CCJ Newsletter 6th September 2024

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 6th September 2024

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

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

We would like to welcome our children and families back to school. We hope you had safe holidays and are looking forward to a busy term with plenty of opportunities for our children. We have attached some key reminders below.

School Updates

PE Lessons

Next week, all of our classes will start their PE lessons. Please see a reminder below of which days each class has PE. Children should wear their PE kit to school; there is no need to get changed at school.

PE kit reminder:

White T-shirt

Red shorts or black/grey tracksuit bottoms

School jumpers/cardigans/fleeces to be worn if needed (not own jumpers)

CCJ Black tracksuit (optional)

Snacks

Please remember that any breaktime snacks for children should be healthy. Fruit and vegetables are encouraged, along with cereal or fruit bars. Crisps and chocolate are not permitted and children will be asked to return these to their lunchboxes.

Clubs

Our clubs all start next week. Your child's clubs will be available to view on Arbor. If your child is taking part in a paid-for club, please ensure that this is paid promptly.

Morning clubs: Children should be dropped at the office between 7:40-7:45am. They will be buzzed in and will wait in the office for their club to start. Children should come to their club wearing PE kit and have their uniform to change into afterwards (unless they have PE that day). They will be dismissed straight to class after their club.

Afternoon clubs: Children will go straight to their clubs after school. If they are unsure of where to go, they can check with their class teacher or the office. Children should change into PE kit for their sports clubs. Children should be collected from the school car park at 4:15pm. Please note that JD Football School ends at 4:30pm.

Boys' Football (4:30pm club): If your child has a 3:15pm club, they are welcome to wait in the office for this club. Otherwise, they should be dropped at the school office between 4:20-4:30pm. These children should be collected from the school office at 5:30pm.

Cheerleading: Our Cheerleading Club takes place at the Worcester Park Scout Hut (Balmoral Road). Children will be walked down by Miss Brooks and Miss Mills. Children should be collected from the Scout Hut at 4:30pm. After 4:40pm, if a child has not been collected, they will be walked up to school. If your child attends After School Club, they will also be walked up to school.

Labelled belongings

It would be appreciated if all children's belongings were labelled clearly with their name, especially jumpers, coats and water bottles.

Eco Council Award

We are extremely proud to announce that, due to our Eco Council's hard work last year, we are now Green Flag Award Winners! This is a fantastic achievement and shows how hard the pupils and staff at CCJ have worked to make the school environment a more environmentally friendly place to be.

School lunches

Here are the lunch options for next week. You can click on the image to see all options for the term.

JamCoding Club

TKD

On Thursday morning, our children attended an assembly to hear all about our JamCoding Clubs that are hosted at Cheam Common Junior Academy. For more information and to sign your children up, see the flyer.

Please note: Monday's club is full but there are plenty of spaces in the Tuesday club. You will need to scroll down on the flyer to book this club.

2024 Autumn Cheam Common Junior Multi ASC.pdf

Please find more information about our Monday morning TaeKwonDo club here.

Kids School Club Flyer (1).pdf

Vacancy: Midday Supervisor

We currently have a vacancy in our team for a Midday Supervisor.

For further details, please follow this link.

Weekly School and Sporting News Stories

Our children have spent the week getting settled into their new classrooms and meeting their new teachers. We look forward to updating you with everything they have been up to next week.

Birthday celebrations

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.

If you do bring in treats, we will NOT hand them out. We expect you and your child to hand them out so you can check if parents are happy for their child to receive the treat.

School Achievements

Our first Celebration Assembly is next week. Watch this space...

🎫 Golden Ticket Winner: Allayna (3F) 🎫

Out of school achievements

Jonathon (Year 4)

Over the holidays, Jonathan (and brother Samuel) joined the Front of House team in a production of Little Shop of Horrors, down in Devon. He loved showing the audience to their seats, helping with refreshments and clearing up after each show.

Great work boys! (Don't feed the plant!)

Lily (Year 5)

Lily received her Grade 2 ballet and tap results over the summer, as well as 2 other trophy exams.

She earned three distinctions and one merit. Well done!

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!

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Curriculum Newsletter

Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Homework Matrixes

Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

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 next week and for the Autumn Term.

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

New dates

2024 - 2025 Term dates

Tuesday 10th September: Year 3 Coffee Morning and Evening (9am and 6pm)

Wednesday 11th September: Year 4 Coffee Morning (9am)

Thursday 12th September: Year 5 Coffee Morning (9am)

Friday 13th September: Year 6 Coffee Morning (9am)

Monday 16th September: Year 6 Swimming Boosters starts (invitation only)

Wednesday 18th September: Individual photos

Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th September: Year 6 trips to Morden Islamic Centre - (information coming soon)

Thursday 26th September: Year 3 Hamptons Local Trip - (information coming soon)

Friday 27th September: Macmillan Coffee Morning (9:30am in CCJ hall)

Wednesday 2nd October: SEND Coffee Morning

Monday 14th October: Year 5 Swimming starts

Friends of Cheam Common - Updates

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

The Friends of Cheam Common will be distributing secondhand uniform to anyone may need it.

If this is something you would be interested in, please contact them on friendssecondhanduniform@gmail.com.

✉️ Friends of Cheam Common email address: Friends_CCA@outlook.com ✉️

SEND & Inclusion Updates

Sutton's new SEND Local Offer

Please follow this link to Sutton's new SEND Local Offer

Click the image above for further information!

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

Family Support Workers

Please click here to access our Family Support Workers portal with lots of information and resources to support you.

Parents flyer Sept - Dec 2024.pdf

Mental Health and Wellbeing Update

Local Activities and Events - General Information

Great News! The Sutton Education Trust has arranged for Happy's Circus to visit in September.

The circus will take place at Foresters Primary School in Wallington on Wednesday 25th, Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September. Tickets are priced at just £12 each at the 'early-bird' price if you book before the end of July. Tickets go on sale at 8am on Wednesday 5th June - make sure you get in quick to secure your seats.

Happy’s Circus provides a professional all human (no animals) 2.5 hour experience presented by a 15-strong touring team in a colourful Big Top seating 600.

The experience starts with a 15/20 minute pre-show warm-up, followed by a 45-minute performance which precedes a 30-minute interval, ahead of a second 45-minutes of entertainment. At the end of the show, there is the opportunity for free of charge photos with the performers.

The show features different acts and is hosted by the Ring Mistress and Clown introducing Acrobats, Aerialists, Speciality Acts, Magic and Audience Participation with loads of fun and much, much more!

You can order your tickets by visiting the Sutton Education Trust Eventbrite Page at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/sutton-education-trust-84881740893

These are evening performances and children will need to come with families.

We look forward to seeing you there!