looking forward to creating their own paintings as part of their new art topic.

Children across the school have been creating their own kingdom names and emblems. These have been based on their new teaching group names and all linked to imaginary worlds. We hope you like them.

The rain didn't stop us enjoying some socially distanced tennis this week.

Year 6 have been using alternative adjectives, synonyms and antonyms to write a setting description! Beautiful writing throughout Year 6; well done everyone!

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!

Children across the school have been exploring the impact of pollution on our planet and have created presentations using Google Slides and Adobe Spark on the damage it causes to the environment.

Check out Olivia's slides here.

Check out Laurence's slides here.

Check out Aashi's slides here.

Check out Aaroush's Adobe page here.

Check out Amy's Adobe Spark video here.

Check out Harrison's Adobe page here.

Technology and The Titanic

Year 4 have been using the explore tool in Google Sheets to find an easier way of retrieving information about passengers on RMS Titanic!

Music Makers

Check out Claudia's Music Lab song, created after she took part in this week's KS2 Digital Skills' lesson. Listen to it here!

Check out Faisal's music creation using Scratch here.

Year 4 Maths' Explanations

Year 4 have been supporting each other on Google Classroom this week. They used Screencastify to explain how to answer equations. Very impressed by how clearly they can explain.

Click here to watch Matthew's explanation.

Click here to watch Sanat's explanation.

Click here to watch Luca's explanation.

Click here to watch Pema's explanation.

Click here to watch Luis' explanation.

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:

Tommy

Naomi

Year 4:

Molly

Aarush

Karthi

Veda

Joseph

Year 5:

Esah

Oscar

Year 6:

Alexia

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: Louis (5C)

2nd: Hyunjun (4S)

3rd: Lucas (5C)

4th: Grace (3H)

5th: Seyi (3B)

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

1st: 5C

2nd: 5J

3rd: 4S

DOODLE MATHS

Well done to our top doodlers this week:

Y3 - Suhanni 3H

Y4 - Vasu 4H

Y5 - Evie 5W

Y6 - Ana 6C

Congratulations to 3H for being the winning classes this week. Who will be our leaders next week?

Upcoming Events

LEO Wellbeing Week

15th June - 19th June

LEO Wellbeing Week is based on the Five Ways to Wellbeing: Connect, Give, Be Active, Take Notice and Keep Learning. Evidence suggests there are 5 steps you can take to improve your mental health and wellbeing. Trying these things out could make you feel more positive so why not give them a go during LEO Wellbeing Week. There will be a brand new Wellbeing Challenge each day of the week for you to get involved in and a Wellbeing Chart for you to record how you met the challenge. We have also produced a Wellbeing guide to give you further ideas of activities you can take part in across the week. The daily themes are as follows: Monday: Connect, Tuesday: Give, Wednesday: Be Active, Thursday: Take Notice and Friday: Keep Learning.

Check out the LEO Distance Learning site for activities and resources.

London Maths Week

22nd June - 26th June

Maths Week London is coming to LEO… virtually! Wherever you are learning, there will be video activities and challenges each day. We want to celebrate maths learning across the capital, so all the maths will be London themed! Mrs Dolling has written and created quizzes which will be done LIVE on:

Tuesday 23rd June at 10am- Tube lines quiz for KS2

Thursday 25th June at 10am- London landmarks quiz for KS2

Tune in for this as well as decoding London landmarks using code, navigating your way through the underground as quickly as possible and working out what each London symbol is worth with five different levels of difficulty!

Click here for a free outdoor activity pack and click here for a blog explaining the week!

Check out the LEO Distance Learning site for activities and resources.

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

Other 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".

Learning

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

Gargantis by Thomas Taylor

There's a storm raging in Eerie-on-Sea. Has the mighty Gargantis come back from the deep? When an ancient bottle is found washed up on the beach after a ferocious electrical storm, the residents of Eerie-on-Sea all seem to want it, but should they in fact fear it? Legend has it that the bottle contains an extraordinary secret that spells doom for the town. Could it be true that the vast sea creature Gargantis has awoken from her slumbers causing the large cracks that are appearing all across the town? Finding themselves entrusted with the bottle, Herbie and Violet discover they will need to ride the terrible storm and pacify the creature if they want to save Eerie-on-Sea from sliding into the ocean and being lost forever.

An exciting sequel to the smash hit book, Malamander, this daring maritime adventure is a joy to read from start to finish!

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's task is very simple. All we want you to do is lie back and listen.

You can choose the destination you could be in your bedroom, in the garden, on the balcony, in the park it’s totally up to you!

As you lie there you need to be still and silent and see what you can hear. Can you identify different types of birds? Can you notice the difference in the way different tree types rustle in the wind? Can you hear sirens and cars? You’ll be surprised at how much you can hear.

Maybe try this at different times of the day and see if you can hear any differences. Do you think you will hear the same things early in the morning compared to just before bed time? Have a listen and see!

MAD ABOUT MATHS

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

Year 3:

diligent

Year 4:

perfectionist

Year 5:

meticulous

Year 6:

conscientious

Opportunity

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