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Cheam Common Weekly Newsletter

Thursday 19th December 2019

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

CHRISTMAS AT CHEAM COMMON

It has been a really busy two weeks of festivities at school. First up was our Orchestra & Choir Christmas Concert on Wednesday 4 December. Well done to all of the children who took part – we were all very impressed by your singing and instrumental skills. On Wednesday 11 December we were joined in school by actors from Troubadour Productions for a special Christmas pantomime that was enjoyed by all of the children from Year 3-6.

At the start of this week, every child in the school was involved with our two Christmas Productions where the singing, narrating and acting was exceptionally uplifting, as both Y3&4 and Y5&6 gave three amazing performances each. Thank you to all of the staff for their hard work in preparing the children for the productions – photographs can be seen elsewhere in this newsletter and on our news feed via Twitter and the school website. Next up was our Christmas Lunch yesterday. An amazing 428 Christmas Dinners were served to our very excited children – thank you to everyone who joined us for a hot dinner and to our LEO catering team in the kitchen for their exceptional hard work on the day and for providing every child with a Christmas cracker.

The children then enjoyed their Class Christmas Parties and today enjoyed singing carols and Christmas songs in the hall !

Finally, all the staff wish you and your families a very Happy Christmas! Thank you so much for all the support you have given each of us, and the school, throughout 2019. We hope that all of the children have a fantastic holiday and return in 2020 ready to learn even more, make great progress and experience many new opportunities and challenges both in and out of the classroom. Have a great holiday!

REMEMBER SCHOOL RETURNS ON MONDAY 6TH JANUARY 2020.

WISHING YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

SCHOOL COUNCIL VISIT HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

On Monday 9th December, the School Council visited the Houses of Parliament. It was a very interesting and informative trip and the children were great ambassadors for our school!

We travelled to central London by train and then walked along South Bank to Lambeth Bridge, which gave us our first view of the Houses of Parliament. We started our tour by going through security. We had a few minutes to look around the Education Centre and read some of the interesting facts written on every wall. Our guides left us to watch a 3D film about the History of Parliament and the building itself. Unfortunately we were unable to meet our local MP, Paul Scully, as he was bust campaigning for the election!

The children were then split into two smaller groups and taken on a tour of the building. We visited both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. This was amazing! In addition we were told about how voting takes place, how mail is delivered, shown the post office that only serves the MPs and told about some of the most significant prime ministers that there has been (the four most influential are now statues in one of the halls!). We ended the tour in the Great Hall, which is the oldest part of the building, and was where the knight originally met to discuss taxes and war!

The children had a great trip and learnt so much about our history. They were all very sensible and well behaved and, as always, a credit to the school. Well done all!

GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS

Since the start of the Autumn Term, we have been once again rewarding children with ‘golden tickets’ when they display excellent behaviour, manners or show they are demonstrating the Rights Respecting Values. These tickets go into a raffle draw and a winner is selected each week.

The 15 lucky children whose names were drawn went to Horton Park Golf Club yesterday to play crazy golf as their reward. We hope you had fun!

HOUSE POINT WINNERS!

Well done PINE House! House Point Cup Winners for this half term!

Well done as well to all children who have already been awarded their Gold, Silver or Bronze Team Point Certificate for gaining 25, 50 or 100 team points this half term.

All children in PINE Team got to wear their own clothes yesterday! Well done!

100% Attendance!

Congratulations to the 136 children across the school who received their Bronze 100% Attendance Badge for this term.

These children have been in school everyday since September. Well done!

TERMLY MERIT AWARD ASSEMBLY & CCJ MERIT BADGES!

Today, we held our termly Merit Assembly. This is an occasion all of our children look forward to as we award special Merit Certificates and CCJ Merit Badges to pupils who have made significant achievements over a whole term.

An extra special well done to all of the children who shared reports in assembly today.

3L – Ezel & Heeyon, 3G – Michael K & Alexa

3B – Kayla & Sebastian , 3H - Alexander & Amie

4S – Sesandi & Luis, 4M - Austin & Emma

4H - Brayden & Rosslyn, 4RM - Folake & Michael A

5A - Oscar & Amela, 5C - Nierucshan & Aashi

5J - Barishan & Yuna, 5W - Fareha & Joshua P

6P - Bonita & Ibrahim, 6S - Swapneel & Anna

6C - Waris & Lea, 6K - Oliver S & Dora

Headteacher’s Perseverance Awards:

Vinnie 6K, Presley 6P, Matthew G 6S, Ben 6C

HISTORY CLUB NEEDS YOU!

Our Year 5 History Club have been researching the history of Cheam Common this year, exploring our school’s archives each week! In Spring 2020 they’ll launch their own website: Cheam Common from 1890 - 2020. If you’ve any memories of our school in the 1950s - 2000, please get in touch!

COUNT ON US PRIMARY CHALLENGE

We’re really looking forward to taking part in the Count On Us Primary Challenge 2020 with Mayors Fund. This maths tournament for Y4 & 5 pupils, involves 100+ schools from across London & focuses on shape puzzles, number games & code breaking challenges. More details will follow next term!

SEASONAL STAR eBADGE

We were delighted to receive an eschools Seasonal Star eBadge today, in recognition of our website coverage of our Year 4 Digital Leaders visit to Google Education Chromebook Summit last month. Well done!

SPRING TERM CLUBS

All clubs are to start from the first week back on Monday 6th January apart from:

Gymkidz - Monday 13th January

Chess - Wednesday 15th January

Spanish - Thursday 16th January

Dancekidz - Friday 17th January

Real Runners - Friday 17th January

Please click here for the club timetable.

There is still some availability for clubs s please sign your child up!

https://cheamcommonjunior.parentseveningsystem.co.uk/

WEATHER UPDATES

In the event of snow or extreme weather over the winter period, please check the school website for updates or changes to the school routine.

We will also update our Twitter Page and the Open Check website.

SPRING TERM SCHOOL DINNER MENUS

Please click here to view the Spring Term School Dinner Menus.

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.

@CCJacademy

Please find below our term dates for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

These are also available on our website.

Learning

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

Congratulations to the following children who received a £5 book voucher in our Merit Assembly today for reading the most books for their class in this term's Battle of the Books.

3L - Tommy 3B - Owais 3H - Suhaani 3G - Kian

4S - Hannah 4RM - Folake 4SM - Eddie 4H - Vasu

5A - Nathan 5W - Bella 5C - Richard 5J - George

6P - Boris 6K - Shalini 6S - Swapneel 6C - Grace

Congratulations to the following classes for reading the most books collectively as a class:

1st: 3G

2nd: 4RM

3rd: 5J

Who will be leading the battle next term?

Well done to the following children who have scored the most points on Times Tables Rock Stars this term.

Year 3: Georgia

Year 4: Harry L

Year 5: Lina

Year 6: Irina

These children joined our Golden Ticket Winners at Crazy Golf yesterday.

Who will be our leaders next term?

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

Year 3:

decoration

Year 4:

appreciate

Year 5:

miraculous

Year 6:

symbolism

Excellence

Star of the Week Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who received the Star of the Week Awards last week:

Year 3

3B: Silvia

3G: Angel

3H: Amelia

3L: Ariana

Year 4

4H: Roshan

4RM: Frankie

4SM: Jacob

4S: Meshal

Year 5

5A: Aroush

5C: Archie

5J: Freya

5W: Lina

Year 6

6C: Taya

6K: Aniya

6P: Presley

6S: Alice

PRIDE Values Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who received the Pride Values Awards last week:

Year 3

3B: Grace

3G: Dylan

3H: Cassie

3L: Shay

Year 4

4H: Abigail

4RM: Yoanna

4SM: Hollie

4S: Auguste

Year 5

5A: Nathan

5C: Evelyn

5J: Isaac

5W: Rosina

Year 6

6C: Ellie

6K: Oliver S

6P: Sophia S

6S: Gabriela

Cheam Common Rights Respecting Schools' Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who have displayed outstanding, respectful behaviour last week:

Year 3

3B: Kayla

3G: Isobel

3H: Amie

3L: Michael

Year 4

4H: Keira

4RM: Summer

4SM: Ahmed

4S: Amy

Year 5

5A: Mollie

5C: Nierucshan

5J: Noah

5W: Tilly

Year 6

6C: Felix

6K: Oliver B

6P: Preston

6S: Sara

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:

Year 4:

Luis, Connor & Hamzah

Year 5:

Aiden

Opportunity

Sutton Dyslexia Association

Upcoming Meetings

15th January 2020

Maths difficulties with Dyslexia

A talk by Peter Jarrett, Chair of the British Dyslexia Association’s Dyscalculia and Maths Learning Difficulties Committee

Peter Jarrett will explain how the subsets (Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and other Specific Learning Difficulties) differ in presentation.

His talk will also be covering key approaches to working with young people, both at school and at home.

Time: 8pm at The Friends Meeting House, 10 Cedar Road, Sutton, SM2 5DA

Friday 7th February 2020

Drop-in session for parents of children with dyslexia

An opportunity to find out more about dyslexia and how to help and talk to others and exchange ideas.

Time: 9.45 am

Location: Oaks Park Café – Croydon Lane entrance, Banstead, SM7 3BA

LEO Lottery

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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 next term. Please check the dates section regularly as new dates may be added.

SPRING TERM SPORTING FIXTURES

GIRLS' FOOTBALL:

Thursday 16th January, CCJ vs Dorchester, Y5&6 Girls’ Borough League

Monday 20th January, CCJ vs Stanley Park, Borough Cup Quarter Final

Friday 31st January, CCJ vs All Saints Benhilton, Y5&6 Girls’ Borough League

Friday 14th February, CCJ vs Robin Hood, Y5&6 Girls’ Borough League

Y6 BOYS' A FOOTBALL:

Tuesday 14th January, CCJ vs Cheam Park Farm, Y6 Boys’ A Sutton & Cheam League

Thursday 16th January, AFC Wimbledon Kids Cup Finals Day, Wimbledon Training Ground

Tuesday 21st January, CCJ vs Brookfield, Year 6 Boys Surry Cup Quarter Final

Friday 24th January, CCJ vs Westbourne, Y6 Boys’ A Sutton & Cheam League

Monday 10th February, CCJ vs Dorchester, Y6 Boys Sutton and Cheam Quarter Final

Friday 6th March, CCJ vs Avenue, Y6 Boys’ A Sutton & Cheam League

Friday 20th March , CCJ vs St Cecilia’s, Y6 Boys’ A Sutton & Cheam League

Y6 BOYS' B FOOTBALL:

Monday 3rd February, CCJ vs Avenue, Y6 Boys’ B Sutton & Cheam Cup 1st Round

OTHER SPORTING FIXTURES

Friday 10th January, CCJ vs Westbourne, Y5 Boys' Sutton and Cheam Cup Quarter Final

Thursday 16th January, Sportshall Athletics Finals Year 5/6, Wallington Girls' School

Thursday 16th January, Sportshall Athletics Festival Year 3/4

Thursday 30th January, Primary Panathlon Competition, Year 3/6, Carshalton Boys

Thursday 6th February, Racketpack Festival, Year 5/6, Nonsuch

Friday 7th February, Y5/6 Hi 5 Netball Competition

Thursday 13th February, Y6 Handball Competition

Tuesday 25th February, Y5/6 Quicksticks

Wednesday 26th February, Y5/6 Hi 5 Netball competition

Monday 9th March, Y3/4 Girls' Football Festival

Wednesday 11th March, Y5/6 Sutton Cycling Championships

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 next 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

JANUARY

Monday 6^th January – First Day of Spring Term

Friday 10^thJanuary - Year 4 Tate Modern Portrait Gallery

Wednesday 15^th January - France Year 5 Parents Meeting, 7pm

Thursday 16^thJanuary - Year 5/6 Sports Hall Athletics Final, Wallington Girls, 10-1pm

Thursday 16^thJanuary - Year 4 High Ashurst Parents’ Meeting, 7pm

Monday 20th January - Friday 24th January - Arts’ Week

Thursday 30^th January - Year 3-6 Panathlon - Carshalton Boys’, 1-3:30pm

FEBRUARY

Monday 3rd February - Choir to the O2 for the Young Voices Concert 2020

Thursday 6th February - Year 5/6 Badminton, Nonsuch Girls’ - 4-5:30pm

Thursday 6^th February - Sutton Racket Festival, Nonsuch Girls’, 4-5:30pm

Friday 7^th February - RE Day 3 - Buddhism

Monday 10^th February – Safer Internet Day

Tuesday 11^th February & Thursday 13^th February - Book Fair

Tuesday 11^th February – Parent Consultation Evening 1, 4pm – 8pm for all teachers.

Thursday 13^th February – Parent Consultation Evening 2, 3.30pm – 6pm for all teachers.

Thursday 13^th February – Year 6 Handball Competition, Carshalton Boys’ - 3:30-6pm

Monday 17^th – Friday 21^st February – Half Term Holiday

Monday 24^th February – INSET Day. No school for pupils on this day.

Tuesday 25^th February - Year 4 Bikeability begins

Tuesday 25^th February – Year 5/6 Hockey Quick Sticks, Nonsuch High, 12:30-3:30pm

Thursday 27^th February – Orchestra Unwrapped

MARCH

Monday 2^nd March – Book Week

Thursday 4^th March – Year 5/6 Football Female, Sutton Utd, 2-5pm

Thursday 5^th March – World Book Day

Thursday 5^th March - General Knowledge Quiz Championships, Storey’s Gate, Westminster

Monday 9^th March – Friday 13th March - Science Week

Monday 9^th March – Friday 13th March - Spring Term Assessment Week

Monday 9^th March – Year 3/4 Girls’ Football Festival, Cheam High, 4-5:30pm

Wednesday 11^th March – Year 5/6 Sutton Cycling Championships, Northey Avenue, 12-3pm

Wednesday 19^th March – Year 4/5 Handball Festival, 1-3:30pm

Tuesday 24^th March – LEO Year 4 Times Table Competition

Wednesday 25^th March – LEO Music Concert, 6pm

Friday 27^th March– End of Spring Term Merit Award Assembly at 9.30am

Friday 27^th March – Year 3-6 Gym & Dance Festival, 1:30-3:30pm

Tuesday 31^st March – Year 3/4 HI 5 Netball, St Philomena’s - 4-5:30pm

Tuesday 31^st March – Year 3 Music Assembly to Parents

Monday 30th March – Friday 3^rd April - Year 5 French Language & Activity Residential to France

APRIL

Thursday 2^nd April - House Point Winners’ - MUFTI Day

Thursday 2^nd April - RE Day 4 - Christianity

Friday 3^rd April – Last Day of Term. School finishes at 2.15pm today.

Monday 6^th April – Friday 17^th April – Easter Holiday

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