CCJ Newsletter 5th December 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 5th December 2025

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

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

☕️ SEND Coffee Morning ☕️

A reminder that our next SEND Coffee Morning is on Friday 12th December, hosted at CCJ at 8:45am.

If you would like to register your attendance or find out more information, please complete this Google Form.

🌱 Spring Term Clubs 🌱

You will have received information about how to book your child into Spring Term Clubs this week.

Please read the email carefully and complete the Google Form by Thursday 11th December, in order to give us time to allocate clubs.

🎵 Christmas Performances 🎵

This week, all parents/carers will have received an email inviting you to attend our Christmas Performances.

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

Year 4: Tuesday 16th December (9:45am and 6:45pm)

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

Year 6: Monday 15th December (9:45am and 6:45pm)

You can let us know which performance you will be attending using the Google Form attached to the email. More information regarding logistics and timings will be communicated nearer the time.

🎄Christmas Jumper Day 🎄

We are welcoming all children to wear a Christmas jumper to school on Thursday 11th December.

As Christmas is a busy and expensive time of the year, we will be splitting any cash donations received on Friday 12th December between Save the Children and the Children's Trust. We hope that this helps us to continue supporting out families.

This day coincides with our Christmas Lunch, so we're hoping it can be a festive day all round!

Please do not feel that you have to buy a Christmas jumper for this occasion. Any red, green or sparkly jumper (or even school jumpers) will be perfect,

Easy Fundraising

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Elf Run

Friday 12th December

We have been invited to take part in the 'Elf Run' to raise money for the Children's Trust later this term. Today, we welcomed in Marjorie, from the charity, who spoke to the children about the good work that the charity does.

On Friday 12th December, children will taking part in our Elf Run: they will be given elf hats to wear, and we will take time out of our school day to spend some time running in the playground, listening to festive tunes.

To raise money for this cause, you can donate here or bring in £1 on the day. You can find out more about the Children's Trust here. Please note that any cash donated will be split between Save the Children and the Children's Trust.

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!

School Updates

Universal Breakfast Club

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.

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

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

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.

Please note Thursday's lunch choice will be Christmas dinner (details below).

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.

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 'Empathetic'.

3AM - Theo and Carson

3JH - Nyra and Maksim

3RM - Yuxi and Harin

3VH - Caiden and Leona

4F - Isla and Leo

4I - Arlo and Pietro

4J - Harry and Arun

4S - Casper and Scarlett

5D - Allayna and Scarlett

5G - Lumi and Joshua

5H - Toby and Harriette

5W - Janielle and George L

6C - Theressa and Harin

6CB - Lottie and Jan

6F - Edward and Jessica

6SB - Nidhi and Novak

🎫 Golden Ticket Winners - Chloe (6F), Hector (5D) and Christy (4J) 🎫

📖 Reading Raffle Winners - Neva (3RM) and Annabel (6F) 📖

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.

Alfie, Erin & Brody (Year 3)

Three of our Year 3 pupils (Alfie, Erin & Brody) took on the shelter walk for home 5K across London tonight. They raised £260 for Shelter, and had a brilliant time!

Joe (Year 4)

Check out Joe's cake that he made for the 4th Worcester Park Scouts Christmas Fair. After planning and testing the flavours and look of the cake, he was very happy with the final result and won the Cubs Bake Off competition. What an achievement!

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

Autumn Term Dates

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

Wednesday 10th December: GymKidz and Cheerleading Performances (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 (9:30am and 10:15am)

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

Monday 15th December: Year 6 Christmas Performances (9:45am and 6:45pm)

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

Tuesday 16th December: Year 4 Christmas Performances (9:45am and 6:45pm)

Friday 19th December: House point winners' MUFTI

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

Spring Term Dates

Monday 5th January: First day back at school

Monday 12th - Sunday 18th January: Turing Trip to Finland

Thursday 22nd January: Arts Council trip to Saatchi Gallery

Monday 26th January: Year 4 Learn to Ride Week 1

Monday 2nd February: Year 4 Learn to Ride Week 2

Thursday 5th - Thursday 13th February: Turing Trip to Singapore

Friday 6th February: NSPCC Number Day

Monday 9th February: Year 6 Trip to Imperial War Museum (2 x classes)

Thursday 12th February: Year 6 Trip to Imperial War Museum (2 x classes)

Friday 13th February: Lunar New Year (children to dress in traditional clothes if celebrating)

Monday 16th - Friday 20th February: Half term

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.

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