Firstly, a huge thank you to all the parents who have either kindly donated or purchased books for out school library. This week, we have received a variety of beautiful new books which children have loved to read and explore. Check out the photos below as children continue to use our new school library.

If you would like to support our school library and purchase a book, Click Here for our Amazon Wishlist.

We have had a great week, where children have been taking part in various skipping based activities. Children particularly enjoyed the skipping competition.

Next week’s 'Craze of the Week' is tennis skills and the 'Game of the Week' is ‘Sharky, Sharky’.

Remember, our sports leaders will be on hand to help run these games and crazes as well as to model skills of turn taking, being respectful to adults, each other and the equipment and helping all children have a happy play and lunchtime.

This half term, we are very excited to welcome back parent / carer visitors to the school after recent closures over the past two years. On Thursday 19th May from 2pm - 3pm, we would like to welcome the parents of Year 3 & 5 to come and meet members of the Senior Leadership Team, take a tour of the school courtesy of our Head Boy and Girl before visiting your child's class where they will show case their learning from the past academic year. Year 4 & Year 6 open afternoon will take place on Tuesday 24th May from 2pm - 3pm.

If you would like to take part in the open afternoon, please complete the Google Form to book a place.

Each week, please find a brief outline of what each year group is learning in each of the core subjects for the following week so that you can help discuss, support or help prepare your child for the week ahead.

Suggested links to key educational websites will also be included. Don't forget, you can also support your child at home with their learning by reading together every day and by practising spellings.

Weekly Home Learning Overview - Click Here

To celebrate the Queen's upcoming Jubilee, we will be holding a special tea party on the afternoon of Wednesday 25th May and children can come to school in Mufti. Children can come to school wearing the colours of either red, white and blue or a combination of all three as part of the celebrations.

Supported by the Friends of Cheam Common, we are that a small donation be contributed which will go towards the Summer Fair 'Rainbow Raffle'.

For further information on what your child's year group could provide, please Click Here.

As there is to be a brand new Arts Facility opening in the centre of Sutton. Throwley Yard, Sutton and LEO have joined up and would love to understand the culture and community within your local area, so that they can design a fantastic space for the community to use.

As part of this exciting opportunity, we are running a competition to photograph culture and community within your area that tells a story. Winning entries will travel to Sutton and must have their own device to take photographs on (iPad, phone, camera), where they will be taking photos of the local community, surveying the local people and their work displayed in the new cultural arts centre (Throwley Yard) in Sutton, opening in 2023.

For more information, Click Here.

Sutton Music Services are delighted to announce an exciting competition for children to design their annual Music Superstars Badge for 2022. The winning design will be turned into more than 1,500 badges and distributed to all students at Sutton Music Service and pupils who have attended WCET during the 2022 Academic Year. If your child would like to entry then head to the website, Click Here, where you will find all the information required.

Entries must be submitted by 09:00am on 18th May 2022 and emailed to suttonmusicservice@cognus.org.uk.

To ensure children develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle and make positive choices regarding healthy eating, at Cheam Common Junior, we are actively encouraging children to choose and select appropriate snacks to each both at break and lunch times.

For more information of what to provide your child, Click Here.

At Cheam Common Juniors we want all of our children to become ‘healthy learners’ and we recognise how important that the food that our children eat is to this. Our school meals are designed to be appealing, varied and balanced, meeting Government guidelines for nutritional standards in schools. School dinners cost £2.35.

Click here to check out the Summer School Dinner menu and speak to our school office should you wish for your child to have a school meal. Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Halal and special dietary requirements are available. Please enquire for further information.

As our ongoing pledge to increase books within our school and class libraries, we have put together an Amazon Wish List should you wish to help us in purchasing any books for these areas. Thank you so far to all those who have kindly purchased book so far.

If you would like to support us with providing all our children with every opportunity to read, Click Here.

Ukraine is facing an urgent humanitarian crisis and as a result, I am sure you and your children are all saddened by the current events and may have questions or concerns. Many parents have enquired how they can help. Currently, there are several charities working tirelessly on the ground to offer support to the millions of people affected.

We understand that it can be hard to know how to help so we have found some charity campaigns and fundraisers to donate to: Click Here