CCJ Newsletter 21st November 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 21st November 2025

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

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

🦙 Alpaca Visit 🦙

We were so excited to meet Truffle and Artie, the alpacas this week. Check out some of our photos below!

A massive thank you goes to the Friends of Cheam Common, who funded this opportunity for our children.

Year 6: Request for cardboard

As part of our upcoming Art unit, the Year 6 students will be designing and constructing large sculptures during weeks 4 and 5. To support this, we are asking for donations of thick cardboard to help build the structures.

What we need:

Large, sturdy pieces of cardboard (for example: Amazon delivery boxes, appliance packaging)
Please avoid thin-walled cardboard like cereal boxes or lightweight packaging as they do not provide enough structure for this project.

When to bring items in:
Please could you send any cardboard donations in by Monday 24th November as pupils will start constructing that week.

Your support means a lot and will really help the children bring their creative ideas to life.

Thank you very much in advance!

Easy Fundraising

easyfundraising is a free UK charity cashback platform that allows users to raise money for a good cause by shopping online with partner retailers. When you shop through the easyfundraising website, app, or browser extension, retailers donate a percentage of your purchase to your chosen charity or good cause at no extra cost to you

Scan this QR code to sign up - at no cost to you!

Sweet Jar Challenge

Throughout the week, children have been donating 50p to guess the number of sweets in the jar.

Congratulations to Huxley, who got the exact number - 65!

Careers Fair

Friday 12th June

On the afternoon of Friday 12th June, we will be hosting our third annual Careers Fair.

We would be interested in inviting parents into school to talk about their jobs and to answer questions from children about their jobs/careers. We would love to find a real mix of jobs and vocations amongst our community in order to show the children a wide variety of future careers out there. Additionally, if you know of someone with an exciting career who you believe would be interested, please state this in the extra details section.

If you would be interested, please complete this Google Form and put the date in your diary!

🏥 Christmas Pyjama Campaign 🏥

As we quickly approach the festive season, we have decided to run our pyjama fundraiser again, similarly to last year . 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. The charity’s vision is to ‘spread love through comfort during the Christmas season’ to children who unfortunately have to spend their Christmas holidays in hospital. In line with the LEO outcomes, we aim to encourage healthy and active learners who care about our world and we feel this would be a great way for our students to give back to our local community.

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.

Due to the location of our school, we have decided that we will be donating our pyjamas to our local hospitals. We are donating to:

- St George’s Hospital (Tooting)

- Kingston Hospital (Kingston Upon Thames)

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, monetary donations are also welcomed and will be used to purchase new pyjamas to go towards our donations.

The deadline for all donations is Friday 5th December. Please hand pyjamas into the school office or to your child's classroom.

🖥 JamCoding Finalists 🖥

We’re thrilled to announce the Cheam Common Junior Academy's finalists in Jam Coding’s Simulation City Challenge! Over the Autumn 1 half-term, hundreds of children across our partner schools in London and Surrey have been imagining and designing their own Cities of Tomorrow - creative, innovative, and full of digital flair.

Here are Cheam Common Junior Academy's finalists:

Joshua S, Miles C, Arlo T, Joon L, Olivia C, Ray D, Alice FR, Max L, Connor G, Aarush D, Alfie T, Hayden W

Each project is now live in our Facebook Showcase, where families, friends and school communities can view, celebrate, and vote for their favourites. Every vote helps recognise your pupils’ creativity - and could help them win some fantastic prizes!

Vote and Celebrate Here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.821307990494822&type=4

School Updates

Universal Breakfast Club

Breakfast and After School Club: How to change, book or update

Please email ccjextendedservices@leoacademytrust.co.uk or phone 07739360621.

Family Support Worker - referral form

If you would like to explore ways that our Family Support Worker could support your family, please complete this Google Form.

Wet Play Games - donations welcome!

To help make wet play more enjoyable, we’re kindly asking for donations of new board or card games for indoor use. If you have any unopened games you’re happy to donate, please drop them off at the Junior Office.

As Chromebooks are not used during wet play, we’re encouraging more hands-on, social games like board and card games instead.

We would like to say a huge thank you to Alex (Year 3), who spent his own pocket money on eight wet play games for his class.

Our Book Wishlist

Children across the school wrote a wishlist of the different books that they would like to see in their library and their classrooms.

We have collated this wishes and have put together an Amazon Wish List, which can be found here. If parents and families wish, there are over a hundred books that children are desperate to read on the list and these can be ordered as a present to our school. Alternatively, if you notice a book on the list that your children no longer read, we are always grateful for any donations!

It has also been suggested by our children that, on a birthday, rather than bringing sweets in for their classmates, children choose a book on the list that they would like to donate to their class. This also falls in line with our commitment to promoting healthy lifestyles. On the order, there is an option to leave a message - you can specify which class the book is for. As ever, we recognise that money can be tight so please note that this is entirely optional. Any support is always appreciated.

School lunches

You can see Autumn Term options here.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Check out what our children have been up to this week at Cheam Common Junior Academy!

Birthday celebrations

Fantastic homework

Polite reminder...

As you know, we are a healthy school and therefore ask if your child would like to celebrate their birthday, they donate a book to a library instead of bringing treats. This also ensures there are no concerns over allergies.

We have loved receiving some fantastic homework this term!

Remember: Each year group's homework matrix can be found in the section below. Completing these tasks is optional but can really help to enrich the children's learning and understanding of these topics.

Janice (Year 3)

Samuel (Year 6)

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Autumn 2 Curriculum Newsletter and Homework Matrixes

Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

School Achievements

⭐️ Star of the Week Awards ⭐️

This week's LEO Explorer Value is 'Forward-Thinking'.

3AM - Dominic and Mila

3JH - Rose and Leo

3RM - Ewan and Nadia

3VH - Savannah and Roy

4F - Saanvi and Melvyn

4I - Hawra and Anish

4J - Dylan and Marcus

4S - Jessica and Remy

5D - Talia and Louis

5G - Linda and Alfie

5H - Amber and Jamie

5W - Ryan and Larissa

6C - Archana and Anish K

6CB - Eleanor and Millie

6F - Arjun and Jessica

6SB - Alisa and Samuel

🎫 Golden Ticket Winner - Ray (3VH) 🎫

📖 Reading Raffle Winners - Tejin (4F) and Sam (5H) 📖

Out of school achievements

If you would like to share your child's achievements outside of school with us, we'd love to hear them! Please complete this short form to tell us all about it.

Sofia (Year 6)

Sofia attended the 'Winter Wonder Jam 2025' competitions. She competed in five categories and received four awards:

Solo - 5th

Duo - 1st

Teams - 3rd

Quads - 4th

Arya (Year 5)

Arya reached his 25m award in swimming lessons.

Well done!

Gabriella (Year 4)

Over half term, Gabriella took part in a trapeze worksop. She had a lot of fun learning how to trapeze and was the first person to complete the skill of front forward over when being caught by the teacher.

Well done!

Important information

Reporting absences

There is no longer an option to report a child’s absence via telephone. We ask that you use the google forms below to report absence. They are also available to complete on our website using the parent tab.

We do not authorise holidays during term time. If your child is going to be off school due to an exceptional circumstance, then please complete this form:

Request for Exceptional Absence form in advance for future appointments and exception absence.

Cheam Common Juniors' Absence Form for sickness and same day medical appointments.

Our neighbours

As well as being respectful to our neighbours, please can you ensure you adhere to the parking rules within Sainsbury's Local and only park there if you are a customer.

Please ensure you do not obstruct any gates or double park during drop off or collection times.

Thank you for your support.

Moving address

If you have moved address, it is imperative that you inform the school office as soon as you have moved. It is a requirement that the school has up to date details particularly in case of an emergency.

Please email the school office ccjoffice@leoacademytrust.co.uk if your details need updating. Alternatively, you can update them using the Arbor App.

Autumn Term Dates

Please find below all the key dates and times for the Autumj Term.

PTA events are shown in this colour. Please see below for more details.

New dates

2025 - 2026 Term dates

Tuesday 9th December: Year 3 Stone Age Day and Workshop

Wednesday 10th December: GymKidz Performance (9am)

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 11th December: Christmas Lunch

Friday 12th December: SEND Coffee Morning

Friday 12th December: Elf Run

Friday 12th December: Rocksteady Performances (timings TBC)

Monday 15th December: Year 5 Christmas Performances (9am and 6pm)

Monday 15th December: Year 6 Christmas Performances (9:30am and 6:30pm)

Tuesday 16th December: Year 3 Christmas Performances (9am and 6pm)

Tuesday 16th December: Year 4 Christmas Performances (9:30am and 6:30pm)

Wednesday 17th December: Arts Showcase (3:45-4:45pm)

Friday 19th December: House point winners' MUFTI

Friday 19th December: Last day of term (school ends at 2:15pm)

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

The Friends of Cheam Common now has a Facebook group, where you can follow any updates on upcoming events or how you can get involved.

Fencing

A massive thank you to everyone who has supported the Friends of Cheam Common events over the last year or so. We are delighted to announce that we have been able to fund the brand-new fencing across our Reception outdoor area and around the Year 6 garden, ensuring better privacy for our children.

Secondhand Uniform

A gentle reminder, please only donate the items listed below.

Logo jumper

Logo cardigan

Logo fleece

Logo waterproof jacket

Logo PE tshirt

Logo polo shirts

Junior PE black quarter zip top

Ties

Red PE shorts

Please do not donate, shirts, or grey uniform items; we have very limited storage space and we can’t store those items currently. We will let you know when we are able to accept these items again.

Thank you so much for supporting the second hand uniform sale on Friday. We are delighted that good quality school uniform can be reused and help families.

Going forward, we need to reduce the uniform service that we offer unfortunately. We will no longer be taking uniform email requests for the foreseeable future. The uniform service has expanded immensely with donations and requests over the past year. Whilst it has been absolutely wonderful to offer this service to the school community; sadly, we don't have the volunteers to sustain the huge amount of time this service requires.

However, we are very happy to still offer a termly uniform sale, where we'll have plenty of uniform on offer to stock up for the term ahead.

Please leave donations at either the Infants’ or Junior’s office.

We hope you understand the decision we've had to take, and we thank you, as always, for your continued support.

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Click the image above for further information!

Sutton Dyslexia Association

The next meeting of Sutton Dyslexia Association will be via zoom. It is a 2 Part course for parents, entitled "How to help your child with Dyslexia"

Monday 1st December 2025, 8-9 pm

Monday 26th January 2026, 8-9 pm.

The first session deals with the experience of dyslexia for child and parent and how to give support.

The second session is looking at reading, spelling, and writing, and how to help. It also looks at the school structure and the exam process.

The course will be led by Louise Selby, who is a teacher with a level 7 specialist qualification in teaching and assessing learners with specific learning difficulties and dyslexia. She has written a program called Morph Mastery.

If you would like to join the meeting, please send your first name, surname and email address to

admin@suttondyslexia.org

You will be sent access details the morning of the meeting , so that you can join the talk from 7.45 pm.

Keeping Safe Online

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.

Family Support