Cheam Common Junior Academy: Kingsmead Avenue, Worcester Park KT4 8UT Tel: 020 8337 1844

email: ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk www.cheamcommon.org.uk

LEO Big Arts' Week

At Cheam Common Junior, children have enjoyed taking part in our annual LEO Big Art's Week, where they have had the opportunity to express their creativity in a variety of fun and exciting activities. In Year 4, children have been fortunate to paint and produce several large whole class murals, courtesy of local resident artist, Doug Shaw, who came into the school to launch this exciting project. Developing their artistic skills, children painted an environment piece based on animals found within a river. We cannot wait to hang these pieces within the school and celebrate their incredible effort.

Across the school, children also had the opportunity to show their creativity and artistic skills in all areas of their learning this week. In maths, children constructed an array of intricate polygon patterns courtesy of the 'curves of pursuit' method. The results are simply breathtaking. In Year 3, musical instruments were made using various recyclable objects with impromptu performances taking place both in and outside the classroom. Within our English lessons, children throughout the school explored the work of Sutton-based author, Mikey O'Crikey, where they practised writing their own imaginative poems. Well done to all our children for their outstanding work and to all our teachers for putting on a truly creative week for all.

LGFL Year 5 PICOH Project

Inspired by their current LGFL Picoh Pilot project, Year 5 have been working with our Mr Perrott, Director of English, and Mrs Shirley, Director of Computing and Digital Skills, as part of an exciting project to develop both their writing and their ability to code through the use of a Picoh robot: an interactive tool that can be programmed to speak and act just like a human.

In groups, children learnt how to sequence their robots to program a dialogue between two Picoh robots, as well as to ask and answer a series of questions, communicating using a range of non-verbal cues. From this, children then drafted a series of informative texts, using Adobe Sparks. Throughout the morning, children had fun using technology to enhance their learning. Fascinating and truly amazing work, Year 5! Why not ask them what Picoh can do & which tasks it could do for you?

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You will need to answer the following question: Which colour is associated with a Smurf? (Clue...blue)

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Anna Freud Transition Video and Parenting Courses

The Anna Freud schools team have launched their Moving up! transition animation and toolkit. Click here to access the animation and click here to access the booklet.

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