CCJ Newsletter 10th October 2025

Cheam Common Junior Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 10th October 2025

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

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

Religious celebrations

At Cheam Common, we are committed to celebrating the heritage and cultures of all of children.

As we have done for the past previous three years, children are invited to wear traditional clothing to school on the following dates, if they are celebrating:

Diwali - Monday 20th October

Spring Term: Lunar New Year, Eid

If you feel we have missed a religious date for children to wear traditional clothing, please let us know!

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.

Thank you for your support!

Harvest Festival donations

On Friday, members of our School Council travelled to Epsom and Ewell Food Bank to drop off our Harvest Festival donations. Children loved the trip and were able to talk about what happened with these donations.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated.

School Updates

Important Safeguarding Notice: 'Spy' Books

We want to make you aware of a recent issue affecting some popular children’s books by Andrew Cope, including the Spy Dogs, Spy Cats, and Spy Pups series.

Some editions of these books include a printed web address at the back. This link used to go to the author’s website, but the domain is no longer under his control. It has since been taken over by another party and now leads to inappropriate adult content.

The publisher, Puffin, has paused sales and distribution of the books and is working with schools, libraries, and retailers to remove copies from circulation. They have stressed that the website has no connection to the author or publisher.

What this means for you:

If your child has any Spy Dog, Spy Cat or Spy Pups books at home, please check the back for website links and make sure they do not try to visit the site.
It is safe for children to continue reading the stories themselves — the concern is only with the outdated link.
We recommend talking with your child about the importance of not following web addresses in books without checking with an adult first.

We will continue to share updates from the publisher as more information becomes available.

Schoolwear Inc - Uniform Update

PE lessons

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.

Occupational Therapy Workshop

Universal Breakfast Club

Fuel up for a bright day!.pdf

Wellbeing Woofers

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.

5th November: Bonfire-themed lunch

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.

Thank you, Reya and Joshua (Year 3) and Jonathon (Year 4) for your donations of your birthday books to your classes!

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.

Look at this amazing poem by Lucy (Year 5) all about their topic - Space,

Curriculum Newsletters and Home Learning

Autumn 1 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 'Curious'.

3AM - Sienna and Reeve

3JH - Spike and Jessica

3RM - Ben and Alfie

3VH - Briena and Jasmine

4F - Sanchez and Rayne

4I - Luna and Hector

4J - Christy and Daniel

4S - Reggie and Otis

5D - Melinda and Avi

5G - Kylie and Ahmet

5H - Isaac and Rosie

5W - Timi and Theo

6C - Delilah and Shaurya

6CB - Ida and Amaira

6F - Nevin and Juno

6SB - Francis and Isabelle

🎫Golden Ticket Winner - Anika (3AM) 🎫

📖 Reading Raffle Winners - Bella (4S) and Neha (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.

Harriet (Year 4)

Harriet has completed RAD Ballet Grade 2 Exam in late August with High Merit result.

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

Monday 13th October: Y6 Swimming Booster Sessions 4/4

Monday 13th October: Year 6 Bikeability Week 1 (Groups 1-4)

Wednesday 15th October: School Tour 10:15am (for new starters in 2026)

Monday 20th October: Y4 Swimming Booster Session 1

Monday 20th October: Year 6 Bikeability Week 2 (Groups 6-8)

Monday 20th October: Diwali - children are invited to dress in traditional clothing to celebrate Diwali on this date

Monday 20th October: Year 6 Junior Citizenship Scheme Trip (2 classes)

Tuesday 21st October: Year 6 Junior Citizenship Scheme Trip (2 classes)

Thursday 23rd October: School Tour 1:45pm (for new starters in 2026)

Friday 24th October: MUFTI Day

Monday 27th - Friday 31st October: Half term

Wednesday 5th November: Bonfire Night Lunch

Monday 13th November: Year 6 Bikeability Week 3 (Groups 9-12)

Friday 21st November: Bingo Night

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

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!

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