School Update 1 - Harvest Festival

The week beginning 26th September, the school will be holding the annual Harvest Festival celebrations. As usual we would like to ask for your support in donating a variety of goods which will then be distributed to a Sutton Food Bank to help support local families in need. These donations can be handed in any day that week at the gate or at the office. There will be a Harvest Assembly on Friday 30th September and all donations will be displayed in this assembly.

At the moment, the food bank is making up food parcels that include a variety of items. They are asking for these particular items: Tinned fruit, instant noodles, tinned tomatoes and tinned vegetables, small jars of coffee, longlife orange juice, both tinned and cup soup, UHT milk (semi-skimmed and whole), tinned spaghetti in tomato sauce, biscuits, sugar (500g), rice pudding, sponge puddings, small chocolate bars, shower gel, shampoo, deodorant.

Please note that Sutton Food Bank have plenty of baked beans, pasta and cereals and ask for donations that are not the larger sized variety.

School Update 2 - Come and meet our new Family Support Worker

School Update 3 - Curriculum Documents

School Update 4 - School Dinners and Packed Lunches

School Update 5 - Secondhand books and board games

Do you have any secondhand books or board games that you no longer need? At Cheam Common, we would appreciate donations of any of these items. Books are always appreciated and board games are extremely useful, especially during wet play! Simply drop these into the office or ask your child to hand them to their class teacher. Thank you for your support in advance!

School Update 6 - Sing Up Day!

As the start of Autumn Term can be incredibly busy, we have collated all the important dates for your diary.

Please find below all the key dates and times for the first half of the Autumn Term!

Macmillan Coffee Morning

School Disco!

Helpers for Christmas Raffle needed!

Year 6 Girls' Football Team

A return for our clubs!

Positive Playground Weekly Update!

Excellent Learners of the Week

Pride Ambassadors of the Week

Digital Coder of the Week

Reducing the use of physical chastisement in Sutton

There are many different views about physical chastisement, but it is widely accepted there are much more effective ways to teach children right from wrong.

As a local authority, Sutton has seen a number of children coming to the attention of police and social care due to the use of physical chastisement and as such has worked with other local authorities on an initiative to reduce this number.

In line with this initiative, we agree that anything that causes harm to a child is unacceptable.

As a school we have a duty to report incidents of suspected or confirmed physical chastisement to social care and the police which leaves visible bruising, grazes, scratches, minor swelling, cuts as well as stress injuries from prolonged standing, position holding as these are banned by law in the United Kingdom.

If you would like support on how to manage your child’s behaviour at home, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Parent Workshop

Talk off the Record are hosting an online workshop on the 28th Septemeber aimed at supporting parents and carers of young people who may struggle to get to/ access school. Information is below:

"This is a session for Parents or Carers to help you become better informed about and offer appropriate support to young people struggling with getting to school.

Your young person may feel anxious, nervous or unmotivated about getting up to go school and sometimes not make it in at all.

Talk off the Record is offering a non-judgemental and supportive space to help look at coping strategies and ways to support parents and young people".

If this may be of interest to you please visit the link to sign up and read more

https://www.talkofftherecord.org/sutton/support-for-parents-carers/