Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter
Friday 13th March 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
SUTTON HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Our Year 5 & 6 A, B & C Hockey teams enjoyed their afternoon at Epsom Hockey Club this week for the Sutton Championships with Sutton Sports' Partnership. It was another successful event for Cheam Common with the A team finishing as Runners Up and the B team finishing as competition winners. Well done everyone!
YEAR 5 & 6 CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Well done to our Year 5 & 6 Cycling team who took part in this week's Sutton Schools' Cycling Championships. We are very proud of you.
YEAR 6 NETBALL ACTION
Well done to our Year 6 Netball teams on two good performances on Wednesday in their Borough League matches v Manor Park. Two great, closely contested matches resulted in a 6-4 victory for the A team and a draw for the B team. The teams are looking forward to taking their good form into the final matches of the season.
SUTTON & CHEAM CUP SEMI FINAL SUCCESS
Congratulations to our Year 6 Boys’ football team on reaching the Sutton & Cheam Cup Final! It took extra time to decide an incredibly close match against a superb team from Cheam Fields. Well done to Cheam Fields on such a strong performance & congratulations to our boys on a last minute winner.
Great achievement boys! We now look forward to a match v Westbourne or Avenue on 27th March.
YEAR 3 & 4 GIRLS' FOOTBALL
A great first tournament for our Year 3 and 4 Girls' Football team this week. They took part in the Sutton Sports' Partnership Festival at Cheam High. Well done to everyone who took part & thank you to Cheam High for having us. The girls really enjoyed representing Cheam Common!
MANDARIN CLUB
This week, our Mandarin Club ended their topic on food & drink by recapping a busy unit of work using role play. The children are making great progress with both speaking & reading Mandarin. Keep up the great work everyone.
HOOPS LEGACY BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Well done to our Year 5 & 6 basketball team on winning their Borough League match v Foresters. The team will be looking forward to taking their good form into the next match next week against Westbourne. Good Luck!
LEARNING AT CHEAM COMMON
Year 4 have been learning about tenths and hundredths this week and have used resources to support their understanding. Moving place value counters between columns was a vital visual to support understanding! Excellent learning Year 4!
Digital Leaders from Cheam Common enjoyed sharing how they have helped to lead our KS2 1:1 Chromebook Programme, as part of our Trust Peer Review. What an amazing impact some of our youngest leaders are having across the Trust. Well done!
Year 5 have been enjoying their music lessons with Ms Greene this week and enjoyed sharing their rhythms with our visitors.
PROJECT BASED HOME LEARNING
This week, we have launched our optional home learning grids. These are also available on the school website. 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 show your work to Miss Gunner!
Here is some of the great homework that the children have brought in as part of their home learning. We will continue to share these each week. Well done all!
DONATIONS TO SUPPORT ST RAPHAEL'S HOSPICE PATIENTS THIS EASTER!
St Raphael’s Hospice is looking for individuals, local companies and businesses to give back this Easter!
St Raphael’s Hospice care for people with terminal illnesses in Merton and Sutton. They need £6 million a year to run, relying heavily on public donations and fundraising as only 24% is received from the NHS.
Every year they make Easter hampers that they ask the local community to raffle to raise funds. Hospice mascot Lenny needs help to fill as many hampers as possible with Easter Eggs of all shapes and sizes.
Cheam Common would love to be able to support this great cause. If you and your families can help by donating an egg or box of chocolates for the hampers, you can drop them into any of the 10 St Raphael’s charity shops, hand them in to reception at the Hospice in London Road or alternatively, Mrs Young will collect them from the school office on Monday 16th March.
The hampers will be raffled through local businesses and community groups. All proceeds will ensure that St Raphael’s can continue providing expert end of life care every day. Lenny hopes to have enough eggs to make 40 hampers and also give every patient and their family a visit from the Easter bunny on Easter Sunday.
QUIZ CHAMPIONSHIPS
Thursday 30th April - Maths Quiz Championships
The Emmanuel Centre
We now also have the date confirmed for our Year 5/6 Quiz Team National Science Finals on Monday 22nd June at The Cambridge Theatre, London. They will join 75 other qualifying schools from across the country. We can’t wait to see how you do!
Monday 22nd June - Year 5/6 National Science Finals
The Cambridge Theatre
QUIZ CLUB
Well done to our two Quiz teams who represented Cheam Common in the General Knowledge Quiz at The Emmanuel Centre on Tuesday. After some very challenging rounds our teams finished in 9th and 16th.
SAVE THE DATE - SUMMER FAIR
Please make a note that our Summer Fair will be taking place on Saturday 27th June from 11am-2pm.
The fair will take place across both Cheam Common Junior Academy and Cheam Common Infants'.
More details to follow.
We would love as many volunteers to help during the build up to this date as well as help on the day.
Are You Getting Your Daily Dose of Nature?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51653850
Researchers from the National Trust and the University of Derby did a survey that found:
-70% of children say they rarely or never watch clouds, butterflies and bees.
-People who regularly connect with nature are more likely to tackle the crisis facing wildlife.
-Being connected with nature - noticing natural phenomenon everyday - is linked to higher well being.
The National Trust has launched a new campaign to boost people’s connection with nature, which includes a new week by week guide to help people improve their relationship with the natural world and take action to help halt wildlife declines.
SURREY CRICKET EASTER COURSES
- Batting Skills Development – The skills development sessions will focus on working with the players in a fun, but challenging environment in order to support the continues development of the core principles required as a batter. The sessions will include lots of game based activities that ensure maximum excitement and learning.
- Bowling Skills Development – The skills development sessions will focus on working with the players in a fun, but challenging environment in order to support the continued development of the core principles required to develop as a bowler. The sessions will involve lots of game based activities that ensure maximum excitement and learning.
The booking link is - https://bookings.kiaoval.com/academy/courses/courses.htm?coursesSearch=search&departmentCode=FOUNDATION&typeId=88&venueId=&ageGroupId=15&genderRestriction=&startDate=
Manga Chibi Character Drawing Workshop
Saturday 14th March 2020
3:30pm – 5:30pm
Wallington United Reformed Church
Join Manga Artist Irina Richards for a fun, informal session and learn new drawing skills! In this workshop, we will learn to draw Chibi characters – small, squishy characters that are popular in anime and manga, and draw short comics about them. Open to children aged 10+ who have a sibling with autism. Basic drawing materials will be provided (or bring your own if you like).
About the artist: Irina Richards is a comics and manga artist, illustrator and artist educator. She is a member of Cambridge-based independent publisher and art collective, Sweatdrop Studios. Irina's work includes her original manga, Chemical Blue, and an instructional book, Creating Manga Characters. Her work-in-progress, Witchmarked, was shortlisted for LDC Comics Prize in 2019. As an educator, Irina facilitates regular workshops at libraries, museums and festivals. Irina is enthusiastic about all things comics and manga, and loves introducing participants to this engaging and versatile art form.
NAS Sutton has subsidised the cost of this event and we are asking for a voluntary minimum donation of
£5 per child
Places must be booked in advance through the link below:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/t-needql
Venue: Main Hall, Wallington United Reformed Church, Stanley Park Road, Wallington.
CHEAM COMMON SUPPORT FAIRTRADE
Monday 24 February - Sunday 8 March 2020
For two weeks each year, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to celebrate the people who grow our food, people who live in some of the poorest countries in the world and who are often exploited and badly paid. This year, like last, we'll be continuing to focus on cocoa and the special role women farmers play in the journey to living incomes. All items with this logo mean they are Fairtrade!
To mark the end of Fairtrade Fortnight, last week we hosted our own cake sale at break time selling cakes made by our Eco Council and the fantastic cakes made at home by the children and their families. All of the cakes were made from Fairtrade products. Thank you to everyone for supporting Fairtrade.
We raised over £250. A fantastic effort!
SPRING TERM SCHOOL DINNER MENUS
Please click here to view the Spring Term School Dinner Menus for this half term.
Remember your child can select to have school dinners on certain days of the week, please just let the office know.
Follow us on Twitter!
You can get all of the latest news and updates from Cheam Common by following us on Twitter. We use our Twitter account as the news feed of Cheam Common Junior. We also use Twitter to keep parents up to date with residential trips, sports and music news, year group trips and other areas of school life.
Please find below our term dates for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
These are also available on our website.
Learning
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
Orion Lost by Alastair Chisholm
Lost in space. Alone. Stranded. Left floating through the galaxy of stars, prepare for an adventure where the only mission is to survival, whatever the cost! Orion Lost is the brand-new science fiction story that will thrust you deep into the darkest depths of outer space and on a voyage of perseverance, determination and courage.
Thirteen-year-old Beth and her friends are aboard the Orion as it blasts off from Terra Ventura (Earth to you and me) and heads off to explore the vast solar system before them. Within the dark, outer atmosphere of outer space, the transport ship Orion is four months out from Earth, when catastrophe strikes. Knocked from its course, the ship and everyone on board has been left stranded in deep space. Suddenly it's up to Beth to navigate through treacherous and uncharted territory to reach safety. But a heavily-damaged ship, space pirates, a mysterious alien species, and an artificial intelligence that Beth doesn't know if she can trust means that getting home has never been so difficult.
Hugely gripping, with incredible twists and a fast-paced, action-packed story, this is an unputdownable science fiction adventure - perfect for fans of the recent Star Wars trilogy!
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
Why not ask your child how they used our Word of the Week?
Year 3:
dispute
Year 4:
commotion
Year 5:
strife
Year 6:
altercation
Excellence
Star of the Week Certificates
Congratulations to the following children who received the Star of the Week Awards last week:
Year 3
3B: Harry
3G: Jake
3H: Anne
3L: Khyrell
Year 4
4H: Aarush
4RM: Lily
4SM: Anaya
4S: Elma
Year 5
5A: Amela
5C: JiMin
5W: Bella
Year 6
6C: Maili
6K: TClodagh
6P: Sophia S
PRIDE Values Certificates
Congratulations to the following children who received the Pride Values Awards last week:
Year 3
3B: Naomi
3G: Ana
3H: Amelia
3L: Cristiano
Year 4
4H: Karthi
4RM: Summer
4SM: Aesha
4S: Hamzah
Year 5
5A: Oscar
5C: Lois
5W: Chloe
Year 6
6C: Kiarra
6K: Oliver S
6P: Preston
Cheam Common Rights Respecting Schools' Certificates
Congratulations to the following children who have displayed outstanding, respectful behaviour last week:
Year 3
3B: Dhwarika
3G: Ismail
3H: Isabella
3L: Thomas H
Year 4
4H: Molly
4RM: Isla
4SM: Emma
4S: Meshal
Year 5
5A: Omari
5C: Nicole
5W: Kavya
Year 6
6C: Zach H
6K: Matthew
6P: Nasha
144 Club
The children in the 144 Club know all their times tables up to 12 x 12.
Membership of the Club has to be achieved each term!
Congratulations to the following children who are now members of the club for the Spring term:
Year 3:
Iveline, Ezel , Evana, Shay, Max, Nathan, Toby, Henry & Soyool
Year 4:
Lily & Rihannon
Year 5:
Samuel & Layla
Year 3 have started preparing themselves to enter the 144 club by completing 72 times table questions in under 5 minutes. Well done to the following children who on becoming members of the 72 Club for last half term:
Catherine
TURKEY PITTA BREADS
INGREDIENTS
1 tbsp olive oil
200g turkey breast steak, cut into strips
pinch chilli flakes
1 red and 1 yellow pepper, deseeded and cut into strips
3 spring onions, trimmed and sliced
1 avocado, stoned, peeled and sliced
handful coriander leaves
2 wholemeal pitta breads, toasted and halved to form pockets
2 tbsp soured cream
METHOD
1. Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan and fry the turkey and chilli flakes for 5-6 mins. Add the peppers and spring onions and stir-fry until the turkey is cooked but the peppers still have crunch. Season.
2. Divide the avocado and coriander between the pitta halves, then spoon in the turkey and pepper mix. Add a dollop of soured cream to each and serve straight away.
Opportunity
PARENT WORKSHOP: BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR BOY!
We are pleased to announce that we are hosting an event for parents:
BRING OUT THE BEST IN YOUR BOY!
Date: Thursday 26th March 2020
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Location: Cheam Fields, Hall Led by Ali McClure
- Start supporting us TODAY for only £1 per week.
- Buy a ticket this term and you could win £25,000.
- 40% of the ticket sales goes to our trust.
- There is a GUARANTEED cash prize winner every week.
- It only takes a couple of minutes to buy a ticket
- Click HERE to buy your tickets today
- Tickets can be purchased by anyone over the age of 16 including parents, staff, family members, friends and work colleagues so please help us promote this new initiative. The more tickets we sell, the bigger the prize pot!
You can make a BIG DIFFERENCE to our trust!
Sporting Fixtures
Here are some of the dates for our sporting fixtures for this term. Please check the dates section regularly as new dates may be added.
SPRING TERM SPORTING FIXTURES
Y6 BOYS' A FOOTBALL:
Friday 20th March , CCJ vs St Cecilia’s, Y6 Boys’ A Sutton & Cheam League
OTHER SPORTING FIXTURES
Wednesday 18th March, Y5/6 3v3 Basketball Competition
Thursday 19th March, Y4/5 Handball Festival
Tuesday 24th & Thursday 26th March, London Youth Games
Friday 27th March, Y3-6 Gymnastics & Dance Festival
Tuesday 31st March, Y3/4 Hi5 Netball Festival
Dates For Your Diary
Here are the dates for this term. Dates may change and we will notify you as soon as possible if this happens. Please check the dates section regularly as new dates may be added.
SPRING TERM DIARY DATES 2020
MARCH
Wednesday 19th March – Year 4/5 Handball Festival, 1-3:30pm
Tuesday 24th March – LEO Year 4 Times Table Competition
Tuesday 24th March - Rock Steady Concert to parents, 2pm
Friday 27th March– End of Spring Term Merit Award Assembly at 9.30am
Friday 27th March – Year 3-6 Gym & Dance Festival, 1:30-3:30pm
Tuesday 31st March – Year 3/4 HI 5 Netball, St Philomena’s - 4-5:30pm
Tuesday 31st March – Year 3 Music Assembly to Parents
APRIL
Thursday 2nd April - House Point Winners’ - MUFTI Day
Thursday 2nd April - RE Day 4 - Christianity
Friday 3rd April – Last Day of Term. School finishes at 2.15pm today.
Monday 6th April – Friday 17th April – Easter Holiday